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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-01-23

Excess for 1907 ... 3,943,472 35
The morning was given over to the
details of organization. The exeeu-
tive committee recommended that spe-
cial efforts be taken to obtain an in
crease in the state appropriation to
the board. For some years it has
been $4,000, but last year was cut to
81, 900.
The present officers and executive
committee of the board are: President,
DR.. E. B. Voorhees,, New Brunswick;
vice president, John T. Cox, Reading
ton; secretary, Franklin Dye, Tren-
ton; treasurer, Walter Heritage
Swedesboro; H. v. NJ Dennis, Free
hold; George E. De Camp, Roseland;
John M. Lippincott, Moorestown.
Wednesday evening Alfred Gaskill,
state forester, gave a talk on A Pay
ing Crop for Poor Lands" He show
ed how land given over to scrub
growth could be reclaimed by cutting
out the small trees and forcing those
remaining to develop into commercial
value. The particular method of rec
lamation, as well as the kind of trees
to be developed, is a matter of local
conditions. In the discussion cram
berries were suggested as a paying
crop for acres otherwise non-paying.
Postmaster General George Won L.
Meyer addressed the board Thursday
afternoon, in advocacy of parcel
post, a local parcel post for rural
routes and postal savings bank sys-
tenn, all Of which he has recommended
to congress in his annual report
He was introduced by DR.. E. B.
Voorhees,, president of the board, and
prefaced his remarks with the state
ment that an effort is now being made
by express companies and mail order
houses to prevent the enactment into
laws of the suggestions contained in
his report. He urged that if the peo
pie of New Jersey are interested in
the questions that they take them up
at once with their representatives in
congress, and block the lobbying of
the interested parties against the ex-s
tension Of the parcel post In his ad-
dress he said
GRANGE IN FAVOR.
ssThe president Of the National
Grange and committee of seven
members Of the grange reeenflv ca1Is
"a upon me at my ofIlee ls1 Washing
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-01-23


Woodbury. are misled by such talk as
"A. S. NJ" INDUCES in. Some men OF
every age always sit in ashes decry-
ing evils to come, yet the world is
growing better with every succeeding
generation and learning much. 1t is
not all OF education to stuff the mind,
a healthy body is required, and such
bodies are acquired by exercise of
limbs as well as lungs.
TIVE hope Council will allow the
question of building the schoolhouse
on the Dillon lot or the Manley lot to
be decided in the election of trustees
in March, and give the parents Of
Woodbury. some say as to whether
enough land for scientific breathing
or all-around healthful development
should be procured. s, s.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-01-23
Blacks Horse Sale

Thomas Black had a record breaking
horse sale at Mansua last Tuesday. There
was near one thousand people present and
twenty y-six hrad sold at average price OF
$240. job Scott bought the first team
put up Assoc Harry Demme paid $500 for
a pair. Bert Wilson paid $500 for one
People who are judges say this was an
extra drove of horses.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-01-23
Mantua Township Protective ASsOCia
lion.

The annual meeting of the Mantua Town
ship Horse Protection Association was held
at Jes>up's Hotel, Barntsboro, last Monday
and al the old officers were reelected.
Fines were imposed ON the few absentees,
and dividend of SIS TO each member was
DECLARED
Ii is worthy of note, that in the long life
of the Association, not member has lost a
horse or other animal by theft
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-01-23
MEETING STATE BOARD
Of AGRN1u TURF

Wednesday, the opening day of the
35th annual meeting Of the Stats
Board OF Agriculture was given large
ly to discussion of the COW. DR.. e.
b Voorhees,, the pr esident, paid con-
siderable attention to dairying in his
annual report, Secretary Dye read the
report of the commission to investi-
gate tuberculosis in animals and Sam
uel Fort of Wrightstown advocated a
milk strike to secure better prices for
producers.
Mr.. Fort, who is member of the
Philadelphia Milk Dealers Associa-
ton, spoke during a discussion that
followed the reading of the tubercu-
losis report. He told of the efforts to
cred to Philadelphia wholesalers,
which would have meant an increase
in the price to consumers to 9 or 10
cents. The raise was blocked by in.
dependent dealers and the price now
paid to producers is four cents per
quart.
If the farmers would organize and
stand together he said, they could
get better prices for milk If all ship
ments of milk to Philadelphia would
be stopped for three days, the people
Of that city would be down on their
knees begging for milk at any price "
Concerning the price of feed, Mr. Fort
said that $40 ton could be saved by
purchasing through the grange CO.
operative committees.
Resolutions were read from the
Pomona oranges of Camden and At
lantic counties, protesting against any
amendments to the Frelinghuysen au-
tomobile law that would take away
its registration restrictions
President Voorhees,, in his address,
called attention to the improvement
of agricultural conditions and of a
higher value being placed on the farm
ing industry by the nation, states, as
well as leaders in finance and manu-
factures. He then reviewed the adj
vance in dairy conditions not only in
New Jersey but in other states. -
TUBERCULOSIS REPORT.
The tuberculosis report showed that
examinations had been made in every
county of the state The number of
cows examined was 1852, and the
number condemned was 575 The
number of dairies visited was 256.
AGRICULTURALIsTs DISCUSS THE
COW.
Secretary Dyes report contained in
teresting tables on New Jerseys crop
of 1907 Despite the backward spring
the value for the year was $S0,794,-
981.35, an excess over 1906 of S3,943,-
47235. The following are the figures
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-01-23

East Orange is said to have the
finest schools in the state, and thou
sands Of dollars are being expended
to enlarge the grounds of old school
buildings.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-01-23

we don't believe the parents .
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-01-23

Another out-of-town reader said last
Saturday: "Your board of education
ought to go to Greenwich, Conn.,, and
see the school there. GreenWiSn Is
about the sis Vi woodbury., and its
school and grounds are the pride and
admiration of the town, and every
body who visits it. They have ball
grounds, tennis grounds, flower gar
dens, ETC., and the latter are all cared
for by the children"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
SENATE WRANGLES OVER
AN APPROPRIATION BILL
By Associated Press.


WASHINGTON, May S.-Little prog
ress was made in the senate today on
the agricultural appropriation bill. the
session being devoted to a discussion
upon the principle of forest reserves
and the administration of that service.
Senator Teller concluded his remarks
in opposition to a lump sum appropria-
tion of $500,000 for further development
of the forest reserve system.
Senator Nelson of Minnesota and
Senator Dolliver of Iowa spoke in sup
port of the reserve service.
Senator McCumber chairman of the
committee on pensions, called the at
tention of the senate to a deadlock
among the conferees on the pension ap-
preparation bill on the senate amend
ment requiring a continuance of the
present system of having the pension
funds disbursed through eight pension
agencies, located throughout the coun-
try, instead of through a single agency
located in Washington. Many senators
expressed a desire that the conferees
should insist on the senate amendment.
A resolution was introduced by Sem
ator Burkett naming May Is as ''moth-
ers' day" and suggesting that all sena-
tors and other officials of the senate
should wear a white flower in honor OF
that day.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
NEIGHBORS FIGHTING
NEW SANITARIUM
Health Board Is Asked to Stop Plans
and Mayor viii Try Diplomacy
Before Taking Any
Action

Aristocratic Westlake park is torn
up over the advent of private hos
pital in that neighborhood.
A delegation of property owners
descended on Mayor Harper during the
afternoon yesterday to protest and
later laid the grievances before the
board of health.
DR.. Wellborn has just started a san
itarium on Orange street in a one and
one-haif story cottage and has also
taken possession of a fiat building
around the corner.
In the corner backing against the
L-shape sanitarium stands boarding
house conf LCted by widow. 1t was
from this woman that the first protests
reached the city hall.
This woman claimed that groans oi
patients drove her boarders away and
emptied her Louse.
Now other property owners have
joined interests and engaged legal
counsel to force some action by the
city authorities.
Mayor Harper was not present at the
board meeting and DR. Seymour acteo
i'll his stead. Secretary II. M. Love
said that the mayor had asked him tC
write a letter to DR.. Wellborn asking
that he take no further steps in the
sanitarium project until he has heart
from the board of health.
1t appears, however, that DR.. Teb'
belts, assistant health officer, had, un'
der orders visited the place, found that
it complied with sanitary regulations
and had approved the permit from &
sanitary standpoint.
Health Officer l.. NJ. Powers was moi
present at the board meeting to ex-
plain why the sanitarium was already
in operation, and in Difference to the
mayors wishes the board decided tc
write DR.. Wel.born, as stated, until the
issues could be threshed out.
DR.. A. w. Ioore expressed himself
forcibly against granting the permit
until informed that he and other mem
bers had already voted to grant 1t.
II die it under misrepresentation
them" said Dr. Moore. when a hos
pital builds in a neighborhood not vel
built up ! see no objection, as people
who buy near know what they face
But when a sanitarium owner wants
to establish himself in a settled locality
I protest"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
ATLANTA'S FIRE LOSS
TOTALS $1,5OO,OO
BIG BUSINESS BLOCKS ARE
DESTROYED
Terminal Hotel and Adjacent Build
inss consumed-Laek of
Water flinders
Fighters

BY Associated Press.
ATLANTA. Ca, May S.--Two solid
business blocks of Atlanta are in ruins
today as the result of a fire which
threatened for time to carry its de-
struction through the business section
of the city and perhaps wipe out the
entire downtown district. The fire
loss may be conservatively estimated
at $1,000. 600.
The Terminal hotel, one of the largest
in the city, Is a mass of bricks. 1t had
on its register two hundred guests
when the fire started q block away.
Every one escaped.
Nearby were several other small ho-
tells, but in these there was no loss OF
life. The fire started in the Schlessin-
ger-Meyer Baking company's store at
Madison and Nelson streets early this
morning. The wagons had just started
away with their early morning loads
of bake stuff when the alarm was
given, and an attempt was made to
start the electric elevator in the
Schlessinger building to awaken the
employees asleep there.
The elevator failed to respond to the
starting mechanism and the fire au-
thorities believe the fire may have
been due to some defect in the electric
elevator.
When the first fire company arrived
the building was a mass of flames
Chief Cummings Immediately turned
in a general alarm. Flames were shoot
ing from every window of the big
building that ran the entire block from
Nelson to Mitchell street on Madison
and were leaping high in the air from
the middle of the building. The water
pressure was poor, and try as they
would the firemen could not get q
stream that would carry above the Sec
ond floor.
Half an hour after the fire started
threatening walls made it necessary
to remove the engines on the Mitchell
street side of the Schlessinger build
ing and fifty firemen with streams OF
water playing upon them dragged the
machines to place OF safety.
Meanwhile high power trolley and
electric wires were falling everywhere
parts of walls were dropping out an6
with the high wind prevailing the
flames were shot across the street tc
the Terminal hotel, which acted as a
sort of flue for the fire.
Floor after floor of the Terminal
hotel was soon ablaze. The firemer
We're fought back until they were In
the rear of the Terminal building.
where lack of water again retarded any
effort to check the fire. Within hall
an hour the walls and the roofs of the
hotel had fallen in.
Spreading from Madison street tc
Nelson street the fire ate it's way to
the liquid carbonic company's struc-
ture, a five-story building to the east
and within short space of time there
were two terrific explosions which
seemed to carry all remaining walls
and the roof of this building to the
basement.
Next to the carbonic company's
building was the Inman block, which
faced on Forsythe street. This build
ing was three-story structure extend
ing from Nelson street on Forsythe
| north to Mitchell and housed nine OF
ten business concerns.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
YOUTH MAY BE INNOCENT
OF HORRIBLE MURDER

PORTLAND, Ore, May S.-Attorney
McGarry, who was invited to the home
of one of the counsel to defend Edward
Fl. Martin under charge of the alleged
murder of Nathan Wolff last Friday
evening and who declined the offer to
participate in the defense of the ac-
cused man, today injected into the
mystery what may develop into evil
dence which will free Martin from the
terrible accusation resting against him
or show that he was not alone in the
alleged murder of the pawnbroker.
McGarry went before the police an-
thorities and related that "A reputable
farmer named Thomas Dodson, residing
near oregon City, had reported to him
that he had seen a man named Grimes,
a former convict. in Wolff's store on
the evening Of the murder.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
CONGRESS VOTES MONEY
TO IMPROVE NAVIGATION
By Associated Press.

BY = associated Press.
WASHINGTON. May S.--Under sus-
pension of the rules the house today
passed an omnibus bill TO authorize ad-
ditionaI aids to navigation in the light
house establishment. The bill appro-
PIRATES $685. and provides various
light stations, buoys, tenders, etc, i'll
various parts of the country.
The provision granting to widows or
children of lighthouse keepers and
their assistants sum equal to two
years pay was stricken out.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
ARMY MEN CERTAIN
TO GET AN INCREASE
OFFICERS AND PRlVATES MAY
REJOICE
Lower House Of Congress Agrees to
Accept Conference Report on
Bill to Raise
Pay
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, May S-The officers
and enlisted men of the army today
won their fight for increased pay when
the house after a debate of two hours
agreed to the conference report on the
army appropriation bill.
An appropriation OF $7,o00,0OO was
made for the purpose, S5,00O,0O0 of which
will go to the enlisted men. Nine hun
dred officers on the retired list will
also benefit by the increase.
Under suspension of the rules bills
were passed. placing the Porto Rican
regiment of infantry on permanent
basis and authorizing additional aids
to navigation in the lighthouse estab-
liShment
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
PUBLISHER SAYS PRICE
OF PAPER HAS RISEN
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, May S.-Victor r.
Bender. publisher of the Nonpareil
Council Bluffs, Ia, was the only wit
ness examined today by the special
house committee that is Investigating
the wood pulp and print paper ques'
tion. He testified that ten years age
he paid $1.70 hundred pounds fol
paper delivered in Council Bluffs and
that his contract called for $3.50.
What reasons were given you fol
the increased price of paper?" asked
Chairman Mann.
"The stock reasons" replied Mr.. Ben
der, "are scarcity of water and the de-
crease of production
The committee left Washington today
for Corinth, N Y, where it will inves-
tigate the Hudson paper MILL
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
MORGAN BIG FACTOR
IN HARVESTER TRUST
b. A ssociated Press.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, May s.
Cyrus II. Mccormick, president of the
International Harvester company, COM
pleted his testimony today i'll the hear
ing of the custer suit.
Mr.. Mccormick told further of the
organization of the International Har-
vester company of New Jersey. He said
that of the $12O0O0.000 capital stock
s20, 100000 was contributed by J. F.
Morgan Ss Go. of New York and the
other 100000. 900 by five harvester COM
panies whose property was sold to the
company and was appraised at $56
10000.
He said the company had expended
SIS. 100000 since 1902 in betterments and
that dividends amounting to $22, 2,200,0 00l
had been paid in the past five years by
the New Jersey company.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
Approve White House Conference

WASHINGTON, May S.-The con-
ference of governors of states looking
to the conservation of the natural re-
sources of the country which will take
place at the white house from the 18th
to the 18th, inclusive, OF this month,
is strongly approved by two of the
Democratic candidates for the presi-
dency, William J. Bryan and Governor
Johnson of Minnesota, and by Asso-
ciate Justices Harlan and Peckham of
the supreme court of the United States.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
MRS. GUINNESS ALIVE, BELIEF
EXPRESSED AT LAPORTE
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May S.-A dispatch from
La Porte, Ind, says. Mrs. Bella GUM
ness, who at the back door of her
farm house kept a private graveyard,
is alive.
Careful measurements were taken of
the headless trunk of the woman found
in the ruins of the burned home, which
at first was thought to be the body of
Mrs. Guinness. This resulted in the
astounding revelation that the dead
woman was not more than half tho
size or weight Of the woman who is
supposed to have lured a score of men
to their deaths.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
Prominent Man Accused

SEATTLE, May S.-On a complaint
filed by Jean RenAano, proprietor of
the American auto machine works
Prosecuting Attorney Mcintosh this
morning issued a warrant for the ar
rest of c. c. Bolcom, a prominent Sc
attic man now living in San Francisco
The charge is obtaining money under
false pretenses and the amount In
yolyed is $3.50
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
No Suit AGAINST Railroad

NEW YORK, May S.-Attorney Cen
eral Jackson will not be permitted to
bring suit against the Interborough
Metropolitan Railway company to
vacate its charter and annul its cor
porate existence. The appellate divis-
ion of the supreme court today sus-
tained a ruling to this effect which re-
Gently was made by lower court.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
Admits He Blew Up Train

BUTTE. Mont, May Sin a de-
tailed confession Lewis Ferris, the
Italian who dynamited the Burlington
train near this city Friday night, in
which two men lost their lives, tells of
breaking the lock on the powder house
of the West Olive Branch mine with a
rock. stealing forty-1ve sticks of dy-
Mantle and placing the entire amount
on the track
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
Congratulate Emperor of Austria

BERLIN, May S.--The collective ap-
pearance before Emperor Francis Jo-
seph at Vienna of Emperor William
and the German princes and their
congratulations upon the sixtieth ami
versary of his accession to the throne
is widely commented upon in the news
papers of Berlin as an indication of
the unity of the German peoples and
as making for the moral and political
welfare OF the German people IN the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
MILITIA TO BE REoRGANlZED
OBJECT OF PROPOSED BILL
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, May S.-The Dick
militia bill was reported to the senate
today by Mr.. Hemenway from the com
mittee on military affairs. 1t provides
that the militia shall consist of every
able bodied male citizen and every
able-bodied male of foreign birth who
has declared his intention to become a
citizen between the ages of Is and a.
years.
The president is given full authority
TO call upon the militia in advance OF
any volunteer force which it may be
determined to raise.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
Administrator Named

NEW YORK. May S.--By the APP
pointment of Charles S. Naething, a
wealthy restaurateur. as administra-
tor of the estate of his brother, John
Phillip Naething. who disappeared from
his New York home in 1872, official rec
ognition was taken of the death of a
wanderer whose whereabouts had not
been known to his family in thirty-five
wears
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
SHIPPERS TO FIGHT PLAN
TO RAISE FREIGHT RATES
BY Associated Press.

CHICAGO, May S.--COmmercial and
manufacturing interests of cities from
the Mississippi river to Maine. aggre-
eating over one billion in capital, are
preparing for a titanic struggle with
the eastern railroads. The question of
a general advance in freight rates is
the issue.
The gauntlet was thrown by the
railroads in the shape of a definite an
nouncement that on July ! and August
a general advance of freight rates
approximating 10 per cent will be made
east OF the Mississippi river The great
shippers and manufacturers have lost
no time in accepting the gage of COM
bat.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
American Vice Consul Hurt

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, May s.
Robert B. Jones of New Jersey, the
American vice consul here, has been
injured in a serious railroad accident
at Buca. Two trains met in collision.
and the total number of dead and
wounded is large
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
HENEY AND MURPHY
QUARREL IN COURT
Continued from rage one)

saying he greatly regretted the affair.
81 would like to say in extenuation,"
said he, that ] have been under a
heavy strain, trying cases for four
years here al1 in Oregon | deeply re-
gret OH your honor's account that 1t
occurred"
AS the attorneys met outside in the
corridor Heney approached Ach and
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
Asauith's Plan Attacked

LONDON, May S.-Premier Asquith's
pension scheme is hotly attacked by
the Unionist newspapers this morning
on the ground that Mr.. Asquith reck-
lessly stated his plans requiring mil
lions, but left the onus of finding the
money to his successor in. the chancel-
lorShip.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
eodv Recovered from Lake

days search, in which scores of men
of Sand Point, Idaho, took part, the
body of Rodney Olney, drowned by the
capsizng of a canoe, was dragged
from the bottom of Lake Pen d'Oreille
today. The dead man had smile on
his face.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
Relief Fund Shows Balance

NEW YORK, May Sat the annual
meeting of the chamber of commerce a
letter was received from d. Ogden
Mills saying there is remaining in the
custody of the committee of which Mr..
Mills is chairman some $4,000 of the
San Francisco relief fund collected by
the chamber of commerce.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
COMMISSION IGNORANT OF
ANY IMMUNITY CONTRACT
Ry Associated Press.

Ry Associated Press.
WASHINGTON. May Sin response
to a resolution of the senate the in
terstate commerce commission today
informed that body that it had no Off
cial knowledge of the violation by
railroads of the commodity provision
of the Hepburn act and that it had no
information whatever of an agreement
between the railroads and government
authorities whereby the former are to
have immunity from punishment for a
violation of the provision.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF
BY Associated Press.
To Collect from Corporations

To Collect from Corporations
WASHINGTON, May Sin a letter
to Representative J. Adam Bede of
Minnesota, just made public at the
White House, President Roosevelt ex-
presses his Willingness to sign a bill
for the completion of the Rainey river
irrigation project, a measure which he
vetoed a short time ago, providing two
additional provisions are inserted:
First, that the concession to the COM
pany be limited to ninety-nine years,
and, second, that a charge be made by
the government on the company for
concession.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-09
Suspect Confesses

SPOKANE, May S.-A special from
Pasco. Wash. says Bert Watson, one
of the tramps held on suspicion of kill
ing Brakeman Sam Price by throwing
him from a moving train, has con-
tossed that his half brother. Mace
Smith, pushed Price off the car.