The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-02-21

old DAYS when How're onyuoi ap
peared in an old.fashioned sleigh Win
the "jingle BELLS"
Millyille.-The Millville Municipai
League has gone on record as Opus
ing the proposed erection oil a war
memorial building 20 cort $1o0,OoV al
this time.
Observation-Disclosures there is mucn
work to do to restore the Vlneiano
Presbyterian Church. damaged by
fire, the congregation invited Kew. o.
C. Dickson to an anniversary sup
per and presented him with an auto
mobile Tuesday night.
Asbury Park. The Monmouth
county automobile show will be held
In the Boardwalk Casino, of this CITY,
during the week of april 2.
Asbury Park.-Building permits ag-
~gregating $500, 900 were issued by
Building Inspector Bennett in this
city in January.
Atlantic City.-Judge Smathers in
Criminal Court, gran ed the request
of Prosecutor Gaskill for night ses-
sfons that the docket may be cleared
OF tIQuOT CdStS. ofCi
of the state law wait disposition.
Trenton, N. ELEVEN Atlantic
| Highlands and Bedford en-, who AS
sistant United States District Attor-
ney Arrowsmith declares were az
rested in the act of smuggling TO Ian
c~onsignments of liquor from the rum
fleet off Sandy Hook, were indicted
bx, tho Eadoral GRAND iury.
Newark, N. John D.. Appleby,
divisional prohibition chief of New
York and New Jersey, has been d.
rected to show cause by Federal
Judge Lynch, in Newark, why certain
liquor should not be returned to its
original owner, Henry Bunker, of No.
Sc Garden ctreet. 1t is alleged the
liquor was seized after Bunker's
house had been entered by prohibit
ton agents aimed with a defective
search warrant.
Secaucus.-The pig raising indus
try of Secaucus is threatened with
extinction by an outbreak of pneu-
monia and cholera that already has
killed more than two thausand young
porkers. The town has about sew
enty stock raisers and all have suf-
fered heavy losses. The New Jersey
Stock Farmers Company is the heav-
lest loser. More than a hundred
thousand pigs are raised in Secaucus
annually and marketed throughout
New Jersey.
Woodbine.-William Clifford, thir-
ty-five, a carpenter, who has been
living alone for several years in JEFF
ferson avenue, was found murdered
in his bedroom on the second floor
of his home. He had been shot twice.
The discovery was made by his faith
err, Israel w. Clifford, Lightweight, a
veteran of the Civil War, who went
to see whether his son had recovered
from a recent illness.
Union Hill.-as a part of the at
tempt to close Hudson County the
aires Sundays, several ministers
sent a letter to Police Commissioner
Edward Meyer and Police Chief Fred
Menge, calling their attention to the
laws governing theatres on Sundays.
Neutrality-suspicious. oliver
Randolph, a negro, of Essex County,
is the author of a concurrent resolu-
ton directing Attorney General
Thomas F. McCran to make an in
v~estigation of the activities of the
Ku Klux Khan in New Jersey.
Paterson.-Charles M. King, aged
seventy-three, for twenty-five years
Surrogate of Passaic County, died at
his home here. He retired from of.
flee in 1910. He was one of the or
ganizers of the Phelps Guards and
was a member Of the Hamilton, Nee
ca, Lincoln and North Jersey Coun-
try clubs and the Masonic order. He
was a lifelong Republican. His wife
and two sons survive him.
Paulsboro.-An electric motor is be-
ing installed t operate the draw
bridge over the creek here.
Glassboro. - Pupils ct the high
school have reorganized their camera
club.
Misunderstanding is again safe on
ponds in south Jersey, and there is
enough snow for fine coasting.
Jersey City.-William B. Quinn, d.
rector Of public safety, announced he
is planning installation Of radio sta
lions over which police and fire
alarms may be armed in. The sta
lions will be located in every fire dis
trict and police precinct, he said.
Trenton.-John j. Kents, prominent
Civil Wal ~eteran, and his wife were
buried together, having died within
two days of each other. Only recent
ly they celebrated the siytieth ami
versary of their wedding. Mr.. Kents,
who was eighty-two years old, had
been in failing health for some time,
but until about a week ago was able
to be about. Mrs. Kelts was eighty.
one.
Atlantic City. Mrs. Margaret
Woolbert Bartlett, y life of William H.
Bartlett, former director C public
safety of this city, will receiv- a for
tune estimated at $1,000, 900 as the re-
suit Of - decision oy Vice Chancellor
Leaning. He sustained the ruling
made by Judge Robert Ingersoll some
time ago when he was on the bench
of the Atlantic county orphans court
that the will of the late George Tru-
man %Lippincott, a former resort
banker, making Mrs. Bartlett, sister
of his dead wife, the thief beneficiary
should be admitted to probate.
M%erchantville. - officials of this
town and Pensauken are discussing
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