The Penn's Grove record., 1914-11-20
STATEWIDE
JERSEY ITEMS
Cosby Brevities Which Chron.
iCle a Weeks Minor Events.
BUILDING B0OMs REPORTED
Real Estate Transactions Indicate q
Business Weakening In Many
acknowledgements Raising
Funds for Worthy Objects.

Sections-Churches Raising
Funds for Worthy objects.
Lewis Dare, of Seeley, received a
load of shot in the face, neck and nose
that was intended by another gunner
for a rabbit.
The Billingsport Fire Company Is so
liciting subscriptions for the purchase
of an automobile chemical engine.
Nearly $500 has already been sub
scribed.
A mass meeting to formulate plans
for drastic action toward moral and
civic betterment in Millville was held
in the First Presbyterian Church.
Margaret, the 10-day-old daughter of
Mrs. William Fay, of Westmont, was
found dead in bed. DR.. Rogers pro-
nounced death due to hemorrhage Of
the arteries.
Wilson Jones, who broke his back
in a fall from a ladder at the Roebling
plant, near Knikova, died in the Mer-
Ger Hospital, Trenton. His home was
in Supply, Va.
Rev. Thomas B. Hughes, pastor Of
the First Baptist Church, Millville,
read his resignation Sunday night, to
take effect on December 1. He has
accepted a call to- the church at DIED.
ham, Mass.
Charged with the illegal sale of IL
quor, Claude Payne was arrested at
Millville by Officer Freeden, and was
fined $50 and costs by Mayor Gieg.
The evidence was that Payne peddled
the wet goods" in his pocket.
Mrs. Alta White, of Hammonton, has
been busy several days collecting
loaves of bread for the Belgian suffer
ers, and has already forwarded to the
Red Cross Society over 200 "loaves"
in the shape of nickels, dimes and
quarters.
The Woman's Civic Club, Of Ham
monitor, has presented Miss Cora Bas-
sett with a gold pin, in appreciation Of
her work as an officer of the organize
ton, prior to her departure for Cali
fornia, where she will make her home.
The committee named to boom the
proposed new trolley line from Cam
den to the shore reports progress
made toward hat end.
Tw%enty-seven members of the At
lantic County Board of Freeholders
may face the Grand Jury for failure
to- provide tuberculosis sanatariums.
Five men, who withhold their
names, will finance a school for girls
to be associated with Rutgers College.
Farmers near Carney's Point quit
the harvest fields for better wages
in the du Point powder mills, where
men are in demand
Edward Smith, of Newark, choked
to death while eating supper at his
home, a piece of meat lodging in his
windpipe.
Work has been resumed at the
artesian water plant for Woodbury.,
which was stopped by the failure of
the contractors. The bonding COM
pany will finish the work.
His suspicious aroused by the ac-
at Riverside. Louis Schmidt left his
power boat and found a boy of for
eign ~parentage doundering headfrst
and nearly strangled in the ooze. He
rescued the youngster, the miscreants
running away.
'-Trail-hitters' from Wilkes-Barre
and Scranton, Pa, told of the result
of the Billy" Sunday evangelical
campaign in their home cities before
audiences in six Burlington county
towns under auspices of the Y. NJ. G.
A.
Ambrose Slichter, of Elverson. had
an average yield of $50 bushels of
potatoes to the acre, and the largest
of them weighed 3S ounces.
The first patient to die in the new
State Sanitarium for tuberculosis,
erected at Hamburg, was Jonas Shutz,
of Hazleton, aged As years.
Some varieties of chrysanthemums
in South Jersey are just beginning
to bloom, owing to the warm, dry
weather.
Michael De Lucca. Of Hammonton,
declared wal on the Dummies without
obtaining a hunting license and was
arrested by Game Warden Small. JUS
tice of the Peace Strouse imposed a
fine of $40 and costs.
New Jersey Republican members
of the Assembly are said to gavor Carl
ton Godfrey for speaker.
Peas picked from the garden No
vember II was the novelty of Colonel
H. R. Anthony, Haddon avenue, Col
lingswood.
Citizens of every borough and :
in Camden County will join in
ization to fight the increase
sylvania Railroad and Re
way rates. it is said.
Harold Scott, of
is in the CLIQUE
corn-growing CT
bushels from
Sheriff
JERSEY
bile
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