Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1911-11-30
new JERSEY BRIEFS.

special committee OF the motifs
county freeholders is investigating
the proposition to establish free
hospital for tuberculosis patients and
will probably recommend such an in
stitution.
Wilful destruction of a promissory
note was the novel charge upon which
the Rev. William H. Little, Baptist
evangelist, was arrested at the in
stance of H. B. Snyder, grocer, of At
1antic City. He testified the clergyman
gave his a note for s17, in payment of
a grocery BILL but that when the note
matured and he demanded payment,
Little snatched the paper from his
hand and tore it into bits
Although the commission form of
government was carried at Morris
town by eleven votes, after hard
battle, but after the election. it is dis
covered, it is void because the clerk
used the wrong number on the officieI
ballot in referring to the law.
Joshua Mickle, farmer living near
Bridgeton, is about to start a ranch
for the propagation of foxes. The
purpose is to get their fur for market.
He had better be sure to keep his pens
/ light Vi HIS HGIS4UOTS VIII De dlt5f
his wool il their fowls disappear.
DR.. John NJ. Finney, of Baltimore,
| has refused the offer of the presidency
of Princeton University
The State Forestry Commission has
collected S2,021 in penalties for yio-
lation Of the laws during the past
| year from individuals and railroad
companies. OF this sum 81, 1928 went
back into the treasures of the town
ships in which the violations occur
red, thus reducing the cost of enforc-
! ing the laws. The balance went into
! the State Treasury
| Members of the Asbury Park City
/ Council, in Investigating the new sew
er extension in the west side, recently
/ discovered that some of the man-holes
were bottomless, the contractor hav-
1 ing failed to put in a concrete bottom
as called for in his contract Bottoms
are being put in by the council, and
the contractors and others may be
/ brought to account.
The Executive Committee of the
/ Inter State Milk Producers Associa-
! tion has fixed the wholesale price of
milk for December 1911, at 5 cents per
quart
Ex-sherif Zeller, of Hudson county
was sentenced to a fine of 1000 and
from one to three years at hard labor
Saturday morning for petty grating
His counsel taking out writ CT error,
he was released on $4,000 BAIL
A friendly suit has been instituted
in the Supreme Court by the clerk of
Orange against the county of Essex
to ascertain whether the county or
local municipalities shall pay the ex-
penses of the recent election The
Geran law is very ambiguous on the
subject and disputes over the ques-
/ tion have arisen in nearly every
county in the State
Suit for $4,000 damages has been
instituted in the Monmouth county
courts by Richard Jahn against Will
liam A. Sack, of PENIS Grove Jain
claims Sack ran him down and injured
him at Spring Lake last Summer Mr..
and Mrs. Sack and two lady friends
were in Mr. Sacks automobile and
jain was riding motorcycle at the
time of the accident Mr. Sack claims
it was Jahn's fault and that the latter
unexpectedly crossed the road di-
rectly in front of the auto
The New Jersey State Fish and
Game Commission reorganized at the
State House Saturday. Ernest Napier.
of East Orange, was chosen president
and William A. Logue, of Bridgeton,
] was reelected treasurer. AS mark
of esteem and appreciation of the
work he has done, resolutions were
adopted in praise of B. G. Kuser, who
4 has just retired from the board. Mr..
Kuser was president for two or three
years.
Weather sharps in the vicinity OF
Toms River are predicting a hard
winter, with plenty of snow and ice,
not from the goosebone or muskrat
huts or the thickness of the rabbits
fur, but from observations of their
own Winter, they say, never comes
till the swamps have been filled with
the fall rains. A dry fall means
4 mild winter; a wet fall a cold winter.
The swamps and streams were never
fuller than now, hence they look for
an early and cold winter.
Frank Hart, said by the police au-
/ thorities to be desperate burglar,
who was to have been tried Monday
before Judge Milton Demarest for a
series of burglaries perpetrated in
Bergen county during the past few
months, escaped from the Bergen Co.
Jail at 6.15 o'clock Saturday morning
after making his way past Night War
den Adolphus Campbell and after be-
ing shot at by Constable Herman
4 Beutelsbacher.
Orlando F. Mines, the Salem gro-
Ger who so suddenly disappeared from
his home some weeks ago, and re-
turned with a tale of being sandbag-
ged, robbed and held prisoner for
three days, has again departed and
no one knows anything of his where
abouts.
Salem County Farm Sells High
The Clarence Bassett farm near
Woodstown was sold at public sale