Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-07-04
JERSEY HAPPENINGS
DURING THE WEEK.

The fight in Island Heights over the col
ored camp meeting reached such an acute
stage last week that citizens tore down the
partially erected fence around the grounds.
The memorial tablet to mark the site of
the old Monmouth Court House will be
unveiled July 4. The building was used
as hospital during the battle of Mon
mouth, in June, 177S.
whale weighing 2,7o0 pounds and
measuring Is feet in length is one of the
curios of an Atlantic City aquarium. twas
caught near Nova Scotia and sent to Allan
tic City by express.
Notices haye been posted at Camden
post-office and sub-stations announcing that,
on July 1, an advance of four cents per
thousand will be charged for all stamped
envelopes and newspaper wrappers.
The annual jubilee and baby show Of the
Gloucester City Democratic Club on Sat-
urday was postponed until next Saturday.
Two women with babies braved the rain
storm and they will receive special prizes.
The next Methodist Conference will be
held in the First Methodist Church, Mill
vile, is the decision reached this week by
the officials. Asbury Park had also asked
for the pleasure of entertaining the confer
ence.
E. S. Harris, secretary of the Shad Fish
kermen's Protective Association of Penns-
NgroYe, has given out the statement that
lAshad the past season cleared the fishermen
b33. 25 per 100, and that the hest fishermen
caught between $500 and 5000 shad.
4 While walking along the banks of an old
Amill pond, near Toms River, recently, Ed
ward Allen stepped on rattlesnake. The
reptile made strike at him but the fang
{ struck leather pocketbook and Mr.. Allen
escaped injury. The snake was five feet
long and had thirteen rattles and button.
Thirty -one freshmen students Of Prince
ton University have been expelled because,
in violation of an order of President Will
son, they attended itkeg party" the night
before commencement. Twenty -eight kegs
Of beer were consmed in secluded part of
the campus on the fateful night.
Whitall Tatem Company, which oper-
ates the largest glass factories in the State,
at Millyille, is making preparations to con-
vert the old North American window glass
plant into bottle house, for the manufac-
ture of carboys and other large ware. The
deal for the factory was consummated this
week. 20
The Camden Board of Education, by a
resolution adopted, will haye the school
yards Of the Sewell, Liberty, George, Lin
den, Stevens, Kaighn and Broadway schools
open daily for the use of the children. The
yards will be opened from g. 80 to noon,
and the janitors of these schools will be on
duty to look after the little ones.
The Street Committee of Camd en- City
Council has granted to the Eastern Tele-
phone Company permission to lay conduits
in nine miles of streets. The grant ends a
long fight in Councils, as well as that OF
an opposition telephone company, which
was denied the privilege, although it Yainly
besought like permission over year ago.
After surprising the physicians by his re-
markable vitality, Joseph Easter, a negro,
IA years old, of 44O Riley street, Camden,
through whose body 1900 volts of electricity
past last Wednesday, when he grasped an
electric light wire at East and Berkley Sts
had his left arm amputated at the Homeo-
pathic Hospital Camden, Saturday last, to
save his life. He has good chances for re.
coyery.
Since the dog catchers of Camden began
their work about month ago, about $50
dogs have been captured and sent to the
pound. Very few had any collar on or
other distinguishing mark, and fewer still
have been redeemed by owners. This means
that oyer 500 ownerless dogs have been put
where they will do no more harm. There
has been pratically no complaint againt
the officers who have been doing this work,
which shows that it is being done properly
and under conditions that do not cause the
furious resentment experienced in previous
years.
That teachers who have been trained at
lthe expense Of the city are not expected to
be married for at least ten years after grad
uation was the announcement made Thurs
day night last by President Thomas J.
lI Realton, Of the Paterson Board of Educa-
tion, at the commencement exercises Of the
graduating class Of the Normal Training
School there. So many teachers in the
public schools have been married within
the past two years that the schools have
been seriously handicapped, and the Board
Of Education has had to 60 outside the city
for recruits to FL the depleted ranks oi