Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-08-06
JERSEY HAPPENINGS
DURING THE WEEK.

Richland residents have offered build
ing site free of taxes for five years and cash
and labor worth $4,000 to safe and lock
company which will establish its works
shsrs.
So many accidents have been caused by
bioyclists riding on Clayton's new cement
sidewalks that Mayor Nichols has promised
TO arrest the next offender on sight.
The new tank furnace at the T. G. Wheat
i en- glass works. at Millville, has been COM
plsted and fires were lighted under it last
/ week. It is expected that blowing will be
commenced September first. -
George Kruck announces that he found
in Camden, about thirty hucksters and ice
men who were using measures and scales
below the standard in his research among
them. As Seaier of Weights and Measures
he fnds some tradesmen who want to give
short measure.
Accused of selling SKINNED milk without
having the bottles properly marked as to
their contents, Jasper c. wilkins, Of COL
l.ngswood, was convicted in the District
Court. Thursday, in suit brought by the
State Board of Health The penalty is
fne Of $50.
Pears, peaches and apples are promising
good crop in South Jersey this season.
Trees are loaded down with fruit of good
quality, and some Of it will have to be pull
lied off to save the trees from breaking down.
Il is said that plums are decaying on the
srses. 20
Two large buildings, for washing glass
sand and for drying the product, fitted with
al the latest machinery, are being erected
On the N. p. Potter estate at South Vine
land, The Whitall Tatum Company, OF
Millville, the owners, plan to open the lar
zesf sand works il South Jersey
The congregation Of the Third Baptist
Church, Camden, summarily dismissed
their pastor, Rev. A. E. Douglass, after be
rad preached a rather scathing sermon, last
sunday morning. He resigned after
the discourse. but they refused to ac-
eept a resignation preferring to dismiss
him. There had been some differences be-
tween them oyer money matters.
Gas slot meter thieves at Gloucester seem
TO have no fear Of the police. Last week
they paid another visit and robbed the
meters in at least a dozen houses Oh East
Monmouth street and vicinity, and secnred
about $25 from the slot boxes. The cellar
windows were pried open and the locks
wrenched from the meters.
The State Fish and Game Commission
has notified Game Warden Phifer, of Mill
Vile. that to any farmer who will plant
buckweat and leave it standing for the
birds the Commission will furnish the seed.
The Commission believes that more game
birds die Of starvation in year than are
killed in a seasons hunting.
Union glass blowers representatives fail
ed TO secure the Saturday half-holiday de-
j sired By the men for the coming yeai, at
tie conference between wage committees OF
the blowers and manufacturers at Atlantic
City or Friday last. Leaders for the men
pnt up a stiff fight for the concession, but
retired Under the argument that the change
wonld mean banking of fees, big cost to
the owners Of glass factories at least once a
week
sgustns Wetzel aged 80, who lived on
the Frank saarp farm at the Lake, met a
horrible death last Saturday evening as he
was returning from Malaga station, where
he bad taken load Of pickles. He was
standing on the swingletree, driving his
spirited horses, which we're hard to hold.
striking rough place in the road, he was
thrown under the wagon and both wheels
passed over him, crushing his breast, kill
ing him almost instantly. He leaves a
wife and eight small children.
Satisfaction was expressed last week by
the authorities in Atlantic City over the
orders which came from Washington, limit
ing the length Of piers to be built in the in
let in the future. The city has been max
ing an endeayor to control the piers all
along The beach front, and when the board
Of federal engineers visited the resort some
months ago the officers said that if the city
was inclined to haYe the piers built in the
fusure made shorter, the government was
inclined to cooperate.
II present plans are carried out, the State
Board Of Health and the Mt. Holly health
body will hold public meeting in Ameri
can Hose House on August Z, at 2 o'clock,
to discuss matters pertaining to Mt. Ho1ly's
water supply, and give some idea Of She
course that must be pursued in the future
In the observance Of the States health
i Laws Professor Fowler, Of the State Iabora
/ tory Of hygiene, says that people there are
/ using water taken from a stream that is
contaminated with sewage, and discus
esar NJ ulaue tn rprnadv fha axiaf;no auile