The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-26
STATE NEWS

Bridgeton and Camden Eagles will
play baseball in Bridgeton Saturday for
the benefit of the Bridgeton Hospital.
Sheriff souder, in B~ridgeton, has
drawn the last petit jury of his term.
Walter Oliphant, of Mount Holly, will
supervise the building of macadam
roads by the State on the jamestown
Reform School grounds.
Combers and carders employed In the
Straus wooden mill, Trenton. are on
strike.
The annua picnic Of South Jersey
G. A. r.. posts and auxiliaries will take
place September 10 in Rosenhayn.
A score of dogs bitten by a mad cur
in Millville have been ordered killed.
a. M. Stepp, a Baltimorean, mas
strangely disappeared from Atlantic
City. Foul play is suspected.
Mayor Stoy, of Atlantic City. urges
Council to advance the pay of the po-
lice to $50 a month, the same amount
paid fremen.
The Staunton River Lumber Com
pany has been INCORPORATED in ann
den, the incorporators being 7. Galen
L. FtNICt II. 1idIclCt l.. tNIc III
Charles E. Miller.
What they say was a big bear was
seen at Lower Bank, Egg Harbor City,
by Mrs. David Shamrock and Mrs. LOUIS
Odell while they were picking berries.
Mrs. william Holdship Rea, of Point
Pleasant, has issued invitations for
the wedding of her daughter, Marjorie
Rea, to Henry Hughert Laughlin, Sep
TENDER 10, at the New Jersey home.
The young people are each members
Of wealthy steel families.
Excavating for a sewer in Gloucester
City workmen unearthed planks that
were part of a corduroy road many
years ago.
w. Holt Apgar, special master in
chancery. of Trenton, has filed a re-
port advising a decree of divorce for
Mrs. Mary M. Lewis, of Trenton.
Congressman Loudenslager, State AS
SCISSOR David Baird, Senator Hand,
former Comptroller w. S. Hancock,
Barker Gummere, of Trenton; eX-
Sheriff Wesley Sell and Frank Pat
terson, of Camden, went on the annual
cruise OF the pilot boat Edmunds, from
Atlantic City, yesterday.
Burroughs C. Godfrey, lawyer, and
director in half a dozen important cor
porations, and former city solicitor of
Ocean City, is dead.
Withholding of more than $500, 900 in
taxes and a deficit in the fiscal budget
of $195, 900. may increase Atlantic City's
tax rate.
Charged with kicking his wife,
Charles Mathratt, of Camden, is under
bail.
The Stockton Times, the only Demo-
cratic newspaper left in Camden, has
changed its title to the lander Times.
Thomas j. Alcott, United States
marshal for the district of New Jer-
sey, has sold the old steamship Major
Reybold to Fred Creamer, of Philadel-
phia.
The West Jersey and Seashore is
trying the experiment of lighting sta
tons from its power plant.
Accidentally struck on the head by
the sharp point of a pick, John Tor
tello, railroad laborer, is dead in Egg
Harbor City.
Councilman E.. A. Parker has beer
Endorsed for the Atlantic City mayor
atty by Fourth Ward Republicans.
A hog bit Elizabeth Robinson, the
baby daughter of Albert Robinson, Of
North Branch, so badly that amputa-
ton may be necessary.
George Collar, of East Camden. has
been fined $40 and costs for catching
suckers and yellow perch with a net.
At the Seaside Park Board of Trade
dinner September A. Governor Fort
and State Road Commissioner Gilky-
son will be present.
Thorofare Grange had a o enter
tainment in Trenton last night. The
first half was devoted to school Days
memories. The second part was de.
voted to the Trials of the Farmer
A frebug has evidently started tc
burn the town of Minotola. He has Sc
six fires recently.
Playing with his fathers revolver
9-year-old Thomas Lee accidentally
wounded 14-year-old Paul Swain II
BordentoMn
The West Jersey camp closed lasi
night with "a great waving of handker-
chiefs and shouts of praise.
Mrs. Kate Long, who fell from {
trolley car, died from her injuries las
night in the Homeopathic Hospital
Camden.
Efforts will be made to raise 81 800 fol
the South Camden carnival and Jubilee
next month.
James Boyd's little daughter burne
up $40 In bills her father gave Mrs
Boyd in EVAN, near Glassboro.
Asbury Parks police chief, William
Fl. Smith, is defendant in a suit brough
by Mrs. Annie Wahl, who conduct
Devon Port Inn, that city.
Local option promises to feature bis
in Gloucester's Republican fight TO
Senate and Assembly nominations,