Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-31
LOcALITEMs.

Levi Bossler, of this city. has moved
to Atlantic City.
w. D. Dufield has leased The Green"
boarding house property.
S P Foster of the E mer Times, paid
us brief visit yesterday morning.
-Expressman A. H. Lock came out
with new wagon last Tuesday.
-Crocuses are out, and many Woodbury.
lawns are brilliant with bright bloom.
Joseph Henry is laying cement walks
around Josiah Clouds new house on Rail
road avenue.
DIR. w. A. GloYer and wife will arrive
in Woodbury. from Colorado about the
middle of April.
Leon v, son of L.. ". Garron, was one
of the graduates at Palmer's Business Col
lege, Philadelphia, last night.
Andrew RedfieId, Jr., leaves the en-
ploy of Theo. S. Burrows to-day to take
position as salesman with Snellenburg.
Monday afternoon, Lloyd, the three
year old son of butcher Pierson, of the
Blue Front, fell and broke an arm at the
elbow.
Eight shares of the stock of the First
National Bank has been sold by j. w.
Merritt to Jos. B. Livezey for $118 per
share, the par value of which is $50.
Thousands of tomato plants. freshly
spotted out, were destroyed In this county
last week by the close, cloudy weather.
The effect of such weather is to rot the
plant.
Company E desires to recruit fifteen
more men 10 bring the company up to the
full compliment. Several were secured
last M onday night.
The basket ball season in Woodbury.
came to close last Saturday night with a
game between Co. E and P. K. R Y.M.C
A., of Camden. The local team won well
played game by a score of % to 10.
BY law just enacted by the Legisla-
ture, County Superintendent are required
to apportion $500 extra to each school dis
trict which has a Supervising Principal
deyoiipg his entire time TO the work.
The sixty annual New jersey
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church was begun in the First Church,
Camden, on Tuesday, and will remain in
session until the middle of next week.
The case of William Bachelor vs.
Patk McGlade, on contract, was tried
before Justice johnson and jury on Tues
day. Swackhamer for Bachelor, ex Judge
Carrow for McGlade. The jury rendered a
verdict for the plaintiff.
Mrs Mary Sitley last week sold her
house No. 81 Hunter street to Mrs-W.
Cooper for $4,000. Mrs. Sitley has pur-
chased lot at Newbold, and already
broken ground for a new house, and Mrs.
G roper has begun extensive alterations to
her purchase, preparatory to occupying it,
The Teachers County Association will
hold two sessions in the Court House next
Saturday. At the morning session Miss
Margaret Nee Hemphill, of Wenonah, will
conduct primary work With class from
her school at Wenonah In the afternoon,
Miss Julia Dram, of Phila., will have a
class of Woodbury. children exemplyfng
expression in reading.
Ben G. Brown will put out several
pairs Of Chinese ring neck pheasants this
Spring. Two pairs have already been
placed, and it is hoped sportsmen will
refrain from killing them. The male bird
is Of beautiful plum ge, and the female a
light gray color.
The people have long complained of
the light tax. thougl they are not willing
to 60 back to old methods of lighting.
Councilman Clymer's statement in Council
that the arc light service can be secured at
cost of $50 each light, instead of $85 as in
the past, is in line with public desire, and
the action Of Council will be watched with
solid interest, because with the same num-
Der of lights. it would mean saving Of
$3.50 annually in that tax.
While blasting out stumps at National
Park last Saturday, Philadelphia named
Andrew jackson wasterribly injured about
the face BY flying splinters. charge was
slow to explode, and be thought the fuse
had gone out. He therefore approached il
to investigate, when it went of. DR.. H. H
CLARK took quantity of wood out Of his
face and did what could be done then he
was taken to a hospital IN Philadelphia
where he is improving rapidly and vii
be discharged this week fully recovered.