Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-06-04
JERSEY HAPPENINGS
w. DURING The WEEK.



While riding on trolley car to his home
in Gloucester, Saturday night, Samuel
Powell was relieved Of his gold watch.
+ The intense heat of the early part of the
week make work in She South Jersey glass
factories almost unbearable. Only short
shours were possible. 10
The Executive Committee of the Phila-
delphia Milk Shippers Union has fixed
the wholesale price of milk for June, 1908,
at 81 cents per quart until further notice.
Some of the hired men working for farm-
lers in Salem county, it is reported, get
drunk on the silo juice that collects in tie
basins Of the foundations and there fer
lments.
Trustees Of Knights Park, Collipgswood,
may find it necessary to enforce the rule
for barring visitors after s p. m, because
unruly boys have destroyed property at
night.
The State Association of Letter Carriers,
branch of the National Association, on Sat-
urday defeated the proposition to appro-
pirate $4,000 for services Of former National
President Holland.
Fnlly 200 Masonic Knights Tenplars
from South Jersey gathered in Camden
Friday night to celebrate Ascension Day.
Invitations had been sent out by Cyrene
Commandery, No. Z, OF Camden.
Three automatic glassblowing machines
! will be installed at the Whitney Glass
Works, Glassboro, to I'll large order for
Mason jars which is said to exceed 10000
Sgross. The machines will be taken from
Salem. -
Struck by Public Service trolley cal at
Fourth and Water streets, Gloucester, late
Saturday night. Joseph Hughes, of Woods
town, suffered lacerations Of she scalp and
many bruises. He was taken to Cooper
Hospital, Camd en-
The trespass suit of Thomas MeMichael,
farmer, against the Eastern Hydraulic
Press Brick Company oyer a strip OF land
at Williamstown Junction, Camden coun-
ty, was decided in favor of McN1ichael after
trial before Judge Endicott and a jury in
Camden Circuit Court.
The report of William Launer, Of Mill
vile, secretary of the Glass Bottle Blow
ers' Association of the United States and
Canada, shows that at present there are
s, 822 members of the organization employ
ed, and 976 idle. Forty-four factories are
out Of blast.
Directors OF the Atlantic City Young
Mems Christian Association awarded
Thompson & Stiles the contract for the
erection of freproof gymnasium and
auditorium building, to cost s33, $50. An
administration building, to cost SIS, 900,
will be erected later in the year.
Blushing furiously, Della Fox, IS and
pretty, admitted she was guilty when ar
raingned before Judge Hayes, charged with
flirting with young men on the boardwalk
at Atlantic City. As 40 one appeared to pay
the girls fine the court ordered her COM
mitted to the county prison for go days.
The unusually large number Of men out
of employment during the present business
depression and the change made in the law
under which all law breakers oyer 20 years
old, and all second -termers are sent to the
State prison, instead of to the Railway Re-
formatory, has resulted in such rapid in
crease in the population of the State insti-
tuition in Trenton that it is becoming over
crowded to an embarrassing degree.
Charles Dixon, employed by Frank Hor-
ner, near Woodstown, was held up late
Friday night by two masked men and rob-
bed of $50. Dixon had just returned from
Woodstown and was putting up the car
riage when the two highwaymen, who
were hiding in the barn, ponneed upon him
and beat him up badly. The robbers es-
capped.
Children of John TOY, Of 1904 Baltic
avenue. Atlantic City, were so deeply in
terested in their prayers as they kneit along
side their cots Thursday night, that they
failed to see curtain blow into gas jet
When they arose from their devotions they
were almost surrounded by flames, and
were rescured by iremen summoned by
neighbors who saw the blaze. The house
was saved from destruction.
After eating his MONDAY lunch at the
plant Of Mechlin Brothers. Manufacturing
Company, Line street and Cooper Creek.
Camden, where he was employed, Stacey
senduski, twenty-five years old, Of 719
RingoId street, took a plunge into the creek
to cool off. He was sliced with cramps. and
drowned before assistance could reach him
Magistrate John w. Hughes, Of Atlantic
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