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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-10-29

Just about this time o season,
When the wind is whining so,
And the full moon is peaking,
Watch for witches flying low.
Just about this time O. season,
They are looking all about,
For an old secluded building,
Where they all can hang out.
Ii, by any chance you happen to
know, by actual experience, or Just
+ from hearsay, Of any place Wlli5h
has a reputation Of being a harbor
for spooks, witches, or goblia5,
!. keep away from that neighbofhood
over the weekend. For IL the
strange creatures never walked be-
fore. If no one ever saw them, they
will surely make themselves known
over the Halloween.
For that period is the natural
!. time for the appearance OF spookS,
] witches, and COLLINS. Perhaps that
is why so many people MASK III
costumes that are meant to fright
en-, to scare the spooks away. VINO
wants a spook fussing around them
anyway?
There seem to be very lew
spooks about on the Mainland, al
though q number Of deserted nous
es are known which might possibly
harbor them just about this tine
of the year, when the big moon
will cast ominous reflections, and
the wind make strange noises. cN-
cryone is keeping more OF less
away from such buildings. There
might not be ghosts. but then,
again, there might be, and what s
the use OF taking chances anyway
Up at Reading avenue and Main
street there is a house which has
an enviable reputation as being a
harboring place for all kinds oil
spooks. It is an old house. the win
dows are broken, the doors hang
tepsy.turvy, it is Imprinted, uncar-
cd for
Truly, if there ever was Il good
place for spooks. that is the place.
There is just one thing which IS
against it, and that is that ii IS
situated in too prominent section
to be ideal
The ideal places which we know
OF have the same kind of houses,
old, their windows broken, their
shutters creaking in the fall wind,
their doors asunder But they are
in a patch of trees, or have large
trees in their front yards. One we
know OF is approached for more
than a hundred yards over Il road
way which is lined with heavy
trees, which east deep reflection.
That house, of all we know, is the
building for spooks. %t'%Fs
Ii some good spook is homeless,
and all the other buildings OH the
Mainland are taken, we advise it to
look us up for further information.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-10-29
ADVERTISEMENT.


Sealed bids Will be received by inc
Board of Chosen Freeholders of Az
lantic County. n. j., at II O'Clock
noon on Wednesday, November 10
1926, during II regular meeting OF the
Board in its Assembly Room in the
Guarantee Trust Bldg. Atlantic City,
No j., for providing all necessary ma
chinery, tools, apparatus and other
requirements of construction, tor DO
ing all the required work and furnish
ing the necessary materials as shown
by plans and specifications. in connec-
ton with the reconstruction Of "A
highway bridge spanning Union Creek
on claudius Street between Londen
and Washington Avenues in Ege llar-
Dor City. Atlantic County, \. j., known
on the County records as ElI-l9.
Plans and specifications covering
the proposed work are ON file at the
Office OF the County Engineer, al
Guarantee Trust Bldg. Atlantic 'ftN
N j., where they may he secured by
prospective bidders without charge.
A bid will be received only on the
bidding form attached to the spccitiea-
tions and the bid must be accompa-
MED by n certified check in Il sum
equal to 1879 of the bid. except that
the check may not be for Il less ana
cunt than $500.00: the bid mus, also
be accompanied by i certificate of
surety on the form attached to the
specifications The successful bidder
must furnish Il satisfactory construc-
ton bond in the full amount of the
contract price.
The right is reserved to reject amy
or all bids.
BY order of the Board of Chosen
L. w. WILLETTS,
1l-G6 Clerk.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-10-29
Hallowe' EN- Is Open Season
For Spooks--So Watch Out

! Certainly we can fix it UP with al
ideal winter home, but we cannot
say whether it will be shared With
brother spooks or not.
And meanwhile, folks watch out.
For spookS do not come, like Hal
lowe EN-. on time, but are likely 10
pop up at any time. like the cork
on bottle OF pops home made
brew.
And this is an open season for
them.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-10-29

William Tricky, Of BerSYille,
Mimi. WAS shot in the leg and cap
tured while trying to escape from
Sheriff George O'Brien, who said:
"Your name may be Tricky, but
you are not trick enough.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-10-29

Mrs. Kate Smith, of Columbus,
O., arrested for disorderly conduct
on her Tooth birthday, told the
Judge: 81 was never drunk before
in my life The case was dis
missed
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-10-29

George Dryer, OF Lexington,
Ky. slipped into a vat OF tar and
had to be taken to hospital to be
cleaned,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-10-29

a calf with eight legs and Two
heads was bern on the farm OF
Elienne CadieuX near Toul, France
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-10-29

Henry Lorman wrote from Can
ada to the mayor Of Deal, England,
asking him to find wife : ho
would be willing to scrub floors.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-10-29

Henry Lille, of st. Paul, was
found to be wearing corset and
long silk stockings when he was
arrested for robbing q store.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-10-29

An engineer OF Munich has de
veloped an automobile motor which
uses crude oil as fuel.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-10-29
Port Republic News

of Delair; Whorton Vaughn, of Riv-
erton. and Mabel Brubaker, Of Read
ing, were visitors at the Twin OAKS
farm on Pomona ave, Sunday.
The Port Ladies !. O. M. lodge
viii give, a Halloween party in tne
/. o. M. hall on Main street, SatGr-
day night, Oct 80.
Ralph Ashley is improving his
Pomona avenue residence b. coat
Of paint and has recently had cleo
trio lights installed.
Amasa Wilson is having lis
house on Dewberry Hill wired fol
electric lights. Mr.. Burtsell is TO
ing the work
The people who stand in theil
own light might just as we'll hiat
! it under a bushel
----s2<::,-----
At Davenport, Ia, James Curry
was given ride to the train in {
wheelbarrow, after his marriage tt
| Mies Isabel RYAN
The Lambertville record., 1926-10-21
DUMB-BELL AUTO DRIVERS

II is surprising how many auto drivers there are
who start their from the curb without looking be-
hind them holding out their hands to indicate
that they are going to drive out into traffic.
And yet those careless drivers will curse a
blue streak about pedestrians who step from the curb
without looking and walk into the path of their car
Every day you narrow escapes from smash-ups
when these dumb drivers suddenly shoot out from the
curb into traffic with warning whatever 1t is not
only violation of traffic laws, but the poor fools are
eopardizng their own property and lives.
The other day | saw such boob enter his at
the curb and without a backward glance signal,
suddenly backed his up and banged into another
parked behind him. His was that he was just
backing his into the shade and didn't know there
was another behind him.
Can you beat it? With such dumb-bells as that
driving cars IL is wonder that don't have more
accidents than do.
The Lambertville record., 1926-10-21
HOW THE HIGH SCHOOL COULD
REALIZE MORE ON IT'S INVESTMENT

Many young men and women OF Lambertville, New
Hope and vicinity engaged in taking night
in Trenton business schools 1t is commendable thing
and it is easy to prophesy that they the who
will go farthest in their lifes work.
But it has been suggested that with the modern
building and equipment of the Lambertvle High School
these young people, and Others could be given night
courses at home and the community could realize
on the investment There many young people at
work who would like to better themselves with more
education yet they cannot afford to travel back and
forth to Trenton for their instruction 1t would be
appropriately fitting that such workers be aided in
their further education
Manufacturers all the country have come to
realize that night and day shifts of employees can give
twice the amount of production with the invest
ment of equipment This is practical also in education
where hundreds of boys and girls obliged to to
work after they have finished grammar school, If
they could be given high school courses at night they
could prepare themselves for better things, and still
continue their daily work.
The Lambertville record., 1926-10-21
MONEY TALKS

Doc Bloom, gardener-preach extraordinary, was
making an appeal to his congregation for money to
"fiah de engine O. de gospel train"
"Hit takes three things fer make engine co."
he said with great earnestness Hit takes COAL water
an steam An hit takes three things fer ter make de
gospel train come 'roun de bend-ht takes de Good
Book, de songbook an de POCKETBOOK!
"We's got de Good Book; wes got de song book,
BUT WE NEEDS DE POCKETBOOKl
"Hit's bout time o. yo' niggers shells out!
Some o. yo' is tight dat hits wondah dat yo' kin
even git yo' bre Skinnn' eel is easy work ter git
tin yo' ter pay yo homes debts ter de Lawd
"ETen de Lawd hyah an wanted ter raise
Him money like e did in de Bible wen E ketched
de fishes wild money in dey moufs, E couldn't trus'
some O. yo' nggers, cause yod steal de money right
outa de fishes moufs TO de Lawd could git hit!
"some o. yo niggers is so NEAR dat yo' make
dis hyah now Near Beer look 'shamed O. hitsef Eff
fen yo had mortgage on hebben yo'd be Trad ter
foreclose cause yo'd be fraid yod lose de intrus
"Ah amt got no fault ter fin wild de po' folks
whut amt got money; but Abs hyah ter tell yo
dat hell amt hot huff fer de nggers whut shoots dey
wages erway at craps Sattdy night an den comes
ter de chech Sunday spectin de Lawd ter glib 'em
salvation free OBJ charge.
'oalVaShunS Tree all rlBnC, DuC yo BoC ef pay
fer de delivery; an de messengers CANT live on no
air De angels doan hab ter hab 'em no grub, BUT All
AMT NO ANGEL!
"a nigger whut'd cheat de Lawd outa whut e
owe I'm will cheat his own family; an niger
whutd cheat his family will steal; an man
whutd steal amt no Chrstun, as Abs hyah ter tell
yo' dat Abs gwine O. yo niggers ragged eff
fen yo' doan pay yo' debts ter de Lawd
Las week All seed membah o. dis chech glib a
good wench fl dollars Den afterds is wife
tell me dat e amt glib 'er money since de woods
wuz burnt An effen dat mans wife knowed dat e
been givin' is money ter good-fer-nothin yaller
wenches she'd ambas' de stufin' outten is wuthless
hide! Yassuhl An dat niggers hyah in his chech
di mawnin. An effen e doan put dollar bill in
dat c'leckshun plate wen hit passes 'roun', Abs
gwine nounce is name right hyah in de pulpit fer
eve body ter hear AN All hopes ter goodness dat us
wife beats de tar outten i'm! Denis nah sentiments!
"Brudder Deacons, pass de c'leckshun plates! An
keep yo' eyes on dem nggers cause dey's gotta pay
dey debts. An vile takes up de oferin les stan
an sing dat o song,
Whut yo' gives is es' whut yo gifts;
Yo' CANT reap Gavin eff yo jes grits.
Eff yo' wants de milk an honey,
Yos gotta de golden money!
When the collection had been finished Doc found
note from one negro which said ,I amt got me no
dollar tefday but EFF you doan tell | give you
2 week"
The Lambertville record., 1926-10-21
IS PROHIBITION
A FAILURE?

Comments against. will be published here weekly
you them. Unsigned items will be snored-Editor
The Lambertville record., 1926-10-21
CAPITAL AND LABOR
GETTING TOGETHER

Over one-third million employees
are their own employers. That's
what it comes to from one point
of view. These employees own
nearly five million shares in twenty
two representative corporations, and
more shares being purchased each
year and more employees coming in
as purchasers. The value of the
stock held by this vast army of
employees is valued at a little less
than $800,000,000. Among the cor
porations that have in operation a
definite stock-selling plan are The
American Telegraph and Telephone
Company, United States Steel Cor
poration, Bethlehem Steel Corpor-
alton, Armour and Company, New
York Central Railroad, Pennsylvan-
"a Railroad, Swift and Company.
All this is only one of the nation
wide illustrations that capital and
labor are finding each other as
never before in the history of the
world, and the r2arer they come
together the more indications they
discover that they are twin bro
theirs rather than a couple Of
foes. Central (Perkasie) News.
The Lambertville record., 1926-10-21
BRATS AND CATS

He may be squalling, brawling little brat,
But he's some mothers baby just the same;
She may be whining, pining little cat,
But her mother thinks she's free from all blame
When | see little shaver
Who's an impish little raver
And deserves healthy busting of his pants,
Then | think it is error
To bring up the little terror
When it's futile to expect him to advance.
But tho they be yowng. bowling little brats
With grubhy hands and sniffy,, running noses
We all pestiferous gnats,
And all of got started just like Moses.
Gee See.
The Lambertville record., 1926-10-21
Mu Fauorite Stories
Where Proper Relief Lay
By lRulN S. COBB


Late in life Messrs. Abrams and
Shaplnsky took up golf Both were
retired cloak and suit merchants of
the type made famous in Montague
Glass immortal stories.
On glorious September after
noon they were going over the links
of their country club. They were
playing for stake of a dollar hole,
and the competition was spirited.
Mr.. Abrams drove into a bunker
With his iron he made four ineffec-
tuaI swipes, raising the sand in
clouds Then he stopped down,
picked up the half buried ball and
tossed it out on the fairway.
Mr.. Shapinsky. stiffened with in
dignation
Look "a here!" he whooped. "You
couldn't do that. It's against the
rules
Il already have done it," said Mr..
Abrams, calmly.
But again / tell you it's against
the rules" declared Mr. Shapinsky.
81 have. been playing this game long
er as YOU have and / tell you 1t says
in the book where you should not
touch the ball with your hands at
all. What am | going to do II oy
such TRICKS as that you should WIN
the match?n
Sue me-" said Mr.. Abrams.
tconyright by the McNaught Syndicate. Incl
The Lambertville record., 1926-10-21
SMILIN' THU
BY GORDON COOPER

Reproduction by permission of b. sutho
The Lambertville record., 1926-10-21
intoxicated Autoists Set Record

The number of cases of intoxicated automobile driv
has topped all previous high levels, the report
says and the indulgence in liquor by youths of both
has risen to such extraordinary degree to
constitute of the most distressing of the present
day prohibition problems. With respect to all these
things asserted that the situation in the original
dry states is far worse compared with 1914, than are
the conditions in the so-caled wet states.
While most of the references in the survey pertain
to 1926 figures of big insurance company on deaths
from alcoholism are cited to show that drunkenness
during the first half of 1926 has increased 20 percent
the like period last year.
In the circumstances, says the report 1--WE cannot
escape the conclusion that the vostead act has failed
utterly to do what it intended to do, namely
promote temperance and sobriety."
"Moveover" the statement finds, "since conditions
have become worse better each year. and with the
next generation drinking before, there seems
hope that the vostead act in its present dras
tic form, accomplish its purpose.
Survey Shows Law Needs Revision
"From the experience. before national prohibition
of the states which had restricted laws, from the
perence of the whole country during the restricted
191s-199, and from the experience of the Canadian
provinces and the Scandinavian countries, believe
that greater degree of temperance be obtained by
wise restrictive law than by bone-dry law which
does command the respect of large part of the
people.
"one of the interesting things disclosed by the sur
vey is that while the low point of drunkenness in the
former wet states rea hed in 1920 the first year
of Constitutional prohibitoh yet in the former dry
states-states which had some kind of a statewide
dry law before the Eighteen Amendment ratified
the low point of drunkenness in 1919 before ma
tiona prohibition other words, in the dry states the
Begun in the first year of national prohibition
The Lambertville record., 1926-10-21
TINE FOR THE BOUNCER!

You who read this may be employees or employers.
But both of you know that if man doesn't make
good on bis job that he is due for bouncing.
And whether you hire men work for others,
YOU are the official "bouncer" who hires or fires a
man for public office when you go to the polls and
cast your vote. That's the highest authority man
can have-the President has power than this.
USE YOUR POWER!
IIunterdon County voters put it to very prac-
tica use in voting for Fred W. Massey for Freehold
Robinson, who is opposing him, was boosted into
his present by the argument that he was "a
good business man" Yet chairman of the County
Jail Building Committee his so-caled business ability
has gone fooey
Democratic Freeholders Dlts and Robinson control
the Board The minority member Haynes, is out-voted
at every turn It's time to place another Republican
with him to run the affairs of the county in decency
and order.
It's time to BOUNCE ROBINSON, and you are
the official bouncer who do the job!
The Lambertville record., 1926-10-21
INK FROM OTHER
PRESSES
Humorous and Serious Topics
From Leading Editors
of the Country

EVIDENTLY AFTER TUNNEY
DID HIS STUFF
DEMPSEY'S FACE
MADDENED DOG
Policeman's Bullet Saves
Worlds Champion
Boston paper.
The Lambertville record., 1926-10-21

Thousands of kilograms Of con
graduation showered upon him
from departments, posts and in.
dividual Legionnaires. Havana,
Cuba, made him member for life
and so did a post in Indiana. So
Tunney will always be a Legion
naire.
The Lambertville record., 1926-10-21
EDITORIALS
LIFE Is A MIRROR-REFLECTING EXACTLY
WHAT YOU HOLD UP TO IT

Mirrors do le-they reflect truthfuly the image
of the objects appearing before them. monkey will
look like monkey and saint will look like saint;
smile will be reflected as smile, and a frown will
fleet frown
If you horn-swogglng hop-toad, life will ul-
timatey reveal you for just what you aref you don't
change.
If you play the game fairly and sqaurey, life will
give you back just what you put into it.
You may get away with murder for while, but
ultimately life will strike the average-AND YOU!
And you'll know you've been struck when it happens.
The Lambertville record., 1926-10-21

Doc Bloom gardener preacher extraordinary wa
making an appeal to his congregation for money
"fiah de engine o. de gospel train"
The Lambertville record., 1926-10-21
8 9
VETERANS COLUMN
LEGION PROUD OF
TUNNEY WHO NOW
is LIFE MEMBER

LEGION PROUD OF
TUNNEY WHO NOW
is LIFE MEMBER
Philadelphia, Pa.,-"The Marine
has landed and has the situation
, we'll in hand"
Legionnaire Gene Tunney, ex
Marine of Belleau Wood fang.
forty-and- Fighter and fighter %s
/ aordinary might well have A4I
that message after the ten rou 1
bout here when he decisively
feated Jack Dempsey for Il 4
heavy weight, championship of t
world. 4
For land he did, from the fl I
round to the tenth, and when I
bell rang to end the battle of 4
century and half, Dempsey wt
groggy, blind, cut in a dozen platQ
and probably only one round "
moved from a knockout. LEM
and rights skillfully timed aHl
placed made the ex-champion lfds
like a tyro; and Tunney, frNn
the beginning to the end, looHH
more like a champion than p}e
champion himself. III
After all the applesauce is writ
ten, millions of words of it, the
truth will remain namely, Tunney
was the man of destiny, bettel
man than Dempsey has been si' Se
he cut down Willard seven yeTs
ago. The experts whose prophesfs
made Dempsey three-to-one f't-
orite, looking around for alil1s,
said Dempsey was but a she'll ,bf
himself, the vital spark missiik.
But once again the experts are III
wet.
Dempsey until the eighth rou hd
was the one-punch Dempsey, wlIo,
if he had had a target like Will
lard, Firpo or Carpenter woiild
still be champion. Always he chr
ried either in his right and lStft;
but never found the opportunity
to administer it. He found Inc
clumsy, slow opponent who couldn't
get out of the way; he found a
fighter who glided, ducked, boxed
and kept clear of Dempsey's bull
like rushes, then smacked Demp-
sey fore and aft with punches that
hurt even the ex-champion. So he
lost. Anybody who had seen
Dempsey and Tunney in action
knew he would lose.
Tunney learned to fight in
France, where steel -jacketed bul.
let's and machine guns and shrap-
mel and high explosive demanded
courage of a rare, spiritual kind
So Dempsey with his frowning
leer, his weaving, ape-like crouch
couldn't make Tunney afraid. Tun-
ney had been tried in the greatest
school of all and not found want
| ing. He is a great champion, and
esss+-lsf-
| lot.
Thousands of kilograms of con
graduation showered upon hin
from departments, posts and in
dividual Legionnaires. Havana
Cuba, made him member for life
| and 60 did n most in Indiana s.
The Lambertville record., 1926-10-21

Drunkenness throughout the nation is SURPRISING all
previous records and in several hundred of the prn-
cpal cities exceeded preprohbiton conditions,
cordng to the report a national survey just made
public by the Moderation League, of 1856 Madison Aven
ue The survey constitutes n study of liquor condi-
tions for the last year.
The Lambertville record., 1926-10-21

DRY LAW ADDS TO DRINK EVIL. SURVEY SHOWS
Drunkenness Increase Throughout U. s. Under
Prohibition, Moderation League Figures Reveal
ORIGINAL ARID STATES FOUND WETTEST NOW
volstead Act Makes More Tpplers Than Saloon Era
Did, Report Asserts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-05-16
LITHUANIAN LEGATION
PICKETED BY WORKERS
Delegation With Banners Denounc-
ing Government and British I'M
perialism Unnoticed by ENJOYS.

A delegation of rs Lithuanian
workers armed with banners denounc-
ing the government of that country
and British imperialism staged a
modest demonstration in front of the
Lithuanian legation, 1922 Sixteenth
street, yesterday afternoon on behalf
of the 400 members of the working
class in Lithuanian prisons" The
picketing went more or less I'M
noticed from the legation, and the
only result was to delay the steady
flow of traffic on Sixteenth street.
Three policemen from the Tenth pre-
cinct stood by with an eagle eye out
for any untoward actions.
Paired off in twos, the workers,
men and women, marched around the
driveway at a slow dignified pace,
onto the sidewalk and back through
the driveway again. They represented
Lithuanian workers in four cities in
addition to those here, it Was said.
Some of the banners carried read:
american workers demand the re-
lease of leaders of the Lithuanian
working class" British imperialism
slaves the workers and peasants of
Lithuania, as well as the workers of
Britain and the colonies" THE blood
of Lithuania drips from the hands of
the white guard dictators in Lith-
| uania," Down with the Lithuatia
white guard government. servant of
British imperialism" Free the 400
| workers imprisoned and tortured in
Lithuanian prisons" and 'Interna-
tional Labor Defense fights for free
dom of 80 labor working class
! leaders,"
1t was explained that Lithuania has
| opposed the formation of labor unions
| and several persons attempting to
| create such organizations have been
lodged in Jail.