Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-11-17
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LOCAL Items.

LOCAL ITEMS.
Edgar Wrigley, Carpet weaver, BsrnsborO.
See adver, of Sewell nurseries.
New England Dinner to night.
Next Thursday will be Thanksgiving
Day.
-E D Knisell has great line of horse
blankets and robes
VIM. VanHook has employed Peter
Zell TO paint his house on High street.
The gypsie band is camped in the
woods opposite West Deptford Hotel for
the winter.
VIM. Wang the PhiIa confectioner,
returned home last Friday, in demented
condition.
The Woodbury. Democratic Association
will meet in Prehl's Hall next Saturday
evening at 80 o'clock.
The farmers Club will have Its semi
annual supper at Plum's Hotel on Satur-
day evening next, November 18th.
John Kern, farmer residing near
Woodbury., had three ribs broken in
runaway in Woodbury. last Friday evening.
-Snellbaker Bros, of this city and
Woodstown, are now setting up fine head
stone work In Camden, Gloucester and
Cape May counties.
-Rey l. M. B. Thompson occupied the
pulpit of the Presbyterian church last
Sunday morning, and Rev. Edward Dillon
that of the Central Baptist church.
PREFERENCE" a charming novelette,
by Caroline Leslie Field, with illustrations
by Clifford Carlton, will begin in the
November ~ number of Harper's Bazaar.
i Express Agent. D. P. Stanger, is tax
AiDg two week vacation, andaccompsnied
by his wife is spending the period of rest
with Philadelphia and Salem county
friends
Friends meeting in Woodbury. will be
attended next First day, the goth, by
members of the Circular Meetings Com
mittee, at 10 o'clock, east end of the house.
All welcome.
Thanksgiving services will be held in
the Presbyterian church next Thursday
morning at 10 80 a. m. Rev. l. NJ B
Thompson, of the Central Baptist church
will preach the sermon.
Few people realized until~tbey heard
DR.. Dagger's lecture in the M. E church
last Friday evening, how many sides there
are TO love, and that the Funny side was
90 luuu3 do tnO icCbQIcI uldks6 H.
The County Board of Agriculture held
an interesting session at Mullica Hill yes
terdaw, and the concluding session is held
to day. The attendance is large, and each
session interesting and profitable
"A train was run over the Delaware
River railroad one day last week from
Woodbury. to PenAnsgrove, a distance of
twenty two miles, i'm 81 minutes Seven
stops were made, and three slOw-ups for
bridges.
Many Sabbath School workers of the
State are assembled in Paterson this week
attending the Triennial, gathering of the
State association, which this year is also
the iortieth anniversary off its organization.
An excellent entertainment will be
given under the auspices of the Presby-
terrain Young People, on Tuesday evening,
November 22d., at the Rec Bank chapel,
for the benefit of the Public School library.
Come and enjoy it. Blasius & Sons have
kindly loaned piano for The occasion.
Admission 20 cents children 1alf price.
Sheriff Collins renewed his official
bond on Tuesday, and sigpalized the event
by giving dinner at Paul's Hotel. Around
the table, besides his b0ndsDlen. were the
county officers and employees, lawyers
Clymer, Swack hamer and Avis. the editors
of the local newspapers, and few friends
1t was an enjoyable hour for its good as
sociation and good cheer.
The Board of Chosen Freeholders this
morning reelected Mr.. and Mrs. George G.
Weatherby steward and matron of the
Aims House and Asylum, and received a
protest against the acceptance of the Pauls-
boro and Swedesboro stone road, signed by
about all the property owners fronting
thereon. In our next issue we will publish
the paper in full.
List Of advertised letters for the week
ending, November. Is, 1898 Mrs Annie
Clair, Miss Disper, Alfred jackson, On
John Jerry, Miss Bertha Newton, Miss
Maggie OSBORNE Thomas Peterson, Charles
Robinson, (31; Mrs. Lizzie Rogers, Miss
Anna Sparks, David Walker, Irving K.
Weed, William Wright and J. c. Lee
Persons calling for the above letters will
please say advertised.
Mr.. M. w. Newton is painting bis
hotel here pure white with gray trim
min2s, and having a concrete pavement
laiG along its Delaware street front, by
that skilled workman, E p. Henry. These
are improvements which count in the
general appearance of the city, and
will be supplemented within by
by the renovation OF the portion occupied
by Joseph n C0omts as a barber shop.
There new tile floor will be laid; toilet
rooms erected and wall decOrationa placed
in harmony, making it when completed.
the finest business place of The kind in
South Jersey.
Members of the Methodist episcopal
church will soon be asked within a short
time to contribute $20,O00,O00 for "twen-
tielh century thank offering" fund.- 1t
will be devoted TO charitable and educa-
tional institutions now maintained by the
Methodist church and will be the largest
contribution any organization has ever
undertaken. The offering is intended to
be an expression of thanks of the people of
the Methodist church for the completion of
20 centuries of Christianity, and this me-
.thod is believed by the bishops to be the
most appropriate expression possible of that
sentiment. The invitations will reach
from one corner of the world to the opposite
one.