Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-08-31
LOCAL ITEMS.


The Woodbury. Board of Education
meets tonight.
The exodus fiom Pitman Grove is at
its height.
The county advertises for bids for
$4,000 worth oil county bonds.
The First Baptist Sabbath school have
an excursion to Ocean City to-day.
Mrs Herbert Tsy lor will resume charge
OF The Green Hotel on September 20.
John r. Wick is moving in the Starr
store, aud will begin business on Sept. l.
Col. G. g. Green came down from
Lake Hepateong on Tuesday, to attend
pressing business matters.
The Boards of Education of the var
ious townships of the county meet in the
Academy this afternoon.
Through F. L. Wilkins estate agency,
l. h. Ireland, of Island Heights, has leased
No. 104 Hunter street, and will move here
next month.
"A picnic will be held in the yard Of
st. PatrIck's church on Wednesday, Sep
TENDER 6. next. The music will be By
Francis orchestra.
Mrs. Hannah B. Avis bought double
and single house in Clayton, on Monday,
offered at public sale by the Woodstown
Nationpl Bank, for 81 300
Contractor JOS B. Best has entered in
to contract with grocer Harry Burkett to
build store aud dwelling at the corner Of
Franklin and Wallace streets.
"A meeting of the Woodbury. Auxiliary
Red Cross Society, will be held at Mrs
Matlock u No ~ RroaG sfraas Wadnae
day, September 6, az ten a. N.
Miss Sslome S. Morgan, graduate Of
the Temple College Kindergarten course,
will open private Kindergarten school in
this city, beginning the latter part of
September.
Frederick Wolf, who was indicted at
the October courts in 1887 for selllDg liquor
contrary 10 law, was arrested on a bench
warrant at Gloucester on Sunday, and is
now IN jail.
Thee. Hughes, Alonzo P. Rambo, Jr.,
Harvey Leonard and Leroy Leonard went
fishing to Angleses last Saturday, and it
took them half of Sunday to distribute
their fish among the neighbors.
The local W. C. T. q. will hold its
annual meeting on Monday evening, Sept
4, at 8 o'clock, at the homes of Miss Eliza
beth Parrish, 81 So. Broad street. Members
are requested to be prompt in attendance
at that hour.
"A crowd of boat house people attemp- |
ted to run Armstrong; coach at Lincoln |
Park last Sunday night, and two of them
-KTouse and McLeeran-were run into
Woodbury. jail. Justice Pancoast fined
each $40 and COSTS
~ Monda1 cha.;H CoIi.uz ..la AZ
property, tract of meadow near Oldman's
creek, of Broadway, Richardson and Mat
lack, trustees under the will of Robert K. |
MatIaek, to John F. Keller, complainant
in the action, for $500.
In a collision last Wednesday night
above the North Woodbury. toll gate, a
market wagon of Aaron RIdgwoy, of
Muilica Hill, was demolished. The other
team of William Carter, of Woodbury.
Heights, was unlnjuEed.
Engineer Catlell of the HufffgilIe and
Cross Keys gravel road says the contractor
is making rapid progress in it's constrnc ,ion
Also that portion of The road-bed on the
Woodbury. and Knights Run road has
been made. Gravel will be procured from
Adam Knights pits, and it Is said to be |
fine road material
When Woodbury. Taxpayers read in |
the Proceedings Of Council, the amounts
expended the past month for hauling and |
scrapiDg," they will conclude that City |
Financier Best's motion for special COM |
mitttee to draft rules and regulations for
the government of the city team horses |
comes not moment too soon.
Last Monday night Officer Osbourne |
picked up drunk on Curtis Ave. and took |
him 10 jail in push cart. An attempt
was made to give the man hearing on |
Tuesday night, but he had not recovered |
sufficiently TO give an account of himself |
1t was gathered from his rambling talk
that his name is Brown, and his home |
Philadelphia.
Milk inspector ]. o. George reported |
to the Camden Board of Health Monday |
night, that out of 43 cans inspected, large |
percentage showed adulteratIon with farm
aidehyde, substance used TO preserve
milk from sOurIng in hot weather. The |
substance ID said to be injurious to infants |
and adults st1i,cted with delicate stomachs. |
The report Mas referred to the State Board |
of Health.
List of advertised letters for the week
ending August Is, 1899: Viola Atkinson, |
John Gogington, Walter Gilman, Samuel |
GoidfarI, Mrs. Lille Jefferson, T. [. Nc |
Farland, Mrs. Annie Mcdugh, John |
O'Peters, Miss Betty Pierson, Pearl Rich |
ards, Henry 1. Smith, Mrs Rose Turner,
James Willis, Mrs. Sallis Williams.
Persons calling for the above letters will |
please say advertised.
Since the great storm devastated Porto
Rico two weeks ago. destroying entire
villages and working general devastation,
much concern has been felt here OF the fate
of James 5. Carson, who last June went
there as head farmer for the Coamo Springs
improvement Company, and whose letters
~ the DEMOCRAT have been read with
such interest La the reports il has been
noted that the hotels and buildings Of the
Company were all destroyed, but no
authentic news has been received. Yester-
day evening Mr. Carson arrived in Wood.
bury, we'll and hearty.
We have heard OF ministers having a
decided liking Tor chicken, but not until
last week was it developed that they kept
watermelon on their bill of fare. The fol-
lowing story comes from Malaga camp
meeting under date Of August "a -" A
watermelon eating contest yesterday be-
tween clergy men furnished amusement for
the camp melting crowd. Stald ministers
plunged their heads into the luscious fruit
and streaked their Clothes with the juice
In their eBdeaYor to cause the disappear
ance Of The melons, and for twenty minutes
Ehere was a laughable scene. The Rev. J.
r. Greer, Of Minyiile, was declared winner,
after having eaten TWO big melons Mr..
Gfaw was accorded second nOnors and Dr.
Strickland third
Major Edmund Dubois, Of the F urth
New Jersey volunteers, mustered out of
service on April 9Th, was last week ap-
pointed Captain of volunteers by the
President, and assigned to service IN the
Forty second New York Infantry, recruit
ing for Philippine service at Furt Niagara,
New York. Mir Dubois has had long
service in the New Jersey National Guard
in which he has risen to the rank OF Lieut.
Colonel, not By fay0ritisn bnt on his merits
as soldier, hence he enters the volunteer
army fully EQUIPPED for active service. He
10 natural solder, and if the policy of
christianizing and civiljziDg the FillpInos
by the sword and bullet IS to be continued,
Capt. Dubois command will be trained 20
do il IN the most effective way.