Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-04-30
JERSEY HAPPENINGS
DURING THE MEEK.

Warren Shinn, Of Woodstown, has leased
the Clawson exhibition farm Of IS acres,
one large field being reserved for nursey
stock.
The executive committee OF the Philadel-
phia Milk Shippers Union has fixed the
wholesale price of milk for May, 1908, at
four cents per quart.
The New York state troops will be in
camp at Sea Girt on May 1. The New York
troops go to Sea Girt for rifle practice and
will remain in camp during the month of
May.
Cape May fisherman report the appear
anee OF meuhaden off shore which they take
as sign that food fish are also near the
fishing grounds. Drum fish and weak fish
haye been caught in Delaware bay. %
The Grand Lodge of Masons held its an
nual communication in Trenton this week.
The report of Grand Secretary Thomas H.
R. Redway showed that the membership is
.28, AIS, a gain during the year Of $780,
Haines & Hollinshead have completed
the work Of cleaning the wells out at the
waterworks at Woodstown, by which a
much better flow Of water has been secured
One Will be abandoned and a new one is
being bored.
William Taylor, colored, fifty years old,
was instantly killed by stepping on the
third rail of the West Jersey & Seashore
Railroad tracks, at Dempsey's Crossing, be-
low Gloucester, shortly before o'clock
Monday afternoon
Jesse jackson, employed on farm near
Gloucester City, was arrested Sunday on a
charge of breaking into the stable of Walter
G. Stanton, a farmer, near Swedesboro, and
stealing bay mare, which, it is said, he
was riding when arrested.
Farmers and dealers who held their sweet
potatoes up TO the present time made no
mistake. They are now finding market
for them at 81 40 a hamper, or 81 25 a bar
rel. These are said to be the highest prices
paid for sweet potatoes since the Civil War.
A vineland man joined with FIVE others
and bought twenty FIVE cent ticket for an
automobile rattle. He afterwards secured
ownership Of the ticket by lucky throw of
the dice The ticket thus secured was the
lucky one in the drawing and he now owns
an automobile that cost him fye cents.
A protest against the raise in seashore
rates announced by the Pennsylvania and
Reading roads has been made by the hotel
and business men of Atlantic City. Local
civic organizations haYe taken up the ques-
ton and special meetings of trades and
hotel leagues have already been announced
to deal with the means Of getting back at
the offending roads.
A well dressed woman, who looked as il
she might be respectable, accosted colored
man on the streets Of Mount Holly the
other day, and asked him if he would g
and buy her quart of liquor, as she was en-
tireiy out and had to have some. ssGet
your own rum" was his reply. aIf / was
ashamed to buy it, I'd be ashamed to drinf
it, There was nothing doing after that.
One factory went out Of blast, the night
shift in the large continuous tank cut out
and four shops laid eff at the plants of the
Whitall, Tatum company, glass manufac-
turers Of MilIville, Monday morning. In
all about 200 persons are thrown out of EN-.
ploYment. That the cut will not stop here
is generally believed, and it is expected
that majority Of the furnaces will close a
month earlier than common this season.
Four generations we're present Sunday
at the home of Mr. and Mrs William FL,
Young to celebrate the fifty seventh ami.
versary of their marriage. Mr.. and Mrs
Young haYe been residents of Clayton for
fifty-four years, having come here from
Port Elizabeth IN 1854 Mr.. Young is a
glassblower. nearly so years Of age and
worked at his trade until about a year ago,
and is popularly known as Uncle Jesse. y
Among bis decendents are four great grand
children