Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-22
LOCAL Items.
day comes August 18th.


Eagles day comes August 18th.
Co. E. will begin weeks camp al
Sea Girt ON August 9th.
-Friendship has had 500 feet of new
hose added 10 their outfit.
III the weather is clear there will be
several Woodburians on the Reading ex-
cursion next Wednesday.
The Clerkship fight between Clerk
Ridgway and ex-Deputy Clerk Burrows, is
getting pretty hot even at the start.
Our farmers are getting good prices fol
potatoes, tomatoes and truck generally
The Wilson tariff is the only protection
they have got, too.
Arthur Starr has been elected secretary
of the Board of Health. His Office will be
located at the store of C. w. Starr. Make
complaints to him.
Lincoln Park was not sold on Tuesday
indeed, not bid was made. 1t is under
stood that the purchasers at the recent sale
will be held to that bargain.
About forty members of the Young
Peoples Association of the Presbyterian
church enjoyed their monthly social on the
lawn of J. s. Joyce. on last Friday evening.
The Board of Chosen Freeholders is
doing its best to inaugurate season of
prosperity. 1t is only two months old, yet
has expended $26, 900 of lis $4,000 appro-
priation.
The next legal holiday is Labor Day,
Monday, September 9Th. The glass work.
ers of New Jersey should be able to cele-
brate it by resuming work at increased
wages.
The annual picnic OF the Free Masons
of the lower part of the county was held at
Aura last Wednesday. There was plenty
of sport and plenty to eat, and all seemed
to enjoy themselves.
The Circuit Court case of Oliver B
Moss VS.. Jesse E. Reeves to recover on a
guarantee for the payment of rent, was
yesterday decided by Judge Miller, in favor
of the plaintiff, Moss.
Somebody advertises in the Inquirer
for carpenters at 500 per month and board
and plasters $16 and board. We are sur
prised that the Advanced Agent of Pros
perity" permits anything of the kind.
The rain fall of the past week has
probably been the heaviest for year. 1t
has rained almost constantly since Sunday
morning. and in no gentle way, either
Wash0uts are numerous over the city in
both streets and private property, and it is
raining yet, with no indication OF let up.
AT the joint conference of the Glass
Bottle Manufacturers and the representa-.
tives of the Glass Blowers Association Of
United States and Canada, it was agreed
that the wage scale of '97 1913 should be the
same as '96 '97. The blowers wanted 8
five per cent advance, but agreed to let The
ecale stand as it was.
The county organization of Boards o
Health will be known under the title O.
Associated Health Authorities of Glou
cester County" The object of the associa
ton is the diffusing OF information on
health matters, and uniform action in al
the townships. 1t was asserted by DIR
hunt, State Sanitary Inspector, recently
that there were 5000 deaths in New Jer
sey last year from preventable contageoni
diseases.
Expert accountant Dell was fully vim
dicated by the prompt payment by ex
City Treasurer Reading.of the full amour
of moneys which the expert found he has
withheld from the city, but the ex-Treas
urer in his letter seems to have forgotten
the wrong he has perpetrated on the tax
payers, and the fact that he has violated
his oath of Office and that law and justics
are not yet vindicated.
The Woodbury. Real Estate Mutua
Loan Association sold the town of Lebanon
last week as advertised, for $l026. Lebanon
is located about two miles from the thriv
ing village Of Williamstown. and consisted
of over thirty acres of land on which sevel
dwelling houses and q large factory wer
built. The enterprise was established il
1892, by colony of Russian Jews, VIII
considered that with the Home Market
in such close proximity. manufacturer
enterprise would surely prosper. Tn
colony expended about $4,000, and the
the Woodbury. Association took
first mortgage of $500. Prosperity rsall
never shed the full glory Of its beams 0
the colony, and after paying its dues to th
Association for a little over year, the co
onists threw up their hands and left th
town-the only thing Of vitality remainin
being the Woodbury. Associations mortgag
There is DO shrewder combination Of bu
mess men in New Jersey than tbs Office
Of this Association; they understand rel
estate and know its value; they read Il
trend Of the times and study and guaG
the future closely, and the fact that the
have unIoaded beautiful town Of ssve
dwelIin9s,a fact,ry and thirty acres Of Ian
for Sl026 makes it clear that they BELIEF
the Advance Agent of Prosperity has tnrne
his whole attention to trusts and corpor
lions.