Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-05-03
LOCAL S.
Soda fountains are sizzling.


Soda fountains are sizzling
Assessor Redfeld is estimating values
in Woodbury..
-Somerville, N. J., has free delivery
mail service, with four carriers.
Lawyer Summerill has been reelected
solicitor for Greenwich township.
"A slight earthquake shock was felt
here at TO last Saturday evening.
Miss Edna Budd is visiting her aunt
Mrs BntterwoIth, in Trenton.
WIN. H. Burning, of Mt. Royal, lost a
valuable horse last Sunday night
The Grange Picnic at AIcyon Park
will be held Oh Thursday, August LIST.
See advertisement of the Woodbury.
&. E NJ. Loan Association in another
column.
Mrs. Saml Baker and sister, Miss
Rudolph, who have been in California all
winter, are expected home this week.
The last meeting of the old Board of
Chosen Freeholders is held to-day. The
new Board will meet next Wednesday.
Col. G. G. Green and family arrived
in Woodbury. last Monday after delight
full winter spent at Pasadena, California.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Central
Baptist church will hold q festival in the
church on May "A. afternoon and evening
&C. ]. Davenport. the Hurffyille dealer
in agricultural machinery and tools. adver-
tises some seasonable appliances in another
column.
Seventeen hundred shad were taken at
one haul at Washington Park on Monday,
and 2,100 at two other hauls, and 1000
other fifth
Governor Voorhees, has appointed ex-
Judge Richard 7. Miller, member of the
State Game and Fish Commission to sue
coed j. Frank Budd, resigned.
All indications point to a great fruit
crop this year. All kinds and variety of
fruit trees are loaded with bloom, indica-
tive of an extraordinary harvest.
"A tug boat and two barges went
aground on the Washington Park fishing
grounds Tuesday night. and as a result the
big scelne was not cast on Wednesday.
Undertaken S. R. Budd Is having his
hearse and business wagon oyeIhauled and
reprinted by Geisel, the famous builder of
undertakers' vehicles, in Philadelphia
1t is asserted that the number of liquor
licenses at Gloucester City will be reduced
from 80 last year to 40 this year. There
won't be drought in Gloucester even at
thet rate.
When you improve the.street you i'm
prove the town; when you improve the
town you benefit every man, woman and
child in it. Improvements are investments,
not expenses.
The A. III. E. conference is session at
Atlantic City last week has announced its
appointments Those for this county are:
South Woodbury., w. B Heath, and North
Woodbury., W. Il. Wilmington.
The body of man was found floating
in the Delaware at National Park wharf
last Thursday 1t was promptly identified
by father and brothers as Geo L. MiIIigan,
of Pottstown, Pa, aged 81 years. There
was no suspicion of foul play.
The funeral services of the widow of
the late Thos. Dobson, who died in Cam
den on Saturday, were held in the First
Baptist church yesterday, the interment
being in Green's cemetery. She was a
former resident OF the First Ward, Wood
bury.
John Rachor, Jr, and VIM. Albright
went pike and pickerel fishing at Palatine
last Tuesday, May 1, and landed AZ fine
fish. Six boats of two each caught 300 fish
1t is estimated that 800 fish were caught in
Salem county ponds on the opening day,
May 1.
William H. Sithens returned last
Saturday from two weeks bueiness trip in
carriage down the Delaware route to
Cape May and up the ocean ronte in the
interest of his rheumatic cure. The trip
was successful from business standpoint,
aud enjoyable throughout.
Ralph, son of William Iszard, of this
city, recent graduate of Hahnamann
Aledicel College, has accepted an offer TO
the Metropolitan Hospital, New York. The
offer came to him on merit, as he stood at
the head Of a class of seventy students
The Metropolitan is the leading hospital of
that school of medicine in the United
States, if not in the world.
The last Legislature passed law
fofbidding fishing on Memorial Day. thus
taking away from the. laboring classes
almost the only day il the year left to
them for such sport. But the member
who drew the bill neglected to insert the
take effect Immediately" clause, and thus
the law does not become operative until
July Fourth.
-Two-eent postage stamps may now be
bought in book form, and when the con-
veDience is generally known there will be
big demand for them. They are bound
twelve for % cents, twenty -four for 40
cents, forty eight for 81 cents. They are
bound the width of two stamps and the
length OF three. They are very handy to
carry in the pocket and being separated by
leaves Of paratine, do not adhere to each
other.
Salem fsherme nsbad wide reputation
for truth and Yeraciiy until the South yJer-
seyman gave this away Tuesday," On
Saturday afternoon the sbad fishermen
were in town in force, and some pretty
.talls fish stories were told. Here is q gem
that Mill Creek giller told going up on
the 4.l0 p NJ. train LAST spring" said
he, while boating my net just below FL
sinb0To Point lost my watch overheard
On Thursday afternoon last while boating
my net just below Fort Mott l ungilled an
sight pound sbsd, and as | threw it along
side the well, something inside the shad
struek Eve / Immediately split open the
sbad, when found my watch, which lost
3 year ago, stuck 10 the sbad's throat. The
easing Of the food DOM the fishes throat
lad kept ii wound from day to day p The
conductor pulled the cord three times, the
Engineer footed the whistle twice, and the
lakemaD bawled onl Next stop Is
iarssille e