Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-08-08

III duSenCe OF CLERK Ma6nefS, OOllecUO
Ernest Redfield acted as Clerk.
STREET BILLS PAID.
Jacob Baurle, laying blocks on N. Broad
II. w. Sharp, carting ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 20
=. D. Knisell, supplies for team.
n Dunn, LABOR ..--....--- ~ ?
L.. Payne, labor. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. IA s.
f. Cossaboon, labor. Observation-Disclosures. IA s.
M. Keegan, labor -.....------..-.-..--.. II =
). Chew, labor. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Mr.. Sithens, of the Sanitary Committee
reported that his attention had been re
peatedly called to the condition of thu
cutters in front of three properties on Norti
Broad street. After explanation, he moved
! that owners be notified to lay curb ant
cutters Immediately after the laying O.
sewer pipe. Carried.
The monthly report of the Water Super
intendent showed July collections, $2096. 66
pumped Il, 072 600 gallons of water, flushed
fourteen hydrants.
BILLS PAID.
S. E. Wilmer. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $50 s:
]. B. ,VanSciver, furniture for Council
Chamber. .-...............-.....-.- 10 II
j. Chew, ianitor ..-.--..-.--.-.---...-.- 10 "
Mr. Best, of the Sewer Committee, pre-
faced his report by the remark that ''every-
thing comes to him who waits" and then
reported the executed contract and bond OF
the sewer contractor, the bond being in the
sum of $2S, 800 with The City Safe Deposit
and Trust Company, of Philadelphia, as
security. On motion of Mr.. Best the bond
was approved.
Mr.. Best, of the Finance Committee, re-
ported that the Committee had gone over
the Assessors duplicate and found that the
corrections and additions as heretofor made
had been entered, but that there were
many names entered as possessed of nc
personal property whom the members OF the
committee were confident possessed personal
estate. He understood there was one
piece of land that had not been assessed.
Mr.. Davis asserted it was the general
rule that where the person assessed had no
real estate, there was no assessment OF
personal property. There were exceptions,
but that was the rule.
Mr.. Sithens moved that the Finance
Committee go over the tax duplicate and
recommend changes in personal property
assessment. Carried.
In a communication, Superintendent
Ludlam, of the Trolley Company, asked
Council to designate the section of the
Trolley Franchise ordinance requiring the
Company to replace paving between the
rails of the tracks. He said his Company
had no disposition to evade any obligation
laid on it by its contract with the city.
On motion the communication was received
and filed.
Mr.. Best moved that the Clerk notify the
Trolley Company to comply with the Fran
chise Ordinance in matter of transfers, and
as to licensing cars and posting license, also
of the non-payment of license fee of $40
per car due January /, 1901, which is not
yet paid. Carried.
Mr.. Best moved that the Treasurer be
authorized to return to the Artificial Paw
ing Company their certified check for $500.
Carried.
Adjourned to meet Aug. -.
Personal.
Lawyer Iszard and family are at Ocean
Grove.
Mr.. H. W. Smith is suffering with a
felon.
Blanche Lee and Alice Weatherby went
to Kirkwood to-day.
Miss Amy Engle is visiting friends at
Wilmington, Delaware.
school for months vacation.
Miss SaIome Morgan is spending the
week at Warrington's Mills.
W. H. Trumbull and family are at
Holly Beach for two weeks.
Miss Virginia Cattell is visiting Miss
Naomi Caldwell, in Philadelphia.
Mrs. w. II. Duffield and daughter have
gone to Cape May for two weeks.
DIR. Readings wife and children are at
the Merritt Cottage, Cape May Point.
DR.. Bennett and family are at Mt Po-
como and will return home Wednesday,
Aug. IA.
B. W. Andrews and family have returned
home from their sojourn at Eaglesmere,
Peuna.
Miss Carrie Smith is home from Lake
Winola. She will spend next week in
Salem.
Judge Clymer arrived on the east side of
the Atlantic last Saturday after pleasant
voyage.
Officer Geitz stepped on banana peal
last Friday, and is spending his vacation
on crutches.
John Haines, of Yorktown, spent Sun
day with his uncle, D. P. Stranger, on High
street.
Mrs. Isaac Buzby and son Dallas, will
spend a week at Atlantic City, going down
tomorrow.
Mrs. F. v Myers and son Walter, will
go to Atlantic City ON Saturday for two
weeks vacation.
George F. Clement, electrician, who has
been at Buffalo since early Spring, came
home last evening.
Mrs. Ida Adamson, of New York, is
visiting VIM E. Gaunt at Paulsboro and
Mrs. Dan'l Packer, Jr., of this city.
Mr. George Durell and wife, of Harri-
man, Tenn, have returned home after a
visit to his father, Rev. E. II. Durell.
DIR. Duncan Campbell has returned from
Caledonia, New York, where he went last
week to attend the funeral of his brother.
Commander s. p Comfy, of the Alliance,
now in the Mediterranean, has been ordered
home to testify in the Sampson-Schley
investigation.
Postmaster G. c. Jessup and family will
go to Atlantic City tomorrow for the balance
of the month Both Mr.. and Mrs. Jessup
are in poor health
Charles Maier, who was seriously wound
ed by the accidental discharge of rifle two
weeks ago, continues to improve, and his
ultimate recovery is assured.
Thomas D. Hilliard, prominent mem
Der of the Society of Friends, at Salem,
over 80 years of age, has announced his
approaching marriage to New York lady.
Miss Hannah w. Mitchell and Miss Sue
H. c. Kerr, have positions to teach at
Englewood Bergen county, a beautiful
suburb of New York, for the coming year.
Gov. Voorhees, has appointed Charles W.
Knight, of West Deptford township, one of
the twenty three New Jersey representa-
tives to the international Good Roads Con-
vention to be held at Buffalo, September
Is to 81.
Lieutenant Mark Bristol, of Glassboro,
appointed cadet at Annapolis by Con-
gresham Terrell in 1884, has been raised to
the rank of Commander, and was last week
assigned to command Of the torpedo boat
Farragut
There was a reunion and dinner to the
officers of the Fourth N. j. Vol. Infantry
at the Governors cottage, Sea Grit, last
Sunday, in which Maj. Edmund Dubois
and Capts c. Walter Shivers, and c. w.
Barber of this city, participated
Our townsman, B. W. Andrews, who is
one Of the Managers of the Trenton Insane