Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-14

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Cross Keys has telephone exchange
in Hurff's store.
The Matlack homestead is being
painted by Barclay Mankins.
"A new time table went into effect on
the w. J. & S. S. r. r. on March s.
The M. E. Conference appointments
will be found on the fourth page of this
issue.
The March meeting of the Board of
Education will be held in the Academy
tonight.
We thank friends in the various town.
ships for our complete report of Tuesdays
elections.
Geo. Mosbrucker, of Mickleton, writes
us that he has good watch dog for sale at
a reasonable price.
Last Sunday night the first thunder
storm of the season shook the earth, and
wet it thoroughly, too
Letters of administration on the estate
of the late James NJ Roe were granted by
the Surrogate on Wednesday to the widow.
Geo. W. Cattell advertises the Victor
Sprayer, and as he is at present unable to
get about to show it, invites those in need
TO call at MS residence.
Senator Sewell has sent a variety of
garden seeds to Hon. d. O. Watkins for
distribution, and those desiring same can
be supplied for the asking.
IF it is constitutional to continue
officials in office for nine months beyond
the period for which they were elected.
why not for nine years? Why bother about
elections, anyhow?
The annual school meeting of West
Deptford will be held in Town Hall, Thoro-
fare, on Tuesday, March 10, at $50 p. m.
Three members of the Board of Education
will be elected, and So, 555 asked for.
If Meeker don't intervene, Woodbury.
will elect three members of the Board of
Education next Tuesday evening The
election will be held in the Town Hall, the
polls being open from to o'clock p. m.
"A. J. higgins has leased No. 224 South
Broad street, and in addition to his line of
gents furnishing goods, has added splendid
line of agate, tin, and china ware, and
five and ten cent counters. See his adver-
tisement
The result of the vaccination census
thus far taken indicates that about seventy
five per cent. of the people have been
recently vacinated. The enumerators
find considerable strong sentiment against
vaccination.
List of advertised letters for the week
ending March IL, 1901: James Connolly,
Mrs. Susan A. Davis, Catherine Doherty,
Charles Lent, Harry Watson, Mr.. Wright.
Persons calling for the above letters will
please say advertised.
john r. Wick has arranged to open a
branch of his Woodbury. Variety Store at
King and Bergen Sts., Gloucester City, and
expects to be prepared to begin business
there about the goth inst. VIM. Edwards
will be an assistant in his Woodbury. store
Before daylight last Friday morning,
= milkman Harry Smith met with painful
accident His wagon is enclosed with
glass, and one front wheel gave way, throw
ing him through one of the lights. Besides
bruisihg his face badly, his left hand was
seriously cut by broken glass.
As indicated in these columns last
week, Woodbury. was on Saturday last
officially declared free from smallpox, and
the embargo laid by the Board of Health
on public gatherings was raised. Church
services were held Sunday, and the public
schools resumed sessions last Monday.
office address this Spring will please men
ton the old as we'll as the new address
in notifying us of the change Occasionally
we can locate a name without serious
trouble, and again it is an endless task to
locate name among sixteen hundred other
names.
The Camden, Gloucester and Wood
bury Trolley Company has decided to build
an iron draw bridge in the Timber Creek.
An electric motor will turn the bridge. AT
the present time the bridge is operated by
hand power and causes much delay to
travel when boats are passing up and down
the creek. The new bridge will be big
improvement. The trestle over the flats
will be- filled in and strengthened during
the next month.
The Board of Health has raised the
quarantine ON the Keegan family, and the
male members have returned to their regular
employments. The patients confined at
the Wills home are all doing nicely, and
will soon be ready for liberation. The
expense of visitation of this disease, which
the Board of Health must meet, includes
maintenance, value of clothing or furniture
destroyed, and expense of nurse. Those
three items, and the expense OF fumigation,
form the heavy items in the expense of the
Health Board in fighting contagious dis
eases. Persons quarantined may also de-
mand compensation for time lost.
The first Of the course of University
Extension Lectures, under the auspices Of
the teachers of the public schools, was held
in the Central Baptist church Tuesday
evening, the subject being Thomas Car
isle Principal Frey presided and after
stating that the object of the course was te
cultivate a taste for the best literature, he
introduced the lecturer, DR.. Frederick
Henry Sykes. The audience was deprived
of the full pleasure of the lecture because
of the non-arrival Of the gas to operate the
lantern apparatus, but the subject was ably
and critically handled to the edifcation Of
the large audience. The next lecture will
be held in the same room next Tuesday
evening, when the subject will be Newman,