Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-12-16
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LOCAL ITEMS.
The First Baptist church property is
now enclosed with neat iron fence.
Joseph Pedrick will succeed Levi
Heaton as janitor of the Presbyterian church
after January 1st.
-Ex- FreeholGer J. W. Bannold is hav-
ing his house and cut buildings p, lated by
Mr.. Dawson, of thus city
There a.e six candidates for the
Woodstown fost office, and each claims to
be the best Republican III the town
A change for the better took place In
Prof Green's disease last Saturday, since
which time improvement has been steady
Capt James McElwee is with us again.
1t encourages one to believe that pros
perlty is really coming to see our old friend
10 town again.
The loss of their only child, bright
daughter. which Mr.. and Mrs Thos. G
Wick sustained this week. of diphtheria,
ELECTS the heartfelt sympathy of the com
munity
Members of the Circular Meeting COM
mittee will attend Friends Meeting, east
end of the house, next First Day the 18th
inst. at ten o'clock. A cordial invitation
is extended to ALL
The birthday party that was to have
been held on Tuesday evening in the NJ E.
church has been postponed to Saturday
evening Decem Der 18th. A most excellent
program has been prepared.
Orlando Kelsey, the expert in modern
heating appliances, who placed the present
supurb heating plant in the Court House,
put one of his improved residence heaters
in ex-Prosecutor Perry's home last week.
The ladies Of the Central Baptist church
Melted between $45 and $50 by their Hand
kerchief and Apron bazaar last Friday and
Saturday. And the NJ E. Lyceum about
$25 by a sale at Claphan's the three last
days of the week.
Postmaster Dell returned from hur-
ried trip through the South on Tuesday
night. He says that 43c. cotton does not
conduce to prosperity in that section OF our
broad land, because it costs Sc per pound
to grow aud prepare it for market.
-Fraternal Encampment, L o. o. F., No.
o. has nominated the following officers;
G. p, DIR. Geo. E. Reading; e. p, w. A..
Eastlack; s. W., John Fl. Carpenter; Scribe
Jos. B. Best; Treasurer, Asher Kirkbride;
]. W., Theo. s. Burrows; Trustee, Asher
Kirkbride
Merchant Chas W. Elkinton, of Null
lica Hill, opened his annual holiday sale on
the 18th inst, and his advertisement tells
of reductions in staple goods that must
attract buyers from far and near Read
his advertisement, and profit by his clean
sweep sale.
Mrs. DR.. Il. L Giimour will teach the
Sunday-school lesson entitled "Johu's
Message about Sin and Salvation, before
the Teachers Union. Friday afternoon at
3.15 o'clock in the Central Baptist church.
cordial welcome awaits all who will
come and hear.
Greenwich township has expended
$1,000 the past year in making oyster shell
roads. OF that amount $1,000 has been ex-
pended in grading and $4,000 for shells.
Tne greater portion of this amount has
been placed on the road from Gibbstown to
Paulsboro; a wide path for bicycles and foot
travellers being constructed the entire dis
lance.
John & James Dobson's great retail
carpet store was burned out last Saturday
night with cost of 100000 Damage to
adjoining property amounted to 100000
more. If the Woodbury. fire department
had been in Philadelphia when the alarm
first went in, we doubt if three figures
wouldn't have computed the entire loss.
Good will Fire Company No. viii
hold birthday party in the vacant store
in J. D. Green's Block, 226 So. Broad street
tonight from to 10 o'clock, the object of
which is to cultivate social relations with
the public, and secure two hundred dollars,
the amount of Indebtedness on their hose
house. We trust both these laudable OBJ
jects will be attained THE last certainly
will if each invitation is returned with
every sack that accompanied it level full
of silver, as it should.
1t having been scientifically demon
strated that some of the most dangerous
aud fatal diseases are propagated by the
splitting habit, our local Board Of Health,
in the performance of its plain duty, has
sought by proclamation to induce those
who must spit on the street to do SO in the
public resceptacle, the gutter. This is
certainly not a hardship that the Board of
Health seeks to impose, and if each citizen
will, while on the street, exercise the same
consideration for the public comfort and
welfare that he and she does in his or her
own domicile for that of the family, Wood
bury citizens will soon become famous for
their good manners and their city for its
cleanliness and healthfnlness Then peo-
Pile will seek us out and dwell here, and
we will prosper ever without shirt
factory.
To CURE A COLD In ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Qninine Tablets. All
Druggists refund the money it It fails to cure.25c.
Sept mo.