Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-03-16
LOCAL


The garden making business is boom
ing.
Night school closes with the session
tonight.
Dog muzzles have been laid aside 70
the next scare.
Well talk about vitrifed brick afte
the Macadam wears out.
Who's to be school trustee, or not II
be-that's the question
Ivory Soap has no equal. See adver
tisement on Fourth page.
Among the trusts chartered in gu
State this week is School Furniture Trust
philadelphia has an epidemic of ty
water.
The Belf' building was sold by ths
Sheriff last week to the complainants il
the action for $780,
The advertisement of Queen, optician
is among the new announcements in Dol
our columns this week.
Rev. l NJ. B. Thompson will preact
his farewell sermon in the Central Baptist
church next Sunday.
award the contract to build the Woodbury.
stone road to-day.
When it comes to checkers. GlassborC
isn't in the same class with Woodbury.
out of As games Woodbury. players have
won 35.
AT the March meeting of tie Wood
hurry Real Estate Mutual Loan Association
last week, the seventeenth series was de
clared matured.
Thomas Abbott. Poplar Ave, received
a Crescent bicycle for birthday present
from his mother. The wheel was pur.
chased of Agent Wilson.
John Refill who completed a thre'
years term in Council last Tuesday evening
has been present at every stated and specia
meeting held during his term. A good
record.
You can aid the Woodbury. public
school by requesting the salesman at
Wanamaker & Browns, to put the amount
of your purchase to the credit of the Wood
bury Piano Fund.
Cornelius Preston has been missing
IRON his home at Westgille for more than
a week, and his friends are alarmed at hi;
absence. Yesterday a hat believed to be
his was found in the Delaware.
1t is pretty evident from Speaker
Watkins speech in the Assembly last week
that the protection which the workmen in
South Jersey glass factories need, is the
kind that the New Jersey legislature car
give.
-Filbert S. Parker, executor of the
estate of William Morris, will offer some
desirable Woodbury. real estate at public
sale next Thursday Foil description will
be found in an advertisement on our Fourth
page.
There will be regular meeting of the
Gloucester County Teachers Association II
the Court House, Woodbury., on Saturday
morning and afternoon, the 10Th inst. The
Association will be addressed by Rev. J. M
T. Chlldrey, Of this city, and Prof. E. L
Kemp, of East Stroudsburg, Pa. Norma
School. There will also be discussion on
" Dicipline in Schools" by some county
teachers. The public is welcome.
List of advertised letters for the week
ending March 10, 1899; Miss Eta F. Gill
Drs. F. E. & J. A. Green, John D. Glover
Franklin a. Harper, Virginia johnson, Mis-
July, Rev. A. Jones, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Miss Gertie Wesley 2, Mrs Anna Willis
Persons calling for the above letters will
please say advertised.
This item will be interesting to some
farmers who have silos Jonathan Eldredge
OF Westtown, Pa lost two borses by poison
GUS gases, which came from silo near the
barn and entered the stable. William
Embree of West Goshen, lost two horses a
few days ago from like cause. Veterinary
surgeons, who have made an examination
Of the premises, are unanimous in theil
opinion as to the cause of death.
The Court of Errors and Appeals de
eided in a case carried up to it, which viii
settle the contention that once veteran o
the Civil War gets into an appointive offic'
he cannot be removed excepting for cause
The decision Of the court says that limi
can be placed on the term of such Office
by the governing body of the county o
municipality. and when that term expires
the occupant is out, if the appointing powe
so wishes.
1t would be good scheme for Wood
bury to make it widely known in Phila
delDhia that our water supply is pure anC
wholesome. 1t must be that many peopl
there are seeking healthful places to locate
and it would be entirely legitimate 70
Woodbury. to do a little talking for herself
and at the same time do a kindness IL
Phiadelphians who want healthiul placl
to live in. Let it be known that Wood
bury is only eight miles from Philadelphia
IS connected by steam road and trolley
with frequent trains, and fifteen minutt
troileys. That the railroad fare is thirt.
cents for excursion tickets IS rs for monthly
tickets, and trolley fare is ten cents eacl
way. That 10 thirty minutes the bushes
man may be landed at Market street from
our station. Let it be known that Wood
bury has excellent public and private
schools, and churches of all denominations
That rents are low and land cheap, con
sidering our location that our Board O
Health is Efficient, and nuisances are no
permitted to exist; typhoid and malaria
ievers are almost unknown, and neve
epidemic. That our hotels and boardin,
houses offer accommodations to permauen
guests, and that our people az
socially inclined and will gladly vel
come all good citizens seeking good homes
Let it be proclaimed, too, that we hav
good roads for driving and cycling -ston
and gravel roads = free-and some tol
roads And then there are manufacturer
who have care for the health of thei
employees Let them know that Their
are de irable manufacturing sites her.
with rail aud water communication. Tha
If houses are wanted, there is capital her
to build them That we have two goo
banks, q local Building Association and tw
State Associations and the most efficien
volunteer fire department in the State
That we have FIVE newspapers of more G
less liveliness; good lawyers, skiIliul dot
tors. enterpfising grocers, drygoods mer
chants, shoe dealers and druggists, and
very few politicians who make Iiyeiihoo
by practicipg politics. We have gla'
factories, piano factories, the wealthiel
proprietary medicine firm in the q.
sash and blind factory, lumber and brio
yards, architects. skilled mechanics of a
kinds, and day laborers-egeFy thing th.
goes to make live, up date town, bt
that there isn't enough Of as, and we wal
more Of the same kind.