Gloucester County Democrat., 1909-04-01
Brief JERSEY HAPPENINGS.

James A. Rikeman, a former justice
of the peace, who lives at 46 Harrison
ave-, Jersey City, boasts of thirteen
grandchildren, all of whom were born
on April IL. II can't understand how
they should all happen to be born on
that date he said, sand I've thought
about it a great deal. It's queer and
inexplicable. It's got so now that if
an eleventh of April were to slide by
without having one or two more grand
children added to the brood I'd feel
that something was wrong.
A dog which has been found to have
been suffering from rabies, bit Mrs.
Joseph Batten, of Winslow Township,
Camden County Instead of sending
her to the Pasteur Institute the town
ship authorities ordered the antitoxin
from New York and she will be treated
at her home.
Although the Ocean boulevard bill,
which has passed the Legislature, and
only awaits Governor Forts signature
does not include any highway for Long
Beach, that section will not be behind
hand in this matter. Already the Town
ship Committee has voted to bond the
township, by which the boulevard can
be constructed from Barnegat Light,
at the northern extremity, to Newton,
or Little Egg Harbor Inlet, at the
south, distance of twenty-One miles,
A new rural free delivery route has
been started from Millville, to embrace
Sayre's Neck, Back Neck and Herring
Row.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey
has given out a contract for building
an extension from Bowentown into the
West side of Bridgeton.
Under decision of the Court of Err
rors and Appeals, rendered last week,
former County Clerk Edward S. Lee,
of Atlantic City, must pay back the
fees received by him during the time
that he held the Office by force against
Samuel Kirby.
Burlington is good deal stirred up
over the action of the Grand Jury in
finding indictments against all the sa-
loon-keepers of that town. The sub
ject was the selling of liquor to school
children who were discovered to be
in an intoxicated condition by their
teachers during school hours.
Camden milk dealers wi4Iube eern-
PEELED to renew their licenses on or
before the first of April or they will
be compelled to suspend business.
About four o'clock on Wednesday
morning fire was discovered by Ezra
Downs in the ice house adjoining Sur
ran Bros, Elmer, new horse barn.
The ice house was consumed but the
barn and other buildings were saved.
The homeward bound pennant car
ried by the battleship New Jersey on
her return from the recent trip around
the world was presented to Governor
Fort and the State Legislature, We'd
nesday, by the officers of the ship.
The pennant is of Japanese silk and
was made in Japan. 1t is over 900
feet in length.
The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting
Association came out victorious in the
contest in the Legislature brought
about by some of the residents of that
place trying to get bill passed which
would make it possible to change the
form of government at that resort.
The measure was defeated.
Judge Endicott has been hearing the
case of the city of Camden against the
MacAndrews-F'orbes Licorice Co., in
which the city seeks to regain posses
sion of the end of Jefferson avenue,
and in fighting the suit raises the con-
tentiOn that the thoroughfare was
never dedicated to the city, and also
that the city has for 25 years accepted
taxes on the property in qestion.
Probably the largest hog killed in
South Jersey this season was one
butchered on the farm of Crowell &
Babcock, at Grayelly Run, Cape May
county. After being dressed it tip
ped the beam at 735 pounds.
~ <s1 old
a native of Richmond, Va, who had
been en- p1oyed on the farm of Edwin
Colson, in Upper Pittsgrove, Salem
county, since September last, went in
to the silo last Friday morning to get
some ensilage when several hundred
pounds of the ensilage which had
stuck to the wall above him fell on
him and smothered him to death be-
fore he could be gotten out.
A new system of train dispatching
and control by telephone has been in
stalled in all the important stations of
the West Jersey & Seashore Railroad.
By means of a movable disc it will be
possible for the dispatcher at Camden
to ring up any station wanted, and the
same orders can be given to one or to
all the stations along the line stimuli
taneously. This new telephone sys-
TEN will do away with the telegraph
system so long in use. A train
through the improved method, can be
located at once at any point along the
road and its position reported TO
headquarters.
Survivors of the Second New Jersey
Brigade, Army of the Potomac, Will
hold their twenty-second reunion at
tbe rooms of Bayard Post, G. A. R.,
207 North Montgomery street, Trenton,
Friday, April 9, at II a. 70. The pan
auef viii be held at 1.30 p. m. All
survivors of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh
and Eighth New Jersey and twenty
sixth Pennsylvania regiments nave
been invited.
Enworth League Supper.