Gloucester County Democrat., 1906-10-11
JERSEY Happenings
DURING THE WEEK.

Mayor Ellis, Of Camden, received letter
thanks, last week, from San Francisco,
Tor the contributions to the earthquake re-
lief fund sent from that city.
The West Jersey and seashore Railroad
i. Company has posted notices offering 500
Freward for the arrest Of any one found tam
pering with the third rail Of the new cleo
trio road.
Since the trouble began in Cuba there is
brisk demand for powder and the Du
Pont Company has taken on additional
help. Several heavy shipments have been
made this week.
The cranberry crop is the smallest in
many years. A concern which usually
handled many thousands Of bushels will
have but small percentage. The contln-
nous wet weather is blamed for the short
age.
The New York shipbuilding Company
was the lowest bidder in the recent COM
petition for building lightships for the
government. The bids were for lightships
Nos. 81 to So, and the local company's
figure was 1896, 900, about $685. below
their nearest competitor.
At the recent town meeting at Moores-
town, the voters of that excellent baIllWlck
instructed the Town Clerk to write to the
Secretary of State asking that the voting
machine be done away with there, and
that the votes be polled in the old time
honored ballot form. Score one against
the voting machine.
The State Department Of Justice has de-
cided to wage war against the oyster pirates
of South Jersey and District Attorney Duf-
field is already at work in this direction.
II is the purpose Of the department to en-
force the existing laws for the protection OF
the legitimate raisers of the biyalyes.
At a meeting last week the directors OF
the Salem Horse Show Association decided
not to hold any race meetings this fall.
This decision was reached because the races
would have to follow the Bridgeton races
which would make the Salem meeting very
late in the fall.
There are 154 teachers now actively en-
gagged in Salem county schools in addition
50 two music teachers. Prof. Charles E.
glaspey. Of Salem, teaches music in the
Salem and Woodstown schools, and Prof.
A. 81. Yanlier, Of Elmer, in the Upper
Pittsgroye and Elmer schools.
Six hundred school children, assisted by
their seaohers and directed by their princi-
pal, cleaned street in Trenton the other
cav. and gave the city officials lesson in
ciyics that should not soon be forgotten. Ii
remains to be seen, however, whether the
idea Of neatness and decency will be In
stilled into the minds Of the city officials.
Smith Hand, former resort hotelkeeper
arose at midnight Friday night and in mis-
take swallowed quantity Of liniment and
died in few minutes. Hand conducted
the Abbottsford Inn at Stone Harbor for
several seasons, but in recent years he had
acted as guide to cunning and fishing
narties from Philadelphia. A wife survives
hiIA.
William Sears, aged 43 years, Of 611
North Front street, Camden, died at Cooper
Hopsital on Saturday from tetanus. Sears
contracted the disease by running splinter
in the palm of his right hand. Several days
ago tbe hand and arm began to swell and
he suffered acute pains in the neck. It
gas then that he went to the hospital.
A big legal fight is expected when the
Board of Health attempts TO force the pro-
nerty owners Of Millville, to connect with
she CITY sewer. Because of the recent OUT
break Of contagious diseases the board de-
cided to adopt drastic measures to compel
the residents to use the sewerage system,
which is now tied up in litigation because
Of alleged unfair assessments.
yineIand merchants and resident OF the
Jewish colonies of Alliance, Brotmanville,
Carmel and Rosenhayn, who have been try
ing TO form trolly company to operate a
line between yineland and Bridgeton, have
been semi-oficially informed the Central
Railroad will install several gasoline en-
oines and give hourly service between
yineland, the county seat and intermedi-
ate points.
More persons are now engaged in the
glass bottle blowing trade in Bridgeton
than at any other time during the history
Of She industry. Approximately there are
as work more than $50 blowers with there
little army Of helpers. President Dennis
4. Hayes, Of the Blowers Association, says
that the trade everywhere is prosperous
and that shortly there win not be in the
country an idle blower who wants work.