Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-05-20
LOCAL ITEMS.
"A. Lay has salt oysters.


"A. Lay has salt oysters.
"a Salem glass factory closed for the
season last Friday.
Miss Mary Batten is visiting her
brother at Morristown.
Col. Green is having his Lake Hopat-
cong residence put in order for early oc.
eupancy.
-Ex-Mayor Hendrickson has moved his
family to the Madara farm for the Sum-
mer.
Popular avenue is being improved by
a coating of stone under direction of the
Street committee
Gen. Howell Post, G. A. R., and the
Sons of Veterans, will attend the morning
service in the First Baptist church on
May 80.
Miss Linda A. Wood, neice of DIR. H.
Q.Clark recently graduated at Pennsylvania
hospital as trained nurse, with an average
of &c.
DIR. B. B. Powell, formerly pharmacist
for Joseph W. Merritt, has charge of DR..
Parker's patients during his abserce among
friends.
Geo HowoIth, the we'll known caterer
at Paul's Hotel, has taken charge of Almo-
nessOn Lake hotel.
e. P. McGeorge adyertises some de
sirable building lots at public sale on Sat-
urday next. See advertisement.
j. w. McKeen has moved his grocery
business to NewboId, and the desirable
business place he occupied here is now for
rent.
The annual muster and inspection of
Company E, by Brigade Inspector Col. D.
B. Murphy, will take place in the armory
at o'clock Tonight Visitors are welcome.
Geo. E Pierson Yesterday paid to the
widow of the late VIM. Wellington Jones,
two thousand dollars, the amount of his
death certificate in that grand society, the
A. o. U. W.
The sportsmen of South Jersey feel
aggrived at Governor Griggs for withhold
ing his signature to the game law which
gave them the right to shoot rail bird and
English gray snipe in the month of October
&C. s. Prossor, the hustling Cross Keys
merchant, has the agency to sell the
American harrow in Camden and Glouces-
fer counties. It is without a competitor as
a labor-saying implement, and will repay
Investigation. See adver.
"A musical and dramatic entertainment
will be given at SswelI Baptist church on
Saturday evening, the 22d inst, at s
o'clock by an octant from the Summerfield
church, Philadelphia Admission, adults
15ci children 10 cts.
ID. w. Watson received months
wages from his employer, Andrew Marcus
last Saturday and went to Philadelphia.
At an early hour Sunday morning he was
held up in Gloucester by foot-pads, and re-
lieved of SIS and watch. Two characters
were arrested for the crime, and committed
to Camden jail
The Ladies' Guild of ST. Peters church
Clarksboro, will provide lunch in the
school house on May 10Th and 31st, when
choice meats, biscuit, etc, with ice cream,
strawberries, cake and coffee will be served.
Visitors on Decoration Day are especially
IL e. Al.
Rectory Fund.
On Tuesday last, Alfred F. Hoffman,
paying teller Of the First National bank, on
the advise of his physician went to the
Orthopaedic hospital, Phila. for medical
treatment For over two years Mr.. Hoffman
has been kept from his duties, yet the
position he faithfully filed in the bank is
awaiting his return. May his recovery be
speedy and permanent.
Charles C. Jessup, executor of the estate
of the late Samuel String, sold the last of
the real estate on Thursday last; the prop
erty at the corner of Broad and Chestnut
streets to Mary and Rebecca Carson for
$1.250, and the house No. So Chestnut
street to Theo F. Burkett for $40. As
Mr. Strings will carried several public
requests, it is proper te say that these will
suffer materially ON account of the low
price realiged for the real estate at this
time.
--Ex-Freeholder, ]. Wood Hannold, sold
his horse Easter last Thursday, to Mr..
Geo. Wood, of Philadelphia, for $500
Easter" was by Magnet > out of his
famous road mare Nellie Ball " and is the
fourth colt by her that he has sold, at the
following prices: 1925, $3.50, $500 and
Easter $500, total $1175, and he has three
weeks old colt, by Wilkes horse, that is
natural PAGER, and which he would not
now sell for $500 1t is Woody's" expert
once, that raising horses pays.
The largest single piece of granite in
this State according to the Quincy, Mass,
quarry records, marks the resting place of
ex-Mayor Lewis NJ. Green, in Green Gene
tsry. and was placed on its foundation two
weeks ago by Snelbaker Bros, Of this city
and Woodstown. II is Quincy granite
block. seven feetsquare and eight feet high,
in the rough on three Sides and weighs
twenty Eve tons. On the east face, which
4 HIGHLY polished is this inscription in
raised letters: Erected to the memory Of
Lewis M. Green, founder Of Green Gene