Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-10
LocALITEMs.

Town Meetings will be held on the
eighth OF March.
The supper BY the ladies of the Pres
byterian church last Thursday evening
Melted 81 0s4
Every body will be glad to know that
County Clerk Ridgway has conquered a
serious illness and is on duty again.
--Thos. M. Tice sold sixteen horses at
his sale at Paurs hotel last Monday, at an
average price of SOL 60 The high horse
brought $l45.
Through the instrumertality of Chas.
g. Hallett, of this city, Edward B. Clayton
of the First Ward, was last week awarded
pension OF So month, dating from April
last.
Mr.. W. W. Johnson, of Elmer, Deputy
Inspector of Factories and Workshops,
spent an hour IN Woodbury. on Tuesday
and paid the DEMOCRAT Office a social
visit.
Next Saturday will be Lincoln Day, a
day of remembrance of the maItyred
President and is a legal holiday. The
hanks will be closed, but the post Office
will be open as usual.
The William Lawrence farm of 80
acres offered for sale last Tuesday by G.. 81
Sutterly was bid only to $500 1t was
assessed for years at $1,000. There is an
oYerproduction of land, surely.
Pennsgrove Record.
As the old reliable Columbus Buggy
Co. has resumed business again and have
made great Improvements in their works,
/ will announce that I will have about the
middle of March, at public sale, twenty of
the finest carriages in the market You
all know their goods. Augustus Prehl,
Woodbury..
The new officers of Provident Con-
clave, Improved Order Heptasophs were in
stalled Tuesday evening by Distrist
Deputy English. This order is one of the
most economical insurance organizations Of
the assessment class in the United States.
and its membership is rapidly increasing
An art exhibition Of more than passing
interest, will be that held in the Central
Baptist church, this and tomorrow even
ings-T Thursday and Friday, February 10
and H. The exhibits will include ths
artistic work on China by Miss Jordap's
Decorative Art Glass, and is the most
extensive collection of the kind in this
section of the State, valued at several
thousand dollars. Admission is only Ia
GENTS
During the course of Tice's horse sale
at Paul's Hotel last Monday, spirited
horse owned by Mr.. Stephen Green o.
Wenonah, took fright and dashing down
Packers hill was swerYed to the right by
some obstruction, and ran straight into the
high wall that sustains the embankmeni
on the street front of the grounds o.
Friends Meeting house The frightened
animal scaled the four foot wall, but thu
wagon held him balanced on top until &
by-stander cut the lines when he fell or
his side On being liberated from ths
wagon The horse sprang to his feet nons
the worse for the strange adventure, bu
the wagon was not SO fortunate.
-Apropos to the water meter question
introduced by Water superintendent Brown
in his annual report to Council, we quot,
a paragraph from recent issue Of |
philadelphia paper: We are glad MI
Seeds did not introduce the Water Mete
Bill into Councils that be was fathsriDg.
would have ruined his chances for th
Mayoraliiy The old Water Meter Job
that was killed several years ago was th
rankest fraud ever brought up in Councils
The idea Of making the people pay 70
water like gas is outrageous. Water SHOULD
be as free and as pure as air. We dom
believe Mr. Brown would father a job
nor attempt to impose one on the city
but we do believe the introduction 0
water meters in Woodbury. would be NOR
profitable to the manufacturers of meter
than 10 the citizens Of Woodbury..