Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-12-02
LOCAL ITEMS.

LOCAL ITEMS.
Winter foot wear, from boots and shoes
to arctics, at Laubs.
The temperature indicates an early
gathering of the ice crop.
The Township committee of West
Deptford will meet next Monday.
"A. ]. Rice is renoyating his property
corner Hunter St. and railroad avenue.
Col Green and family expect to leave
Woodbury. for Pasadena, CAL, before the
goth inst.
Miss Lydia Atkinson and mother of
Laurel st, ara spending two weeks with
Mrs. A'a son Edward, in Salem.
Edward Elliot, OF Williawstown, has
bought the Martha Moore, farm Of 200
acres, near Cross Keys, for $4,000.
Agent Wilson has sold Messrs. R. B
Burk, High street and Edgar Harker, Thor
oughfare, Crescent bicycles for their wives
Funeral director S. R. Budd bought
splendid team of milk white horses on
Monday as an addition to his undertaking
business.
Mrs. 1. II. Demorest, the w. T. G. U.
lecturer, had good audience in the Pres
byterian chapel Tuesday night, and made
logical temperance argument.
The paper on Chestnut Culture !"
read by Chas Parry, before the Gloucester
County Farmers Institute will be found
= in full on our first page.
1.-The farm of James Williamson, near
hswan, was sold by JOS Kirkbride executor,
on Monday, to Charles Williamson, for
So 8O0-$36 per acre.
Jesse G. Reed, formerly in the Clerks
office, has desk room with Hon. D. o. Wat
kns, and will transact real estate business
and will continue the study of law.
The city of Camden is trying to estab-
lish free library. just think of it; a city
of 600 inhabitants, and no free library.
Well, Camden is celebrated in other ways.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ridgway, mother of
Mrs DR.. T. E. Budd, of this city, is danger
ously ill at DR.. Budd's home. Her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Edwards, OF Boston, is also with
her
John d. Shute, administrator of the
estate of the late Chas. Berry, announces
an adjournment of the sale to Thursday
next, the 9th inst For particulars see ad-
Yertisement.
"A new schedule went into effect on the
Gloucester ferry line yesterday morning.
Only one boat will be run, making hourly
trips between Phila and Gloucester from
6 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Isaac R. Lippincott was on Tuesday
elected to succeed the late James Benezet
as President of the Woodstown bank, and
Rudolph Benezet, son of the deceased Presi-
dent, was elected director of the institu-
ton.
The pastor of Trenton church last
Sunday selected six of the handsomest
girls in the congregation to act as ushers
and to take up the collection. The offer
ing was the largest in the history of the
church.
Mr.. D. c Wood, of Grenlock. has left
at our Office specimens of his second crop
early rose potatoes, planted July 26, field
of less than half an acre producing $50 bas-
kets. They are large, smooth, and as fine
specimens as one often sees.
The Sunday school of the First Bap-
fist church is in very fourishing condition.
According to the Secretary's report for the
month of Nov, % scholars have been
added to the roll, and December finds 263.
regularly enrolled members.
-On,Friday and Saturday of next week,
afternoons and evenings, the ladies of the
Central Baptist church will hold Hand
kerchief and Apron bazaar, at which coffee,
doughnuts and ice cream will be served
and home made candies sold.
Tuesday evening, Dec. 18th, an enter
tainment will be given in the First Baptist
church for the benefit of the primary de-
partment OF the Sunday-school. The pho
nograph will be the main epj oyment.
Admission, 10 cents.
Assessor Mark Clement, of West Dept
ford Township, was badly scalded last
Wednesday night week in his hot house by
escaping steam. Repairs were in progress,
and in locating leak he became fastened
under the hot pipes, and was not released
until badly burned.
Judge Miller has decided the case Of
G.. C. Pancoast vs. G. G. Green. growing
out of the location of defendants water
plant on the Roe farm and an assignment
of the lease from Roe to Pancoast, that has
been in litigation a long time, in favor O.
Green. SnmmerilI for plaintiff Swack-
hamer for defendant
- Geo Fenamore, an inmate of the
County House, was attacked by couple OF
tramps on bis way from this city some
nights ago. He had Just received bis pen
sion check, and when at the foot of Knight
Hill two men stopped him. Fenamore sus
pected what they were after and in 3 ehorl
tussle knocked both out. D[Constitution]
Don't you think, Bro. Barber, that th,
pensioner who can knock out two high
uaymea in ore round, is fit subject Il
earn his own living and not become wart
Of the county.