Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-04-13
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this week.
--Toone & Hollinshed advertise some
special spring bargains.
Merchant Starr adyertises choice as
sortmeDt of shirt waists
Mrs. C. C. VOORHEES, will return to
Woodbury. about the 9th inst
Mrs. Boltonhouse, OF Bridegton, lis visit
higher brother Mr.. D. P. Stauger.
You can get planked shad and FILINGS
at the First Baptist church tonight.
Price S5c.
A number of German carp were caught
in the tide-water creeks of Salem county
last week.
William A. Fisher has removed his
residence from No. IS to No. a High
street, two doors west.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W Sitley have return
ed to Woodbury. from their Winter home in
Philadelphia.
Mrs Belmont Perry has gone TO join her
husband at Santa Ana. She travelled as
far as Omaha with friends.
David O. Watkins will go to Washing
ton on Saturday next His especial errand
is detailed elsewhere in these columns.
George W. Crothers, of Woodstown.
will have another sale of horses at Woods
town next Thursday. See adVr.
Mrs. G. w Gray, of Newbold, is
selling her household goods at private sale,
preparatory to moving West on May LIST.
The Spring meeting of the County
Board of Assessors will be held in the
Court House on Monday next at ten o'clock
a m.
The Young Peoples Union of the
Central Baptist church are preparing for
an entertainment 10 be given Thursday
evening, April q.
Prof Robert Ellis Thompson will deliver
the last lecture in his series on the Six
Religions OF the World next Monday
evening at a quarter before eight o'clock,
10 the Presbyterian chapel -Su bject,
Christianity
MIR. A. Koch, the Mantua baker, has
Just completed another bake oven which
increases his baking capacity to over 5000
loayes of bread per day. There is no
danger of a bread famine in the vicinity
OF Mantua.
Mr.. c. C. Dumpsey. the Westville
coal, lumber and feed dealer. has taken
into full partnership Mr. R. L. Sparks, who
for eleven years was with the firm of
SitIey & Son, of Camden, and the business
is being enlarged.
The Liberal Press will be issued to-
morrow by the Liberal Press Company,
under the supervision of Robert c. Sparks
and City Collector Ernest Redfeld, two
bright young Woodburians The DEMO
Graf extends a cordial greeting to the
young journalists.
The Norristown Daily Times of April
s. contains an interesting account of the
organization and fist shoot of the Bridge
port Gun Club. Mr. j j. Eastburn, former
~ of this city, is captain of the club, and
earned the distinction by killing twenty
five birds straight in the first match.
List of advertised letters for the week
ending April 10. 1899: lizzie Brown, Miss
Lizzie CorbiB. MIS- S. Denny, Melvina
Doggett, e. Woodbury.. n. j., Matthias
Hapuer, Fannie Jones, Reu EIwood Key
Tor, Mrs Jane Kesler, En- ma Van Horn.
Persons calling for the above letters will
please say advertised.
Joseph Low has bought the former
John L levitt farm, on the Delaware,
adjoining Clayton n. ShusteFs farm, from
the Philadelphia Safe Deposit and Trust
Company for 81 500 The farm contains
ninety-two and a half acres, and when Mr..
Hewitt occupied it, only few years ago,
was valued at $4,000.
We have talked with a good MANY
people about the proposed expenditure of
81 900 to Icy brick cutters, and the weight
of opinion against their construction is
simply overwhelming. The present curbs
and cutters have been put 10 at much ex-
pense TO property owners, and are doing.
aud will continue to do, just what brick
cutters will do no more, no less; no better,
and very little worse Where there are no
cutters, they should be put in, at private
expense; and where cuTbs are not perfect
they should be made perfect, at private ex-
peDse Gentlemen OF Council, the cutters
will continue to be cutters even after the
spenditure of $1,000.
Ex-senator Geo. III. Barker arrived in
Woodbury. yesterday and will spend several
weeks here visiting friends and attending
TO business matters. He reports the Wood
bury colony in Southern California to be
prosperous and happy. Belmont Perry has
settled at Santa Ana, aud is doing a pros
pc ous newspaper business; VIM. Moore
and wife have gone to housekeeping in a
cottage near Pasadena Mr.. Percy as audi
Tor of his company has pleasant as well
as responsible position; Harry Lafferty lie
also in the employ of his company, and is
heslthy, happy and contented. Col Green
is in better health than for years, and will
return built up physically. His family, too,
is 10 excellent health.
when the train which reached Wood
at AL
North Woodbury. station last Saturday
night, passenger arose from his seat,
walked to the platform, and sprang off
His disappearance from the platform was
followed by hutter of feet in the air, and
cloud of sand as he struck the ground
The train was stopped, but nothing but a
hat was found, and the train passed Oh,
after being delayed fifteen minutes Later
in the evening be was brought to the
county jail for drunkenness, but apparently
none the worse for his leap from the train.
Beyond Stating that he was from Vineland.
he refused TO di. ulge any information
concerning himself.
Friends in Pasadena, California, have
our thanks tor recent copy of the Los
Angeles Times, containing a technical
description of a successful enterprise
conceived aud executed by our former
citizen. Hon Geo. H. Barker, Oar readers
will get an idea of the magnitude of the
enterprise, when we state that it consists
ID taking water from several small streams
in the San Bernardios mountains, carries it
10 canals and tunnels about tive and hall
miles, develops power from it under 9
head of over seven hundred feet, generates
electric current and transmits it at Q
pressure Of thirty-three thousand volts tn
Los Angeles, eighty miles away. The
Company under which this scheme has
been pushed to successful conclusion il
the Southern California Power Company
of which Mr.. Barker is President. The
former is utilized to operate electric rail,
ways, electric lights and for motive power
throughout the entire distance, and the
results are marvellous, the lost power in
transmission being less than three Thousand
volts, considerably less than Thomas A
Edison, the world famous electrician
estimated. This is accounted for by The
peculiarly dry atmosphere The Engineer
log Nes0s, Of New York, says il Is the
longest line for the commercial transmission
OF power, ever pat in operation.
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