The Penn's Grove record., 1912-02-16

pointed George Benniger custodian Of
the Glassboro fire house.
A general movement is IN progress
in Millville to provide for the many
poor families who are daily applying
for relief.
Nearly all of the glass plants in
Millville are running full capacity,
with indications of a steady blast un-
til June 80.
In a fall from a trolley car on the
Bristol & Trenton line, William Reed,
40 years old, of Bristol, had both legs
crushed and is in a Trenton hospital.
On her way home from church in
Woodbury., Miss Elizabeth Baylies, of
Wenonah, fell on the sidewalk and
broke an ankle.
Millville's town cock, which has CIV
en- the official time to citizens for many
years, is frozen stiff, and all efforts to
start it have failed.
By the removal of W. N. Justice
from Mullica Hill to Haddonfield, va
cancies have been caused in the Town
ship Committee and Board of Educa-
ton.
Because Of the intense cold freezing
the mains the water supply of Pleas
antville has been practically shut off
and residents are suffering a water
famine.
Burned from her waist to her feet,
Esther May Snyder, II years old, of
Burlington, was admitted to Cooper
Hospital, Camden. The girls dress
became ignited from a stove. The girl
suffered awful agony but will recover
Crazed with drink, Thomas Hey
burn, a telephone lineman of Trenton,
gave battle to six persons, including
two policemen, knocking five of them
down before he was subdued. In the
scuffe Patrolman Kucer suffered a
painfully injured hand when struck
with the club of Patrolman Cook.
Seeking $4,000 for the loss Of a
hand Joseph w. Tompkins, through
Lawyer William G. French, began suit
in Camden against the Bateman Manu-
featuring Company, of Grenloch. Temp
kins claims that defective machinery
connected with a circular saw he was
operating caused his loss.
Michael Weber, a Plainfield butcher,
while going to his home at midnight,
was attacked by highwaymen, who
fractured his skull and robbed him of
$500 in cash. The man was found by
in an unconscious state. His condi-
ton is critical. Weber had $500 in
another pocket, which the highway
men failed to find. The police have
no clue to their identity.
On the pilot of a freight locomotive
running at rs miles an hour, Charles
Green braved the intense cold all the
way from Camden to reach the bed
side of his wife, whom, he said, was
dangerously i'll. When the train stop.
ped at Elwood the conductor and two
brakemen hauled Green from his peril.
III position and, locking him in a car,
arrived at Atlantic City. When ar
raigned before Record Kefer Green
was fined S.. The Recorder refused
to believe his tale.
When the waterback of a range ex-
ploded at the home of J. w. Lore, of
Woodlynne, the kitchen was nearly
wrecked, entailing a loss of about $500.
Members of the Lore family left
home to attend a funeral, requesting a
neighbor to start a fire before they re-
turned. Unaware that the waterback
was frozen, the neighbor started the
fire and left for home. Ten minutes
later the explosion stirred the neigh
borhood.
Moved to action through the efforts
OF the local Mount Holly health au-
thorities to ascertain whether the wa
ter supply is responsible for a slight
outbreak of typhoid fever that has CIV
en- some alarm, the State Board of
Health had two representatives there
for two days analyzing samples of wa.
ter taken from the Rancocas Greek,
the filtered product at the pumping
station and from various faucets in
different parts of the town.
Rev. A. w. Karnell, the first pastor
the Darlington Presbyterian Church
has had in the three years of its exist.
ence, was installed. Rev. w. w. Cas-
selberry, of Collingswood, delivered
the charge to the people.
In selecting the hardware for the
new High School at Woodbury. the
Board of Education has taken up the
most modern appliances, and it will
be impossible to lock any one on the
inside of the building, and every door
will respond readily to the slightest
push from within.
The case of Lizzie Nixon against
Joyce Nixon. in which a verdict Of
$3.420 was given the plaintiff for
nursing the latter's father, will be ap-
pealed from the Gloucester County
Courts.
City Engineer Carter. who has been
busy securing the right-of-way for the
cut-off in the Strengthening of Wood
bury Creek, has completed his work,
and Assistant U. s. Engineer George
W. I. Miller states that the chart ard
data will be forwarded to Washington
at once.