Gloucester County Democrat., 1911-11-23
new JERSEY BRIEFS.

Up in Warren county the farmers
are receiving eight cents a pound for
light pork. Last year the price was
eleven and twelve cents.
The erection of a State Normal
Iaschool in Hudson county is being
Estrongly agitated, with State Senator
. Fielder and other members of tie
Legislature back of the project co
Adjutant Beneral Sadler has adj
| yised Gov. Wilson that the military
drilling grounds at Sea Girt are in
adequate and has recommended their
abandonment.
There is crusade on in Newark
against splitting on the streets. Eight
men were arrested the other day and
made an example of, each being fined
$40 and costs.
The State Board of Health's. pure
food campaign has made necessary the
! instituting of seventy suits in various
parts of the State to prosecute vio-
lators of the law.
The Victor Durant Glass Company,
of Vineland, has purchased the old
4 My cldl GlE4S6 WOIhS dt Alil41lt1t, anu
Ills now placing it in readiness for
Nblast. The company will manufac-
tture tubes and will give employment
to about 100 hands. 10
The per capita expenditure per pu-
! pill for education in New Jersey is
$51. 305. In Pennsylvania it is s3S.8S,
in New York $38 39, in Delaware
$19. 81. The average expenditure per
pupil in the whole United States is
sS1. .e5.
By a decision of the New jersey ST.
prerne Court, confirmation is given the
/ 1,500 verdict awarded in the Camden
Circuit Court to E. r. Nevin, of afcf-
chantville, against the Public Service
Corporation for the destruction Of
four shade trees by Illuminating gas.
Miss Amy Jones, weaver at the
| Burlington Silk Mills, may lose her
/ eyesight as the result of an Injury
sustained at loom. The shuttle
slipped from the machine and struck
4 her eyeglasses, which were chatter
ed. Particles entered her eyes, which
were badly lacerated.
i Work is progressing rapidly on the
4 new Wildwood and Delaware Bay
Short Line Railroad The contract
4 for the filling of the roadbed from
4 Wildwood to the mainland has been
4 awarded to the Hill Dredging Com
pany, of Atlantic City. Contracts for
bridge construction will be awarded
within few days.
i Inspectors of the New Jersey Board
of Health last Thursday confis eatad
meats, pronounced unfit for food. from
butcher shops and provision stores in
the foreign quarter of South CaHden
They also visited the home of Michael
Gapinski of 1130 Atlantic aven =,
whose family suffered from poisoning
after eating alleged diseased pork, ana
took some of the meat for analysis.
Some monkey veal was founl at one
place.
Collingswood residents are COM
planning of the rates charged by the
Bell Telephone Company which they
ague are not only excessive but lis
proportionate A charge of ten cents
is made for call from Collingswood
to Haddonfield, whereas the rate 10
Camden is five cents. The Board Of
Trade will be urged to take up the
matter and endeavor to have citizens
relieved of what they deem an unjust
burden.
Alleging that through an ACCIDENT
that happened while she was cross
ing the Atlantic Ocean, after Il visit
to France, her left ankle and the toes
of her left foot were so badly injured
that she will be crippled for life. Miss
Natalie Bender, school tea her OF
Jersey City, has brought suit for s10.-
GOO against the steamship Rotterdam
of the Holland American Line, which
docks in Hoboken. Should she re-
cover damages the company will have
: the option of settling or allowing Miss
; Bender to sell the big liner for CONS
pensation.
> The preliminary work for the pro-
posed Delaware river boulevard has
! been completed and now whether or
not N. Jersey is to be given one of the
finest highways in the whole country
is up to the Legislature of 1912 The
plan calls for river valley improved
read from Trenton to Port Jarvis,
passing through one of the most pic
turesque. sections of the State. High
ways already improved and lying
within the course are to be utilized,
but there are only about 25 miles of
these out of the entire distance Of
more than Ito miles.
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