Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-20
JERSEY Happenings
DURING THE WEEK.

Postmaster sickler, Of Glassboro, will
hold his seventh annual picnic on Saturday,
August 22
Agriculture and manual training will be
taken up this year at the Harrisonville pub
Iic schools.
Sweet potatoes have been bringing high
prices in South Jersey markets and have
really been one Of the best paying crops Of
the season.
Potato buyers at the Mount Holly station
have paid out over S75, 900 thus far this
season. one farmer alone having received
ever $50. 600.
Marine Inspector Benjamin Henderson,
Of Millyille, is securing the rivers, creeks
and bay shore to see that the law regarding
proper lights and fog horns is observed.
one Of two COWS owned by John c.
souders, of Redwood, which escaped from
pasture, was so badly injured by barb
ed-wire fence that it had to be killed.
Paul Rogers, Of No. 800 Cumberland
street, Gloucester, was accidently shot in
the left arm while at work in shooting
gallery at Washington Park, Saturday
night
A Princeton woman, who runs bakery,
has been married twenty eight years and is
the mother of eighteen children, has brought
suit for divorce The bill complains that
the husband is brutal and neglectful
When trolley pole on a car Of the Pub
lie Service Railway Company left the wire
al the Van Hook street crossing Of the West
Jersey & Sea Shore Railroad in Camden
last week, passenger shouted: Every
body leap; here comes trainr' One of
tbe first to leave the car during the small
panic was Jennie G. Glover, "a years old, ,of
Audubon, who fell and was so badly injured
about the ankles that che was compelled 10
90 to Cooper Hospital, Other passengers
hurried from the car. but escaped unhurt
Hardly had the trolley pole been placed in
position and the ear moved from the cross
ing when a train whizzed by.
There is the greatest fear entertained by
the residents Of Collingswood, that the
borough is in for an epidemic Of scarlet
feyer unless the Board Of Health can put
it's finger Immediately on the source Of all
fhe difficulty. The members of the Board
of Health have been working night and
day since the first case appeared, and still
thev are laboring with an indefatigability
that inspires confidence in the men they
nave put in Office That the dreaded mala-
dy is spreading is evident. There were
fourteen cases reported by Saturday.
just as the mornings services Of camp
meeting were under way last Saturday the
worshipers were thrown into wild excite
ment as they beheld Mrs Aspinwall, wife Of
Rev. n. r. Aspinwall, running to the au-
aitorium hystericallY crying Fire FireW
As all cf the cottages are Of wood and there
Is no IRE apparatus on the grounds, the
people became frightened by anything like
3 blaze. At once Rev. S. r. Nichols, pres
ident Of the Camp Meeting Association,
rushed from the platform and dismissed the
congregation that it might aid in fighting
shs flames. The blaze was extinguished
with very little damage by bucket bri-
gade.
The State of New Jersey has purchased,
Tor s12, 600, the old colonial house on the
Kings highway in Haddonield, n. ]. The
house will be renovated and will be opened
{ in the near future as museum Of antiques.
The old building Is noted as being the
place where the New Jersey Assembly met
in the winter Of 1777 and 1778, the mem
bers having been driven from Burlington,
n. J. It was at one session Of the Assem-
bly, held in the old structure that the word
State was authorized in all deeds and doc
nments instead Of the word colony. The
building was erected in 1850 and used as
tayern. 1t is stated that Lord Howe and
Count Yon Donop stayed in the house all
night when their troops were eYacuating
Philadelphia.
The figures Of the assessments against
second class railroad property for the years
l9Q6 and 1907, just filed with the Comp
troller by the State Board Of Assessors are
Is follows: Aggregate for 1906. 81, $40, 600,
aud for 1907, S74.o63, 900, as against $46,-
522, 900 for 1905, when the State Board last
did She work. The taxes to be paid on
these assessments, which will be distributed
10 the localities in which the property is
situated, aggregate s., $50. 900 for 1906, and
$3.50, 600 for 1907, as against $l.136, 900
for 1905. The largest assessment is on
Pennsylvania Railroad property, s36S, 1856.
Or. Other principal payers for that year
are: The Central Railroad Of New Jersey,
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