Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-04-09
JERSEY HAPPENINGS
DURING THE WEEK.

Dealers are paying thirty and fifty cents
each for muskrat furs in Lower Creek.
Black furs sell for fifty cents. s
The artesian wells of the Woodstown
Water Works are filing up with sand and
will have to be bored out and recased.
Some Of the grape growers of Alliance
have contracted to sell the coming season g
crop to grape juice manufacturers for $45
per ton.
!, The boys of HarmersYille School have
KILLED seventy-four snakes, mostly water
genakes, in ditch near the school house,
within the past few days.
The weekly report of the State Railroad
Commission shows that 10 persons were
killed and five injured during the past week
on New Jersey Railroads.
Some farmers in the lower end of the
county are contracting with the Bridgeton
canners. for the coming crop of tomatoes at
50 per ton, and squash at IS per. ton.
While he was ironing trousers at the tail
or shop CT William Mergenweek, at 4e2
Federal street, Camden, last week, woman
ironed oyer match in the trousers pockets
and caused a fire. The loss is about S100.
AS spring progresses hollow glassware is
moving better, and several thousand South
Jersey g1assworkers face a much more
promising outlook. Indications are that
there will be plenty to do before the blast
closes for the summer season.
While suffering from religious mania,
Mrs. Hannah Wills, Of Malaga, committed
suicide, Thursday, by drowning herself in
She millpond. Her health had been poor
for the last wear, and she recently became
greatly excited over the reviyals being con-
Quoted in Philadelphia.
Collingswood is enjoying most prosper
Gus spring season, particularly in building
trades Very few persons are out of enl-
ployment. OF IA twin brick houses being
erected on one avenue 13 have already been
sold. The town has increased in popula-
tion from 1900 to $500 in less than five
years.
The poor run of shad in the Delaware
river up as far as Camden for the past few
years has discouraged fishermen of that
city. This year there are only one or two
boats fishing off Kaghn's Point where for
merly a score or more were TO be seen at
this season. Just what is the cause of this
scarcity has not been learned. 10
Although funeral services at night are
common in some large cities, they have
never been known in Gloucester county
until the past week, when two were held,
one at Evan and another at MulIica Hill.
The plan seems to meet with general ap
proval, as farmers and workmen, who are
busy in the daytime, are able to attend the
services.
Eleven horses were burned to death in a
FIRE which destroyed the livery stable owned
by William Surran, at Minetola, about 2
o'clock Thursday morning. There is no
fire departed in the village and bucket
brigades were formed. Only COW and
two wagons, which happened to be near
She doors, were saved.
Announcement was made yesterday by
the Public Service Corporation that no open
cars will be used in Hudson County this
summer. The closed cars are said to be
the safest, Il e habit women have of getting
of backward from the running-boards on
open cars having been prolific source of
accidents and damage suits. Cars with
large windows at each end will be used.
An electric train of the West Jersey &
Seashore Railroad struck carriage at the
Essex street crossing, Gloucester City, on
Monday, killing the horse and causing
such serious injuries to Walter Dobbs, 80
years old, of Collingswood, that he is not
expected to recover at Cooper Hospital,
Camden. Bertram Esher, 26 years old, the
other occupant Of the carriage, also of Col
lingswood, was badly injured about the
legs and body, but is expected to recover.
He was able to leave the hospital after his
wounds were dressed.
Ferdinand Henaen, Of New York, has
purchased tract of land Of Samuel and
David simpkins, in Pennsgroye, on which
to erect canning factory to be operated
the coming season. This year the pack
win be confined to caviar, which will be
placed in glass cans. Twenty. seven thous-
and packages were canned last year, and
this is entirely exhausted and the trsde is
rapidly fling orders for more, and the new
building will be erected with all possible