Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-01-17

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M. B. Lippineott and wife and Cashier
Talman are grippe stricken.
Brooks Bros. will have a sale of horses
on the Both of January.
The telegraph Office has been moved to
the railroad station.
Mrs. A. S. Emmel, of Salem, called
on Woodbury. friends Wednesday.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Central
Baptist church will give supper Feb. IA.
Pastor Wendall, of the First Baptist
church, moved into The parsonage on Tues
day.
Rachel B. Postol has purchased the
U. G. Eastlack farm of 81 acres, near Al
monesson, for 81, 500.
Gus. Prehl is having the former A. S.
Wilson store put in fine condition for the
new telephone headquarters.
VIM. H. Taylor is going to leave the
Watkins farm and John Anderson will
occupy it, Mr.. Taylor will probably move
on farm near Red Bank.
Elmer has organized fire company
and will secure new fire apparatus at once.
No argument is so effective to promote fire
protection as disastrous fire.
The Consumers Gas Company will
soon convass the city with view to putting
in gas stoves. Every person who has ever
used a gas stove speaks well of them.
The Salem freeholders have offered a
reward of $500 for the capture Of Lee Bay
lor, the farm hand who murdered fellow
farm hand near Woodstown month ago.
The general public will be interested
in the program of the Teachers Associa-
ton in the Court House next Saturday, as
well as teachers. The session will begin at
10 a. m.
"A. S. Wilson has moved into the Alb
bott store corner of Cooper street and Hen
dry's Court The room has been neatly
papered and painted, and made very
attractive.
The young people Of the Central Bap-
fist church will hold a sale of homemade
bread, cakes, pies and candy on Saturday
next, commencing at IL a. m. Hot bis
cults on sale at 5 O'Clock.
Emanuel Won Greninger, of Paulsboro,
employed at the phosphate works, returned
from work last night in usual health, went
to bed, and at o'clock this morning was
found dead. He was about 60 years old
and is survived by his wife.
Capt G. Walter Shivers, of Company
l, has offered to take from fifty to sixty
school boys and give them an hours mill
tary drill and instruction in military tao
tics week. The Board of Education will
consider the proposition at to-night's meet
ing.
The remains of Edward Pierson arr
expected to reach home from Manila to-day
or tomorrow, and then arrangements will
be made for the funeral. Company l will
attend the services, escort the body to the
cemetery, and fire the military salute o.
three volleys over the grave The inter
ment will be at Green Cemetery.
Every householder in Woodbury. i.
probably aware that dumping ashes in the
streets is prohibited by city ordinance, and
if there are any residents who are no
aware of that fact, considerations of wha
is publicly decent and what is not SHOULD
deter them from doing SO.
Doctors and undertakers in Trenton
state that they have seldom known thu
death rate of that city to be so low as a
the present time. One aged practitione
declares this to be the healthiest winter il
so years. This desirable condition is by M
means confined to the state capital. Ii
one Jersey town of 5000 inhabitants, say
the True 1mericap, where there are tw,
undertakers, there has been but one dealt
since last September
Consul Plumacher, at Maracabo, makes
suggestion in his report to the State Depart
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interest New Jersey and other mosquit.
afflicted States of the North. He states tina
he knows from personal experience that
the castor oil plant is growing around an,
residence no mosquito or other blood-suck
ing insect will trouble the dwellers therein
He advises that the bean be cultivate'
extensively in New Jersey and other State
where the climate is suited to its growth
1t is probable that the Agricultural Depart
ment will be overrun with orders for thes
mosquito-killers.
The annual meeting OF the West Jerse
Surveyors association was held in Candle
on Tuesday last, at which biographies
sketches were read of Job S. Haines an
i J. Simpson Africa both deceased mem
bers of the association. A committee wa
also appointed to prepare papers on th
rights Of the State to riparian lands, an
to confer with the Mercer county author
tiles in reference to placing meridian line
in Trenton. A committee was also az
pointed to prepare biographical sketch {
Gen'l Elias Wright. The officers electe
were: President, Henry S. Haines, {
Burlington; treasurer, James Lippincott
Of Mount Holly; secretary, Henry ]. Shel
man, of Mount Holly.