Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-27
JERSEY HAPPENINGS
DURING THE WEEK.

The open season for reed birds will begin
September |, and the birds are reported as
plentiful
While carting in meadow hay, j. G. Dol
bow and Clarence Range, of Aura, killed 46
water snakes from 5 to O'Clock
Materials arrived last week at Cape May
for the ietties at the New Cape May harbor
The work is now going ahead rapidly.
George Dubois. an ice cream vender, Of
Millville, was held up and robbed of $l8 on
the Malaga turnpike on Friday night.
The Cumberland Glass Company and the
More-Jonas Glass Company will start up
their plants at Bridgeton about September
I4th.
MlIville officials are making life miser
able these days for yiolaters of the excise
laws Several arrests for illegal beer sell
ing have been made this week.
Daniel Mcdonald, who has been working
AZ Panama, has returned on a visit to his
family in Glouces ter. He says conditions
there are not so bad and he will return
shortly.
Accidentally getting in front Of the hose
used TO fill locomotive tanks at Williams
town. Thomas Eagan was thrown several
yards and landed against a fence. He was
very seriously hurt
Clara, the 23-year-old daughter Of George
Jones, OF Millyille, was found dead in bed
Saturday morning, death being caused by
suffocation, the bed clothing being tightly
wound around her head.
Two loads Of potatoes were bought by NJ .
Riley of Elmer Of James Brown and VIM.
Sayre for $3 OF per bb, this was the highest
price paid by MI. Riley. Mr.Riley has sold
about $50 carloads Of potatoes this season.
Extensive preparations are being made
by growers to gather Burlington counsy's
cranberry crop. which will begin next
month. Only a few growers win have
what they can call a full crop Most bogs
have been iuiured by unfavorable weather
or destructive insects and in some sections
there will NOT be more than half crop.
Losing her balance when the heel Of her
shoe caught under the edge of a rug, Miss
Daisy Sloan, 80 years old, of Mol Ken
wood avenue, Camden. fell from the rear
step OF her home and sustained fatal injury.
Miss Sloan's head came in violent contact
. with a cement walk, and the family ply
sician found depressed fracture OF the
skull Death ensued several hours later,
T-.kl -.
accordance with the facts.
II Every road leading to the West Jersey
gcamp meeting at Malaga was so badly cut
knp By the heavy travel on Sunday that il
Awin cost Cumberland county several hum
Aired dollars for repairs. Every available
space in the 80 acres of the camp grounds
was filed with wagons or automobiles. The
boarding houses were crowded and many,
unable TO get to the tables, made meal of
sandwiches Many of the farmers brought
their luncheon and ate in their wagons or
spread a cloth on the ground.
When an open trolley car Of the Public
Service Corporation approached Monmouth
street, GloVSester, Saturday night, Cath
crime Long mistook the conductors call for
Cumberland street and left her seat. The
car did not stop instantly and she fell from
the running board to the pavement and lay
unconscious. AT the Homeopathic Hos
pisal. Camden, ii is feared that the woman's
skull was fractured. Miss Long is so years
old and has kept house for her brother at
bis home Cumberland near Sussex street.
Gloucester.