Gloucester County Democrat., 1909-01-21
JERSEY HAPPENINGS.


mobile fees of the State this year will
amount to $2,700.
A great bed of CLAIMS has been dis
covered off Cape May Point near the
sand dredging operations. y~cLC
Thomas Wills, of Delanco, who was
taken SUDDENLY i'll on his way to
church on Sunday, died before medical
aid could reach him.
Stricken with an epileptic fit in
trolley car near Clayton, Alexander
Minnihall, of Millville, is in serious
condition in the hospital.
A Bridgeton caterer had orders for
500 turkey suppers for the banquet at
pound-keeper and Overseer of the
in Millville Tuesday night.
Gray foxes are very numerous in
Cape May county, and many are be-.
ing killed in the northern part of the
county, and in the swamps along the
Tuckahoe river. GO
During the past year 3S7 persons
took their lives in New Jersey. This
is 40 more than during the preceding
year, and 65 more than the average
for the past seven years.
Joseph Clark, farmer living near
Auburn, went into the potato cellar at
his farm and shot himself Wednesday
morning of last week. He leaves five
little children. Neighbors cannot ac-
count for this fatal action.
The mysterious and savage attack
upon Justice of the Peace Ogden, in
his barn at Mount EphCaim, Camden
county, early Saturday morning has
aroused the farmers of that vicinity,
that district has offered a reward for
the capture of the assailant.
The long hoped for orders have ar
rived at the Millville bottle factories,
and there is rejoicing among the glass
workers, many of whom have been out
of employment or working on half
time for weeks. The present outlook
is for general resumption.
George D. Sortor, self-appointed city
missionary to the poor house, county
jail and state prison inmates. who
spent his civil war pension and most
of the proceeds Of his business to aid
the needy, was found dead in bed on
Sunday at his home in Trenton.
Business men and farmers of
Woodstown have signed petition ask
ing that improvements be made in
duQ dlOQlid lAC w COI u JOl Soy o. oCd-
shore Railroad station before the pro-
duce season opens. In wet weather
the yard is almost impossible.
The statement was made at meet
ing of the Cumberland Medical Asso-
citation, this week, to the effect that
some doctors in Millville are writing
prescriptions for whiskey for the
nominal sum of twenty-five cents.
Millville people evidently are not all
tetotallers.
Atlantic City's death rate among
permanent residents is the lowest of
any city of its size in the country, ac
cording to the report of the health
officials, which shows an average of /
deaths in every 1000 of population.
Over 200 of those who died there last
year were non-residents.
Chief Morrison, of the Salem Fire
Department, has notified Common
Council that the steam fire engine
purchased in 1878 is practically use
less, and that, should fire occur, it
would take at least 80 minutes TO
get up steam, and then stream could
not be thrown with any success.
BY the purchase of tract of land
covering about thirty acres the first
step has been taken for an increase of
Camdens water supply. The ground
adjoins the land already owned and
used for artesian well purposes. This
will increase thesupply by 100000
gallons daily. The purchase price
was $3.50.
A lot of reformers and w. G. T. u.
workers of Atlantic City are preparing
to appeal to Governor Fort to use
every means in his power to enforce
the Bishops law in that city. Petit
tions bearing 1900 names will be pre-
sented to him. These petitions charge
that the Grand Jurors are not doing
their duty.
Probably the lowest-paying job in
the State for the amount of work to
be done is that of the local constable
shin. For SIS a month the officer.
must also serve as harbor-master
Poor. Honor must be the main con-
sideration of the six candidates for
the Office. who have been making a
bitter fight for the past two months.
Contact Of a steel tape line with the
deadly third rail of the West Jersey
e Seashore Railroad, nearly caused
the death of Frank Middleton, city
engineer of South Atlantic City on
Monday of last week. An assistant,
who was holding one end of the long
tape, allowed it to drop on the rail,
and Middleton's hands were burned
to the bone.
The New York Shipbuilding Plant
is very busy now and extra help Will
no doubt be required to complete the
work on hand in contract time. BE-
sides the new battleship to be pulit
for the government they have under
way a big palace sidewheel stemboat
for use OH the Hudson river, Two steer
barges for the Lenign vaiiey ,sa,.s na,.-
road Company, and torpedo destroyers
for the government.
The Trustees of the Salem County
Almshouse were before the Board OF
Freeholders last Thursday aIterhoon y
safe