The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-07-18

ny AMY OlhSiaio INV IL
drowning of Abraham Steinman, ~
years old. a private in Company d,
10th Infantry, at Camp Dix. whose
body was found in Blackwood Lake.
From the effects of burns and In
juries received In a dust explosion In
the wood pulp d%ry-house at the Re-
pauno plant of the dupont Company,
William S. Ford, of Gibbstown. died
in Cooper Hospital, Camden.
Rain beat the merriest of reveilles
upon farmhouse roofs, and farmers
throughout South Jersey awoke jubi-
liant over the breaking of the drought
of more than two months that had
threatened to ruin all the seasons.
crops Prayers had been lifted for
rain for a fortnight in many of the
churches.
Two boardwalk chair-pushers at At
lantic City were fined $3.50 each by
Recorder Corio, charged with speed
ing and endangering the lives of
promenaders. The men said they did
not know the speed laws applied to
the boardwalk and promised not to
try for any sprint records despite the
desires of joy-riding clients.
Attorney General McCan has been
asked by the State Real Estate Com
mission to prosecute five men alleged
to have dealt in real estate without
licenses. The licenses of five brokers
have also been suspended by the COM
mission for violations of the law. The
men against whom prosecutions are
sought are Tony W~isniewski, Jersey
City; Austin Potter, Spring Lake;
John Bicking, Newark; Frank Sliyen-
sky, Garfield, and Timothy Hurley,
Spring Lake.
Announcement was made in Cam
den that Wildey Hall, Fifth and Pine
streets, since 1868 a meeting place
for fraternal organizations, has been
sold and on September l will be con-
verted into a warehouse by a local
department store.
The New Jersey arbitration act
wen into effect creating a board Of
arbitration to settle disputes arising
between New Jersey and New York
business men. A similar law exists in
New York. Frank H. Sommer, dean
Of the New York University Law
School, is chairman of the New Jersey
board. Paul ~Studensky, 20 Clinton
street, Newark, is secretary.
The New Jersey Fruit Growers Co.
operative Association at a meeting al
Camden adopted a plan to do away
with the practice of topping bad
peaches in a basket with good one
Every basket of peaches packed by a
member of the association this sum.
mer will be graded in each variety by
experts, according to the recommends.
tons of the New Jersey State Bureau
of Markets working in conjunction
with the grading experts of the Fed
eral Department of Agriculture.
Two deaths and more than a score
of injuries were reported in Newark
and vicinity as a result of a Fourth
celebration. May Sickles, five Years
old, of Nutley, died from burns suf'
fered when her dress caught fire from
matches, and Genaro Zarro, Is years
old. died from %tetanus, which devei-
oped from a blank cartridge wound.
Edgar G. Rockwell, 81, of Dover,
whose custom it was too climb an old
cherry tree every Fourth of July,
climbed up to the top branches this
year, slipped and fell and died an hour
later of a fractured skull. His son had
warned him that he was getting too
old to climb the tree, but the old man
insisted that he was just as agile as
ever. Only a few days ago he finished
painting his farmhouse. Rockwell
was one of the last three survivors OF
the Civil War in this section of New
Jersey. He leaves three sons and two
daughters.
Boys are suspected of having car
red off lumber and wire netting from
the grandstand at the community park
at Elmer, and the athletic association
has offered a reward for their cap
ture.
Street improvements in West Col
lingswood Extension, to cost S120 900,
are planned by the Haddon Township
Committee, which has undertaken a
big street paving program in West
mont, at the other end of the town
ship.
All automobilists in New Jersey
must start at once to use one of the
&c types of headlight lenses approved
by the Motor Vehicle Commission.
Frosted electric light bulbs and paint
ed lenses will no longer be permitted.
In their second venture into matri-
mony, Charles H. Schooley, sixty-four,
a builder, and Mrs. Anna A. Cross LIE
Dent, fifty-eight years old, were mar
ried by Rev. E. A. Miller, pastor of the
Union M. E. church, Camden. The
couple were childhood sweethearts
before their first marriage. Mrs. LIE
Dent has resided with a sister at 282
Mt. Vernon street, Camden, since the
death of her first husband, IA years
ago.. Mr.. Schooley has been a widow
er four years. They will reside in
Park avenue, Collingswood.
safe crackers was unearthed when po-
lice and detectives of Middlesex and
Monmouth counties, assisted by a d.
yer, recovered three safes from Law
renee brook, nea Midtown. Another
safe was found in almost the same
spot a week ago. The doors of all the
safes had been pried open and the
contents removed. Police claim this
to have been the work of experts.
The Women's Civic Betterment AS
ISOLATION of Gloucester City has leas-
ed the building at Broadway and Nor