Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-06-28
JERSEY HAPPENINGS
DURING THE WEEK.


times out Of eight shots
The furnaces at the Quinton window
glass works are being torn down and new
ones being erected for next seasons fire.
Salem has adopted fire alarm system,
the signals being given by the local electric
light plant. The city has been divided
into fire districts.
Ellsworth Booz, resident of Salem, has
several heads of cabbage in his truck patch
that measure three fees two inches across
the top. Some of the leaves are seventeen
by eighteen inches across
II is proposed now to have Colonel
soldier on top of the new monument at Red
Bank, lighted by electricity, and bill will
probably be introduced in the next Legis-
lature that will provide for this.
William A. Wood, former judge of the
Court of Common Pleas of Salem county,
and one of the best known Democrats in
that section died at his home at Wing Lane
on Friday last at the age of 81 years.
A few days ago small pimple appeared
on the chin of Mrs. Mary Growkowski, of
Chestnut street, Camden. She picked it
with her finger nail and death resulted from
blood poisoning. She leayes br nd and
FIVE small children.
Residents of Newbold are raising howl
over the fencing in of land along the rail-
road tract that has heretofore been open to
the public. Attention of the township au-
thorities has been called to the matter. 1t is
claimed that the company has encroached
on township land.
Miss Efie Lucas, % years old, teacher
in the schools at Browns Mills, died in the
Cooper Hospital, Camden, last week from
burns she received by her clothing catching
Oh IRE at bonfire Of pine needles on the
afternoon Of April 80.
A hen recently laid two eggs in pig
eon's nest on the farm Of James Baker, at
Hanoook's Bridge, and the eggs were imme-
diately claimed by one Of the pigeons.
Much to Mr.. Bakers surprise on going to
the nest he found two little chickens had
been hatched and were perehed upon the
back Of the pigeon. who is now caring for
hem.
a calamity to MilIville was narrowly
% ses on Friday last when leak in the
use saich supplies water power to the
a6aI manufacturing companies in the city
vas discovered before it was too late. The
Onion Lake, whose waters are damned, is
she largest artificial body Of water in Ame-
rica, and being high oyer the city, would,
s if break occurred, food the greater part
Of the city in few minutes.
The exact location OF the mouth of the
Delaware river has at last been established,
and monuments are to be placed to mark
the point where the Delaware bay begins.
! Members Of the New Jersey and Delaware
Fishery Boundary Commission went down
the river last Friday and decided that from
The Jersey side the monument should be
place about one hundred feet below Hope
Creek, and from the Delaware side at Lis
toms Point.
HaddoufsId is one Of the places In the
State to have the distinction Of being
represented in one Of the medallions that
will ornament ths magnificent silver ser
vice to be presented to the battleship New
Jersey by the State. The old Tavern
House (now the American House), on
the Kings Highway, is one of the
buildings that will be represented and a
drawing has been made and is now being
reproduced on the silver piece.
The announcement from Washington
that one Of the two big battleships for
which bids were opened on Saturday will
in all probability be built at the plant Of the
New York shipbuilding Company caused
Joy among the thousands Of employees OF
the company. The other boat will go to
the Cramps, whose bids were the lowest,
and with two giant ships being built on the
Delaware IN yards in sight Of one another,
there will be no lack Of work for ship
builders.
Robert W. Spencer, aged 49 years,
loom fxer living at 222s East Lehigh ave.,
Philadelphia, was struck by car No. 1853, in
charge Of Motorman Walter Cramer, and
Conductor Clifford Williams, on the Cam
den, Gloucester and Woodbury. trolley
road, opposite the entrance Of Washington
Park Grove shortly before midnight Sat
urday night, and died while being taken to
the Cooper Hospital. Spencer, who had
been at the picnic Of the Loom Fixers' AS
sociation at the grove, started for the steam
boat to return home, and either fell or sat
down on She tracks just as the car was ap-
pfoaching.