Gloucester County Democrat., 1898-09-29
LOCAL


this week
Trolley fares to Camden are back to the
ten cent rate.
e D. Kinsell advertises seasonable
horse goods.
The City is assured of State aid in the
work of improving Broad street.
Grocer Sithens tells our readers about
some specialties in his line.
VIM c. Fox advertises sale of horses
cows, hogs. carriages, wagon and harness.
-Prehl's hall has been handsomely dec
GRATED the past week by decorator Gibson.
-Albertus Abbott is having his residence
at the corner of High and Glover streets
repaired and painted.
List of adver tised letters for the week
ending Sept Is, 1897 Mrs. Mary B.
Brown and Miss Katie Monoghen.
Rev. Horace Quillan will occupy the
pulpit of the Central Baptist church next
Sunday, October 2, in the absence OF Pastor
Thompson.
Eli Ale, proprietor of the State Street
house, Trenton, died suddenly on Monday
last. Deceased was well known in this
county.
Samuel Iredell, the Democratic can
didate for Congress, will be at the Democrat
Ic County Convention in Woodbury. next
Saturday afternoon.
AT the sale of the WeatherbY estate
last Saturday the farm occupied by Hugh
McGlincy, in Logan township, containing
81 81 acres was sold for 81 900.
The regular monthly meeting, of the
@Woman's Christian Temperance Union
will be held at the home of Mrs. II. c.
Bancroft 25 Red Bank avenue, Monday
evening, Oct 8, at o'clock.
-On Monday Sheriff Collins sold the c.
n Bell lot on Delaware street to Solicitor
Joshua E. Borton for $500, and the prop
erty of Ann Mary Horner to the Stockton
Building Association for $3.50.
We wish to haYe word with our lady
readers this week in reference to the bar
gains offered by Halls dry goods store, IL
South Second Street, Philadelphia, in their
advertisement in this paper. Our own
personal dealings at their store for several
years past enables us to guarantee their
reliability. We do not hesitate to say
that you will find everything just as they
represent it, and that they will give you
good value for your money.
The congregation of the Presbyterian
church, at a meeting held on Monday even
ing, acceeded to the request of Rev. Edward
Dillon for dissolution of the pastoral re
lation and appointed Rev. DR.. Botsford and
Elder Henry L. Hustled as commissioners
TO present the matter to Presbytery now in
session at Camden for its concurrence. 1t
is likely that Mr. Dillon will he appointed
the Moderator of the Church Session, and
the stated supply of the church of acting
in an advisory capacity with the Eldership
until the church shall evidence a readiness
to select pastor.
On authority of a Republican of
high standing, we have the information
that the late CraW ford County Caucus
was a monumental farce in at least one
township. During the hours that the
polls were opened not 25 votes were polled,
yet return of 124 votes is made for
English and 120 for Dubois Great is
Crawford County. Great is Republican
fairness. And the question arises, if the
ballot box can be stuffed with one hundred
Illegal votes in Logan, how many can be
illegally counted in 20 other precients?
The fact that we have quite an array
of office holders in Gloucester county has
perhaps CcCdpCu buC dbtCutiUu Vi SOOu
many people. The bell-weather of Office
holders is Congressman Loudenslager. The
oIdestinhabitant will connect thename with
some office; then there is editor Barber,
with nine years Legislative Clerkship
and two terms as County Collector; County
Clerk Ridgway's record isn't mean one a
term as Sheriff and two as County Clerk
13 years. Surrogate Dubois is down for
fifteen years in that snuggery-and be
will stay if the wires don't get tangled
this Fall. Senator Stanger has foated
through large portion of lifetime ON
an easy swell of office-holding without
sustaining even a single jolt or jar, and his
corners are so well rounded that he will
suffer little friction in staying in until his
passi for the honors of Office floats away
on the wings OF the morning. Governor
Watkins and Coroner Isedden have entered
the list with prospects of permanently oc-
cupying standing room before the footlights
and receiving the plaudits OF the audience
All this.is not pleasant prospect to the am
bitions youth of the county. but these fell
lows areeDioying themselves just the same,