The Penn's Grove record., 1912-10-11
STATEWIDE
JERSEY ITEMS
Cosby Brevities Which Chron.
icle a Weeks Minor Events.
BUILDING BOOMS REPORTED
Real Estate Transactions Indicate a
Business Awakening in Many
Sections-churches Raising
Funds for Worthy Objects.

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Business Awakening in Many
acknowledgements Raising
Funds for Worthy Objects.
The iremen OF Torofare cleared
$500 from a fair and supper.
While playing near the stove little
Frank Gordon, the t~wo-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Gordon, of
Wentworth, was badly scalded by
boiling water.
William Naylor, 80 years old, OF 423
Trinity place, Elizabeth, died in the
General Hospital after being struck
by a Main Line trolley car earlier and
sustaining a fractured skull.
Judge Edward S.. Atwater will be
called upon to decide whether the
late William Keefe, of Railway, was
a son of the late Mrs. Julia Keefe,
also of that city.
Freeholder Merritt P. Strader re-
signed his office at the meeting of the
Township Committee and that body
at once elected former Sheriff George
N. Harris, of Newton, to succeed him.
The Williamstown Fire Company
mas elected William c. Carter, chief;
L.. w. Harper, assistant chief; John
Callahan, secretary, and Edwin Buch,
treasurer.
The largest fish caught from Union
Lake, Millville, this year was hooked
by William Furness, of Philadelphia
a bass which weighed six and one
quarter pounds. He caught a second
which weighed five pounds.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Clay
ton Fire Company has elected these
officers: President, Mrs. Ida Laid;
vice presidents, Mrs. Albert Scott, Mrs.
Laura Busby; secretary, Mrs. Maggie
Bowers. treasurer, Mrs. Howard Crane.
The new water plant of Bridgeton
will have opportunity to drawing up
on a supply of more than 80, 0 0O 900
gallons daily, as shown by the tests
made in the new watershed by the
engineer.
Miss Edith Sickler, of Williams
town, invited a large number Of
friends IN O 0ou:lfipn Dor+1r,, -or-o5
dinner for Is cents and donated the
proceeds to the Home Missionary So
ciety of the NJ. E. Church.
The Caklyn Borough Council decid-
ed to curb and gutter and macadam-
ize Newton avenue for it's entire
length. 1t also gave the contract to
lay nearly half a mile of cement side.
walks to Contractor LIE Cato.
The Glassboro Board of Education
has decided to add drawing AID music
to the grammar grades and zoology
and botany in the high school. Miss
Sailor, of ~Collegeyille, Pa, has been
chosen to teach the new departments.
John Porter, of Paterson, was COM
mitted to the county Jail by Recorder
James F. Carroll to be examined By
the county physician as to his sanity.
Porter was arrested on charges pre-
ferred by his wife.
1@uo0 p,,1oIor of Aoo,4sf,I -aa1J2
trees along Broad street, GlaGsboro,
are dying. Investigators are of the
opinion tliat the thick oil which was
placed on Broad street to abate the
automobile dust nuisance is the cause
of the decay.
Fifty men employed at the Hobbs,
Benton & Heath Wallpaper Company's
factory at Eighteenth street and Park
avenue, Hoboken, quit work when
their employers refused to sign a
three years contract drawn up by the
Printers Union.
In deciding that the order to show
cause why Mrs. John T. Winans, OF
Allenhurst, is not in contempt of
court for refusing to permit her son,
joseph NJ. Rector, Jr., to live with her
former husband, half of each week,
Vic. Chancellor Garrison has reversed
a former decision at Jersey City.
Street and Water Commissioner
Frank Hague said as to the outcome
of the proceedings before Supreme
Court Commissioner Theodore Ru-
rode: Il see where l am to be sued
for exposing conditions in my deparc-
ment. l only hope that the proceed
ings will start soon, so that 1 can let
the people of Jersey City know the
true facts"
The Help a Little Society" of the
Williamstown NJ. E. Church has elect
ell these officers: President. Mrs.
Chris. Kleinheim; vice presidents,
Mrs. Reta Krouse, Helen Seeker, Edna
Loughlin; secretary, Olive Camp;
treasurer, Mrs. C. H. Garwood.
Owing to the many narrow escapes
from death at the Union street cross
ing of the West Jersey & Seashore
Railroad in Glassboro the citizens of
the town decided to petition the com
pany 70 place safety gates at tho
crossing.
LOST CODICIL HELD VALID.
Document Was in Pocket of w. A.
Spencer, Drowned oil Titanic.
New York.-Surrogate Fowler ad-