The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-12
STATE NEWS

Sobilty ITOScCutOI "A. IL. IlOScGS, III
has been seriously ill for several weeks
with a malarial fever at his home in
Woodbury., is improving.
The Gloucester City Board of Educa-
ton will meet again Friday night,
when it is hoped that harmony will
dwell among the members.
Sheriff Allen, of Salem county, has
given up the search for the negro as
sailant of little Estelle Lawrence, as no
clew to his whereabouts has been
found.
The thirty-irst annual camp meeting
at Island Heights will be held for one
week, beginning Sunday morning,
August %, and ending Sunday evening,
August 80.
Sweet potatoes at over a dollar the
basket are the best crop of the season,
and the farmers are shipping all they
can dig, instead of storing them for
higher prices.
The Rev. Raymond West, formerly of
Shiloh, has accepted a call to the First
Baptist Church, of Rochester, N. Y.
He has been pastor of a church In St.
Paul, Mimi, for the past few years.
William Lee, colored, was arrested
by Policeman Baker in Gloucester yes
terday with about 200 pounds Of copper
wire in his possession, which he adj
mitted had been stolen from the West
Jersey and Seashore Railroad.
A small sailboat containing three
boys capsized in the Delaware river
above the Gloucester ferry during a
windstorm. The boys were rescued in
an exhausted condition. They gave the
names of Joseph Bolser, Rocks and
Joseph Mckinley.
President Koenemann, of the Board
of Education, has called a special ses-
sion for Friday night to award con-
tracts for repair work and textbooks.
The thirty-irst annual camp meeting
at Island Heights will begin on August
% n will continue for one week.
Announcement is made of the en-
gagement of George T. Durand, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Durand, of
Noun Holly, and Miss Anna Lippin-
colt, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. James
S. Lippincott, of Burlington. The we'd
ding will take place in the fall.
Inc safe Ol pfOpeTty ioT uHpdlu ld&cS
at Mount Holly has been postponed un-
til September 10.
While looking over the family records
yesterday, Detective Ellis H. Parker, of
Mount Holly, learned for the first time
that his great-grandfather, who fought
in the Revolutionary War, was killed
by British soldiers.
Because of attacks of acute indiges-
ton, John G. Horner, of Mount Holly,
who had arranged to spend August in
Maine, has been compelled to return
home with his family.
The Burlington quarterly meeting of
the Society of Friends will be held at
Mount Holly on Tuesday, August %.
Large delegations were present last
night at a county convention held at
Hedding by the Senior Order American
Mechanics.
For entering the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Culberson, of Hartford, and
a~ssaulting them with a blackjack.
Richard Smith, negro, has been held
for the grand jury without bail.
On the complaint of his wife, Charles
Hutchinson, of Gibbstown, was held
under $3.50 pail by Squire Cowgirl on the
charge of assault.
DIR. william Cunningham, of Shiloh,
died yesterday at the home of his sis
ter, Mrs. Frank B. Potter, in Vineland.
Mrs. Cunningham mas also been i'll for
some time and is at her parents home
in Camden.
c.. H. Curtis, State organizer for the
New Jersey Anti-Saloon League, who
is lecturing at Trenton, that
organization will soc establish State
headquarters in Trenton and wage a
great temperance fight throughout New
Jersey.
David P. White. of Bridgeton, quietly
celebrated his 91st birthday anniver-
sary. He is in good health.
Vice Chancellor Walker, who is the
acting chancellor during the vacation
of Chancellor Pitney, at Trenton yes1
terday appointed w. Harris Roome, OF
New York, receiver for the Cuba East
ern Railroad Company, a New Jersey
corporation.
President Roosevelt sent word yes
terday 1t would be impossible for him
to accept the invitation to attend AS
bury Parks baby parade on August ~.
KINGDOM GOULD WORKS IN MINE.