Gloucester County Democrat., 1909-03-25
BRIEF JERSEY HAPPENINGS.

year to transport pupils from oluel
portions of the school district to its
new High School.
The Philadelphia Saw Milling Com
pany has purchased a large cedar
swamp south of Millville and will
again place into operation its plant
at Belle Plaine.
Shippers of scullions about Will
Jamestown are receiving only 81 per
hundred punches. Several barrels
containing a thousand punches each,
are being shipped daily however.
Perth AInboy is now suffering from
a smallpox scare. Eight or nine cases
have been reported, and pest house
is being rushed to completion, though
the authorities think they have the
disease under control.
Rev. DR.. w. p CantweH, head of the
Long Branch Catholic parish, has
from the pulpit urged the members
of the church to boycott merchants
who sell or display picture postal
cards insulting to the Irish.
Owing to the mild weather the past
winter, apples that have lain on the
ground since last fall, are being pick
ed up by some of our residents in as
good state of preservation as though
stored in the cellar.
Claiming it would put the glass fac
tories out of business, a Millyille mass
meeting of glass blowers adopted a
resolution of protest against the fac
tory bill pending in the Legislature,
; to raise the age limit of child labor.
A hundred dollars worth of little
chicks were consumed in a fire caused
by the explosion of, a lamp in A. N.
Larick's brooder house, Vineland. Mrs
Laricks fought to extinguish the fire
and was frightfully burned before
succeeding.
The Endeavor Fire Company, of Bur
lington, celebrated its one hundred
and fourteenth anniversary, Wednes-
day of last week, by entertaining the
local authorities. This is said to be
the Oldest fire company in the State
Fire broke out in the new fireworks
factory at Newfold last week. and for
&severaI minutes there was lively dis
%play of noise-making devices. The
%local fire company soon put out the
blaze with only slight damage to the
plant.
Charged by his neighbors with be-
ing nuisance for saving wood at
night and doing unseenly things on
Sunday, and also with practicing
witchcraft, Warren Herbert, of Mill
vile, was fined $12 by local Justice
of the peace.
1t is. semi-officially reported at Vine
land that the West Jersey Railroad
will extend the third rail the coming
summer from Newield Junction to
Millville The opposition which was
rampant here two years ago has all
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Improvement.
Tife Pennsylvania Railroad company
has issued orders for the wearing of
a uniform of suede by all gatemen at
grade crossings in cities and towns
on it's lines. The order also states
thata cap shall be worn, on the front
of which shall be the inscription, gate
watchanan' The new order goes in
to effeet April /.
Last week while Charles Smith, of
Salem county, was cutting away the
side OF an old maple stump, to make
room for a new yard fence to his
dwelling, he came across a pair of
tailor's shears imbedded In the stump.
The shears are about twelve inches
long, quite rusty and are supposed to
have been in the stump for more than
a century.
The committee of the Salem county
Almshouse trustees for electric light
ing met at that institution last Wednes
day A Woodstown firm and Bridge
ton firm had representatives there
with plans and specifications but the
plans drawn by Superintendent Mac
Lear, of the Salem Electric Company,
were accepted. The bids for the
work will be opened April LIST.
w. NJ Davis, of Vineland, has Just
won out on a legal question before
the Interstate Commerce Commission
without the aid of lawyer. He raises
guinea-pigs, rabbits and other animals
for pets, and some months ago an ex-
pre- IS company charged him double
the rate for ordinary pigs on shipping
a guinea-pig. Contending that pigs
is pigs" he went before the Commits
sion and was confronted by an array
of legal talent, but his argument prov
ed the more forceful, and the decision
has been made in his favor
At the yard of the New York Ship
building Company ON Saturday, the
steamer Robert Fulton" was launch
ed. This handsome new palatial
steamboat is for service ON the Hud-
son river in the Albany Day Line
fleet, and is expected to be at the
head of her class of steamboats,. The
dimensions of the Robert Fulton"
are: Length, 348 feet; beam, over all
76 feet. She will have four decks and
will accommodate 1000 persons. Her
engines total 1850 horsepower, and
should she make her contract speed,
she will plow the Hudson river at a
rate of rs miles an hour. A party of
New York people, mostly the descend
ants of Robert Fulton, came over from
New York to attend the launching.
Miss Anita Merle Smith, granddaugh-
ter of Commodore Alfred VanSant-
voord, founder of the Albany Day Line
christened the new steamer by break
ing over her bow bottle of spring
water from spring at Claremont,