Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-08-22
JERSEY HAPPENINGS
DURING THE WEEK.

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afternoon.
There will be hot fight at the Ham
monitor primary election over the license
question, as much interest is centereG in
she subject Of whether the town shall go
dry.
The Executiye Committee Of the Phil
adelpbia Milk Shippers Union has fixed
the wholesale price Of milk from August
18th to September 1st, 1907 at 81 cents per
quart, liquid measure.
William /. Goodwin, Trenton saloon
keeper, is the first man in the State to lose
his license under the Bishops bill which
prohibits Sunday selling. The complain
ants against him were two Catholic priests.
Butcher J. N. Riley, Of Harrisonyille, is
aDxiously awaiting the arrival Of a burglar.
Three weeks ago he locked his safe, and all
attempts to open it have proved futile He
thinks professional burglar might be able
TO open it.
Cooper Sheets, Of QuintoD, has been ex-
perimenting by watering bis cucumber
vines with water in which cayenny pepper
had been dissolved, and has raised more
cucumbers, and larger ones, from few
hills this season than ever before.
Next week will be Carnival Week at
Asbury Park, and the baby parade which
attracts SO much attention every year will
be leading feature. A masked carnival
on Deal Lake will be another feature, and
there will also be a dog show.
Kiefer pears again promise good crop
in Burlington County, and agents from the
commission houses are already out among
the fruit growers buying up the produc-
lions Of whole orchards as fifteen and
twenty cents basket.
The Rey. George A. sowell, pastor of
the Central Baptist Church, Of Palmyra,
died early Wednesday morning Of last
week at Cooper Hospital, Camden, from
injuries received in falling from trolley
car at PALMYRA Tuesday night.
The recent investigation into the adj
vance Of the cost of stone road building in
this State shows that the goeatly increased
demand for broken stone for concrete work
has made such demands on the market
that the prices have been advanced to al
most prohibitive prices. Many persons
favor the State owning its own quarries and
crushers.
One of the most dificult surgical opera
lions the history of the Millville Emergency
Hospital was successfully performed on
Thursday last upon Rufus Haley, when
piece of his sculI over an inch square, which
had been fractured in an accident, was re-
moved from between the scnll and the brain.
Haley withstoca the shock and is on fair
road to recovery.
Between midnight Saturday and nine
o'clock Sunday morning, forty men Of the
Camden, Gloucester and Woodbury. trolley
road struck and abandoned the cars at
Kaighn Point Ferry, in Camden, and others
at other places. When the men were as
cured that their grievances would be con-
sidered at meeting to be held at FIVE
O'Clock Monday afternoon IN Gloucester
City, traffic was resumed.
The constr uction of a new lighthouse in
Delaware Bay, three miles north Of Ledge
Light, has caused much anxiety among the
oystermen of that section. The light is
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oyster grounds, and the oystermen say that
when the material for the foundation is
thrown overheard from barges it is carried
over the oyster beds by the strong current,
and that the damage will amount to many
thousands of dollars.
After being closed for the past ten years,
Fith the exception Of two months last
spring, when it was used for Y. M. G. A.
ball, the Scott Memorial Reformed Episco-
pal Church Of Beverly, will reopen in Oc-
tober The church was erected about II
years ago, and at first enjoyed large con
gregati0n, but later the attendance grew so
small that the church doors were closed
The few remaining members of the church
have secured rector, who viii take charge
Of the parish.
The report OF the State Board of Health
fled with the Governor last week, shows
shat there we're 2o,572 marriages in the
State in the last year, very decided in
crease. The deaths for the corresponding
wear sgerp 3g4. and She population 9. 144.-