The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-02-06

pike and Block Horse pike at Oaklyn
viii shortly be opened with the COM
pletion of the new underground pass
age of the Atlantic City railroad
tracks.
Purchase Of modern fire apparatus
for the harrington fire company has
been authorized by borough council
following a demonstration by manu-
facturers.
A crusade Upon slot machines In
Gloucester City stores by the police is
being made. Complaints have been
received by Mayor McNally of boys
being allowed to play them.
In the Ocean county court Judge
Newman sent Deborah Everinham,
fifteen years old, to the State Home
for Girls on a charge Of incorrigibility,
the third time she had been before
the court on the same charge.
A committee consisting of Benja-
min F. Phillips, Herman R. Calvert
and Ralph c. Sparks has audited the
books Of Joseph Wells, treasurer of
Pontiac tribe. Red Men, of Camden
and report no discrepancies were
found. Wells lived at 406 North Sixth
street, Camden.
Fifteen minutes after fire was dis
covered in the ce1luloid factory of the
Superior Novelty Company in Linden
only the walls were standing. Two
hundred girl employees fed by doors
n windows when the alarm was
sounded. No n was injured. The
damage vas estimated at $3.50, 900.
The fire started when sparks from an
emery wheel In the lathe room ignited
scraps of celluloid.
Thomas Beebe, forty, of Cross Keys
was found frozen to death in his part
ly submerged automobile in Rancocas
creek, near %Smithyille. He was a it,
ney driver. Evidence tended to the
theory that the automobile had gone
into the creek while he attempted a
sharp turn in the road onto the bridge
over the creek. Beebe had apparently
been there all night. A Waterman on
the way to work discovered the body.
H. Y. Barrow of Baltusrol, for the
last two years secretary of the New
oOt oSy doAl 1aooOSidLlOlly was CiCCLc0
president of that organization for the
coming year. Mr.. Barrow will also
act as secretary of the metropolitan
Golf Association this year.
The Delaware river joint bridge
committee of New Jersey and Penn
sylvania submitted its report to the
legislature. 1t was signed by Theo-
dara paaffnar 30 Tarea,, C{FY {ho
chairman, and asked that no obstruc-
ton be placed in the way of the plan
for completion of the structure nor in
the way of the formal opening sched-
uled to take place July 4, 1925.
Noticing two men running from a
lonely farmhouse on Far road, less
than two miles from Pleasantville,
State Policeman Smith, who had been
looking for water for his horse while
patroling in that section, investigated.
With Sergeant Harper and Patrolman
Durney the building was searched,
and a still of $50 gallon capacity in
operation, ten barrels of mash, four
barrels of distilled liquor and many
As caliber cartridges were found.
Mrs. C. B. Lummis, sixty-nine years
old, regent of Greenwich Tea Burning
| Chapter, Daughters Of the American
RHe1olut{5k. aid tkree times pfssfdsfs
of the Bridgeton Civic Club, died at
her home In Bridgeton. She suffered
a heart attack while at a meeting OF
women's clubs at Pitman and was
taken to the home of her nephew, DR..
Marshall Lummis, near by. She is
survived by four son and a daughter,
Ogden Lummis, Hartford, Conn; DR.
j. Herbert Lummis. Cape May; Wal
ter Lummis and DR.. c. Percy Lum'
mis-, B%ridgeton, and Mrs. Mary Lum'
mis- Taylor, Baltimore.
Mrs. HeRry J. Sherman of Moores
town announced her candidacy fol
delegate to the Republican Nationa
Convention from the Second Congress
sional District.
At a meeting in the Gloucester CITY
High School about 200 formed a Par
%ent-Teacher Association. Mrs. Charles
A. Holdcraft was elected president.
Charged with permitting gambling
in his store, Benjamin Trout, of Lees
burg, was held under 5000 bail for th'
Grand Jury by Mayor Felmey.
Edward Kircher, aged .forty-eigh
years, a prominent resident of Man
tua. was stricken with paralysis ant
soon expired.
A curfew law is to be put into Ell
feet at Carney's Point and boys an
girls under sixteen years of age vii
not be permitted upon the streets a.
ter 9 o'clock unless accompanied b
parents.
Jacob X. Tryon, now serving a
und|er-sheriff of Gloucester county, ha
resigned as q constable at Pitman.
The new and attractive hall of Ka
mia Tribe of Red Men, of Ocean Cit!
was informally opened with a baske
ball game, followed by a. dance.
r Mayor Skunk has named a commi
tee of citizens to investigate a prop
S sition to erect a water plant at Woo
bury Heights.
t Westyille churches celebrated tn
e fourth anniversary of the Eighteent
Amendment with a union service
s the Methodist Protestant Church, tt
pastor Of each church speaking.
The Paulsboro Red Cross has give
s $25 to the Convalescent Home
e Clarksboro, and a number of person
t. have donated furniture, bed liner
towels and other necessaries.