The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-22
reform to their credit.
PERSONAL ANT NOTABLE

Grabbing is excellent in Newark Bay at
present. They are most plentiful just opposite
the Willow Haven. Fishing is also excellent on
the bay this season.
The little town Of Hopewell, above Trenton, is
to have q new pottery, a new school house and
water works.
Mr.. Robert Morrell has closed a contract to
place one of his magnificent combination fire en-
giues in Deckertown, N. j., where property
owners have been put to serious inconvenience
by the action of the leading insurance companies
in withdrawing all policies because of the lack
OF means for extinguishing fires,
1t is said that the cranberry yield this year
will be enormous in Atlantic county. Three
new bogs will bear fruit this year. One bog of
Mays Landing, viii yield for the first time. and
will give employment to many pickers. The
largo boys Of Abbott Bros, which usually yield
about two thousand bushels, will also give a
much heavier yield this year.
There are 1913 Grand Army men enrolled in
New Jersey.
A suit has just been decided in Somerset county
that is Of interest to hotel keepers in every part
of New Jersey. Landlord Lewis Il. Doty, of
Bernardsville, had refused to furnish shelter to
a peddler, from a severe thunderstorm. The
| peddler, George Stone, sued Doty for $500, and
| the landlord pleaded that he had no room in his
| house for the would be guest who was also not
in O suitable condition to become a lodger under
his roof. The Jury returned u verdict in favor
of the landlord.
There is to be a lawsuit over the ice machine
that was set up at Seabright last spring for
James X. Ntzhugh,. Mr.. Ntzhugh, bought the
machine for $4,000 on the guarantee that it
| would make ten tons of ice per day. The
machine is not capable of making this much,
the largest amount of ice which has been made
in a day being seven tons. Mr.. Minugh has
already paid $4,000 on the machine, and he re-
fuses to pay any more. until the manufacturer
| guarantee is carried out, and the machine Is rem,
dered capable of making ten tons OF ice PEI
day.
The Oldest pensioner in the United States Is
Mrs. Henry Ray, who lives at Glen Gardner
Last Wednesday she celebrated her one hundred
and twelfth birthday. Her husband was a cook
in George Westinghouse Army, and also served
as cook In the War of 1872. She draws q pension
of 5i2 a month.
The recent inroads made by the sea upon 9
part of the board walk and q section of The
boating houses, while they annoy Mr.. Bradley
very much, do not daunt his courage, and he /:
having the break repaired. As a matter Of
public interest it is a fact that the personal ex
pense to MIR. Bradley Of repairing these inroadi
averages from $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
Mrs. Lille Drill, q daughter of ex-Town Treas
urer Webster of Belleville. saw a boy fall from g
canal boat in midstream near the Belleville Rub
Ter Works on Sunday last. Springing into Z
boat she rowed quickly to where he was strug
into The water. She is an expert and fearless
swimmer, and with considerable difficulty sht
managed 70 put the boy into her boat. He hac
lost consciousness, but he was brought to.
The tramps in the neighborhood Of Sea Girt
are very impudent and waylay travellers witt
impunity, relieving them of their surplus cash.