Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-02-16
LocALirEMs.

LOCAL ITEMS.
The Bank Statements are advertised
this week.
"A Koch, the celebrated Mantua baker,
resumed trips over his regular routes on
Thursday morning
Atwood 10 his advertisement on our
Fourth page announces spscial bargain in
iuiniture.
The township financial reports, which
should have been advertised this week, are
Of necessity postponed until next week.
If all this weather is the result of a
little sunshine on the morning of February
I'd, what would full days sunshine have
resulted in?
Sales of real estate, of Elizabeth KiIle,
also Joseph E Cheesman advertised by
Sheriff Collins to take place on February
IA. were adiour ed for one week-to Feb.
21st
The State Board of He-Ith reports 472
less deaths from diphtheria during 1898
than in 1897. The decrease in the fatality
OF the disease is said TO be due to the use
of antioxine.
Mary MahaD. an industrious old lady,
better known as Irish Mary" was found
in her house on German street, opposite the
Glass Works, in a suffering condition on
Monday, and removed Temporarily to the
Jail.
Canned beef, similar to that furnished
to the army during the late war, was sent
to feed the starving Cubans in Havana 1t
was found TO be rotten and I0.S00 tins of it
were towed out to sea and sunk. The beef
came from Armour 10 Chicago lex.
The second lecture 10 Prof. Robert
Ellis Thompson's course on the Six Reli-
gions OF the World, will be given in the
Presbyterian chapel. Monday evening Feb
20, at quarter before eight o'clock
The audience is quested to be punctual.
Farmers in some sections are being
victimized in a new way. Several men
received permission TO tack up bill signs,
then get the farmer to sign an agreement
not to tear down the signs for 80 DAYS
These agreements subsequently turn up as
so day notes.
The members Of the W C. T. q. are
urged to attend the Parlor Meeting on
Thursday, February Is. at the home of
Mrs. Anna K Walton, 3O7 South Broad
street Special music and the exercises
will commemorate the life and work of
Miss Frances Willard.
-Filbert S. Parker, executor of the estate
of William Morris, advertises to sell the
real estate of deceased, located in Second
and Third Wards of Woodbury., and West
Deptford township. A description of the
various properties and date of sale will be
found 10 an advertisement in another
column
The death rate in this State decreases
every year though the population increases,
which shows well for our sanitary laws
and officers There were 9, 485 less deaths
in 1898 than in the previous year Our
rate of mortality is the surprisingly low
figure of 1910 per 900 in population of
1,SIO,O0s
The wise business man spends most
money for advertising when people feel
The poorest. This is the time when peo-
pie read advertisements IT they find
store advertising bargains they will leave
their old places and 90 to the newer, and
The new one, if it is smart, will keep them
every time. Ex.
There's nothing new under the sun
not even the grip. Not only HIS the dis
ease been traced back to the fourteenth
century and found described by B0coacico,
but the very name la grippen is discover
I'd in Voltsire, 1853, and in " La Grande
yclopedieD-wherein it is stated that
La Grippe in 1880 had 1000 victims in
Rome"
The IA bssS> of the Woodbury. girls
are slender and delicately tinted, their ii
are like 4, and they are without in
this or any other Z Their frowns are ike
I + I, and their 1880 excite = of pleas
ure and a desire - them Read this
closely, and do not its varacity. The
-; of this do not - the Hawaii or
Felipino girls
The State Epileptic Village at Skill
man IS ready for occupancy, but owing to
lack of funds epileptics will not be receiy-
cd until an appropriation is made by the
Legislature for their support. It will
require about $50 600 to run the village
the first year. There are over 20 900
epileptics in the State, and they are now
in almshouses. hospitals, etc
List of advertised letters for the week
ending February Is, 1899: W. Fl. Alleger
d Co, Thomas W. Bromel, Mrs. Eliza
COrbbY, Lewis E Grifia. John Hartwell,
Edward Judson ~, Wellington Miller,
John g. Paucoast, Charles Phieffer. Rich
ard Kelley 81, Mrs Margaret s. Steelman,
JOS SarlO. Persons calling for the above
letters viii please say advertised.
Mics Edna Budd gave sleiehipg
party TO ten couples of her friends on
Saturday evening. In big sleigh, drawn
by four horses, they started to surprise
friends at Mullica Hill, but the cold night
caused them to take note OF the inviting
warmth of Maniua Inn, where. once within,
they made merry till returning time. Mr.
aud Mrs. Budd ehaperoned the party
1t is predicted by a trolley man that
within two years the popuIous towns
between New York and Easton, will be
connected By electric railways Well, the
beginning has been made in South Jersey
both North and South of Camden, aud it
is not a stretch of imagination TO predict
that within few years a trolley line will
run from Philadelphia 10 Bridgeton and
Salem, through the larger towns
AT the first sale of the Thomas S.
Wheatberby homestead farm, near Penns-
grove. Benz w. WeatheFby bid highest
Sll 600. Failing 10 comply with the con-
ditions it was bld in at the second sale By
Maria II. Shape, the second mortgage
holder for $1,000, 81 600 less than her
mortgage For failing to comply with the
conditions J W Acton, attorney for Mrs
Shape, has brought suit against Mr..
Weatherby for $50 600
The heavy weight OF snow on The roofs
of his stables, nearly involved ex-Free-
holder Prehl in serious aud heavy loss A
thirty foot girder, supplemented by truss
and an iron rod an inch in diameter
supports portion Of the roof connect
ing bis front and rear brick buildings.
Monday afternoon, the iron rod parted
with report like the explosion Of an
engine. and at first it was thought the
steam heater had exploded, bat Mr. Prehl,
who was in the Office, discovered the
broken rod, aud hurriedIY adjusted sup
ports under the girder. and not moment
100 soon to save the fall Of large area Of
roof,