Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-09-21
LOCAL ITEMS.

The Board of Chosen Freeholders is in
session to-day.
Miss Kate WeidemyeT has returned
from her vacation.
VIM. c. Eldridge is taking a night
course at Pierce's college.
-Qainton Keasby is home from two
months experience at sea
VIM. Turnbull is having his residence
Oh High street painted by YIN McDiYitt.
w Harrison LiYrrmore is laying con-
siderable concrete pavement on Glover
street.
Kate C. Racbor returned to ST. Mary s
Hall, Burlington, on Tuesday to begin her
second year there.
About as disagreeable an experience as
a candidate can have, is to be Buck led
out of the race.
Prices for sweet potatoes is lower now
than last year, and other kinds of truck is
lower than for many years.
Edward B. Leaning, formerly of this
city, now of California, is IN Woodbury.
renewing old acQuainances.
Joseph W. Merritt has removed large
trees from the front of his residence, which
combined with new paving and grading
makes a fine improvement
The Board of Chosen Freeholders will
probably accept the Woodbury. stone road
10 day, on recommendation of the Com
mittee engineer and supervisor.
WIN. Latchum and wife, of Iowa, a
former citizen of Clayton, who aided in the
cree ion of the first glass factory there, is
East visiting friends. They spent Wed
nesday with Ed. Silyers and family.
If reports can be credited, there is a
gang of highwaymen in the county. The
difficulty 10 crediting the reports is that
with so many shots fred at close range
no blood is shed and no arrests made.
Frank Harris, who went from Salem
county to Kansas in 1873, has been visiting
friends in Salem and this county the past
week. He spent Sunday with his old
neighbor and comrade in arms, Joseph
Morgan.
Fires have been placed under another
furnace at the Woodbury. Glass Works and
next Monday full set of thirty blowers
and helpers will be at work in their works
which means about two hundred men
and boys
Nora Williams, colored, domestic
in the family of james Avis, at Woodbury.
Heights, is in jail, awaiting the action of
the Grand Jury, charged with taking cloth
ing the property of Mrs Avis Nora
denies the charge.
Thieves looted the old race track grand
stand building at Gloucester on Tuesday
night, destroying property valued at $500.
They were detected before removing mass
of copper. brass, ETC., and one of the four
was caught, and sent TO jail
The Board of Chosen. Freeholders will
to-day award the $35 600 bond issue to
either DeDison, Prior & Co., of Cleveland,
Ohio, at 1882 premium, or to Sailor &
Stevenson, OF Phila., at 1921 premium. The
former require coupon bond, the expense
of which is vastly greater than the regis
tered bond which is satisfactory to the
latter firm.
The Philadelphia Times lost cast in
Woodbury. at least by its efforts to create a
sensation out Of the Eli Shaw case. All
the alleged facts as presented by that paper
have petered down to nothing. and it and
its reporters are left in pretty bad plight
So reckless public journal is menace to
the rights of the people.
John Ford, son of Elmer Ford of this
city, a number of Company Fl, N. j. Vols
during the Cuban war, was halted by two
tramps while passing through the woods
between Westville and Washington Park
last Monday, who demanded his valuables,
and undertook to enforce it with force
John assumed the aggressive, and after an
exchange of blows saw an opening, and
took leg bail His watch chain was broken
in the scrap, but this was the only damage
be received.
Quincy Lee Morrow, of Maryland, a
young orator who is fast making national
reputation, will deliver an address. /" The
Church and Reform" in the M. E. church,
Jefferson, this Thursday evening, al 80
Everybody welcome. Come and bring
your friends. Rev. J F. Conan, of Pitts
burg, says of his work in that city :: +" Mr.
Morrow's work under the auspices of the
City Christian Endeavor Union, has been
highly satisfactory. He IS one of the
foremost temperance orators of the day.