Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-12-01
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Edgar wrigley. Carpet weaver, Barnst


Acting Governor Watkins is writing
the annual message to the legislature.
-Atwoodis advertisement, on our fourth
page, contains some interesting Christmas
hints
Subscribe for the DEMOCRAT now
and we will send it to January 1, 1900,
for 81 so.
Mr.. Benz Clendenon moved from
Euclid street to his new home on Popular
avenue on Tuesday.
The Christmas tree man and the
Christmas decorator are in business now
securing the woods for shapely trees and
holly.
Supervisor Budd, of the stone roads,
with large force of men, was all day
Monday opening the road from Paulsboro
to Westville.
The Standard oil team had serious
time getting to MulIica Hill on Monday,
and found it necessary to spend the night
at Mr.. Colson's.
The Cumberland county Freeholders
will open bids on December 10 for new
asylum building, the estimated cost of
which is $4,000.
The weather " Use all agree that this
is going to be an old-fashioned Winter
lots Of snow and ice. Surely the beginning
indicates that they are true prophets.
Harry Faust and Walter Pitman, of
Elmer, are again in jail, charged with
robbing freight cars at Glassboro. Charles
Newlin, of MillVille, is wanted under a
similar charge.
Twenty shares of Salem National Bank
stock were sold last Saturday to Richard
Grier at $40 share, and five shares to
Maurice B. Ayres, at $40 12Id. The par
valve is $50. This is the highest price it
ever sold for.
MIR. Samuel Ladner has our thanks
for basket of turnips. We judge by their
shape that they are turnips, but really,
they are nearer the size of pumpkins Eight
of them fill basket, and its not a small
basket either.
The Town Hall, in Clayton, was filled
with an intelligent audience on Tuesday
evening to enjoy the exercises attending
the presentation of handsome piano to
the public school by the celebrated clothier,
OF Philadelphia, VIM. Fl. Wanamaker.
The Spring Lane Farm, now under
the tillage of the third generation of the
Budd family, all that time has consumed
the milk supply in fatteniDg calves for
market, will begin next Monday to sell
the milk fU'dealer Anderson in Woodbury..
In the Court OF Errors on Wednesday,
argument in the Woodbury. Heights Land
case vs. Loudenslager, was again post poned,
on application of Mr.. Grey, Loudenslager's
counsel The anxiety for re-argument in
this case is not apparent.
Two young men of Woodbury., heads
of families, Nudge Russell and Clifford
Reed " no have been i'll for some time, are
reported in a dangerous condition this
morning nearing the end. The sympathy
of the community is with the afflicted
families.
We stop our press to add, that Mr. Russell
died at noon TO day.
1t seems that bank teller G. R. Ogden
was not the only citizen of our county who
feasted on green corn and lima beans on
Thanksgiving Day, because Andes e.
Budd brought to our Office on Tuesday a
sample of green corn and lima beans en-
joyed by his family as late as Sunday last.
They were planted the last Friday in
July.
MIR. and Mrs. E. G. Ford celebrated
the twenty fifth anniversary of their mar
rage at their home on High street last
Saturday evening Notwithstanding the
terrible storm, about fifty friends were
present, and royal good time was had.
Their son John, Sergeant in Company Fl,
Fourth N. j. Vols, left Greenville, N. c.
in the hope of being present, but was
delayed twenty four hours in transit
reaching home Sunday evening He has q
ten days furlough.
How many seeds are there in pump
kin? In order to find out, We-tville
Lodge, Shield of Honor, gave a guessing
contest,soHeTiDg as prize, a marble mantle
clock. Everybody guessed. The country
boys and girls cut up dollars worth of
pumpkin and spent weeks in counting
seeds, then they guessed, all the way from
237 to 100. Helen Penrose West Phila
Miss. who had never seen jersey pump
kin,sby accident got into the affair and
guessed 613 When the seeds were counted
Just GA seeds were found, and she took the
clock This proves that one pumpkin
differeth from another pumpkin, in seeds
There were 237 guessers.
--For more than year, Water Superin-
tendent Ben c. Brown, of this city, has
been nursing coop Of ring neck Chinese
pheasants, until he had twenty-nine of
these handsome birds. He had his coop
on the lot in the rear of Green's Block,
and had enclosed quite space with wire.
Last Sunday morning when he went to
give them attention he found twenty four
dead and one has died since. He con-
sidered their money value $3.50. A dog had
dug under the fence, aud the dead birds
were lying all around the wire enclosure.
They were not mutilated, simply bitten
across the back. He has two pairs left,
and will make another effort to raise them.
Heavy falls of snow are unusual in
this section, hence when the storm that
began last SATURDAY noon continued into
the night and until Sunday morning,
people we're surprised, and when it be-
came necessary to bring out snow shovels,
many of us were indignant, and rightly so,
too What right has 1t to snow to the
depth of foot before our corn is husked
and storm doors put up? And one would
be the laughing stock of his community
who would put storm door up before
December LIST, or New Years. 1t blowed,
o, Saturday highland as result trolley
and railroad travel was stopped, and very
few Sunday newspapers were distributed
1t afforded many good people an ample
reason for not going to church, hence
congregations were small in all the
churches.
The peculiar condition IN which own
ers Of farm property 6ud themselves at
this time was we'll illustrated here two
weeks ago in The sale of the Dempsey
Farm, just north of Westville. 1t is one
Of the most productive farms in South
Jersey. with good ard ample buildings
located within mile of the Gloucester
ferry The owner, Mr.. Danl Thaekara
first advertised it for several weeks in the
leading newspapers in Mercer. Burlington
Camden, Gloucester. Salem and Cumber-
land counties, in New JERSEY, and Phila
and Bucks county, Pa, and by posters.
At the sale not prospective purchaser was
present, and not bid made. Yet, with
This condition of our own lands. the govern,
ment proposes a payment Of $40 000,00f
for islands 600 mile away, inhabited by
savages, which are ours BY conquest
Our legislators should know that in these
J. prosperous times, land is Ct eap.
Charley MoIoney says Porposine BIaeE
velvet Harnsss Oil is as sweet and clear
as hair oil.
a chicken salad dinner will be given
:, KepabIe Memorial church on December