Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-02-07
LOCAL BRIEFS.

February term of Court is light
one.
Harry C. Wilson is suffering from
rheumatism.
Adam Knight, near Wenonah, lost a
valuable horse last Sunday.
Mrs Carleton P Stokes has joined her
husband at Memphis, Tenn.
"A. S. Bartlett, who has been a grip vic
tim for several weeks, is out again.
: According to the ground hog supersti-
ton we are to have six weeks more Of
Winter.
Clarence Timberman and Joseph Wells in
as apprentices.
The Grand Jury has investigated and
cleaned out one poker den, and there are
said to be others.
In another column will be found the
advertisement of the Water Committee
of Council for new pump
-Chas Galloway has moved to Camden
where he will be permanently employed by
Contractor Harry Sharp.
AT the sale of cord wood by Sarah G.
Chew, wood is in eight foot lengths sold at
from 81 to So per cord.
Contractor JOS B. Best took force of
carpenters to Atlantic City this morning to
work on the Garden Hotel.
The people are inquiring if any Of
those garbage fed hogs are sold in Wood
bury. Our butchers all say not.
There were thirty-six applicants for
teachers certificates before the Board of
Examiners last Friday and Saturday.
The hook that held hanging lamp at
the home Mrs. Anna Wilkins on Green
street gave way Saturday night last, and a
confiagration was narrowly ayerted.
AT the shooting match at the West
Deptford Hotel, last Thursday, Philip Wal
aman, of Mullica Hill, won close match
from Capt Platt by score of to 6. Ten
birds were shot at.
On Valentines Day, Feb. IA, the ladies
of the Central Baptist church will hold an
oyster supper in the church from to 8
D. M Fried oysters, chicken salad hot
biscuit coffee and cakes for 35c.
Chosen Freeholders are to be elected in
the following townships this Spring =
CLAYTON, Monroe, Glassboro, Elk, West
Deptford and the Second Ward of Wood
bury. In some of the townships there pro-
misses to be considerable strife for the posi-
ton.
Articles incorporating the Baldt Anchor
Company, with capital of 500, 900, fully
paid, were filed in the Clerks Office at
Woodbury. on Tuesday. The incorporators
are VIM. L. Gelston and Walter S. Bick-
lev, of Chester, Pa, and D. o. Watkins, of
Woodbury., N. J.
AT an interesting communion service
in the Presbyterian church last Sabbath,
eighteen new members were received, with
announcement of others to be received
next Sabbath. The number includes pro-
fessional and business men as well as young
people from the Sabbath school.
in the Sewer Ordinance, every street
and alley in the city is believed to be
specified, because the system cannot be laid
on streets not specified in the ordinance, but
the city is not required to lay sewers on all
streets specified The idea Of naming all
streets is simply ian anchor to the wind
,vardu to guard against the future necessity
of supplementary sewer ordinances.
Company /, of this city, has the dis
function of being one of twelve selected
from the forty-eight companies of the State
National Guard to form the provincial regi-
ment which will represent New Jersey at
the Inauguration of President Mckinley on
March A. The regiment will be under
command of Col. Gilmour, of the Fourth
N. j. Vols. during the Spanish war.
We direct the especial attention Of our
readers to the advertisement in another
column of the public sale of road, track
and carriage horses by Clark Petit at
Hedgefield Farm, near Salem, ON Wednes-
day, Feb. 20. The wide and long sustained
reputation among breeders of fast horses of
the famous Bellman strain is guarantee
to the public that every statement as to
stock is accurate and incontrovertible.
Send for catalogues.
Clarence p Eyre, Woodbury. boy
now Of Chicago, who became an expert
chemist with John Wyeth & Sons, Phila-
kdelphia, and under whose management the
malt works here were built, spent Sunday
and Monday with his sister, Mrs. Isaac
Buzby, on High street. His many friends
:. here were glad to see him and learn of his
success as a manufacturer of beef extracts
in the Windy City. Mr. Eyre's works
were destroyed by fire on Christmas night
last, but are being rebuilt.