Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-05-04
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at Mt. Ephraim.
Lawyer Summerill is having bis house
painted by artist Geiger.
Ex-senator Geo H. Barker returned to
California last Friday.
1t was the hottest I'd Of May ever re-
corded by the New York weather bureau.
Atwood, in his advertisement on cur
fourth page, offers some seasoDable bargains,
-Wu A. Fisher has sold sixty one
tons of King crab fertilizer in this neigh
borhood this Spring
The Cape May City Council granted
ten liquor licenses Tuesday evening Dy a
vote of five to six.
Mr.. JOS S FISHER is going TO sell his
personal effects on May II, preparatory to
leaving Clayton for VIneland.
The final meeting of the old Board of
Freeholders is held to-day. The annual
meeting will be held next Wednesday.
Joseph Henry is laying a concrete
pavement and steps in front of and leading
to A. w. Durell's new residence Oh Cooper
street.
-Chas Walton has bought Andrew
III rcus' and NJ. Stackenwalt,s ice business,
Redfeld's aid
1t has been suggested that Council put
a steeple on the City Hall, and run it up to
a height at least twenty five feet above the
fire house tower.
Last Monday morning Andrew Marcus
killed a hound dog believed to be mad.
And Monday evening be killed two other
dogs that had been bitten by it.
M. W. Newton entertained Philadel-
phia friends at a planked shad dinner at
his hotel in this city yesterday afternoon,
and has another big party to-day.
The entertainment by the Baptist
Young Peoples Union in the Central
Church last Thursday evening, was an en-
loyable one. The net proceeds were SIS.
The Young Peoples Association Of the
Presbyterian church have fixed upon Tues
day evening, May 16eh, as the date for their
entertainment in Green's Opera House
Proceeds for Chapel Fund
Hon Job S Haines, John M. Hender-
son aud K. Turner have been appointed
By the Court TO assess benefits occurring to
abntting property owners on the West
vile and Giassboro stone road.
From the Santa Ana Standard we learn
that our former citizen, Belmont Perry,
Esq, was admitted to the California Bar,
before the Supreme Court, on Tuesday,
April IS, on motion of Judge Lucien Earl.
When you buy your spring suit at
Wanamaker & Browns have the amount
of your purchase credited to the Woodbury.
Public School Piano Fund. 1t adds moth
ing to the cost, and will push good object
along.
Rev. T. G. Carman, of the NJ E. Con-
ference, died at his home at Bradley Beach
on Monday from eating poisoned canned
beef He was admitted TO the Conference
in 1854 and Woodbury. has been among
his charges.
Hotel keepers are interested in law
passed by the last Legislature. 1t requires
that the owners of buildings three or more
stories in height aud accom- modatiDg 30 or
more persons shall have rope fire escape
from each room.
List of advertised letters for the week
ending May !, 1899 :-TuTner McMullen,
Lyman Mock, John Muse Philip Nich0l-
son, Mabel Patterson, GeorgiaDna Penning-
ton, Philip Poets. Mrs. Ella H. Reed, Ger
trude Wesley, ~.
Harry Fish has been in business a year
H.
completed his second year last December.
While his new building is being erected. he
is continuing business in the store Just
south Of Sithens grocery.
The heirs of Chas W. Bender, deed,
have sold the following lots at Red Bank:
Lot No. IA, to Howard F. Matlack lot No.
80. 10 Alfred L. Matlack and lots Nos. 256
and PSI to John Morgan. The purchase
price of these lots was $3.50.
If you own a horse, keep COW, pigs
or chickens, The Farm Journal will be
valuable to you Y u want the GLoUCEs-
TER COUNTY DEMOCRAT, too. Subscribe
for the latter, and you get The Farm Jour-
nal for five years without additional cost.
On account of Misunderstanding, A.
Marcus has surrendered the forty foot lot
bought from J. D. Green on Hopkins
street, and bought fifty foot front lot on
West German street from the sane owner,
to which he is moving the old Umba
house.
William n. Sithens has arranged to
push the sale of " Sithens' Speedy Rheu-
matte Cure and to that end has engaged
Mr.. Arthur 7. Hall, an experienced sales
man, who, beginning with Gloucester, will
canvass every county in the State The
value of this remedy has been SO thorough
II tested, that the enterprise is no expert
meDt
james Park, glass-blower and one of
the original stockholders in the Woodbury.
Glass Works, is obliged TO give ND work on
account Of bis eyes. He consulted occulist
TuTnbull last Saturday, and was informed
that the trouble with the sight is due to
long exposure to the heat of the furnace.
forming a cataract, which will require an
operation to remove, which will be per-
formed at the German hospital this week.
The commissions of Justices of the
Peace who were elected last Spring, were
received by County Clerk Ridgway on
Monday, as follows: Jerry NJ. Pancoast
and Sam'l II. Laid, Woodbury.; VIM.
Adams and ThOs. L. Downs, franklin /;
Henry Smith, East Greenwich Albert
Murphy, Harrison Sanford Weed and T.
Ellis PauliD, GlassborO; Chas Moosbrooks,
Monroe; Joseph Shuster, Barnsboro. Adams,
Smith, Weed, Paulin aud Mossbrooks have
not yet applied for their parchments.
In an opinion filed 10 the Supreme
Court on Monday. Justice Dixon decided a
case where an alleged drunken man was
charged with using offensive and indecent
language IN the presence of others, both
men and women. The Court holds that
under . an act concerning disorderly per-
cons" an intoxicated man is not guilty o I
aDy legal misconduct by loud and indecent
language. as long as he does not loiteT.
Hence, go long as drunk keeps walking, it
cannot be guilty of misconduct
john Rachor, Jr., has re-repurchaeed
Newton's hotel, in this city, the price being
100000. Abont year ago Mr.. Rachor sold
the house TO Mr. Newton for $55 600, and
purchased the Squsn House. at Manasguan
He did not feel comfortable away from
Wood bury, and sold that house about the
first of the year. and opened negotiations
for tbe purchase of Newton's hotel During
the year Mr. Newton had made many and
expensive Improvements, both Ia furnish.
ines and to the building. Mr.. Rachor will
take possession the latter part Of this month
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