Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-02-13
JERSEY HAPPENINGS
DURING THE WEEK.

still because the bays have been frozed over
for the past two weeks.
1 Pupils Of the Salem High School are up
/ in arms because the Board Of Education has
abolished their recesses.
Assemblyman Cattel, of Wenonah, has
petitions bearing 5000 signatures, urging
the passing Of his cigarette bill.
Following an enthusiastic meeting in the
court House, Mt Holly, permanent or
ganization has been formed there to fight
tuberculosis.
A. P. Arnold, of Vineland, has an incu-
bator pullet which laid an egg measuring
seven by eight inches and weighing four
and one-half ounces
Ther5 is movement on foot among the
South Jersey eIassworkers to secure Satur-
day half-holidays. The manufacturers are
opposed to the plan. ca
William Gardner, foreman of the case
house at the Gibbstown powder works, had
his arm badly crushed when his sleeve
caught in machinery and the arm was
pulled in.
The Yineland Grange has adopted a
resolution urging Congress to support the
Littlefield- -Hasbrouck bill to prohibit rail-
roads from carrying liquor into prohibition
States
Another effort is to be made by automo-
l,;l;.<, l,orsoro<,,, ,,,d Farxooro so Iavo noxu
road built from Malaga to MilIville, a pro-
iect shat has been turned down several
times by the Board of Freeholders.
The State forestry Commission has for
the third time requested the Millville
Council to appoint fire warden 10 protect
that section of the county from forest fires,
bus Council has refused to make the ap-
pointment.
Professor Husmann, in charge of viticul-
ture investigation in the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, is visiting expert
mental vineyards at Vineland and will
rejuvenate them as an object lesson for
grape growers.
apple trees by the San Jose scale has caused
John Black, of the Wigwam farm, Mount
Holly, one of the largest in Burlington
county, to cut down his entire orchard.
The trunks and stumps are to be used for
tool handles.
County Supervisor OF Roads, John w.
Holman, of West Greek, who is considered
an expert in cranberry culture, has patened
a machine for picking cranberries. The
machine can be operated either by hand or
by machine power, and has the combined
advantage Of picking the berries and raking
the bog at the same time.
State Inspector OF High Schools, Louis
Bevier, Jr, has been making tour of Cum
berlaDd county. He has visited all OF the
Cumberland high schools and says: 'Iu no
county in the State is the high school so
popular as Cumberland, the county being
she best in the State IN this respect"
Men representing ali walks of life at
tended mass-meeting in the Council
day evening for the purpose of formulating |
plans to be presented TO the State Railroad
Commission at Trenton next Tuesday when
a delegation Of several hundred Camden
citizens will ask the Commission to use Its
influence in having station re-established
at or near Haddon avenue, in Camden.
The State Commission appointed to erect
a monument to commemorate the tea-burn
ing at Greenwich in 1774 has decided upon
the design OF the shaft 1t is to be IA feet
high and of fne-grained, blue Westerly
granite. A bronze panel will depict the
burning OF the tea, with suitable in
scrption beneath. We suggest that the
names OF the committee, Governor and
Senator is all the inscription necessary.
The temperance people of Bridgeton are
planning TO make demonstration for local
option in the Legislature. On Sunday,
February %. eight repr esentatiyes of the
Anti-Saloon Lrague will occupy local pull
pits, and it is expected that each of the %
churches Of she city will send delegation
TO Trenton TO urge the passage of the Local
Option bill
Merchantyille's handsome new brick
school building was thrown open for the
inspection Of she public on Friday Febru
ary Il adjoins the old frame schoo
building and completely remedies the here
tofore crowded conditions The new build
ing is SO constructed as to provide for the
erection Of an addition doubling its capac-
isy at any time in the future, the whole de-
sign 81 make an edifiee. II is fireproof
throughout. with modern vensilating and
heating system and furnished with the
lasess school appliances. n cost Sl4, 900.