Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-09-03
JERSEY HAPPENINGS
DURING THE WEEK.

The annual convention Of the Salem Co.
Sunday School Association, Tuesday, Seps.
29, will be held in she Elmer NJ E Church.
The annual convention Of the Salera Co.
W. C. r. u will be held in St Paul's M.
E Cbulch, Pennsgroye, Thursday, Septem
Der IL.
The canning plants at both WillIamstown
4 and Glassboro are running on full time, and
h the prospects for successful season are
very bright
The Executive Committee of the Phila-
delphia Milk Shippers Union has fixed the
wholesale price of milk for September at
cents per quart.
Postmaster General Meyer has issued an
order amending the postal laws which al
lows all pensioners the free use of the mails
ID returning their pension vouchers
It is not likely that the public schools of
Gloucester will reopen before September IA,
as the Board OF Education has not settled
she CONTROVERSY oyer The teachers appoints
menss
Floyd Fliicraft, of Daretown, killed a
snake on Friday that contained 20 small
snakes each nine inches long. The large
snake was nearly yard IN length, with
white throat. ~
James Jones, of Almonesson has fine
field of watermelons and has carloads of
them weighing go pounds apiece. He sent
two weighing 56 and 65 pounds to man
] at Gettysburg, Pa.
Professor Isaac Rismiller, for six years
principal of the public school at Penns-
grove, has accepted an appointments as
supervising principal Of the schools OF Bey-
erly township, Burlington county.
Once more Lower Greek comes 20 the
front and sGis time presents the champion
pork eater. One Of our farmers who is
fond of this kind of food, says he can eat
thousand pounds of pork in year.
Though Attorney William G. French,
George w. johnson, a city water inspector
OF Camden, has begun proceedings against
the Public Service Corporation to recover
$1,000 damages. The case will be test
Of the right 10 charge an extra fare on night
ears.
The carcass of the 70-foot whale which
was towed upon Champagne Island, Here
ford Iulet, is attracting attention from
Wild wood and Stone Harbor. Summer
visitors are going over to view the remains
Of she great animal 1t is so far decayed,
however, as TO make the visit anything but
pleasant.
While returning from Wildwood with
her parents, Beatrice, the 7-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Chard of South
MiIlville, was taken seriously i'll and died
in her fathers arms as she was carried into
a drug store near Ehe railroad station at
Millville. Coroner CharIesworth pronounc-
ed death due to neuralgia of the heart
The barn belonging to Henry Finger at
the Franklinyile Hotel was set on FIRE
Friday afternoon by the sawmill engine
nearby, and for half an hour it looked as if
all the buildings including the hotel would
burn, but the townspeople formed a bucket
brigade and as plenty OF water was handy
the fire was extiDguished with small loss.
Their horse becoming frightened at
trolley car Saturday night, Mrs. Lang wife
Of Professor James D Lang, and her
daughter, Bevilla, of Bridgeson, were thro wn
from their carriage to the paved street
Mrs Lang landed on her head and received
injuries that resulted in her death few
n5urs later. Her daughter, who is pros
trated at her home, is suffering from in
inries TO her back and knee.
The Stockton Times, the only Demo-
cratic paper in Camden county, which has
been published for fourteen years in East
A0IlUtus LdS CsldtlSEi fuc oiclC eO cLCf Va
den Times John T. Tischner will con-
tiDue as the edisor and publisher The
newspaper, since ! inception 10 1894, has
enjoyed a wide circulation among the resi-
dents of the old town of Stock ton, now
comprising the Eleventh and Twelfth wards
of the city.
Through Attorney William c. French, of
Camden, suif for $4,000 damages was in
sbtnted Monday by Mrs. Margaret Bird, of
West Savannah, Georgia, again-t the Public
Service Railway Company, Of New jersey.
While alighting from a troller car at the
Pennsylvania Railroad Terminal in Camden
on September %, 1907, Mrs. Bird says that
the car started suddenly aud she was thrown
80 the ground, receiving permanent injuries
30 her spine.
Jacob Dietman, forty-four years OF age
a driver of the wagon Of the Edgewater
Flour Mill at Seeley, met with fatal ac-
cident on Wednesday. Late in the after
noon he went up on the roof of a house at
Seeley TO cut some limbs from tree. The
roof was very slippery owing to the storm,
and be lost his foot hold aud pitched head
first to the ground, striking step as he
fell He was a very heavy man and the
fall was an awful one. His scull was frac-
tured, nose broken. lower jaw cracked and
the roof of his mouth fractured. He died
in the Bridgeton hospital
The South Camden Business Mems I'M
proyement Association has arranged to hold
carnival September 30, 81 and October J..
A unique feature Of the carnival will be the
distribution Of about 25 600 consecutiyely
nunhered buttons throughout the county,
each merchant being given as many as de-
sired. Articles shat are TO be given away
as souvenirs will be numbered and those
having buttons similarly marked will be
able TO claim them. As all the merchants
on Kaign avenue from Broadway 50 Fourth
street and on Broadway from Kaign ave, 10
Royden street will offer prizes, the hunt
for she corresponding number will be most