Gloucester County Democrat., 1907-11-28
JERSEY HAPPENINGS
DURING THE WEEK.

Nearly 900 more passengers were car
ried to Wildwood by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road in August last than in the same month
Of the previous year.
For week 200 employees Of the Capitol
Glass Works, at Vineland, have been ous
Of employment owing to the glass IN the
tank being dirty and unfit for use.
The Republican policemen OF Gloucester
say they will retire gracefully at the end of
the year and permit their Democratic sue
cessors TO take hold at once.
The handsome new Sic, 900 public school
under coarse of construction in Merchant
vile will probably be ready for opening
after the Christmas holidays.
Mayor Torton has appointed committee
from Pennsgrove who will confer with the
Wilmington Board of Trade with the view
Of establishing ferry between the two
places.
The Dupont Powder company has bought
the Boone farm on the east side Of the
Pennsgrove and Pennsville road, in Upper
Penn's Neck Township, and will erect
buildings thereon. 20
Az meeting Of the Truancy Committee
Of the MillvilIe Board of Education Monday
night it was unanimously decided to send
to jail refractory parents who have ignored
the order to send their children to school,
It was declared at the residence of former
President Cleveland that a report of his
illness was exaggerated and that he was
suffering only from an attack of Indigestion
from which he has completely recovered.
1t is seldom that an organization in these
days is forced to hang up the sign "too
many members-no more admitted at pres
ent, but the Salem Y NJ c. A. boys de-
partment is now confronted with that state
OF affairs. Oyer 100 boys have been enrolled.
Evidence Of a disaster at sea appeared on
Monday in the vicinity Of Beach Haven and
Short Beach, in large cases of fine Turkish
figs which had been washed ashore. 1t is
thought that the figs baye come from some
steamer run into during the storm that
swept the coast on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs John w. Davis, Of Burling<
ton, are touring by trolley to Lancaster
County Pa, over the route they covered on
their wedding trip twenty-five years ago
Trolley cars were unknown to the section
then, and the part of the journey was made
by carriage.
Camden's High School will soon have
another course, which George L. Bender, of
the Board of Education, thinks is of great
Importance to the girl students. 1t will be
known as the home economic course, and
will include everything that is essential in
home life.
About zoo men have been laid of by the
Pennsylvania and Reading railroads in Cam
den, of whom sixty worked at the Payonia
car shops, fifty at the PennsY lyania Railroad
terminal as car cleaners and ninety at the
Atlantic City Railroad terminal. The COM
panies say this is customary, as the Summer
rush OF traYel is now over.
Harry Eckley, thirty-four years old, Of
Pennsgrove, was admitted to the Cooper
Hospital, Camden, Friday, with his right
foot SO badly crushed and torn that it was
found necessary to amputate the member.
The man was employed at the powder works
at South Pennsgrove, and he met with the
accident as the result Of the foot getting
caught in machinery.
Isaac E. .Nutter, admitted to the New Jer-
sey Bar after passing the State Examination
at Trenton Friday, is the first negro lawyer
to practice in Atlantic County. Local law
yers, members of the County Bar -Associ-
alton, who expect the colored youth to apply
for admission to their organization, ARE much
perturbed. Nutter studied law with ex-
Judge Crandall formerly Of Camden.
John Solzio walked into Nathan Smiths
saloon on Monday and ordered three beers,
treating two fellow-countrymen He pre-
ented a $40 check given him for wages at
the pipe foundry. The bartender refused
to accept the paper. John said he would
get the check cashed and pay the saloon
keeper, but Smith became excited, tele-
phoned for the police and the man was
arrested.
Because men of their families used a
smoker, ''giyen by Mrs. Rev. Sydney Good
man, Of the P. e. Church Of the Ascension,
Atlantic City,a an argument in favor Of the
use Of the weed, members Of the local W C.
T. q. have filed a lively protest Mr. Good
mans guests pulled pipes and cigars while
they enjoyed moving pictures and music.
Both the rector and the men adjudged the
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