Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-03-15
JERSEY HAPPENINGS
DURING THE WEEK.

by L W Sickler
| Harry franklin is about to open a cam
merry at Bridgeton, an industry secured by
leading business men.
The new public school building at Salem
is expected to be ready for inspection by
the public in short time.
The Rogers Bros. silgerware Company,
Of Niagara Falls, New York, will open q
branch plant in Riverside.
Boat builders were meyer buster along
the Delaware Bay shore than now, build
ing crafts for the sturgeon and shad fisher
men.
Neweeld, where the West Jersey and
Seashore Railroad branches off to. seashore
cities, has real estate boom owing to the
projected trolley service.
The Kelly Manufacturing Company, Of
fifteen exchange Place, Jersey City, New
Jersey, has been incorporated to manufac-
ture BOTTLES Capital, $500, 600.
Through the efforts Of the shad Fisher
mems Protective Society, the buoys which
have been left moored in the shad drift,
during the winter, will be removed during
the fishing season.
A large delegation Of farmers attended
the meeting Of MillvilIe City Council last
Friday evening and presented petition
asking that the Port Elizabeth road be
placed in better condition.
In the District Court, Thursday after
noon last, Charles H. Brewer was awarded
$500 damages against the Public Service
Corporation for injuries received in col
lision between car and a wagon.
Margaret Mullica died at the County
Almshouse last Saturday week at the age of
one hundred and three years and two
months She had been an inmate Of the
Almshouse for more than sixty years.
Vineland is up in arms over the dsp'e-
dations OF what appears to be an organized
gang of burglars. Two more stores were
robbed Friday night, making half-dozen
burglaries during the past week or two.
A new wooden bridge, one hundred and
sixty feet long, is to be constructed on the
Stow Neck road, Salem, to take the place
Of the old one that was built when james
Butcher was Freebooter, about twenty
years az
Mrs. Harry Stretch, of Salem, is ie.
ported to have sold $3.50 worth Of poultry
since the first Of December, and none Of it
came out of an incubator. According 10
such record the poultry business can be
made money maker.
The bids for the new Presbyterian Church
Of Haddonfeld, were all found to be be-
yond the amount decided upon for the
structure, ranging from 800, 900 to oyer
100000. The plans will be revised and
proposals again advertised for.
Mrs Esther w. Strawbridge, who owned
1.-The Orchards, y Moorestown, at the time
Miss Atkinson was murdered there, has been
the victim Of malicious persons, who have
poisoned one bull and two heifers belonging
to her herd Of valuable thoroughbred
Guernseys.
The Court of Errors and Appeals has
reverseda decision of the Supreme Court,
in which the latter body decided that the
city Of Camden could collect an assessment
for the laying of new water pipes, where
the original wood pipes had been removed
Pleasantville oystermen are complaining
that refuse from the gas plant is being
dumped into the bay, which, they allege,
will destroy the oyster industry, kill food
fish, throw hundreds of men out Of employ
ment and ruin an old and valuable industry.
Open house on Sunday among merchants
at vincentown has become so annoying
that the religious element has decided to
take steps for redress. Sundaysohool coll
lections have fallen off to an alarming ex-
tent, the children spending their pennies
for candies
Recently Edward DoIbow, who lives on
the Clarence Sinnickson farm in Manning
ton, purchased horse from Sharptown
firm. The newly purchased horse carried
some disease with it resembling plnk-eye
aud now every one Of Mr.. Dolbow's horses
have contracted the disease.
The Atlantic County Game Protective
Society has bought 1890 acres Of land for
a game preserve, and is making plans to-
render that section Of the State very attrac-
tive to sportsmen. Mayor Stoy and other
prominent Atlantic City men are members.
A man stopped at the farm of Raymord
Goodenough, near Moorestown. and repre-
scented himself as being deaf mute, and
asked aims. Goodenough doubted him and
accused him Of being fakir, whereupon he
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