Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-08-15
JERSEY HAPPENINGS
DURING THE MEEK.

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in that vicinity.
Joseph |. Powell, of Quinton, has a num-
Der Of laying hens from which he has col
lected 23O0 eggs since last January. The
average was 20 eggs to hen.
Swamp huckleberries are very scarce this
season. Amos Jones, OF Quinton, has been
supplying few customers with them re-
ceiving fifteen cents quart for the first
pickings.
William Garwood has on exhibition at
the store of NJ. F. Riley, in Elmer, some
large Irish Cobbler potatoes raised on his
farm. Thirty-fiye Of the big tubers fill an
ordinary size potato basket.
Mr.. George Zaiser, Of Salem County, is
exhibiting pig which was born with but
three hams. The sow belonging to Mr..
Zaiser gaye birth to four pigs last week,
one Of which has but three legs
Orders have been issued to the mould
makers at the Whitall-Tatem glass works
Z in Millville to report for duty on August
10. This is very early but the rush Of
orders makes an early resumption of work
necessary.
William P. Hayes resigned, ,on Thursday,
as Warden of the State Insane Asylum, at
Trenton, position he has held for ten
years The board Of managers accepted
the resignation, but no one was selected to
fill the vacancy nor that of DR.. Wards
position.
The Cumberland County Board of Free
holders have decided to improve the stretch
of road in that county connecting Camden
and Cape May When it is completed
there will be fine improved roads the entire
length Of the State.
The Curtice Brothers. of Woodstown, have
been very successful in canning string beans
at their factories. This is the FIRST attempt
in this line ever made. They expect to
commence to can tomatoes about the 2Sth
Of this month.
A petition signed by 600 citizens of
Ocean County, representing both political
parties, and asking that voting machines
be abolished in Ocean County, has been
presented to State Senator George L. Shinn,
who will at once take it up with the Secre-
tary Of State.
II costs $5.65 to kiss your sweetheart in
Vineland, especially in the shade of the
public buildings About midnight the
borough marshals caught three young men
courting three Millville girls on the steps
of the High School, and Recorder Browne
imposed the aboye-named fine on each Of
the six.
Going to sleep on the large dynamo belt
at the Burlington County Railway Com
pany's electric power plant at Hainesport
early Saturday morning, Justice Sutlif,
aged 10 years, an assistant fireman, selected
resting place that proved to be his death
bed, as his head was crushed by the start
ing of the machinery.
The tragic drowning at Point Pleasant on
Saturday afternoon of Miss Elizabeth Nc
Pherson, daughter Of Judge John B. Nc
Pherson, of Philadelphia, and of her bath
ing companion, c. B. Judson, Of Troy, New
York, is now ascribed to sea whirl, due to
the dangerous eddies caused by Manasquan
Inlet.
The block signal system was put out of
order on the electric road south of Glass
boro, and trains were running late as a re-
suit Of Friday mornings terrific thunder
storm. When lightning struck the tower
at Newfeld it burned out both armatures,
and it required several days Of work to
make repairs.
The experts who have been examining
the books Of DIR. Ira G. Leedom, who was
charged with being short in his accounts as
Collector Of the town Of Bordentown, report
that they find his books correct to penny,
and the correct amount of funds in the
bank. While the doctor was i'll in hos
pital the charges were made and an investi-
CATION Immediately instituted. Upon his
retarn he resigned, and now it is found
that all the scare was to no purpose.
The Sea Girt Land Improvement Com
pany, which has owned the tract known as
Sea Girt since 1875, and which formerly in
cluded the State camp ground, has disposed
Of the land north Of the camp ground, ex-
tending to the southerly boundary Of Spring
Lake, for 1920, 900. The purchases is
Mr. Charles L. Noble, Of Yonkers, New
York, who will develop the plot. The
former summer home Of Commodore Rich
ard F. Stockton is still standing on the
tract and included in the sale, The land
included in the sale comprises about $50
acres.