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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12

State aid in the construction
of dwellings for persons of limited
financial means is the object of a
bill introduced by Senator Simp-
son with the unanimous consent
of the Senate. The measure pro-
vides for the creation of housing
corporation of three members to
be appointed by the Governor at a
salary to be fixed by the Legisla-
ture. For the fulfillment of the
purposes of the bill an appropria-
ton of 100000 is asked.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12

II is up to the Legislature OF
PENNSYLVANIA whether or not
there shall be another bridge
across the Delaware besides the
span now approaching completion.
New Jersey took the first definite
step last week by appropriating
$4,000 for survey to determine
the best site and lowest cost of a
bridge linking South Broad street
and Red Bank. N. j. The vexed
question of tolls has not come in
to the discussion of the second
bridge. The measure passed at
Trenton is entirely silent on the
subject, it's advocates realizing
that the surest way to wreck their
program would be to raise that
much debated issue. 1t Is regard
ed as highly probable, however,
that before a similar survey APP
preparation is passed at Harris
burg, free-bridge stipulation
would be made an explicit condi-
ton of Pennsylvania going into
the matter at all.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12

A New York jewelers. offer of a
wrist watch for the Statue of Lib
erty, has been declined by Han
ford Macnider without passing on
the question of the congruity of
so modern an ornament upon the
classically-robed figure.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12
Quite an Advantage.

Prospective Tenant: l like this
house in many ways, but 1t does
MT seem to be protected from the
winds
Agent: That's the beauty of it.
Whenever there's blizzard the
snow drifts over to your neigh
boris.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12

Twenty historical societies
representing Atlantic and seven
other counties of Southern New
Jersey will take part in preparing
the most ambitious program of
pageantry ever attempted in the
State. Ten weeks of pageantry
in which all of the events which
have gone toward making nation
al and local history will be shown
in the program being arranged
for the South Jersey Exposition
which opens July list and contin-
ues to September 9Th.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12
No Microscope Needed.

do you realize what wonders
there are in drop of water?"
Yes; my wife and l spent our
honeymoon looking at one"
What. Gazing at a drop of
water?"
"Uh-huh! Niagara Falls"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12
INDIVIDUAL MUNICIPALITIES

INDIVIDUAL MUNICIPALITIES.
To maintain the individuality of
community, is vital to the life
of the nation. We have been as
sured that the cities of the main
land, Pleasantville, Absecon,
Mortified, Linwood and Somers
Point desire to remain and to con-
tinue under the individual govern
ments, activities and civic devel-
opments as present chartered -
not as wards of some metropolis.
Similar desires actuate munich
palities in northern New Jersey
and the same reasons apply. Re-
publican State Chairman E. c.
Stokes has added his voice to the
discussion over the bill offered in
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12

The first Thursday in October
Of each year would be designated
National Agricultural Day." I'M
der a resolution introduced by
Senator Capper, Republican, Kan
sas, and is in line with the recon-
mendations of the National
Grange.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12

The trustees of the WoOlwOrth
estate are receiving congratula-
lions for saving the young heiress
of the family million or two by
selling out some of her stock be-
fore it dropped. 1t is not stated
that the plaudits came from the
purchasers.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12
YOUNG FOLK ALL RIGHT.
Bishop Hughes Urges Close
Friendship Between Parents and
Children, Also Between Child
rem and the Pastors.

Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, pre-
siding over the annual conference
of the New Jersey Methodist Epis-
copal Church, at Atlantic City,
made plea for closer friendship
between parents and children, and
between pastors and young peo-
pie. He deplored the estrange-
ment between the adult and the
youth of the precent age, declar-
ing that carping criticism by
adults has driven the younger folk
into a camp, and he didn't wonder
at it.
The bishop declared he could
find no fault with the fashions,
the mannerisms or the speech of
the young people of today, con-
tending that it was for the most
part innocent nonsense. By way
of comparison he ridiculed the
fashions of the young men and
women of the early SOS, recalling
the Skin-tlght trousers and the
choking collars of the male dan
dies, and the hoop skirts and tight
waists and the bangs and bustles
of the women of that day.
when a woman of that period
stood erect" said the bishop, "she
looked like a perpendicular camel.
and l recall very we'll that the
doctors repeatedly warned the
mothers of the present generation
that unless they stopped lacing in
their waists they would unfit
themselves for motherhood. l do
not disparage those fine women,
but l do say that when they criti-
CHE the present-day fashions, it is
unfair"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12

not far distant when solid area
of buildings would occupy the
meadows clear to the shore road
communities With this condition
breezes that now pick up moisture
as they blow over the marshlands
would remain warm until they
struck the Thoroughfare, which
would cool them off.
City officials are opposing the
proposition because the resort has
already given contract for $780,
600 Improvement to the Pleasant
Vile boulevard bridge and has
participated in the construction of
new highway on the west side
of the Thoroughfare for the dis
lance covered by the fill-in pro-
posal.
To lust what extent the report
ed sale price of real estate affects
the viewpoint of county tax COM
missioners is uncertain. 1t is to
be expected that tax commission
ers take notice of the number OF
sales and, like other interested
persons, are curious as to the
price obtained. The price sets the
valuation upon which assessments
are made. The demand for high
er assessed valuations which has
been made upon the mainland
generally had an interesting de-
nouement at Absecon, where the
assessors after making great in
creases over previous assess
ments, were told to make still fur
Their increases. This they declin-
ed to do, saying that their figures
were representative of values.
Against this statement, it was
pointed out that one tract repre-
scented sale of $5,000,000. 1t was
proved, however! that this sum
was incorrect, and the Absecon
assessors stand cleared of any
doubt as to their sincerity or abil-
ity. People in their enthusiasm
sometimes overstate a situation.
This may pertain to price paid for
real estate. AS to the actual price
paid for real estate, it may be
learned from following the Main
land Real Estate Transfers as
printed in the columns of The
Pleasantville Press.
If, or when, a Philadelphia Red
Bank bridge is built, it will do
wonders in creating interest in
one of the most picturesque and
o-hallowed spots in this part
of the world.
For at Red Bank was fought a
decisive battle of the Revolution
and nowhere in this whole cOun-
try can the trenches and rifle pits
of conflict be seen to better ad-
vantage than there.
The bluff at Red Bank rises
high above the Delaware and that
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12

PIeasantville, N. Y, will pay a
town manager $4,000 a year. Col
lege seniors, beginning to consid-
er where they will accept posi-
lions in the great world, should
take notice.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12
Expire ssive.

Where do you live, dear?" ask
ed the new neighbor of wee Doro-
thy. The little one pointed to a
handsome residence with wide We
randas. "Why, l live in that
broad brimmed house" she an
swered.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12
Representative Alderman, of

Representative Alderman, of
New Jersey. has had inserted in
the Record an interesting tabula-
ton of the income tax by States.
He finds that under the 1924 law
four States-New York, New Jer-
sey. Pennsylvania and Ohio-paid
about one-half of the entire per-
sonal income tax. New York paid
more personal income tax than
forty-one States and Hawaii COM
bined. New Jersey paid more
personal income tax than nineteen
States and Hawaii combined.
Pennsylvania paid more personal
income tax than thirty-one States
and Hawaii combined, Ohio paid
more personal income tax than
twenty States and Hawaii combin-
ed
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12
Taking No Chances.

mo doubt you have thoroughly
investigated the conditions of
which you are treating in your
book" remarked friend.
NO" replied the young woman.
"You see, I'm afraid investigation
might interfere with some of the
beautiful theories l have evolved"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12
No Argument.

Uncle: My boy, it will pay you
to be diligent in your studies
Remember, what you have learn
ed no one can ever take from you
Small Nephew; Well, they can't
take from me what l haven't
learned, either, can they?
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12

The suggestion of Senator Ed
wards, Democrat, New Jersey, for
4 national referendum-~s dfibi-
ton, was declared by Wayne B.
Wheeler. general counsel of the
Anti-SalOon League, to be an lille
gal. impracticable, proposal"
which would be las futile as his
efforts to make New Jersey as
wet as the Atlantic Ocean"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12

1t is said that real estate ag-
ents in Florida are now so numer-
Gus they have to wear Identifying
badges to keep from wasting time
trying to trim each other.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12
FACTS AND FANClES.
Credit Remains.

Husband: What! You ordered
two new dresses. Don't you know
that | am on the verge of bank
ruptcy?
Wife: Oh, yes, know; but the
dressmaker doesn't.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12
Ne Should. Too.

From an exchange: One of the
best examples of power from
seemingly slight diet is the ORR
entail coolie who subsidies on a
few handfuls of rice day.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12
Distressing Interference.

81 suppose your wife is delight
ed over the new baby"
"Oh, yes, in general way. But
she says it has cut into her bridge
awfully."
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12

The craze for fiddlers has al
ready raised the price of rosin,
but the resulting boom does not
seem to have struck the cat mar
ket yet.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12
Never,

People who are really acquaint-
ed with themselves aren't found
in the self-satisfied class.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12
Handicapped.

Mrs. Iggins Gas reported in the
Tatler): The rheumatism as laid
me up proper this week, Mrs.
Smith. carn't get me arm to me
'ead, an it's the same with me leg.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12

height was what led to the estab-
lishment there of Fort Mercer, de-
signed together with Fort Mif1in
on the Pennsylvania side and eth
er defenses, to prevent the British
fleet from sailing up the Delaware
, to Philadelphia. But while Lord
Howe was able to march into
Philadelphia after the battle Of
the Brandywine on September II,
1777, his fleet still was unable to
come up because of the forts and
chevau-de-frise at Billingsport.
Accordingly he sent the Hessi-
ans under Count Carl Emil Kurt
Won Donop to invest Fort Mercer
They crossed to Coopers point
, Camden still was known as that
marched down Haddon avenue to
Kings Highway, Haddonfield, and
thence marched by the Clements
Bridge road into what is now
North Woodbury.. Thence they
moved on Fort Mercer by road
which from that time to this very
day is known as Hessian road.
Back that road they came badly
defeated twenty-four hours later.
The Hessian road and the rest
of the route to Fort Mercer and
Red Bank now is the most modern
of concrete highways. A bridge
from Philadelphia to Red Bank
would mean that thousands of
persons would have easy access
to the national and State park
which enshrines the graves of
many heroes, including the bones
of the luckless Count Won Donop.
Other thousands fastening to the
seashore doubtless would hurry
past the old fort as fast as their
cars could carry them to the bill
lows and breezes of the seacoast.
To people of the Mainland and
coast points the spot will be
most inviting objective point for
a motor drive.
-"Pitilacker," coined by Mrs.
M. McTlvaine Bready, Mickleton,
N. j., has been selected from
nearly five hundred terms sub
mitted from all parts of the Unit
ed States and three foreign coun-
tries to the Pennsylvania Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, as the word best desert
bling a person utterly Indifferent
to the suffering of an animal.
Heroic services of members
of the crews of the Barnegat City,
Forked River, Harvey Cedars and
Loveladies coast guard stations In
rescuing members of the crew OF
the Metropolitan Coal Company
barge, wrecked on Barnegat
Shoals on February 10, were COM
mended in a concurrent resolution
introduced by Senator Mathis, Of
Ocean, and adopted by the Senate.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12
THE WEEK IN EPiGRAM.

It's about time some bootleg
ring-leaders went to prison, where
they can use their talents making
registration-plates for the Rolls
Royces they can so we'll afford
Robert T. Bushnell.
We are all Socialists nowadays,
and our differences are only a
matter of degree. - Sir Robert
Hamilton.
1t is one thing to recognize that
a water bucket is outmoded; it is
another to appreciate that it still
may carry living water. = Harry
Emerson Fosdick.
The more l see of politicians,
the more l like journalists.-St.
Loe Strachey
Lots of people have gotten into
Jail for believing that tthe Ten
Commandments were intended for
the Jews alone,-Rsv. s. Parkes
Cadman.
The fact tbet England is non
logical country enables her to run
democratic institutions.-Sir Mar
tin Conway.
Without disarmament, LOcarno
is simply a steel trap with very
tricky springs, which many any
day snap with crashing teeth
David TJOvd GaOrpa
A President, like a movie gal at
Hollywood, comes to believe his
own press agent.-H. L. Mencken.
Lenin was, perhaps, the most
Satanic character in history
Dean w. R. Ingle.
In Great Britain the progress of
civilization has mitigated that
overwhelming love of money
which is so distinctive with primi-
tive nations like the United
States.-Austin Hopkinson, M. P.
The Scots no longer live on por-
ridge, but on associations. - Sir
Ian Hamilton.
The first Mormons were staid
peasants whose only distinguish
ing characteristics were their SER
Witty to their leaders and their
belief in a low comedy God. -
Bernard de Voto.
One cannot tell the whole of
the truth in ten minutes. - Sir
Philip Cunliffe-Lister.
Whatever chatting there may be
about flirtations and counting and
the glad eye, Mr.. Snowden's in
tentions towards the Liberal Par
ty are quite honorable, but not
matrimonial.-Ja Maxton, M.
p.
We are a freshman nation and
strong for the rah-rah stuff. -
Claiming Pollock.
People have been facilitating
their memories by taking notes
for some thousands of years.
Lord Hewart.
l find it no easier to picture a
completely socialized United
States than an elephant turning
somersaults or a hippopOtamus
jumping a hedge.-J. B. S. Hal
dane.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12

Called to Investigate an acct
dent at Massachusetts and Orien-
tai avenues, Atlantic City, Patrol
man Louis Maier, of the accident
bureau, found the victim to be his
father, Ludwig Maier, IS years
old, IS South Massachusetts ave-
nue.. He had been run down by
an auto, but will recover.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12

This is Easter, the pestilential
season."
"Penitential, father"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12
Would Give Us an Akenside.

why in the world didn't l
think of it before?" laments R. o.
M. "Of course the proper reading
for Laughter Week would have
been Thomas Tickell, John Gay
and Samuel Smiles"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12

Just before it happened: I'm
tired of that fellows Dust"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-03-12

Gossip is a deadly gas that is
often fatal to friendship.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-07
Three Minor Blazes
Call the Combination
Chemical Thursday

Three telephone calls to the Hart
ford station Thursday were responded
to by the combination chemical truck
for small blazes. The first was at
Liz P. M. when a grass fire in the
rear of lab Grove street was the occa-
sion Of a call to the fire station. No
apparatus was used.
At 5.25 p. M. the combination was
sent to the house at 1873 Grove street,
occupied by Charles Flanders, where
two small chemicals were used to ex-
tinguish chimney blaze.
A grass fire near the Joseph Lee
property on Bangor street called the
combination truck at TAO o'clock in
the evening. A chimney fire at the
house on Western avenue owned by
Amos Higgins and occupied by Archie
Norcross called the truck at SIS
Wednesday morning. The roof shin
giles were ignited and the contents of
the big chemical tank were used to
subdue the fire.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-07
ANOTHER GOOD DAY
FOR TROUT FISHING
AT C0bb0SSEECONTEE

thursday proved another good dav
Tor the enthusiasts on Lake Cobbos.
seecontee and some good fish were
reported at the landings on the head
90 the lake. Among those listed as
taken yesterday were Dewey McDon-
AID OF Farmingdale, two trout. az
ana pounds; Perley M. Lawrence
OF st. Petersburg, Fla, with A. a.
Pinkham guiding. two trout, and 4
pounds; L. III. Boas of Boston, Mass,
one 4 pound trout,
Captain Russell N. Pernette report-
ca the following: George Wilson OF
RICHMOND, pound trout: Brooks
Brown of Augusta, one small trout.
Ed Austin and Lee Bradstreet ,of
, Hallowell, Id. trout; DIR. Pierce of
Gardiner. az Id. trout; George
Palmer. two trout; Henry /. otto
man Of New York and Camp Tira-
nog, 4 Id. trout.
Two good trout were brought into
the F. T. futile landing at Island
Park. One of these was captured by
man named Jones and weighed 81
pounds
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-07

headed yiero sang continuously. a
pleasing song to all bird lovers. In
the chorus were f1ickers. downy and
hairy woodpeckers, bluebirds, phoebe.
grackles and song sparrows. Some
one beside the mixers heard the
music and a catbird picked up the
songs adding few notes of his own
that identified the singer before he
was seen. A yellow bellied fly
catcher was seen near the lake, a
rather rare bird in this vicinity. The
thrushes that make up the trio of
our Maine woods have arrived, the
hermit. very and Swanson.
There was color in the woodland
carpet made by our earliest wild
flowers; patches of gold of the yell
low violet, rotundifolia, spots flecked
with blue and white of the hepaticas
and the wake robin, erectum, lifted
its marooned- colored head.
In the afternoon all the Club mem
bers met with Mrs. Millspaugh at
her home, with a program as inter-
esting and instructive as it was var
led. Mrs. Schwartz brought bou-
quet OF winter flowers, fashioned
from pine cones and penciled with
brush, resembling a summer bouquet
of garden zinias. Mrs. Stevens. Mrs.
Eastman and Mrs. Peck had really
pretty bouquets of tree twigs, many
in blossom, for identification. To
know tree with it's leafy gown is
one thing, but the story changes
when one tries to- correctly name it
when devoid of Raves and severed
from it's parent bole. Mrs. Williams
added ferns for study and Mrs. Bish-
op, and Mrs. Pitman fresh specimens
of MOSES, licheris and hepatics. Mrs.
Wilson and Mrs. Rogers contributed
papers on interesting branches of
Nature and Mrs. Eastman papers on
Florida flowers. Helen Pitman con-
Quoted a bird guessing contest. Mrs
Millspaugh had a fine collection of
flowers gathered on her recent trip
to and from Florida. MMany plants
were entirely new to the students.
At the close of the meeting Mrs.
Millspaugh served deIeetabfe dishes
of cream and cake. The next meet
ing of the Club will be May IL, pro-
gram announced later.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-07
Miss Beverley Hewins

The Thrift Poster Contest. created
by the Augusta and Kennebec Saw
ings Banks of this city, in an attempt
to develop an art poster suitable for
bank window display, has been ex-
tended to a statewide contest by
the Savings Bank Association of
Maine, held this week in Portland.
Those receiving prizes and honor
able mention in the contest conduct
ed by Savings Banks in the several
cities of the state, were the con-
teStants. One hundred and twenty
seven posters were entered, the cities
and towns represented being Port
land, Skowhegan, Brunswick and
Augusta.
Auguaa has the distinction of
carrying off first prize and two hon
orable mentions, the judges being
Daniel w. Hoegg, editor of the Port
land Evening Express; Robert Braun
treasurer of the Porteous, Mitchell
&c Braun Company; and William w.
Henderson of the Portland School
of Fine Arts.
The awarding of the first prize
of So to Miss Beverly Hewins, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hewins
of this city, is most gratifying to
Augusta people, who have taken
marked interest in the work being
done by the school children in the
city, since it was first started as
local contest.
Miss Hewins is IL years of age
and a Junior at Cony High School.
She has never taken an art course
other than the one given in the pub
lie schools here. She was the WIN
ner of the first prize for the Cony
High division in the local contest
held in March, also winning the
capital prize in the contest. Miss
Hewins' poster shows meritous abil-
ity both in drawing and color shad-
ing. and she is to be congratulated
on her achievement.
Rosamond Cole, Sophomore In
Cony High and Loretta Morrissette,
a sixth grade pupil in the Webster
School, received honorable mention,
Miss Cole was awarded second prize
in the local contest and Miss Nor
rissette received honorable mention.
The poster contest has awakened
such marked interest among the
children in the schools of the city
that it seems more than possible
that another will be conducted next
wear. which without doubt, will be
an incentive for more vigorous In
terest on the part of students In the
other cities in preparation for the
competition for prizes in the state
wide contest.