Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-01-05
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Atwood advertises sacrifice sale OF
carpets.
AT six o'clock q. m. Jan. 2, the Their
rnometer registered at zero.
The First National Bank of this city
has declared the regular semi-annual divi-
dend of six per cent
Mrs. Anna NJ Anderson, Of Hagers-
town, Maryland, is visiting her daughter,
Mrs. A. e. Swack hamer.
The heater in the Court House is
undergoing repairs-the first, to any extent,
since put in eight years ago.
-Four thousand bushels of corn were
sold at PauIsboro on Dec. 29, at an average
}, arice of as cents per busheI.
: Mics Alice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Z /. B Lippincott, a student at the State
Normal school, spent the holidays with Der
parents on High street.
"A sjx-year-old daughter of Charles and
Mary Morgan of West Deptford township,
nied of diphtheria on Tuesday, and was
buried on Wednesday.
Mrs, Alex Golden and Miss Ledger, of
North Woodbury., left on Tuesday for
Florida, where they will spend the re-
mainder of the Winter.
VIM. C. Fox is in Chicago this week
buying carload of horses for his first sale
of 1899, to take place on January IA, which
IL advertised in another column.
Thirty five barges. six 8 oops and one
schooner, discharged cargoes at Woodbury.
wharf the past year, according to report of
marine statistician, STANDBY Twells.
"A red fox came to Joseph J. Sum
merrill, Esq, by express, yesterday, fTom
Maryland He will have the pelt tanned,
aud made into floor rug. The species is
now quite rare.
The annual meeting of the Country
Club will he held next Monday evening,
when officers will be elected for the ensu-
ing year. The Club has a membership of
three hundred.
List of advertised letters for the week
ending Jan. 8, 1899. Miss Lima GentneF,
Mrs. Mary McCIintoc, William Skillers.
please say advertised.
The Mantua Social Glee Club will
give its second annual entertainment for
Ire benefit of St. Barnabas P. E. church on
Saturday evening, January ID, 1899, in
Bradshaw's Hall, Mantua. All are
cordially invited.
Conrad Soffeiss wishes to inform his
customers that orders for plum bling, timing
aud heating left at the following places
will receive immediate attention III
Siackenwalt, oyster saloon; A. S. Wilson,
bicycle store, or at 3l5 Morris street.
"A mortgage from the West jersey and
cooe1a~a Dos1rood (arnnonu IN RrnunirU
ct ais, trustees, given in 1866, for one
million dollars, was cancelled in the
Clerks office yesterday. There were $1,000
worth of revenue stamps on it.
The prize drawing OF Good VIII Fire
Company last Thursday evening was big
success and the treasury will be benefited
l,y about $115. Ticket No. 2e3 drew the
gold watch No 72s ton Of coal No. 1i0l,
birrel of flour; No 217, box of cigars.
-Drs L NJ. HaIsey. of WILLIAMSBURG,
and Charles S Heritage, of Glassboro, have
declined appointment as assistant surgeon
of the Third N ]. Vols, rendered by
Acting Governor Watkins. and Pastor P.
Provost has followed Rev. Edward billions
example in declining the chaplaincy Of the
regiment.
When the up train from Pennsgrove
on Saturday night was mile on its way
the engineer saw an obstruction on the
track bat could not stop before the engine
struck it. It proved to be a rotten tie
which some one had tied down. No damage
was done but the officials would like to
know who did the malicious work
Oliver Reynolds, an old glassblower
who has been tramping for some years, died
at the Woodbury. Glass Works last Thurs
day night. Early in the evening Superin-
tendent Madden found him in the yard and
took him TO the factory where stimulants
were administered He seemed 20 rally,
but about eleven o'clock the shearer found
him dead. He was veteran of tina Civil
War and had been drawing pensions
Coroner Hunter deemed an inquest unnec-
essary, and Undertaken Conway removed
the body to the morgue, where it is in
waiting for relatives, said to live in Cam
den, to claim it. The body was buried
yesterday.