Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-09-12
JERSEY HAPPENINGS
DURING THE WEEK.

James Kendall, OF Willow GFOVe, VINO
is one of the largest cranberry shippers of
South Jersey, states that the crop will be
normal.
From one vine w. L. Yerkes, who lives
near Tuckahoe, picked 80 fine ripe toma-
toes and left 80 to ripen. He also picked a
peach nine inches in circumference.
Richard ]. Byrnes, the founder of Ham
smonton, has been-asked to become candi-
date for the Office of first Mayor of Ham
monitor, to be chosen at next November's
election.
Coal dealers at the South Jersey resorts
have given notice that that commodity will
be raised twenty-five cents per ton after
September 10.
Prosperity is still the watchword at
Williamstown. New buildings are going
up on every side. The glass factories are
running day and night and business is good
in all enterprises.
Did you ever hear Of chicken freezing
to death in Summer time? j. Phineas
Smiok, Of Lower Creek, has naked (that
is nnfeathered) chicken, the size of quail,
that froze to death the last night in August.
Secretary of State Dickinson and other
officials are much disturbed by demands
from different counties that voting ma
chimes be removed and the old-fashioned
ballot substituted for the coming election.
The Woodstown Camp, P. O. S. of A.
won prize of fifty dollars for haying the
line at the annual demonstration in Phila-
delphia last week. Woodstown was the
only camp in New Jersey to win prize.
At special township election held at
Riverside on Saturday, the proposition to
bond the town for $50, 900 for the laying of
sewer system was adopted by a vote of
158 to A. Plans haye already been made
and bids will be opened next Monday.
During the last few days grasshoppers
have done much damage to the cranberry
crop in Atlantic county. The berries are
nearly ready for the pickers and careful
examination showed that on some bogs
nearly half the berries have been injured
! by the insects.
Patrons Of the electric road to the shore
are making vigorous complaints of the ser
vice, especially on Saturdays. Last Sat-
urday afternoon nine trains were blocked
at the Glassboro station at one time, owing
to long freight train which caused de-
lay Of an hour to hundreds of passengers.
j. L. Ashby, foreman in chair factory
at Burlington narrowly escaped being
sandpapered alive when his clothing caught
in a sandpapering machine at that plant.
Ashby is powerful man and when be felt
himself being drawn into the machine be
threw his full force on to the belt and
stopped the machine.
Announcement has been made that on
September 18th the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company will have all the new elevated
tracks in condition for use, and the surface
tracks will be abandoned entirely except on
South seventh street There will be some
freight drilling to get cars to certain manu-
featuring plants, but otherwise the use of
surface tracks will be abandoned.
Thomas Dunleavy, the Philadelphian
who was found lying unconscious and with
his skull fractured by trolley crew on
Water street, Gloucester, Thursday night,
has recovered consciousness at the Cooper
Hospital, Camden, and will likely recover.
He said he was walking down water street
and was struck by trolley car on the
southbound track and thrown across the
northbound track. He landed in some
bushes and did not know ANYTHING until he
awakened in the hospital
Surveyors are at work running a line
from Newieid, by way Of New Naples and
Willow Grove, to Elmer. The accepted
theory is that the long talked Of railroad is
about to be built, opening up the great
milk producing county Of Salem for quicker
transit to the seashore. The Atlantic City
milk supply comes from Salem county, and
with the present shipping facilities around
Glassboro the Developments of most Of the
county is retarded.
Citizens Of Atlantic City have appealed
to Congressman John Gardner to save the
Government lighthouse garden, on Yer
mont avenue, which has for years been the
beauty spotV of the resort. policy of
economy is said to have brought forth the
edict for the razing of the greenhouses and
destruction Of unique flower beds covering
an entire city block, and she resident popu-
lation is up in arms against the carrying
out Of such project.