The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-06-13
New Jersey
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vent on a three day sight seeing trip
to Washington.
Camden. Earl Torquota, thirteen
years old, of 202 Senate street was re-
ported missing to the police. He dis
appeared May 20, when he said he
was going to visit a friend.
Clayfon.-Mrs. Peter X. Dubois Is
the new president of the Parent
Teacher Association.
Plain1eld.-Dr. George w. Endicott,
seventy, dean of the medical profess
sion in this town, died at his home
here. Born at Mays Landing, he was
graduated from Peddie Institute and
Jefferson Medical School, Philadel-
phia. He formerly served for ten
years as a member of the Plainfield
Board of Health and from 1881 to 1900
was on the staff of Muhlenberg Hos
pita1. =
Highland Park.-The bathing beach
in Newton creek has been opened and
notices posted that the rules must be
strictly observed.
Gloucester City.-The Women's Civ
&c Retirement Association had a fun
ny hat party" at the Community Cen.
ter building.
A1loway.-Men are spending their
evenings helping to construct benches
for out door services in the communi-
ty park during the summer.
Woodlynne.-The Patriotic Associa-
tion is arranging a big community
celebration for the Fourth of July.
There will be an all day program, end
Ing with fireworks.
Trenton.-A blight has hit pie cher
ry trees, and the seasons crop will
not be nearly as large as was antici-
pated.
New Observation-Disclosures of boys
and girls agricultural and home eco
nomic clubs will hold their annual
outing at the State College of Agricul-
ture June 1920.
Trenton.-Upon request of Pros
ecutor Geraghty, the Mercer County
Board of Freeholders at Trenton
voted tt authorize a reward of $1,000
for information leading to the arrest
and conviction of James Hammond,
who absconded 10 days ago, leaving
ODllSdt4Oho dlIouAbid6 " pVOBOVp. Aio
victims include the st. George Build
ing and Loan Association, which he
served as counsel, and many poor
clients. Hammond is still the presi-
dent of the Board ef Education.
Gloucester City.-Because they re-
fused TO tell where they purchased
liquor, three 19-year-old youths were
committed to the Camden county Jail
for 90 days each by Mayor McNally.
They were George Ludwig, Esley
Tighe and Frederick Hall, arrested on
complaint of Frank D. Hall, pro-
prietor of Buena Vista Park, who said
they broke up tables and did other
damage.
Vineland.-At the May meeting of
the Lands township Board of Health,
Mrs. Milton Osborn, the community
nurse ma6e-a~ plea f6r~a-homefor
tuberculin patients. She told the
board that the lives of three children
in one family and a baby in another
were in jeopardy because the mothers
were dying with tuberculosis. Secre-
tary Howe was instructed to write to
the board of FIRE eholders, calling at
tentfon to the law that compels free
holders to provide for such an institu-
ton. Mrs. Osborn said Cumberland
county had been boarding it's patients
in Atlantic county, but the sanitarium
IS filled.
Salem. - Undersheriff George w.
Brown of Salem county has
ed himself a candidate for sheriff on
the Republican ticket.
Mfllyille. - Resolutions were intro
duced at the City Commission meet.
ing granting franchises to the Maui
rice River Transportation Company
and George Zeller & Son to conduct
autobus lines between South Millville
and Vineland.
Pennsgrove.-This town has taken
| up another ordinance to provide for a
license fee for peddlers and vendors
from out OF town.
Camden.-The newly appointed ex.
hibition censors elected Rev. L. l..
Hand chairman, Mrs. Mary Walsh Ko-
bus secretary and Rev. J. B. McClos-
key, Miss Lille Simmons and James
E. Tatem inspectors.
. Pilesgrove.-The late Joseph Nor
gan farm has been sold to Harry
6teinsnyder and Charles Goslin for
$4,000.
Millville. - Rev. Alfred Chaplin of
Grocer Theological Seminary assumed
the p~astorate of the North Baptist
church.
B%ridgeton. - While visiting here,
| their former home, Mr.. and Mrs. B.
Frank Minch received word that their
home in Red Bluff, Cal, had been de-
stroyed by fire.
Dover. The scarcity of unskilled
labor in New Jersey was emphasized
when a construction company, which
Is laying a sewage system here, i'm
ported a gang of Chinese coolies to
fill in the trenches after the sewer
pipes have been laid. The Chinese
were obtained through a New York
employment agency.
Wo0dstown. = Baptists, Methodists,
| Presbyterians and Friends will unite
in twilight community lawn services
Sunday evenings during July and Au-
gust.
Trenton.-Dr. Leroy A. Wilkes, who
has been head of the medical depart
ment of the public schools for three
years, has been appointed to a posi-
ton with the American Child Health
Association, of which Herbert Hoover
Is the head. The association has
headquarters in New York CITY. In