The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-10-31

ana the contractors uopo w
have 1t ready for Company | Decem-
Der l.
A committee is making a drive for
$500 as Pitman's quota toward the
annual budget of the Gloucester Coun-
ty Sunday School Association.
The Fenwick Club OF Salem held a
banquet and dance at the Country
Club in celebration of its seyenty-ffth
anniversary. DR.. C. M. Sherron is
president.
Sheriff A. X. Brandrif OF Salem
County is at Wernersville. Pa, recu-
perauing from a recent sever Illness
The Barber tract, on the edge Of the
borough line, has been suggested as a
site for a proposed new school build
ing for Penasgrove.
The tower of the Glassboro M. P
Church is being repaired, but the high
steeple, shattered by a lightning bolt
last summer, will not be rebuilt.
The fall institute Of the Cumberland
County school teachers will be hold
in the new high school building at
Bridgeton on October 26.
Perth Amboy.-Governor Silzer and
the Ri. Rev. Thomas Gaylord, presi-
dent of the National Council of the
Episcopal Church, are scheduled to
make addresses here during the
weeks celebration of the 225th ami
versary of New Jerseys Oldest P. q.
church, st. Peters, On November 1 to
Z. The church was established in
1893.
Newark.-At the semiannual meet
ing of TIE Reformed Chassis Of New
ark, in %Iryington, the Rev. Edward S.
Ralston a retired clergyman, of Grand
view-on-the-Hudson, was elected presi-
dent. He succeeds the Rev. John Y.
Brock. Of Plainfield.
Pitman.-A new wa of playing
hockey" is the explanation given by
local police for the disappearance OF
the new automobile of Professor d. W.
Davis, supervising principal of schools.
from the street in front of the high
school. A schoolboy was missed. Mo-
torcycle Policeman Tryon located both
the car and the boy in Philadelphia
and brought them homie.
Figures issued by Princeton Uni
versity show that one of every five
students held a job while studying
last year. There were 426 students
who reported earning S201,1 1863 in thu
1929 session. an increase Of $39.659
over the previous session. Their earn
ings last session averaged $472 each.
Tying r. v. Enatre, Newark, a shoe
store manager, to a door knob after
he had opened the store safe to
change a $40 bill, two hold-up men
robbed the safe of $500 and fed. A
barber next door heard Enatre's cries
and saw the robbers disappear around
a corner.
Camden.-Fire destroyed the a re.
pair shops of the Pennsylvania Rail
road at PaYonia, causing a loss esti-
mated at more than $1,000, 900. This
building was a two-story brick struc.
ture, 200 feet wide and 400 feet long.
Newark.-Charles S. Noe, New Jer
sey banker, died at his home here.
Princeton.-President Coolidge ex.
pressed a wish that the chair of DR..
John Witherspoon, the only clergyman
who signed the Declaration o. hide
p%endence. be presented to the univer
sity. He CONVEYED the suggestion to
Mrs. Harriet r. Schenck, New York.
owner of the historic chair. who OF
fered 1t to the President.
Hammonton.-The body II Mrs
Elizabeth Hemmings, 70, who had been
missing from this place since last july
26, was found If a swamp a mile and
a half from the home of her daughter
at Tuckerton by two cranberry pick
ers.
The October court list in Glouces-
ter county consists of GA pages OF
cases and is the largest ever printed.
Ground was broken for the new
edifce of the Brooklawn Methodist
church.
All fire companies in Salem county
will be invited to join the new county
fremen's association.
West Collingswood firemen con-
Quoted a drive for $4,000, to take the
place of the annual fair.
A Halloween mask ball will be
Itlu Ia 1uioId Hull, G66 AldI UOi OtJJf
Friday, October rs.
Sixteen-year-old Catherine Mingin
OF Williamstown ended her life by
inhailing gas in her apartment at
810h Broadway, Camden.
The Public Service Railway Com
pany has served notice on some of
the bus owners operating to Fairyiew
and Gloucester to appear before the
Public Utility Commission to show
cause why they are operating.
A new foul room schoolhouse at
Lincoln. Gloucester county. was ded-
icated. Seven years ago the commit
nifty had a one room school. Now
there are $50 pupils enrolled.
Four handsome trees In front OF
the home of former Mayor Hendrick-
son at Woodbury., WITCH are said to
have been killed by gas from street
repairs, are being felled.
The Atlantic City Hotel Mems As
ISOLATION Endorsed the Black Horse
pike route to the sea, with an amend
ment that the project become a great
boulevard instead of a pike"
An all south Jersey concert band.
composed of amateur musicians from
the lower counties. has been organ
lied by Professor William L. Nassau.
director of music in the Glassboro
schools.
Columbus Day exercises were held
in many of the public schools in
southern Jersey.
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