The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-04
NEWS IN NOTES.
ALL OVER THE STATE.

Woodstown farmers are complaining
of the potato rot.
THE three canning factories at Woods
town nave put up about 1,450,0O0 cans
this season.
Aaron Smock, of Atlantic township.
Monmouth county, is one OF the competi-
tors for the prizes offered by the Amert-
can AqTtcuItaLTtSt for the largest yield OF
potatoes from a single acre of ground.
The crop was dug last week in the pres
ence of q number of farmers u a COM
miJtee selected by Mr.. Smock and the
AqriculttErist. The crop was to have
been harvested on September Is, but the
storm at that time delayed the work for
ten days and the potatoes began to rot
badly. The total net weight of the pota-
toes from the acre was is, 704 pounds, OF
which 49, 1874 pounds were m~erchantable,
I'll pounds small and unmerchantabie,
and S39 pounds rotten and defective. The
merchantable part of the crop averaged
ia potatoes 10 a busheL
The Long Branch Commissioners have
accepted plans for the construction of ex-
tensive jetties and bulkheads along the
ocean front.
The Mt. Holly Carpet Mills have been
sold to James Dunlap, of PniladelphIa,
subject to the approval of the Court OF
Chancery, for $4,000. If the sale is con-
frmed MIR. Dunlap will remove the
Bromley Brussels carpet plant to Mt
Holly, in its entirety, he having just pur-
chased the entire plant. The ingram car
pet machinery at Mt. Holly Mills will
probably be sold by MIR. Dunlap, and the
entire plant be devoted TO the manufact-
IRE of Brussels carpets, rag and art
squares. When in full operation the pay
coll of the plant will be about 100000 per
sS41um. M sale is a most advantageous
one to both the town of Mt. Holly and to
the creditors of the old company, as there
will be paid 20 to IS per cent. on all claims,
instead of about 60 per cent, as Indicated
by the appraisement.
The case of the United States Govern
ment against the Geyer Brothers, former
proprietors of the Home Brewing Com
puny's plant at Newark, for ~defrauding
the Government, has been settled. The
Geyers have paid $4,000 and the Home
Brewing Company 1000, and all the
charges will be Withdrawn.
The Board of Managers of the Agricul-
tural Experimental Station of New Jer-
sew, in a special meeting at New Bruins
wick, accepted the resignation of DR.. M.
K. Gates as acting director, aud elected
James Nelson, treasurer of the city, to
I'LL the vacancy. Mr.. Nelson has long
been identified with the agricultural and
industrial interests of the State.
Lakewood,s eleventh season as a winter
resort began on Wednesday,. Two large
hotels are being built and will be ready
for guests by the holidays. and q large
lumber of new cottages will be occupied
by their owners. Very many guests come
early in the fall and remain
the winter. Last winter several thou
sand guests were turned away from the
Laurel House and boarding houses for the
want of accommodations.
There is more han s., 000,0 0 invested in
the sturgeon fishing enterprise in New
Jersey, 1,400 men find employment and
more thar three hundred boats are in
use.
Assembly Clerk John J. Matthews, who
has been q prominent candidate for the
Legislature in the First district of
Union county, has withdrawn from the
contest.
A normal school has been organized
among the teachers of Essex county,
which will open on October IL In the AS b.
land school house, East Orange.
On George !. Seney's farm at Demands
vile, among the crop of FODDER corn
sow broadcast, was q stalk fifteen feet
nine inches in length, and it bore an ear
eleven inches long.
Cape May tobacconists lave entered
into an agreement not to sell u more
cigarettes under a forfeiture of $50. The
agreement goes into effect as soon as their
present stock is exhausted.
John Nelson capped 1900 Cans III nine
hours at the Wallace & Brothers factory
in W~oodstown, thereby beating all prevl-
Gus records.
The Madison avenue tract in Morris
town of 400 acres, belonging to the Cobb
estate, has been sold for $3.50, 600 to a New
York syndicate.
William Nelson. of Salem. caught nine
hundred dozen of crabs during the sum
mer.
The three canning factories at Woods
town have put up about 1,450,0O0 cans
this season.
l.. L. Stryker has established a weekly
paper at White House, Hunterdon county
and its name is the White House Monitor,