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VOL. LXVII^ ' BRIDGETON. N, J„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1915 WHOLE NO. 3,441
WALTERS,CUMMINGS CO,
THERE’S Remarkably Good
1 Money - Saving for Wise
Shoppers in This Bright, Cool
Store.
Special Sale
of Our Entire Stock of
WOOLEN DRESS GOODS
at fast V regular prices
$1.50 All-Wool Dress Goods,
75c yd.
$1.25 All-Wool Dress Goods,
62^£c yd.
$1.00 All-Wool Dress Goods,
. 5°c yd.
85c All-Wool Dress Goods,
42j4c yd.
50c All-Wool Dress Goods,
25c yd. _
Wonderful saving in pretty
Silk for Waists, Dresses and
Trimmings at exactly V* price.
This is the place for values in
Shirt Waists. Regular $1.00
and $1.25 each, now 50c. All
new summer models.
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TOMATO CROP
TOJiE LIGHT
None of the shirt factories are run
ning now on full force. The Dix fac
tory is doing but little. Gelb is not
running at all. neither is Rice, of the
Stecher factory.
It is holiday time for the workers
in those plants*
The tomato factories are getting
busy and many tons of tomatoes were
brought in yesterday to the packing
plants.
The Clinton Ayars factory is pretty
busy on lima beans.
Soon the tomato canneries will be
running with full force, as the warm
suns will ripen the fruit pretty freely
now. As it is full moon, farmers ar
gue that the fruit ripens faster and
more evenly now than at any other
time.
From the talk of the growers it is
believed that the tomato crop will be
a light one for the acreage. The heavy
rain storms have damaged the fields
by beating down the vines and beating
off the young sets and the blooms.
A farmer said yesterday that he had
9 acres in tomatoes and he did not be
lieve he would get 5 tons from the
entire field this season.
ENORMOUS
grain CROP
Larger harvests of cereals than
last year are forecasted for the world’s
principal producing countries by the
International Institute of Agriculture
at Rome, which reported by cable to
day to the Department of Agriculture
here.
Rye production in Spain, Ireland,
Italy, European Russia, Switzerland
and the United States this year aggre
gates 1,029,000,000 bushels, an increase
of 18.7 per cent, more than 1914.
Oats production in those countries
and England, Scotland and Tunis ag
gregates 2,643,000,000 bushels, an in
crease of 24.1 per cent.
Barley production in those nations
and Japan aggregates 967,000,000
bushels, an increase of 19 per cent.
Wheat production in the ten coun
tries named and India and the winter
wheat of Canada aggregated 2,583,000,
000 bushels, an increase of 17.9 per
cent.
NEW CAR
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Charles Stremme, engineer at the
County Insane Hospital, hasfrurchased
It new Overland automobile.
FIELD MEETING
OFJARMERS
The agricultural field meeting, here
tofore held in August, will take place
this year on September 9, at College
Farm, New Brunswick, N. J., under
the auspices of the New Jersey State
Poultry Association.
The program, as those whd have at
tended previous years know, is very
entertaining and instructive. Every
farmer is urged to be present and
partake of the real treat, composed of
lectures and demonstrations which is
offered to him.
September 9 is the annual Farmers’
Field Day, while the 10th and 11th are
devoted entirely to poultry. The pro
grams for these two days will be com
bined making one of unusual interest
for the day.
If any one desiring a detailed pro
gram will send a card to the office the
same will be forwarded by Elwood
Douglass, County Farm Demonstrator.
NARROW ESCAPE
FROM DROWNING
A little tacker who could only say
that his name was Walter, and that he
lived on Hampton Srreet, had a very
narrow escape from drowning yester
day morning.
While William Gaskill an employee
at the gas plant, was eating a lunch
on the wharf of the gas plant, he
heard some one crying, and upon in
vestigating found a little four-year old
boy overboard and clinging to the rud
der of a boat that was tied up at the
wharf. Hastily pulling him from the
water, Gaskill found the boy was all
right, but badly scared.
The youngster could not give his
name or where he lived other than it
wras on Hampton Street, and he was
started home in that direction. How
he fell overboard or how long he had
been in the water could not be learned.
C0N€ RETEST EPS
Some fine concrete steps are being
put in front of the office of Dr. Wm.
F. Kirchhoff, on West Commerce St.
Concrete coping on each side of the
steps add to the appearance of the im
provement.
REPAIRS MADE
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The residence of Constable Edward
E. Reeves on Giles street, which was
struck by lightning and damaged re
cently, has been repaired.
PHILADELPHIA’S
NEW SUBWAY
Philadelphia, Aug. 24.—In spite ot
the fact that the excavation for the
City Hall section of the Broad street
subway, which will be started Septem
ber 13, will necessitate the use of large
shovels, dredges and derricks, both
day and night, the occupants of the
office buildings and stores in the
neighborhood scarcely will be dis
turbed by their operation.
Director Taylor has stipulated with
the contractor all such machinery
must be electrically operated, which
means the virtual elimination of the
noise and smoke nuisance invariably
associated with steam derricks and
dredges. The use of the latter during
the digging of the Market street sub
way caused great complaint, office'
work being interrupted by excessive
noise and buildings blackened by
smoke.
The practicability cf the use of elec
tric power in digging and dredging
work was demonstrated on the con
tracts for the relocation and recon
struction of sewers for the delivery
loop. And electricity will supplant
steam during the building of the en
tire Broad street subway, from League
Island to Olney Avenue. The absence
of excessive noise will enable con
struction work to be done at night
without seriously disturbing the sleep
of-persons living along that thorough
fare.
Director Taylor’s desire to push j
through transit development work
with all possible dispatch is infectious
and has been caught by all the con
tractors so far engaged The sewer
work, started last March, is being com
pleted in record time, and it is possi
ble that the City Hall subway section
will be finished before the end of the
30 months allowed by the Department
of City Transit.
S. M1. Swaab, engineer in charge of
the Keystone Construction Company’s
contract, and the man who built the
East Marker street subway, yesterday
said: “We are going to put the tube
through as quickly as we know how,
and as well as we know how."
ASPHALTJN 1914
Although there was a decrease in
the marketed production of natural as
phalt and of manufactured or oil as
phalt derived from domestic sources
in the United States in 1914, the de
crease was more than offset by the
greatly increased output from Amer
ican refineries, of oil' asphalt derived
from crude petroleum imported from
Mexico.
According to J. D. Northrop, of
U. S. Geological Survey, who attri
butes the decline in asphalt produc
tion from domestic sources chiefly to
the increasing use of the product man
ufactured from Mexican oils, the out
put of natural asphalt in 1914 amount
ed tb 77,588 short tons, valued at
$630,623; the output of oil asphalt
from domestic petroleum amounted to
360,683 short tons, valued at $3,016,
969; and the output from American re
fineries of oil asphalt from Mexican
petroleum amounted to 313,787 short
tons, valued at $4,131,153. Compared
with 1913, the output of natural as
phalt in 1914 declined 16 per cent, and
that of domestic oil asphalt 17 per
cent., whereas the output of Mexican
oil asphalt increased 174 per cent.
Locally, in Texas and Utah, the out
put of certain varieties of naturally
occurring asphalt, required for spe
cial purposes, showed a gratifying in
crease. In California a notable in
crease in the output of oil asphalt, de
rived wholly from domestic petroleum,
resulted largely from an increase in
the use of asphalt In highway and
pavement gonstruction in the State.
Asphaltic material and products to
the value of $186,142 were imported
for consumption during the calendar
year. Exports during the same period
amounted in value to $1,247,020, leav
ing a trade balance of $1,060,878 to be
“credited to the domestic asphalt in
dustry.
CONCRETE DRIVEWAY
Frank Burroughs, of Lake street,
has had a new concrete driveway placed
on his property leading from the street
to his garage.
THEATRES
FORGARAGES
Theatrical men in Philadelphia and
elsewhere are doing a lot of worrying
about the coming season. Last sea
son was disastrous, public interest in
the war having been a large influence
In keeping down attendance at places
of amusement . The coming season is
extremely problematical. A big thea
trical man in Philadelphia yesterday
gave voice to the aismal sentiments
that pervade the business.
“What is to become of all the the
aters through the over-stocked thea
trical field next season?” he asked.
‘‘This is a question that is giving many
who have their fortunes tied up in
theater properties much serious
thought. From various sections of
the country come reports of houses
being placed on the market owing to
the poor prospects for the coming
season. It is doubtful if there ever
were so many theaters offered for sale
and the list includes many of the most
prominent houses in principal cities,
with no end of popular-price theatres
and movies.
“There is no better example of the
disaster attendant upon a surplusage
of theaters than the conditions exist
ing at present in Providence, R. I. All
the past season managers of the visit
ing attractions have complained of the
lack of patronage in that overburdened
community, and now It develops that
not fewer than five of the theaters in
Providence are offered for lease or
sale.
“Many of these theatres, like hun
dreds of others all over the country,
spring up like mushrooms at a time
a certain group of managers went the
ater-building mad throughout the
country. Now that the enthusiasm of
thle promoters is dampened', and there
Is not sufficient money with which to
meet obligations, landlords are look
ing in vain for responsible tenants.
“There was bound to be a reaction
•from this frenzied condition of the
last fe wyears. Solid, substantial, far
seeing theatrical men like A. Y. Erlan
ger, E. F, Albee and others issued
warnings again and again, but the
public in many instances was gullible
and snapped up every offer of stock
in a new playhouse.
• “Sooner or later the situation will
right itself, but scarcely before a con
siderable proportion of the theaters of
today are converted into garages.’’
EDGE IS
GOVERNOR
Trenton, Aug. 24.- For the second
time this year President Walter E.
Edge, of the Senate, was sworn in by
Chancellor Walker today as acting
Governor of New Jersey. Governor
Fielder is in Boston attending the con
ference of Governors which begins to
day and will continue until Friday.
Senator Edge acted as chief executive
a few months ago when the Governor
was visiting the Panama-Pacific'Expo
sition.
The acting Governor declined to an
nounce his candidacy for either United
States Senator or Governor, arguing
that there were many important things
to be considered by the next Legisla
ture, of which he is a member.
“Why the haste to rush into an an
nouncement of a candidacy for any of
fice over a year in advance?” asked
Senator Edge. “The next session of
the Legislature will have an important
bearing on 1916 candidacies for all im
portant offices. These early announce
ments sometimes get withered by the
summer heat or frost bitten in the
early winter.”
APPENDICITIS ATTACK
While following his employment at
the store of D. Rosenthal, East Com
merce Street, Lewis Riley was attacked
with appendicitis and was rushed to
the Bridgeton Hospital where an op
eration was performed.
RUNNING UP WALLS
The brick walls for the new Cum
berland Trust Company are being
rushed up.
PUPILS TO
BEJXAMINED
New York> Aug. 24.—When the pub
lic schools open next month the Board
of Education will he prepared to in
augurate a new measure for protect
ing the health of school children—that
of a thorough physical examination
for each child which enrolls in the
public school system for the first time.
This is in conformity with a new pro
vision of the sanitary code, which be
came effective last April but was not
enforced then.
Dr. Haven Emerson, Deputy Health
Commissioner, explained today that
the new regulations were the begin
ning of a movement for the improve
ment of health, an>l that the indirect
effect of the examinations was count
ed on to be of perhaps as much bene
fit as the direct effect.
The examinations to be undertaken
are strict, as defined in the provision
of the sanitary code. Following are
the requirements:
Tests for vision, hearing, defects in
breathing, examination for hypertro
phied tonsils, examination for defec
tive teeth, determination of nutrition,
examination of the heart, examination
of the lungs, examination for ortheo
pedic defects, examination for ner
vous diseases and general inspection
of the body, to be made in the ab
sence of all clothing.
On the basis of these requirements,
Medical Freedom, a journal conducted
by physicians not in sympathy with
the existing order of things, will at
tack the regulations in its September |
number, according tr. a notice sent to
I the newspapers today with a proof.
The magazine holds it to be improper
to ‘'strip children for medical exami
nation.”
“We expect this plan to be attacked”
said Doctor Emerson when shown the
article, “but I will not go into reply
ing to an article of this kind.”
KEEPING CHICKENS
ON SMALL PLOT
Washington, D. C., Aug. 24.—Poul
try can be kept successfully on a small
amount of land, for this reason, it is
particularly adapted to the suburbs of
large cities and to small towns. The
waste products of the kitchen apd the
table may be used to advantage and
there is always a market for eggs
and dressed poultry or, is used at
home, the consumer is certain that he
has a strictly fresh product.
WTien many birds are kept in a
small space, however, the ground is
likely to become foul. It is, therefore,
advisable to divide the lot and sow
part of it with some quick growing
grain such as oats, wheat, or rye. In
this way the yards may be rotated ev
ery three or four weeks during the
growing season, the hens being turned
on the growing grain when it is a few
inches high. A good combination is
oats and wheat in equal parte, sowing
six or seven bushels to the acre (43,
560 square feet).
For the poultry house, about four
square feet of floor space per bird
should be allowed for the general pur
pose breeds. The other essentials are
fresh air, dryness and sunlight.
Birds that are too fat will lay few
eggs. It is, therefore, advisable to
make them work for most of their feed
by scattering in the litter of which
there should be about four inches on
the floor. A good feed mixtures is a
scratch ration composed of equal parts
of corn, wheat and oats and a mash
of two parts corn meal and one part
each of 1 ran, middlings and corn meal.
Feeding about equal quantities of the
scratch ration and of mash. This
should be scattered in the litter morn
ing and noon, allowing a small hand
ful for every three hens. At night the
birds hould be given all they can eat
of it in a V-shaped trough. In the
winter time some green feed should be
given at noon—cabbage or mangel
wurzels are good. If the birds do not
eat all the grain that is scattered in
the litter, reduce the quantity. Grit,
oyster shells and water should be
available for the birds at all times.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER’S
C AS TO R ! A
SOME JOLTI
FOR SUFFRAGE
It begins to look as if the cause of
woman suffrage would have hard sled
ding at the October election in New
Jersey. Political equality for the sex
es has been the consistent policy of
organized labor in this country ever
since the suffrage issue came into
prominence and for twenty-six years
it has been one of the planks in the
platform of the Amreican Federation
of Labor.
The fact that the State Federation
of Labor, at its session in Jersey City
this week, voted down an endorsement
of the suffrage cause, comes as a very
great surprise. The special interests
have already enlisted the able Dodied
political machines ar.d of course, the
social leaders and climbers are mak
ing the necessary noise to cover up
the practical work that the machinists
are doing.
But the suffrage cause will not
down and even if the politicians get
away W'ith the job this fall, the agi
tation will go on and the woman who
works and pays taxes in New Jersey
will as some early date be given at
least an equal say with the man who
idles and is a burden to the communi
ty.—Trenton Times.
BIG PICNIC
SMICKJAMILY
Representatives of the Smiek family
from all about thi3 section, all day
yesterday enjoyed a most delightful
picnic re-union at Tumbling Dam
Park. There were 70 ladies and gen
tlemen representing about forty fami
lies gathered at the Park. On the out
er balcony of the lake pavilion there
were spread tables running the entire
length of the building. At noon there
was provided a splendid dinner, the
great baskets brought by the members
of the party yielding the most tempt-'
ing delicacies. The dinner was served
during the noon hour.
There was also a six o’clock supper.
The re-union was a most pleasant
one and everyone enjoyed the delights
of the outdoor time.
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