Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-13
JERSEY HAPPENINGS
DURING THE WEEK.

night and the forty converts we're Rnltea
on the preachers platform by Rev. q. K.
Meyer, the boy evangelist
Edward Young. Of Clayton, caught the
Ellargest pike ever landed from Moore's Lake.
II weighed four pounds and measured 253
inches in length.
The Salem County Almshouse trustees
will hold Sunday services at the almshouse
hereafter, and have set aside fund to pay
So a day to persons conducting them.
Charles E. Moosbrooks, a glassblower Of
Williamstown, while on a visit to Pitman
GROVE, was kicked by horse and obliged
to stay there over two weeks. blood pois-
ca having set in.
Woodstown has two large public schools,
bnt they are too small to accommodate the
pupils, and the Board Of Education has
rented the large hall in Patterson's block
to be used as a primary department..
While trying so catch chicken Thursday
evening Thomas B. Parker Of Woodstown,
struck his hand against a sharp nail, sew
cred an artery and would have hled to
death had not doctor been nearby, who
sewed up the wound with I've stitches.
The Du Pont Powder Company has re-
ceiYed another large order from Uncle Sam.
This order is for eleven million pounds OF
high-tested dynamite for the Panama Canal
one million pounds 10 be shipped every
fo~ W,
men.
The office of dog catcher, which went
Begging in Millville for a month before IT
Vas accepted by William Ford, netted the
tncnmbent during his FIRST three weeks work
5I32 75 City Council thought this rather
expensive, and as soon as the bill was pre-
senfed discharged the Office holder.
In answer to the announcement Of the
Campbell Preserving Company, of Camden,
shat their plant would start in operation
Monday morning, several thousand men
stood 10 line since dawn, hoping to secure
ore Of the z50 positions. Nearly all nation
aIties were represented. "a
Agent Joseph Forsyth issued drivers
License TO Mayor ReYburn's chauffeur Of
Camden on Wednesday, and now the May
or's machine viii be humming over the
Jersey roads During she month Of July
$50 cars were registered in Camden and 662
drivers licenses issued, making a total Of
$5,562 collected in 80 days
A new hospital which cost SIS. 900 and is
thoroughly up to date, has been opened to
The public at vineland as gift from DR..
Is. r. Hatch, Of that place. The institution
is opened entirely free Of debt, and is locat-
ed in the center Of a twelve-acre lawn liber-
ally sprinkled with shade trees. DR..
Hatches philanthropy will be greatly ap-
s preciased by the unfortunate ones who are
relieved by its bounty.
The report comes from Egg Harbor that
The grape crop this year is the largest and
finest since 1892. The long spell Of dry
weather did not do grapes a particle of harm,
while other fruit crops were reduced to half
q crop. The drought this summer has
lahOwn some very peculiar results in the
dsyelopement of crops. Ia some places the
potato crop was expected TO be failure but
/ turned out to be bumper.
The Manufactures Association, Of Mill
vile has decided to make the general re-
sumption Of the glass factories on September
IA, on which date it is expected that oyer
$500 men, boys and girls viii return TO
work in Miilgille, as it is rnore than prob
able that nearly all Of the factories will go
into full blast. Contrary to general rumor
there is very little ware stored except that
| which already has been ordered shipped at
some future date
According 30 reports made public it has
l taken 2,945 freight cars, or about twice as
4 many as last year, to transport the produce
i from South Jersey on the West Jersey and
/ ssashore Railroad during the month Of July.
4 Il is also said that the produce hauled to
philadelphia by teams is SO per cent. greater
Ahan last year. The total value Of the
ssops thus marketed during the month is
estimated at about 81, 900, 600. Such re-
suite in she face Of the dry, hot weather are
very remarkable.
Snicide is the latest among Clayton dogs
which have been chained to keep them from
ahe dog killer. When r. B. Shupard went
asbing on Friday last, be tied valuable
+ dog ID the barn. The dog climbed up over
kome boxes and threw itself over horse
hnaDger and was hanged by the neck until
it was dead A yaluabls hound belonging
10 Grant Smith Was found one afternoon
banging By The neck on paling fence, but
IWns rescued il time to saye its life, In
4asdiatsly Il jumped up on the fence again
lud put its neck between she same palings