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Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29
Drunken Driver Arrested

William Sullivan, Columbus Road,
Burlington, was arrested by Officer
E. B. Stevenson on Friday evening,
charged with driving a car while un-
der the influence of liquor. He was
given 80 days in the County Jail and
his license revoked. But strange to
say, he is now enjoying his freedom
and walking around the streets of
Burlington.
Stevenson caught the man as he
was driving on Warren street, his
car swaying from side to side endan-
gering the lives of passing motorists
and pedestrians. Upon searching his
car the officer found two bottles of
whiskey, which were confiscated and
it was later found that the driver
had no license There are three
charges transporting and illegal pos
session of liquor, driving a car while
under the influence of liquor and
driving without a license. Yet the
man is enjoying his liberty. Justice?
Well maybe, but it's good thing
for the accused that he was not ar
rested in any other city but Beverly
or he would be serving his time of
80 days
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29
RECORD MAY HEAT

Saturday was the hottest May day
within the memory of the oldest in
habitant. Even the weather records
failed to show anything to equal the
96-degree temperature officially an
nounced as Saturdays worst. HUI
mainly sweltered and all animal life
wilted, to say nothing of garden
crops and small fruits, already suffer
ing from the dry weather.
1t would have been trying enough
had the midsummer heat come on
us by easy stages, but after weeks Of
cool weather, with temperatures al
most uniformly below the seasonal
average, to be plunged into a sizzling
96-degree cauldron, from which no
escape could be had, was just little
too muck.
There were promises of relief from
the heat through thunder storms on
Saturday evening and some did APP
pear, but the middle section of the
county got very little rain until late
on Sunday afternoon, and then it
came in abundance. For several hours
before the rain the mercury had
dropped steadily until it rested on
the 50-degree mark on Sunday even
ing. This was 46 degrees lower than
Saturdays highest, but even after
that there was further drop of ten
degrees early on Monday morning.
Overcoats and winter wraps were
trotted out once more and furnace
fires rekindled in places where the
state of the coal bin would permit OF
it.
So far as learned, no particular
damage was done by the sudden de-
scent of temperature from the high
est midsummer attitudes to early
spring levels, but the precipatate
shift failed to make hit" with most
people.
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29
NINE CANDIDATES OUT
FOR FREEHOLDER

Seven Republicans and two Demo
Gratis will be in the running for Free
holder at the primary election on
Tuesday, June 10th, according to the
petitions filed with County Clerk
William Fl. Reeves in Mount Holly
the past week The candidates for
the Republican nomination are:
Charles r. Stout, Florence Township;
George w. Rogers. Palmyra; Harry
j. Ziegler, Riverside; Curwen B. Fish
er, Mount Holly; Charles c. Parker,
Burlington; William Harry Fisher,
Unionville; Howard Cobb, Springfield
Township
The Democratic candidates are: B.
Frank Atkinson, Burlington Town
ship, and Harry Barcalow, Moores-
town.
Two candidates filed petitions for
Republican State Committee: Will
liam H. Reeves, New Lisbon, and
Warren C. Pine, Riverside. The wo-
men candidates for Republican State
Committee are: Mrs. Ella " Deck
en- Burlington, and Mrs. Nellie Rus
sell, Sprngside
The Democratic candidates for
State Committee are: William Van
degrift, Burlington, and George M.
Gibson, Moorestown. Three women
will contest for the place on the
Democratic State Committee: Mrs.
Florence Jacoby, Edgewater Park.
Mrs. Armor Gauntt, Jobstown, and
Mrs. Elinor Earling, Burlington.
Candidates in this city have filed
their applications with Levi Wire,
City Clerk, as follows:
Common Council Stanley Allen, Z.
Leroy Grant, Frederick J. Lauinger,
Dillwyn S. Stevenson, P. Preston
Brown, (unexpired term.)
County Committee-1st District
Republican Harry Adams, John
Campbell
County Committee End District
Republican George S. Stevenson,
Charles F. Stevenson, Ada V. Will
Hams, Cornelia B. Ford.
County Committee End District
Democratic Josephine B. Miller and
Richard VanarsdalI
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29
Spencer Valves Hearing

Another case brought before Police
Justice Thompson ON Tuesday even.
ing was that of Alice Spencer VS. hel
husband, Allen Spencer, colored
charging him with non-support. Law,
yer Francis j. Smith, of this city,
was present to represent Mrs. Spen,
Ger but Mr.. Spencer asked for q
postponment until he could secure
counsel. The case was postponed by
the magistrate until Wednesday
evening, June 3rd, at s o'clock.
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29
MEMORIAL DAY PLANS COMPLETE.
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS TO PARTICIPATE
Boy Scout Troop No. VIII Launch Floral
Tribute In Memory Of Naval Heroes. Curwen
B. Fisher To Be Principal Speaker.

the First Division, Camp Dix, COM
pany Of sailors and marines from the
League Island Navy Yard, Philadel-
phia; Company X, National Guards,
Of Burlington; Company M National
Guards, of Mount Holly; the Ameri-
can Legion Posts of Riverside and
Beverly, the various lodges and
school children.
Smiths Band, of Burlington, and
the First Division Band, j. S. A., of
Camp Dix, villa furnish the music
The line Of march, marshalled by
the master of ceremonies, Colonel
John H. Sinex, is as follows: Posts
and organizations will form at Legion
Hall, Cooper street at 100 P. NJ.
Line will form at P. M. on Cooper
street facing South. From Cooper
street to Warren street to Laurel
street to River Front, where the
launching of floral ship, in honor
of the Naval heroes will take place
by Beverly Boy Scout Troup No. s.
From River Front to Broad street.
proceeding on Broad to the National
Cemetery, where the Memorial ser
vices will be held From the Nation
al Cemetery they will proceed back
to the Legion Hall for dismissal
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29
BOY ON BICYCLE KILLED
BY FORD COUPE

While Miss Bertha Small, accompa-
MED by her mother, Mrs. Barbara
Small Of Riverside, was driving a
Ford coupe on the road from Mason
ville to Medford on Sunday afternoon
she collided with Leonard Gebler, age
IL, who was riding bicycle and ran
directly across the road in front of
the automobile. The accident hap
pened at the intersection of the Eos
tertown road, on which the lad was
riding head down on account of the
heavy rain.
He was taken to the Burlington
County Hospital, where he died a
few minutes after being admitted
from fracture of the base of the
skull.
An investigation showed that the
accident was unavoidable on the part
of Miss Small and she was released
under her own recognizance for ap-
pearance at court, if summoned
Coroner Bolton conducted the inves
tigation and issued burial permit.
The boys parents live on the How
ard Branin farm located near th'
scene Of the accident
Mrs. Small who is the widow o
DR.. Alexander H. Small, late Of Riv
erside, was enroute to visit her son
Dr.. E. L. Small at Medford.
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29
SAYS A GOOD CAR
is LIKE GOOD HEALTH

"You live longer, you live larger,
with a good car than without one, -
says Frederick Rein. "Good health is
the only other thing that confers
these benefits. So car becomes
something much more than conven-
fence or luxury to the one who
owns it.
"The fact that automobile transpor-
tation is requisite to bigger mea-
sure of life, is becoming more appar-
emf every year. The millions OF cal
owners in America today are a liv.
ing demonstration of it.
"This situation puts upon the cal
dealer responsibility greater than
merely to provide new cars for thos'
who haven't any. He must serv'
faithfully and well those who already
have them"
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29
TO GIVE HEARING ON
NEW STATE HIGHWAY

Notice has been received by George
w. Rogers, of Palmyra, director OF
the Burlington County Board OF
Freeholders, that the members Of the
State Highway Commission, will be
the guests of those interested in the
new State Highway project across
New Jersey at a dinner at the Pig =
Whistle Inn, Browns Mills, on
Thursday afternoon, June 18th Iht
notice came from Senator Thomas a
| Mathis, of Toms River.
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29
CITIZENS GIVE POLICE DEPARTMENT THE 'RAzz."
LIEUTENANT Bot EXERCISES HIS AUTHORITY
Director Of Public Safety Fears For Pedestrians
Lives During The Traffic Rush AT Midnight
Hours Ten Autoist Fined $3.50.

nit to drive the motorcycle and as
these machines were not accomodat-
ed to carry licensed drive he was
not obligated to the State. Smith
claims that his best plea for new
trial is the fact that the trooper per-
mitted him to drive his machine from
the city line to the City Hall al
though he knew that he was without
license.
A Burlington resident paid the
fine,
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29
MIX GAPS ANOTHER CLIMAX
IN NEWEST PHOTO HIT
The Great Dramatic Romance OF a
Bad Man In The Bad Lands

1
When Clarence Milford wrote 1.-THE
Orphan" he furnished Tom Mix with
the greatest motion picture story of
his career. It comes to the screen at
the Bever-Lee Theatre this Monday
and Tuesday evening in a superb
William Fox production under the
title, "The Deadwood Coach" There
are more thrills, more swift action,
more humor and more scenic beauty
in this production than in any Mix
picture it has been our pleasure to
review.
According to the producers, "The
Deadwood Coach" was taken In Zion
Canyon, Utah, and for a great pic
turesqe background for this splendid
romance of the old West, the loca-
ton could not be surpassed. The
stage coach hold-up, the running
fights with bandits, the grim hand-to-
hand fight ON the brink of a tower
ing cliff, all are presented in a set
ting SO real, SO beautiful as to make
you wish that you lived in those
blood-tinghng days.
The story of "The Deadwood
Coach" concerns the Orphan, an out
law, who is feared throughout the
territory, but who, in reality, is the
enemy Of only one man. When he
was boy, his father was killed by
marauder named Tex Wilson and
the Orphan has dedicated his life to
vengeance.
There is price on the head of
the Orphan and two disreputable COW
hands set out to collect it. In an
effort to shoot the outlaw, one of
them kills his pal. He reports to
the Sheriff that the Orphan commit
ted the murder. Sheriff Jim Shields
starts out single handed to capture
the supposed murderer. There is an
Indian tribe on the war path and,
believing that posse will be after
him, the Orphan, but a ruse, runs the
redskins into the path of the Sheriff.
Then, when he realizes that Shields
is alone, he rushes to his rescue and
saves him. The Orphan convinces
the Sheriff that he is not a murderer
and the Sheriff offers him job as
guard of the Deadwood Coach 1t is
in this way that the Orphan meets
the girl. niece Of Sheriff Shields and
the manner in which he wins her and
pays his debt to Tex Wilson, swho is
uncovered as the head of band Of
robbers for whose deeds the Orphan
was accused, makes for fine, fast
moving and dramatic picture.
Tom Mix as the Orphan rides,
shoots and fights better than ever.
Doris May as the girl, makes a
winsome feminine morsel who acts
well. Lucien Littlefield adds an ex-
cellent comedy strain to the picture
as Charlie Winter, impetuous old
fogy who can draw gun as quick
as the rest of them and knows a
woman when he sees one. Offers in
the cast are George Bancroft, Dewitt
Jennings, Buster Gardner. Norma
Wills, Nora Cecil, Sid Jordan, Frank
Coffyn, Jane Keckley and Ernest
Butterworth.
Lynn Reynolds directed "The Dead
wood Coach" and did an excellent
job. Don't miss it,
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. James w. Livingston, Pastor

Sunday Morning Worship-1O.3o
Topic Originality"
Sunday School-l1.45.
B. Y. P. U.--7.00.
Evening Worship 7.45. Topic
"Hopefulness."
Tuesday Evening 100. Girl Re
serve Group.
Wednesday Evening 100. Boys
Club.
Friday Evening 500. Prayer Ser.
vice.
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29

The Beverly Police Department, un-
der the personal supervision Of Lieu
tenant" Howard Bott, were "rarin'
to go' on Saturday night, when they
started to "Butlerize" the city.
The first start was made in the cen
ire of the city by picking up DRINKS
and answering calls to various parts
of the city with the aid of Ford's
first experiment. Then the attack
was switched to the section between
Magnolia street and Manor Road,
where the cops picked up any motor
ist that was stepping on the gas.
Lieutenant" Bott had as his assis-
tants, Officers Stevenson and Toner.
Officer Toner is attached to the plain
clothes department. 1t was around
midnight. Bott placed his men in a
row, several feet apart, each armed
with whistle, a pencil and a pad,
and from the time the first whistle
was blown no one in that vicinity
could get any sleep.
There were whistles blowing,
shouts, and shots fired; anyone would
have thought it was celebration of
some kind. Before the officers decid-
ed to call it a day they had arrested,
ten drivers, who had in some way
broken the law They are as follows:
John Grancen, Gloucester.
Raymond Noecker, Camden.
Harold Ford, Florence.
Fred Miron, Burlington
DIN Cook, Palmyra.
John Dancaley, Camden.
Thomas Dramine, Camden.
There were three other names
which we were unable to obtain
They were tried in the Police Court
of Justice Thompson, and with little
ceremony fined $3.50. Several, who
paid the fine, are stated to have ex-
pressed their regret at not getting
receipt.
1t haSx- also been stated that the
matter will be taken over the Police
Committees head and an appeal made
to Council for an investigation. Sew
eral prominent citizens, it is said are
heading this move. If such actions
are kept up the motorists will soon
keep away from Beverly and boycott
the city entirely. As one motorist
said, sit is just a matter of CONNER
cializing the motor vehicle law, the
same as the filming mill at Mel
bourne"
The motor vehicle law states that
the speed of motor vehicle be linn
tied from IL to Is miles an hour
in city or town and 80 miles an
hour on the open country road.
Therefore, an officer on night duty
in the City of Beverly is known pos
itively to have left his post and gone
to Riverside at / o'clock on Sunday
morning, the 18th day OF May. to
bring back two persons who had
missed the last train and came up
from Camden on the trolley, which
only went as far as Riverside Of
course it was quite an accommodation
for the officer to go after them, but
as the officer said to the Banner re-
porter, "From the time / left the
Five Points until the time / got back
it was just nine (9) minutes" That's
travelling some, distance of approx
imately miles in 9 minutes, or at
rate of nearly 60 miles an hour.
Moral: People who live in glass
houses shouldn't throw stones.
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29
LITTLE HAT sHoPPE"

at the residence of Mrs. John Fitch,
Warren street, has new line OF
White and Summer Hats and is also
selling all Spring Models and Chill
dren's Hats at a great reduction.
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-05-29
IN MEMORIAM

In memory of my beloved sister,
Emma T. Flynn, who passed away on
June 2, 1922 at the age of is years
and Z months.
Dear Sister, it is lonesome here with
out you,
And sad the weary way, for life Is
not the same to US.
Since you were called away,
But peaceful be your sleep, dear
Sister,
IT'S sweet to breathe your name
We loved you dearly in life
In death we do the same
Sadly missed by
SISTER AND MOTHER
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WANTED

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O. Box s65, Beverly. 529I3t
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WANTED

Housework, by day or week. Write
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Mrs. Ruby Cox, Of Warren street.
left the past week for Brooklyn, n;
III att which place she wall remain 4
short time.
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Years subscription to the Banner 81
New Britain herald., 1925-01-16
JUST LIKE OTHERS.

If do say it, I'm one of the best proportioned my weight. And when you're writing about me, don't say I'm married It's better professionally to be known as Miss.
 The public is all right. They. are interested and come to be entertained. They aren't just roundeyed curiosity seekers. They need diver. sion, and we like to provide 1t for them. How much do earn? We'll fat lady is foolish to work for less than sec d week. besides the graft Of selling souvenirs That's as much as the salary"
 Team.mate with Jolly Viola" on the Harlem Museum platform. is Rubber Neck" Joe, the elastic man. He IS double jonted, can bend his fingers backward as far as forward, can turn his legs around end walk with his toes pointed to the rear, can stretch his skin an incredible distance, and is journeyman magician and ven. triloquist.
 Fat girls are ali right to work with on the stage but wouldn't want one to sit on my lap" says Joe, repeating one of his sure-fre laughs.
 Most regular of Kodets museim visitors is Charles A. Wilson, s9 years old. He travelled for a time with Barnum's circus and once man. aged Worth's museum, a rival of Barnum's. For worth's he obtained what he believes the great. est museum attraction of all time-the grewsome head of Guiteau. slayer of President Garfield.
 T paid seO0 for it, bid against Barnum and took 1t away from him." says Wilson. 1t made the biggest sensation Of anything. We made $500 a day on it for while. But museum days are past now. Johns here will be about the last one"
New Britain herald., 1925-01-16
MADE MONEY

"HusinesS is good on the whole place. In 1920 and 1921 I made &5OOoO. wouldn't want 1t bet. fer than that. It hasn't gone so big since then. 1n the summer when Coney Island is running and when We have fewer acts, we don't get more than 5000 people week. In winter we go up to 10000 people"
 Free Music for the Million" was one of Bar. nuns slogans. He kept band on the job out. side his museum all the time. It was the worst band he could find. he confessed, and was intended t. drive listeners within.
 Kodet enlivens his front door with an electric piano player, blaring out jazz tunes and with spindle-legged, red-clad tambourne player.
 In his own youth, Kodet visited Barnum's mu. scum and the other museums of that day He a wrestler and horse-trader for time but has been snowman virtually all his life
 His name of Lame John" comes from his quite noticeable limp. A ponderous diamond ring adorns enc finger, and across his black and white checked vest is draped a massive brass watchchain. He has the classic showmans appearance
 We used to make money off the suckers in penny arcades when was boy" the veteran D. Incl No. sl
New Britain herald., 1925-01-16
Mdeks Two heoded CoK

recalls Wed sell papers and get two or three dollars worth of pennies. Then we'd give quar- ter to the doorman to let us alone and go in to make change for the crowd. We'd give them pennies for nickel, or 3-cent piece instead of dime. Lots of things were done then that you couldn't do now. that the law wouldn't let you do. You've got to be on the square now"
 Museum freaks, beneath their unusual exterior, have hearts and ideas just like the people who gaze on them This is Kodets opinion after quarter Of centurys dealing with them, and the freaks themselves proclaim it's correctness.
 If one stays in a good humor and eats and sleeps plenty, hell get fat. too," believes Jolly Viola" the museums current fat girl, 510 pounds. coy, and possessor of an unbroken front of choice gold teeth.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-16

MILLIONS have repeated the motheaten M phrase: "Barnum was right.
 But just one man has had the nerve to come forward and disppute it. He says, and en1- phatlcally: "Barnum was WRONG"
 Barnum believed the people wanted to be bunked, fooled and kidded. But Lame John Kodet, proprietor of Kodets Harlem Museum of Freaks. New York City, says the people do not like to be humbugged, They want the real thing, he avers whether it is in clothing, dill pickles side-show freaks.
 John conducts what is accounted the sole sur vivor in America of the once popular dime mu scum. In a modern city neighborhood abounding in moving picture shows, automobiles, sheiks and fappers, he maintains his enachronism for the old game of capitalzing curiosity. He makes 1t pay.
 People" says John, want the genuine article and try to give it to them. I want them to feel like coming back egain. Some of my people around here come back several times a week."
 PIT WAS GREAT
 Although our modern survivor disagrees with The Banum theory, his museum closely follows the Bafnum pattern.
 The great Phineas T. Barnum gave the United States it's most widely known amusement place in his American Museum, which he took in 1S4 and operated for nearly 30 years, until two fires wiped him out and turned him to the circus Held,
 All sorts of natural curosties were in Barnums collection, together with passing attractions. He exhibited performing feas, jugglers, dancers, trained dogs, fat boys, models of Dublin. Paris and Jerusalem. specimens of fancy glass blowing and whatever the throng might gape at.
 Exactly the same type of material is the basis of Kodet's museum. Around the walls are hun. ireds of stuffed animals, with a preponderance of deers heads. He has spears from Borneo, model ships. ancient suits of armor live monkeys end parrots, several thousand mounted butterflies, mummies, skeletons and miscellaneous souvenirs.
 NO FAKE THERE!
 You see this twoheaded calf" Kodet points put "six legs, two tails and everything just as 1t was in life. No fake about this, and know. once had the pleasure of giving that calf epple with my own hand. He ate half with one mouth and half with the other
 Much of my stuff came from the other old museums. This little pig with two bodies, ore. served in alcohol used to he in the Eden Musee. Some of the things were Barnums This village
New Britain herald., 1925-01-16
LIKED HIS TITLE

John H, Starin ran the museum Glen Island, and Bunnells museum 1ourished for a time at Broadway and Ninth street The Eden Musee. last of the succession until Kodet started in 1917. operated for 30 years on Twenty,third street. Conductors on the horsecars at proper corners would call out, Change cars for the Musee." But the Musee went bankrupt in 1915
 Barnum delighted in being called charlatan, mountebank, imposor and the Prince of Hum. bugs Whether his explorations were genuine or not he never denied the charges of his t1a- ducers.
 His Happy Family was one of the most ia. nous of his ideas. There the lion and the lamb lay down together as the Bible had predicted, the two having first been stupefed with over feeding until they felt neither fear nor feroclty.
 After Bamum's museum was well established and the public was used to his methods. he sometimes worked his wes by an indirect ap. proach.
 His famous "Woolly Horse is an example. He bought the animal in the neighbolhood of Gin clnnati, normal horse in size and shape but covered with kinky wool like sheep.
 To put 1t directly in his museum would merely enlarge an already overfoEing collection.
 Barnum waited. Just at that time John C. Ere. mont was reported emerging from the unknown regions of the Rocky Mountains after an explor. ing expedition. Soon a newspaper received q story that Fremont had discovered a curious wool. covered freak akin to sheep llama, camel, donkey and wildcat