Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-26
LOCAL BRIEFS.

County Clerk Ridgway filled his Toe
house on Tuesday.
John Curran will reside in Woodbury.
next year.
The DEMOCRAT hopes its readers al
enjoyed merry Christmas.
The City Health Code will be found on
the fourth page of this paper.
Woodbury. Basket Ball team scored
another victory on Christmas Day.
-Chas. Howell has bought Thos. Wal
lace's oyster restaurant, on Cooper street.
The public schools held exercises ap-
propriate to the season on Tuesday after
noon.
-Four and half inch ice was gathered
last Saturday by Messrs. Ogden and Chas.
knight.
Poultry dealer Allen, Of Glassboro,
paid $25, 900 to Gloucester county poultry
raisers the past two weeks.
Tie public schools Of woodbury. havs
q holiday vacation from noon Tuesday,
Dec. "a, to the morning Of Jan. 2.
john Curran has sold his thirty-one
sore farm in West Deptford township, on
Woodbury. creek, to Howard Budd, for
81, 100.
"A blooded setter dog shipped to F. H.
Kirby from New York, was lost en- route
from a box in which it was securely
fastened.
Thomas P. Williams, Of Grenloch, is
building Jacob Gunther's new house at the
forks of the Almonesson and Blackwood
roads.
John Plum, Of Clayton Hotel, enter
tanned members of Forest Grove Lodge,
A. F. and A. NJ, to the number Of forty
four on Wednesday night last.
No business is so good but that good
advertising will make it better: Take
space in the DEMOCRAT next year and test
the truth Of that statement.
The Woodbury. post Office and express
department of the w. J. & S. r. R. report
IA great increase in demand on their facili-
tiles over any previous holiday season.
Uncle Sans local mail representatives
had an unusually heavy Christmas burden,
hut. they discharged their arduous task
without complaint in a way pleasing to
the public.
The leaden heel of Justice has at last
Ianded on the chicken thieves in Green
witch township, and arrests are scheduled
for to-day, and a hearing before Justice
Cowgill tonight.
The most unfortunate feature Of the
sewer complications in Woodbury. was that
the families of some of the workmen went
without Christmas membranes because
wages earned were unpaid.
in the damage suit of G. G.. Green VS..
ReS't Sellers, and others, Judge Jessup
gave Judgment for the plaintiff. A cross
suit. listed in the Camden courts, will be
tried at the next term.
At Jacob Gunther's sale last Thursday,
clover hay sold at SIS per ton; crab grass,
$3.50 per ton; corn, $50. per bushel; citron
seed, 45e. per o.; tomato seed, CSC. per OF.
egg plant seed, 34c. per OF.
John Kerns, near Mt. Royal, had a
horse stolen from his stable last Monday
night. As colored man passed through
the toll-gate below Woodbury. on horseback,
about IL o'clock that night, suspicion rests
on him.
List Of advertised letters for the week
ending Dec. 81, 1901: w. N. Bell, William
a Dorsey, John T. Evans, James Gallo
way, Alice Jackson, Carrie C. johnson, G..
N. Knopp, Mrs. John Lippinoott, Sinigi
Nauno, Charles A. Price.
-Abram James, Of Grenloch, o milk
shipper, was find $50 and costs by Justice
Barnaby ON Saturday, on a charge Of viola
Hing the Pure Food Law by the sale OF i'm
pure milk. The complaint was made by
she Inspector Of the State Board Of Health,
w. S. Townsend.
1t was quiet Christmas in Wood
bury. Business was suspended, and ex-
ant dr1r tto md mai
hour, the streets were almost deserted. An
hour or two of the early morning the sun
shone brightly, but remained Obscured the
remainder Of the day.
Two farms Of the John s.. Denstsn
estate, in West Deptford Township, were
sold at public sale last Saturday. The farm
Of 90 acres, at Jobstown, was bought by
Ellis Reed for $1,000, and the homestead
afSrm Of SO acres, near Mantua Grove, by
Shuster, for 5000.
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