Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-02-15
NEW JERSEY NOTES.

Quall TO the number of 300 dozen
viii be liberated in New Jersey by the
Fish and Game Commission late this
month or early in March. These birds
have been secured in Oklahoma.
As a sequel to an accident which on
January l. 1911, resulted in the death
of Lewis G.. Green who lived at New
Canaan, Con-, at the PENNSYLVANIA
station in Elizabeth, papers were filed
IN the Supreme Court of New Jersey
in a 100000 damage suit.
The past week was one of the, bus
lest in several months at the New Jer-
sey State Prison, twenty-one new
prisoners being received One woman
was included in ssthis number. She,
was May Miller whoe was senteneed
from Passaic county ~toe serve from
three to seven years for larceny and
receixing4 9s{4k sft;S Asttl
George j 81 Kerr, one pof the slage Is
Of Jennie Boscheiter. the Paterson
mill girl. whose mutilated body was
found in an ice house, on the Passaicl
river on the morning of October 49,
1901, left the New Jersey. State Prison
shortly after midnight on Saturday
morning, after serving II years, of "a
15-year sentence.
Farmers in South Jersey who have
sweet potatoes are getting good
prices now. In the fall many baskets
of the potatoes were stored away for
the spring market, and now the de-
mand for them is growing. In most
instances they have kept very we'll
and the shrinkage has not been heavy.
There being a shortage in white po-
tatoes, the demand for sweet potatoes
has grown accordingly.
The Ocean City Board of Trade
backed by leading business men, will
probably succeed in having bridge
built across Egg Harbor Bay, connect
ing that city with Somers Point and
thus directly by wagon road with At
lantic City The cost is estimated at
$500, 600, and it is believed there will
be no trouble in securing subscrip-
tions to this amount. This would
make fine automobile route between
the two resorts ~ .@e
A great deal of interest is being
taken in the proposed women's re-
|formatory, which is to be located near
Clinton. The State has bought the
300-acre farm of Geo. Smith, known
as the Dunhanl farm, situated on the
road leading to the Brick Tavern
There are three dwelling houses in
the place, two of them large, com
nodious buildings, all in excellent re-
pair
& The Salvation Army is making head
way in its effort to raise $4,000 to
purchase and maintain an Education
al Sight Seeing AUTOMOBILE for the
children of the tenenients of Jersey
City and Hoboken. The plan is to
make three trips. daily during the va
cation season. taking only the, very
poorest from the back streets and al
leys to points of interest in Hudson
County, New York, Newark and else
where. The work will be organized
and the investigating officers will give
tickets. away to the little ones who
otherwise. see only wretchedness and
the attendant evils of slum life.
William ) !. Cussen, the owner of a
store at Jersey City, was fined $40 in
the Second Criminal Court on the
charge that the butter scales in the
store weighed butter at Is and not is
ounces to the pound. The complaint
was made by John S. Burke, inspector
of weights and measures. In court
sCussen denied that he had any know
ledge that his scales were in the CON
sdition alleged. He said that he was
selling butter at 35 cents per pound,
which was. a reasonable price t8this
time of the year, and that he could
hardly be. accused of attempting to
obtain more than the value for the
butter sold.
Entirely new for New Jersey is th
proposition in the bill by Senator Lea
Witt segregating the efties lof the State
which have adopted the commission
form of government into fifth class.
Not only is the plan new, because 1t
involves the reform in municipal gov
ernment,. but also because the basis
of the classification is altogether mo-
vel Heretofore, all such classifi-
cations, whether applied to counties
or cities, have been on the basis OF
population. The Leavitt bill collects
all the municipalities which have
adopted or shall adopt commission
government, and places them in the
new class,without regard to population
If it shall become a law Trenton, with
s6,S SIS population; Passaic City, with
81, ,773; Hawthorne Borough, with
only 3,400 and all the other towns,
big and little, which have adopted the
new form Of rule. will flock BY til,
Pitman Democratic Club.
The Wilson Progressive League at
Pitman was favored last Saturday
evening in having the pleasure Of q