Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-09-26

Charles S. Jones has been heard from
in the South
w. A. Martinez has new, up-to-date
bakers wagon.
VIM. c. Fox advertises a sale of
horses, COWS, etc.
The chestnut crop is said to be very
light this year.
Am additional section of lock boxes are
to be put in the post Office.
Thomas Tice advertises sale of horses
and cattle at Mt. Ephram.
The Interstate Fair at Trenton will
be held from Sept. 80 to Oct. 4.
The September meeting of the Board
of Education will be held In the Academy
tonight.
Editor Sparks, of the Constitution, is
suffering from a painful but, we hope,
brief illness.
IS. R. Budd has sold the trotter
fAnte- Bird, (" record 2.25, to Mr.. Wilt, of
Philadelphia, for $500.
Two Phillipsburg, N. j., boys, aged
ten and fourteen years, died last week
from cigarette smoking.
The election notice and dates of meet
ing of the various Boards of Registry and
Election are made this week.
Capt. J. F. Truitt has adjourned the
sale of the Sampson harrington farm to
next Monday, the Both instant.
On Friday last Sheriff Springer sold
the Mullica Hill Hotel to John w. Jessup,
for So, 600.
Augustus Prehl will soon have pub
lie sale of household goods, wagons, ETC.,
the date to be announced next week.
There is yet no move to place a local
ticket in the field to be elected next
November 5. There are difficulties in the
way
From all over the country come reports
of cases Of smallpox, indicating neces-
sity of constant watchfulness by those
charged with health affairs.
Prank Allen and Adon Muller went
fishing in Boody's pond near Turnerville
last Saturday, and Mr.. Allen performed
the rare feat of landing a five pound black
bass.
The Republican Gubernatorial Con-
vention will be held in Trenton to-day.
B. w. Andrews, Edmund Dubois and
Harry Glading.
1t is not lawful to shoot duck from
boats propelled by any power except oars,
and Game Warden Muller is patroling the
river in his yacht on, the lookout for vio-
Eaters of this feature of the act.
Fires were placed under three furnaces
OF the Woodbury. Glass Works last week
one of the big furnaces and two dinkeys.
Work will be begun in the dinkeys on Fri
day and the big house on Saturday.
Joseph F. Taylor, of First election
precinct of Glassboro, being about to move
to Millville, Mr.. A. S. Mann has been APP
pointed to succeed him on the Board of
Registry and Election of that district.
"A conversation, running about as
follows, was overheard on the street one
morning this week: ''How much did you
get for your vote last Saturday, Sanbo ?''
"a dollar and half" ''Umph, Umph p
Last year the Sabbath-school of the
First Baptist church gave an exposition or
fair, and the success of that venture has
prompted its continuance, on this evening
Thursday, and tomorrow evening Fri
day..
An Italian laborer, working in the
sewer trench on Wood street had one of
his legs broken on Thursday by cave in
of earth. Dr. D. Campbell reduced the
fractule. and had him removed to Phila-
delphia hospital.
Mrs. Prof. Ecret VanWalther was
stricken suddenly i'll a few days ago, and
the physician diagnosed the illness as
appendicitis. She was taken to DR.. Prices
private HOSPITAL and operated on last
Thursday The operation was successful,
and her recovery is assured.
List of advertised letters for the week
ending Sept. %, 1901 Alexander Baker,
Gertie A. Coffman Mrs. Giuseppe Coupi,
Charles Eldridge, S. Foreman, Mrs. Thomas
Hill, Joseph Jordon, Mrs Annie Miller,
Isidor Turner, r. K, John Wilkins.
Persons calling for the above letters will
please say advertised.
Less than one hundred dollars, spent
by the Improvement League Of Montclair.
New Jersey, has done more to cleanse and
beautify the place, says the town council,
than the thousands of dollars the town has
expended in conventional ways. The league
began by offering prizes for clean and
orderly back yards and alleys, and went on
to give prizes for the best vine-covered
fence, the finest vegetable plot and the
most beautiful Towering plant Then it
organized the children to pick up vast
paper from the streets, keep the school
yards neat, and ''tidy up'' the vacant lots.
In six months Montclair became notice
ably attractive place, and wholesome one,
too, for the death-rate had perceptibly
lessened. like methods will yield similar
results in any other town, and it will not
be necessary to spend much money provided
a few people are willing to use inspired
common sense.