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County Boundary, Board of Education, Sunday School Convention and Other Items
Ex-Judge Pancoast, Henry Fowler and John O. Clement, the commissioners appointed by the Supreme Court to ascertain the boundary line between Burlington and Atlantic counties, which is in dispute, met at No. 100 Market street yesterday and examined several old residents as to their knowledge of the line. They decided to adjourn until the 18th instant, when charts, &c., will be presented to assist the commissioners in their task.
The census takers appointed by the board to ascertain the number of children of school age for the eight wards reported as follows: First district, 4388; Second district, 3219; Third district, 4000; Fourth district, 3159; total, 11,973. Each district comprised two wards. The Committee on Accounts reported favorably bills amounting to $6,000.58. The board adjourned, to meet on the 18th instant.
At the monthly meeting of the Camden Board of Education last evening the treasurer reported having paid out during the past month $11,852.05, which overdrew his receipts $361.87.
The third annual convention of the New Jersey Sunday School Association for the Fifth district, comprising Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem counties, will be held in the Presbyterian Church at Salem on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, June 17 and 18.
Articles of incorporation were filed in the county clerk's office at Camden yesterday by John Wanamaker, William H. Wanamaker, John F. Hillman and William Skidebottom, of Philadelphia, and Samuel S. Hillman, of Haddonfield, for the incorporation of a company, with a capital stock of $190,000, divided into 4000 shares, for the manufacture, buying and selling of clothing, furnishing goods, &c., in Camden. The company will commence business with a capital of $30,000 cash and $270,000 in merchandise.
Articles of incorporation of the Anderson Preserving Company were filed in the County Clerk's office yesterday. The incorporators are Abram Anderson, Leander W. Goulhy and John I. Cox. The capital stock will be $250,000. Their object is to can vegetables and preserve fruits.
Camden will be electrically lighted next Friday.
Coroner H. H. Davis held a view yesterday on the body of Mrs. Matilda Scholl, of No. 271 Atlantic avenue, who was killed on Friday by being struck by an engine on the West Jersey Railroad, in the Eighth ward. A verdict of accidental death was rendered.