Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-02-14
JERSEY HAPPENINGS
DURING THE WEEK.

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and will continue another year.
Mount Holly Methodists are rejoicing
that they have received contributions and
pledges to the amount of 6,1o0, which
will wipe out the entire church debt.
Plans for the city's new 500, 900 Y. M.
c. A. building, at Pacific and South Caro-
lima avenues, Atlantic City, have been ap-
proved and adopted by the building COM
mittee.
It is alleged by one in position 80 know
that the use of cocaine has reached alarm
ing proportions in Mount Holly, and that
something should be done to break up the
use of the dangerous drug.
Mayor Waldo F. Sawyer, Of Vineland,
ordered the arrest of w. H. Warner, con-
ducter, and the crew of his freight train, on
the charge of obstructing street crossings
longer than five minutes.
The seyenty-ninth anniversary of the
incorporation of Camden as a city is being
celebrated in all the public schools this
afternoon, the last hour Of the school day
being set aside by Superintendent Bryan
Blood poisoning, contracted by stepping
upon nail, caused the death in the City
Hospital, Atlantic City, las Friday, Of Mrs
Fannie Blum, the twenty -three-y year-old
bride of Joseph Blum, an Arctic avenue
merchant.
Millvilie glass manufactures are prepar-
ing to make a vigorous fight against the
passage by the Legislature of the bill pro-
hibiting the employment Of children under
16 years of age in the factories and work
shops at night. ~
A large number of Bridgeton window
glass workers have returned home from
Pennsylvania and the West, where they
have benn employed. They report that
the manufacturers have agreed to close
many of the factories to reduce production
and keep up the prices Of the ware.
Options are being secured by Bridgeton
agents upon several hundred acres Of land
between Bridgeton and Millville. The op-
tions are for New York syndicate, which
proposes to establish there a settlements
similar TO the Jewish colony Of Woodbinel
During the heavy storm of Tuesday Of
last week, three coal barges broke loose
from tow off Atlantic City and were lost.
CAPTAIN Caste went out TO rescue the crew
from one of the barges, but they had been
previously taken off by passing steamer.
Al the annual meeting of the Cumbei-
land County Board of Agriculture. in
Bridgeton lasb week, the farmers indig-
nantIy declared they were being robbed by
being forced to wholesale their milk at
,sdryn measure, TO be resailed by the deal
ers of liquid measure. The graneers were
asked to take action to put an end to this.
After having abolished the Office of So
licitor and struggling nearly three years
without such an official, Hammonton's
Council passed an ordinance creating the
Office. With but one dissenting vote the
posision has been rendered to Eli H Chand-
Ter. Of Atlantic City, who held the office at
the time shat the former ordinance was re-
pealed.
Captain John L. Young and local
syndicate baye taken over the Hippodrome
enterprise at Atlantic City abandoned by
New York capitalists after $50, 600 bad been
expended upon foundations and prelimin-
ary construction. The plans for the stone
and steel structure have been REVISED, and
fhe new syndicate expects to have the
seven-story structure finished late in the
summer. II will contain hugh rath-
skellar and two theatres, the largest seat
idg $500 persons.
Orders have been issued from the head
quarters Of the Second Regiment that indi-
cate determination on the part OF the au-
thorities to more actively engage rife prac-
sice in the future. Officers will be assigned
to the various regiments to supervise the
rife practice, and hereafter the classifca-
tion will include expert and sharpshooters'
classes. The decorations TO be offered viii
be much more costly and desirable than
those heretofore presented.
Believing that city officials were i'm
nune from indictment for irregularities in
their offices further back than two years,
the experts under the direction Of Atlantic
City Council's Finance Committee have
been coDfning their investigation to that
length Of time. It is now found that the
time is not limited to two years and the
Investigation will be made more searching
Colonel Jarvis Wanser, commandant Of
the Soldiers Home at Yineland, had mar