The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-29
NEWS In NOTES.
STATE NOTES.

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Duckshooting has commenced on Barne-
aPocomoke'n or lottery shops, are nu-
naerous and run openly in New Bruns-
Wick.
The people of Lakewood have raised
$zS8 for a public fountain, $500 being the
feduired sum.
The project for q home for aged aud
infrm Free Mnsons has been started by
fths Grand Lodge of the State.
The East Lake Wooden Mills, at Bridge
7 ton. are so full of orders that they are
running day and night.
The Ferracute Machine Works,
lBridgeton, will build a new coming press
for the philadelphia Mint. !.
I A factory for the manu- facture OF
parchment paper is q new industry at
Egg HRrbor about to begin operations.
The old employees of the New jersey
Southern Railroad are being discharged
aud the vacancies thus M ade Will be
filled by men who were for merly in the
employ of the New Jersey Ce ut raj.
The Echo Publishing. Inspecting n
Adjusting Company, which is to publish
maps and surveys IN other information
tor insurance companies, was incor-
porated in. Camden Monday.
The pest of the farmer. the rose bug,
will, according to State Entomologist
Smith, be on hand in increased numbers
next spring. MIR. Smith says the larvae
can be found in every spadeful OF earth
turned up.
Or. Wallace. OF the Newark Board of
Health, contradicts the statement pub
lished in a Sunday newspaper of that city
that there were seventeen deaths from
scarlet fever in Newark last week. There
were ~vente cases. only two OF which
proved fatal. The previous week there
were four deaths from this cause and the
week before that thirteen.
Articles of INCORPORATION were filed
- Mnnd4u in the EcapX EnnptV (Iarkfa
office by Josiah O. Ward, of Orange; Al
bert Angel, of East Orange; Walter
Huntington, of MontcIair, and J.. q.
Ward and g.. e. Ward, of New York, UNI
der the name Of the American Hemp and
Flax Break Company. The capital stock
is $150, 00G, of which $4,000 has been paid
in. The new company intends to manu-
facture implements in Orange.
A new industry at Somers Point is the
catching OF whitehall. which is q small
shipped TO Philadelphia, where they are
served at the restaurants and clubs, fried
in butter, u are considered q very dell
cate dish.
Some months ago the Standard Oil
Company purchased a large tract of land
in New Brunswick. 1t is now said that
Il contract has been made for o large
building which will be used for storage
and shipping purposes. The oil will be
brought there in tanks and put in barrels
for shipment, the capacity of the works
being 1000 a day.
Frank H. Taylor and Mrs. Mary Smith,
both well known IN Orange society, went
to New York on Saturday ostensibiy TO
attend a matinee aud failed to return. A
telegram announced that they had been
married and were on the way to Phila-
delphia on a wedding trip. The elope-
ment cannot be understood, since the
people on both sides had nc objection to
the marriage.
A Morris countian, who occasionally
gets a little under the influence of drink,
on such occasions disciplines himself by
chopping wood for an hour or two, until
he is sober. and then goes TO bed.
Last week Isaac Struble, Of Andover
township, Sussex county, cut down a
large tree near his mothers house, in the
trunk of which were found twelve quarts
OF chestnuts of large size, that had been
stored away by squirrels for winter use.
A farmer of Chester, Morris county,
claims to nave cut 100 shocks of corn,
seven by nine hills, in five hours,
Keepers of cigar stores in Camden are
displeased over en- order from the Mayors
Office to pull down the blinds Of their
stores on Sundays.
John p. Sheppard. of Lower Greek.
Salem county,. having finished packing
tomatoes, has begun work canning the
product. of sixty acres of PUMPKINS, which
will OccuDv his time until Christmas.