Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1911-08-31
BRIEF STATE NOTES.

The reed and rail bird season opens
tomorrow.
Paterson defeated commission gov
ernment this week by a vote Of 1884
to 1917.
The glassblowers of South Jersey
will hold their annual picnic at Pit
Iman on Labor Day. 0
Fifteen conductors on Atlantic City
trolleys, have been dismissed for
knocking down fares.
Business and professional men OF
Nlillyille are making an effort to es-
tablish hospital there. 40
Salem Council now requires lights
to be carried by all vehicles within
the city limits at night.
The cranberry crop this year in
New Jersey is estimated to be 20 per
cent. short of the usual yield.
Edith Rec, 3 years old, of Woods
town, died in Cooper Hospital, Cam
den, Tuesday, the result of a fall into
tub of hot water three weeks ago.
Joseph F. Weeks, PleasantviIle
magistrate, was arrested in Atlantic
City. charged with extortion in n.aing
automobilists.
Next Monday, Sept. 4. the annual
reunion of the 18th N. J. Reg't will
be held in the basement of the Elmer
NJ. E. Church.
Petitions calling for an election 10
adopt or reject the commission form
OF government in Salem are being
circulated.
Women inspectors of the State De-
partment of Labor are now making a
thorough inspection of the bake shops
of the State
The one hundredth anniversary of
the founding of the First Baptist
Church, Woodstown, will be celebrat-
ed in October.
Thirty old soldiers celebrated their
annual picnic at the home Of S.. S.
Ledden last Thursday, all kinds of
games being indulged in.
At a special election held Tuesday.
Wildwood and Holly Beach voted
overwhelmingly in favor of consolida-
dation and will become a city January
1, 1912.
The wholesale price of milk for
September will be AS cents per quart
according to the executive committee
of the Interstate Milk Producers AS
sociation.
Orange will probably have a specisA
election on the question of commission
government on September More
than the required 200 names hape
been Signed to the petition
Stage driver VIM. Kennedy between
Pennsville and Salem, will transport
pupils to the Salem High School, his
bid being $4S5 for the term. He will
use an auto bus.
The Delaware and Atlantic Te.s-
phone Company has applied 10 Bridge
ton City Council for 50-year franz
chise. to bring all of its overhead
wires in conduits.
A workman tumbled through the
feeling of the First NJ E. Church at
lMillville and knocked plastering down
PINTO the pipes of the large organ, putt
ting the instrument out of commission
Factory No. of the Wiiliamstown
Glass Company will start up on the
first day of September. The outlook
Fs not extra good and it is very IN
pertain when the other furnaces will
|start go
Application has been made to the
commissioner of banking and insur
ance for charter for a new banking
institution to be located at Red Bank
and to be known as the Red Bank
Trust Company.
Packers of Bridgeton are having
trouble securing tomatoes contracted
for with the farmers, and it is a que
ton IT the contracts will be carried
out, owing to the small acreage. Sc
per ton was the contract price.
Dashing between two farm wagons
on the Meadow Boulevard at Atlaitsie
City, an auto overturned both vehicles
throwing both drivers in bitches on
opposite sides of the road.
Harry H. Wolf, of Trenton, is suf-
fering from blood poison as a result
of being bitten by caterpillar last
week. He was working in his ward
when the caterpillar fell ON his ;aand
and stung him.
Searching for thieves in her nome
early Sunday morning, Mrs. Fannie
Taylor, of Gloucester, shot herself Ia
the wrist, her arm being badly torn
by the bullet
The N. j. Public Utilities Comm;s-
sion has ordered the Penna r. r
to construct a suitable station at
Journal Square, Jersey City, in OPPOSE
ton to the wishes of the railroad
II IS 10 De the central tunnel station
for Hudson county
Geo Hawkins, of MillvilIe, who
was reported drowned in the Chesa-
peake Bay score of years ago con-
fronted the president Of the AIillville
Trust Co. yesterday morning and de-
manded his share of the estate left
by his mother who died two years
ago.
At recent meeting Of Council.