Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-03-01
JERSEY happenings
DURING THE WEEK.

Bridgeton. giving employment to hundreds
Of men and boys.
Allie Watson, l4-year old boy Of Allo-
way, cut his thumb off recently while
trying to sharpen razor.
The Bridgeton Council is about to place
contract for about S25, 900 worth Of ma
cadam street improvement.
Paulsboro is to have steamboat line 70
carry produce to Baltimore and farmers
have agreed to patronize it.
The glass business at Glassboro has taken
decided squirt, the largest factory IN South
Jersey now running full blast.
The Dupont Powder Company at Carney
Point is laying in 5000 tons Of soft coal, in
anticipation of strike at the mines.
Physicians in the vicinity Of New Egypt
are fighting pneumonia and measles, there
being an unusually large number OF cases
The duck gunners report wild fowl I'M
usually plentiful and as fat as butter" IN
the creeks and bays adjacent to Avalon and
Stone Harbor.
CLANS are so scarce in South Jersey
waters that they are bringing dollar
hundred on the wharves where the boats
bring them in.
Sabbath desecration at Clayton has
reached such a point that the Mayor has
been called upon by some Of the residents
to enforce the law.
The Board of Health Of Gloucester City
has passed an ordinance under the pro-
visions of which all owners Of abbatoirs are
compelled to secure permits at $50 each.
Daniel Borden, of Bridgeton has had such
good success raising tomatoes in his cellar
this winter that be expects to operate it on
a more extensive scale next winter.
Most Of the bottle-blowing machines at
the Melville glass factories have been put
out Of commission and their places have
filed by blowers, gauffers and tending boys
The report of the Chief Of Records Of the
New Jersey Red Mems order shows that
there are 1873 tribes in the State with a
membership Of Is, 20s, and S480,68o in the
treasury.
Tuckahoe has been visited by an epidemic
of diphtaeria Nearly every child in the
village has been down with the disease.
For the past month new cases have been re-
ported every day.
In order to prevent unauthorized persons
from visiting houses, claiming to be en-
ployees of the Public Service Corporation,
it has been decided by the officials of the
company to uniform all of the inspectors.
Il is proposed to grow cranberries on a
large scale on the wild and hitherto value
less swamp lands lying just north OF Port
Norris. A Boston firm is endeavoring to
secure 1000 acres of the land for that pur-
pose.
The Board OF Education, of Gloucester
CITY has decided to ssk City Council to
issue bonds for $50, 900, Of which amount
it is proposed to spend $4,000 for new
high school building, and erect two primary
buildings to cost $40, 900 each
The annual report of DIR. S. C. Slade,
secretary Of the Board of Health of Vine
land, shows % cases of infectious diseases
in the borough as against 46 last year. The
number Of marriages was 20, births 102 and
and deaths Sc.
The Payonia car shops Of the Pennsylv-
ania Railroad il East Camden are SO busy
shat the workmen have been put on ten
hour schedule. For some years past they
have been working nine hours day, with
half holiday on Saturdays.
In few months the Public Service Cor
poration will be Supplying the cities be-
tween Camden and Plainfeld with gas
manufactured in Camden. The establish
mehts at New Brunswick and Plainfeid
will then be closed.
BENZ Smith, Of Salem county, has an
apple tree adjoining his dwelling that bears
four varieties. One IS sweet apple,
natural fruit; Roman-stem, Red Stark and
the old-fashioned Cart H suse. The whole
tree has borne well all the varieties for the
past four years.
At Winslow last Friday, out Of herd Of
mich cows kept on the Winslow Dairy
Farms, owned by Samuel G. Rosengarten,
of Phila., twenty-five fine COWS were killed,
they being condemned and appraised by
State tuberculosis Commissioner Kitchner,
as haying tuberculosis.
Quick action Of friends last Thursday
saved Constant schaeffer, Of Riverside, FROM
death. He slipped and fell on the railroad
track in front Of an approaching train. I'm
able to drag him entirely clear Of the tracks
his friends held him down between the rails
and platform until the train passed safely