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The Penn's Grove record., 1911-08-11
ORDERS CUT IN
LIGHTING RATES
Utilities Boards First Move
Under New Power
1T HELPS SIXTEEN TOWNS
May Be Instigatlon of Similar Action
on Appeal for Relief Against
Public Service In Other
Places.

tSDGCldI lIGnJOA SOIl OoPOhoNhOS'(
Trenton.-For the first time since 1t
was vested with the necessary power
by the last Legislature, the Pubic
Utilities Commission ordered a reduc-
ton of gas and electric charges, TAX
en- as a forerunner of what is likely
to happen to the Public Service on the
appeals from various parts OF the
State. The order affects 16 munich
palities situated in the vicinity OF
Long Branch, requiring the Consoli
dated Gas company of Long Branch
to put into effect a new schedule Of
rates on September 1. Based upon
business done by the company in 1910,
the reductions ordered will amount to
S31,1S6, for both gas and electric cur
rent. This is approximately 10 per
cent. of the total net income for the
year, or about 9 per cent. reduction OF
the total gross evenu The loss to
the company will be $22,391 on gas
and $8,975 on electricity.
The order is the first of the kind
issued by the Commission, which I'M
dertook to investigate the rates
charged by the Consolidated COM
pany upon it's own volition following
its refusal to approve a franchise to
another company to compete in the
same territory. After the inquiry had
been ordered, the company expressed
willingness to revise its rate schedule
upon a basis which the Board has de-
cided to approve. 1t is an interesting
circumstance that in the revision the
small consumers rather than the larg-
er ones will be the principal gamers.
The only changes made in the rates
for electricity are in the prices per
kilowatt hour. The new rates will be
Is cents for the first 200 kilowatts and
10 cents for all over 400. The old
rates were 20 cents for the first so
kilowatt hours, 16 cents for the next
so and IL cents for all in excess Of
100.
The new gas rates prescribed are
$1.35 for the first 10000 cubic feet
monthly, SLIPS for the next 100000 Gu
bic feet and $1.10 for all over $4,000
cubic feet. The old gas rate was
$50 per thousand cubic feet, with Is
per cont. off for payment in ten days.
making the net rate $1.25 per thou
sand cubic feet. All other provisions
as to special rates and contracts are
to remain as heretofore.
The municipalities affected by the
new rates are Allenhurst, Asbury
Park, Bradley Beach, Seabright, the
townships of Ocean, Neptune, Shrews-
bury and Ea%tontown, Oceanport, Long
Branch, Deal, Monmouth Beach, Red
Bank, Little Silver, Fair Haven and
West Long Branch.
AS indicative of the general policy
of the Board with regard to the fixing
I of rates, the memorandum accom-
panying it's decision is interesting and
important. One of the first things
done during the inquiry was to make
an inventory and appraisement of the
property to ascertain the cost to pro-
duce," and SO determine the value
upon which the company was entitled
to a fair return. In this appraisement
no allowances were made for intangi-
BILE values, good will, franchises, de-
fcits in early years or uncertain or in
definite matters.
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General

Cotton prices rose sharply on gen.
eral buying, which started in Liver
pool and spread to American mar
kets.
The bark gunboat Alliance was or
dered stricken from the navy list. She
has been condemned. The appraise-
Elent is s4.975.
A paper by George w. Perkins read
at the Michigan College of Mines de-
nounced Congress, the Antitrust law
and competition, and said that what
the country needs today is national
ism.
A dispatch from Lexington, KY,
KY, stated that one hundred cases of
pellagra were reported in Bell and
Whitley counties.
= Ten cars, carrying the ~ocean-to-
ocean automobile party, reached San
Francisco on the way to Los Angeles,
Cal, from Atlantic City.
In order to provide elk for a new
park in Denver Buffalo" Jones guar
antees. to drive 10, 900 wild elk into the
plOPOoCu pain III OO udyo.
DIR. Andrew S. Draper, State Com
missioner of Education, in a letter
made public at Albany criticised the
educational chapter Of the proposed
charter for New York city.
William Jennings Bryan, at Chica-
go, assumed full responsibility for the
editorial recently published in his
weekly paper criticising Congressman
Underwood, and stated that he in.
tended to give the Democratic leader
of Congress an early opportunity to
discuss some other things.
While trying to save John Duffy
fourteen, in swimming off a Brooklyn
pier, Robert Stephenson, twenty.
eight, struck a submerged sand-pile
and broke his spine. Both were
drowned.
Prehistoric relics throwing light Oh
natural history and the lives of the
Indians have been unearth at Madi
sonyille, a suburb of Cincinnati.
The body of the girl found in the
Hudson at Irvington, N. Y, wal identi
fed as that of Annie Eiben, whit
drowned herself because her engage
ment was broken.
Admiral Togo exchanged visits will
Mayor Gaynor, and received thu
cheers CT the crowds wherever he an
peared, told the reporter he love,
peace, and then left New York TO.
Washington.
Fanny Westerman, thirteen, drown
ed at Coney Island, after saving he
ffteen-year-old niece.
A dispatch from Jackson, Miss
stated that Ex-Governor Vardamal
won the Democratic nomination 70
United States Senator by about 20
600 majority over Senator Percy an
C. H. Alexander.
Forest fires that have been burnin
for a week in California were reporI
cd beyond control, and the distric
forester at San Francisco was direc'
ed to summon all possible additions
help to subdue the flames.
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Personal

A dispatch from Wilhelmshoehe
saws that the German empress a
been stricken with a slight attack OF
angina pectoris or heart disease.
Russell G. Colt has been served with
papers in a suit for absolute divorce
His wife, Ethel Barrymore, asks no
alimony, but demands the custody OF
her child. The action will be tried IN
New York, which recognizes only n
ground for divorce.
Mrs. Waldorf Aston has won the
hearts of the Irish M. P.s. She found
them picnicking by permission in the
grounds at Cliveden, England, and in
sisted they ought to be guests at the
house, telling them that was the way
it would be in Virginia where h
came from. Then she amused them
by talking politics.
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WEEKS NEWS BY
TICK AND FLASH
What Interests the World Chron-
icIed by Telegraph and Cable.
GLANCE AT FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Washington Looms Large as a Center
of Neutrality-suspicious. Busy IN
Many States-The Lights ana
Shadows of the News.
WASHINGTON

President Taft nominated Captain
Alfred Reynolds to be rear admlrai.
The Anglo-American and rance
American arbitration treaties were
signed in the White House.
The House passed the Cotton Dill,
reducing the tariff on cotton goods OF
everyday use 21.06 per CENT ny d
vote of POP to 81.
The record of a speech by Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson was put III eNf
ence before the House investigating
committee, showing the Remseh fule
Food Board was maintained expressly
to aid manufacturers.
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Shuts Out New York Cars.

]. B. R. Smith, State Commissioner
Of Motor Vehicles, announced that
hereafter the eight-day privilege
would not be granted owners of auto
mobile licenses of New York. This
means that New York tourists will
have to take out a yearly license II
they wish to use the roads of New
Jersey. This action is taken because
no reciprocal legislation has been en-
acted by New York. A strong effort
will be made to bring about a better
feeling between the two states.
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JOHN w. GATES DEAD IN PARIS.
End of Remarkable Career that
Amazed Wall Street.

Paris.-John w. Gates, the Amerj-
can financier and Spectator, died
here in the arms of his wife and his
son. The usual r~estoratives failed in
the last crisis.
The end was peaceful, and it seemed
as though he were falling asleep after
a long and plucky fight against great
odds. !
His iron constitution and courage
ous resistance, backed by every re-
source of medical science, failed to
save Gates.
Gates-his full name was John
warne Gates-was born on a farm
near Turner Junction, ILL.,, now West
Chicago, on May Is, 1855.
John w. Gates vas married when
he was nineteen years old to Miss
Dellora R. Baker of st. Charles, Ill.
They had one on, Charles Gilbert
Gates, who lives in New York. He
has been his fathers broker n is a
director in many corporations.
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Through with Old Friends.

Louie Coulter has announced his
intention of resigning from the many
offices he holds in the German socie-
ties of Trenton. For more than a
quarter of a century he has been
probably the most prominent German
American citizen of Trenton and has
held Offices of great responsibility and
now he says he is through.
At the request of many of his friends
Coulter got into the recent fight for
Commissioner candidates, and he only
received 377 votes.
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SENATOR FRYE,
OF MAINE DEAD
Expires in Portland After Long
Illness.
CHANGES IN U. S. SENATE
A Democrat Succeeds Him-This VIII
Give Maine Two Democratic Sena-
tors and Reduce the Republican
Majority from Nine TO Seven.

Lewiston, Me.-The State of Maine
lost its senior United States Senator
when William P. Frye died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Helen
White. At his bedside were Mrs.
White and his other daughter, Mrs.
Alice Briggs. who also lives In Lewis
ton. Although he had been i'll for a
long time, death came suddenly.
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nraos Rescuer to Death.

White Lake, N. Y.-Miss Bessie
Rubenstein, a New York school teach
er, drowned this afternoon in White
Lake, taking with her to the bottom
DR.. Herman Glucksman of Brooklyn,
an expert swimmer, who had gone to
her aid.
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unbuiIt Trolley In Trouble.

The Lakewood & Point Pleasant
trolley road, which was sold at receiy.
er's sale about a year ago and bought
in by a syndicate and re-organized, Is
again in trouble and may have to &C
into a receivers hands a second time
having defaulted on the July interest
on it's bonds. The road has never
been built and only about three miles
of the .roadbed has ever been grad
ed. George o. Vanderbilt of Prince
ton, is at the head of the company. He
refuses to state what his plans are.
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FOrei9n

Mile. Marving, the woman aviator,
while monopianing at st. Etlenne.
France, lost her nerve and colllded
with a tree. She was unhurt.
A mutiny at Cherbourg, France,
non men and petty officers OF the
torpedo iotilla led to 200 being placed
under arrest.
The Germans are busy Germanizing
Agardir. They are building a dancing
stage and already have opened a beer
house ashore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt of
New York were guests of King George
and Queen Mary at dinner on board
the royal yacht off Cowes.
A new Canadian river, at least 800
miles long, has been reported to the
government. 1t is the Black Crow, a
tributary of the Porcupine.
On September 5 at Kiel the Kaiser
will review the greatest array of Ger
man war craft ever assembled, COM
prising $40 vessels and $4,000 men.
Flying from Saint Cyr to Charities
at the rate of Al IL miles an hour,
Aviator Renaux made a e record
of $50 miles in little more than IL
hours.
Ext resident Simon of Hayti board
ed a Dutch steamer bound for Jamai-
ca: as he left the harbor of Port-au-
Prince the three Haytian warships sa-
luted.
A report by representatives OF the
public health and marine hospital SER
vice in Italy, indicates that the cholera
is spreading in that country.
General Lecopte was proclaimed
President Of Hayti by the revolution
airy army and will probably be elect
ed; General Firmin and DR.. Bobo
have announced candidature.
Lord Morley published a list of sew.
enty-six peers who had promised to
vote for the veto bill: the Tory ex
tremists were believed to number six.
ty-seven.
Several political prisoners In the
penitentiary at Chihuahua, Mexico,
went on a strike when they were par
doned, refusing to leave unless liber.
ty was given to the other prisoners.
Spanish and Fren.n labor men met
in Madrid to protest against Franco
Spanish military operations in Moroc
co; the French delegates declared
war would be opposed by a general
strike.
A motion of censure on the British
government for the means taken by
1t to secure the passage of the veto
bill was lost in the House of Com.
mons by a majority of 119; the min
istry's supporters numbered 1865.
The approaching retirement of A
B. Aylesworth, the Canadian Minis
ter of Justice, was announced.
The British armored cruiser Corn
wall was relocated from the Cape Sa
Bile lodges, and, proceeding to Clarke's
barbor. took the Niobe in tow, botnd
for Halifax.
General Leconte made a triumpha
entry into Po~rt-au-Prince and took uI
residence III Tie udIlOndi PoioSO "
Hayti; General Firmin also arrived a
Port-au-Prince from Porto Rico, and
by Leconte's order, was permitted tt
land.
General Geronimo T%reyino, forme
commander at Monterey, is willing t
run for president of Mexico.
Clashes between troops and popu
lace occurred in Lisbon and the mir
listers of the republic were hooted.
General Firmin sailed from Port
Rico for Cape Haytien, expecting t
become President of the Haytian IL
public.
Eighteen men forming the crew 0
the schooner Greyling, wrecked il
Davis strait, arrived at Copenhagel
on the Danish Government steame
Godthaab.
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Summer School Closes.

The Cape May Summer school
closed with the award of prizes for
sand-tab1e work of students.
The first prize of $25 was awarded
William Hastings, of Dover, and Mrs.
Helen Goble, of Mount Holly. Sec
ond prize, SIS, l.. Vernon Chase, Lake
wood, and Miss Maud Lippincott, Mt.
Holly. Third prize, Miss Helen H.
Evans and Miss Ellen R. John of Bur
lington county.
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Captures Escaped Prisoner.

Harry Baxter, who escaped from
the Mercer county workhouse, was
found in a barn by Patrolman Matheis
and when Mickey" Farley, an old
public character, tried to help him es-
cape, was knocked unconscious.
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Crossing Death May Cost Thousands.

Crossing Death May Cost Thousands.
To o $4,000 damages for the
death OF her husband, William F. Pat
ton of Franklinville, Gloucester coun-
ty, Mrs. Eliza G. Patton, through Law
yer William C.. French of Camden, be-
gan proceedings against the West Jer-
sey & Seashore Railroad company. 1t
is alleged that when Patton was killed
by the Ocean City express in August
of last year there was no n to
warn him.
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High Prices for Farmers.

Never in the history of potato ship
ping from Elmer station have the
farmers reaped such a rich harvest as
they have this season. With prices
running from $3.O5 to 1910 per bar
rel the farmer receives from $50 TO
500 for every load shipped. Daniel
Gaskill, of Harding, who sold to A.
M. & S. H. Wright, of Elmer, has the
banner for the highest price per load;
he had 1876 baskets in the lot, n
they brought $118.35.
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7w.rtv.sIx Mutlneers Executed.

Madrid.-A court martial in Cadiz
condemned to death twenty-six men
who took part in the mutiny on board
the Spanish battleship Nemancia.
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Shot. by Friend.

Shot by Friend.
John E. Phillips was shot at Borden
town and taken to St. Francis hospi-
tai.
Phillips, who is from Marcus Hook,
Pa, was shot by H. Y. Smyth OF Phila-
delphia. The shooting is said to have
been accidental. Smyth was arrested
but was liberated in $500 bail at Mt.
Holly.
The men were the pest of friends
and had not been drinking. They
were examining a revolver when 1t ac-
cidentally exploded.
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Wife Calls Him CRATER.

The president of the local Excise
Board, Marcus l.. Ward Suydam, is
charged by his wife, Mrs Margaret
Suydam, with selling beer for a brew
cry on commission, and she says that
his commission amounts to $40 per
week.. AS a member of the Excise
Board, he receives presents OF sums
of money amounting to $3.50 per year.
These allegations are made in a Dill
filed in the Court of Chancery by Mrs.
Suydam for maintenance. The PUBL
cation of the charge has caused m
thing of a sensation in Trenton.
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RECALL OF JUDGES STAYS IN.

United States Senate Keeps II IN
Arizona Constitution.
Washington.-The Flood resolution
coming over from the House provid-
ms for the admission of Arizona n
New Mexico as States OF the Union
was passed by the Senate by a vote
of sc to IS. An amendment by Sena-
tor Nelson of Minnesota seeking to
strike from the Arizona Constitution
the much discussed provision for the
recall of Judges was defeated by a
vote of 46 to %.
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Time for ReIlqIous ThInklnu.

lime TOT HS'o iHtnkth9.
We give no time to religious think
ing or to bringing our souls in the
attitude of prayer.-Bishop Earl
Clanston, Methodist, Washington.
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FRENCH NAVAL EXECUTION.

Two Marines Shot at TouIon for Muir
der of comrade.
Toulon.-The naval execution in
France since 1856 was carried out at
daybreak, when two marines who muir
dered a comrade were shot in the
presence of the garrison, which was
paraded for the purpose.
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Cuttings From Late Dispatches That
Epitomize the News of the State
for a Week-Flshermen Report
Good Luck at Coast Resorts.

The postal savings department has
opened in Vineland.
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rOICeu ". Tie COuuitiOu VI lls ucdllu
to resign his place as President pro-
tempore of the Senate at the begin
ming of the present special session Of
Congress, although he retained his
membership in the Senate, Senator
Frye soon afterward made his last
journey to the city which always had
been his home.
William Pierce Frye was born in
Lewiston, Me, on September 2, 1881,
and was the great-grandson of Gen.
Joseph Frye of the Revolutionary
army.
Mr.. Frye was in Congress from the
time of his first election to the House
until the close of his life. The SER
vice had covered a period of forty
years, giving him the longest continu-
GUS Congressional record with the two
exceptions of Justin S. Morrill, Of
Vermont and William B. Allison Of
Iowa.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Frye's death
and. the succession of a Democrat
from Maine will leave the Senate as
follows: Republicans, 40; Democrats,
Al; vacancies, both in States now
Democratic, Colorado and Georgia, 2.
Senator Frye was paired with Bacon
of Georgia, but his death breaks the
pair and Bacon's vote, now can be
counted.
Information from the Maine Con-
gress delegation is that Governor
Plaisted of Maine probably will ap-
point Obadiah Gardner as Senator in
the recess of the State Legislature.
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A steam saw mill is being erected
on the outskirts of Alloway.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Miller Of Toron-
to, who are making a 10,000-mile BIZ
cycle tour. rested in Burlington a few
days.
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Charles Fahey of Union street, Bur-
lington, captured a three-pound river
catfish after it had run off with his
pole and line.
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There has been a big slump in the
price of tomatoes all over South Jer-
sey, and Gamers are now sitting up
and taking notice.
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Still surviving from a fifth opera
ton for internal organic trouble,
which was performed in st. Joseph's
hospital, Philadelphia, Mrs. Theodore
P. Stanley of Collingswood, was in a
very precarious condition, with slight
chances of recovery.
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At Point Pleasant, Frederick Wi
son., 35 years old, a New York Tele-
phone lineman, was killed while re-
pairing a wire at the top of a pole.
Wilson's young wife, who was seated
in a wagon nearby, witnessed his tragic
death. The lineman received a shock
by coming in contact with a live wire
and fell lifeless to the ground.
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After a married life of more than
20 years Mrs. Grace A. Coleman, of
Trenton, has been granted a separa-
ton from her husband, John E. Cole
man, by Vice Chancellor Stevenson.
Cruelty was alleged.
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At one time a man counted 95 loads
of produce standing on Railroad ave-
nue., ~Swedesboro, waiting to be I'M
loaded upon freight cars.
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Mrs. D. H. Burge has been given
the honor of pulling the string that
will unveil the soldiers monument
during the "Old Home Week." Vine
land, in recognition of her efforts in
behalf of the enterprise.
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AS indicating the disappearance OF
small sail craft from the Delaware
several hundred launches and power
boats were counted passing Glouces-
ter and not one sailboat was seen.
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When Roland Packer started as a
rural carrier from Thorofare a few
years ago ne received $500 a year.
There has been a steady increase un-
til it has now reached $1,000.
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The Avalon Board of Trade has
Joined other resort bodies in con-
demning the proposed purchase of the
Stone Harbor road by the Cape May
County Board of Freeholders.
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Trinity P. E. church, S~wedesboro, is
loaning it's old communion service to
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York city, where an exhibition of ole
church silver bearing date prior to
1926 will be made.
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The police of Gloucester are kept
busy watching thieves who prey upon
farmers truck wagons on the way to
the ferry and who e unusually
bold this summer.
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Shooting dogs supposed to show
signs of rabies has become a daily
task for Burlington policemen.
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Edward Kraemer, one of the largest
fruit raisers in Salem county, does
not expect more than 10 baskets Of
peaches from his 1900 trees.
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Work will be commenced at once
on resurfacing the Westville-Glass-
boro stone road through Hurffville
with asphalt, as through State Road
Commissioner Stevens an additional
appropriation from the State automo-
bile fund of $4,000 will be allowed the
sounty.
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Mullica Hill is overrun with tramps
Many of them are willing to work,
and there is plenty of it about the
railroad station and potato fields.
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Former Governor John Franklin
Fort, who has been touring the world
six months, arrived at his summer
home at Spring Lake accompanied by
Mrs. Fort and Miss Fort.
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With the new reciprocity law In
force South Jersey farmers believe
that next year they have a good
chance Of making money by ship
ments of tomatoes to Canada.
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James w. Draper of Camden, was
awarded the contract for building the
new First NJ. E. church, Haddonfield,
to cost $4,000. 1t will be built OF
stone.
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West Creek makes claim to the
Oldest Justice of the Peace in the
State. He is Richard A. Wood, a re-
tired mariner, e~ighty-two years old.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-10-26

A boy from the country came into
town the other day and was seeing
the sights. He took in the court
house and as court was in session he
remained to listen. The lawyers were
having particularly rough house
time. 1t was getting late and the
boy slipped into the clerks office
and phoned home. II will not be
home until late, am going to wait
and see the fight" The family
thought q prize fight was on but
when the boy got home he was too
disguised to tell them for day and
a half. Then he explained. II went
into court and those lawyers sure
were fighting with their mouths
They said so many things that
knew it meant trouble when court
adjourned and hung around to see
the real fight. What was my sur
prise to see the contending lawyers
walk home together without once
mentioning the trouble in the court
room. No more sham battles fol
me. l would rather watch bull
fight. "-Lawrence Journal. -.