Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-01-10
This is the calendar age.

This is the calendar age.
The Chosen Freeholders will meet next
Thursday.
Grocer Sithens is house fast with a
severe cold.
Our old citizen. James Munyan, is
quite i'll to-day.
Persons can find sale for printed but
unused postal cards.
County Superintendent Eldridge adver-
tises Teachers examinations.
Contractor E. P. Henry has about COM
pleted the extension of wing walls at the
bridge.
A number of good Gloucester county
farms are yet for rent. See advertising
columns.
Some of the papers are wrangling over
which town produced the first twentieth
century baby.
A case of diphtheria was reported to
the Board of Health OH Tuesday, from
Evergreen avenue.
&C. /. Hood & Co., of Sarsaparilla fame,
have sent out the usual handsome calendar.
Get one at your druggists.
An epidemic of grip is sweeping over
the country, severe cases having ten
dency to typhoid fever.
r. D. Hughes, Frank Heritage and
Andrew Carey were elected trustees of the
M. E. church Monday evening last.
John M. Henderson and John Rachor,
Jr.. will serve on the U. S. Grand jury
that convenes at Trenton next Tuesday.
Sweet potatoes are very low in price,
for this season. The top of the market are
81. so per barrel, with the average at SIPS.
Between thirty and fort of Reeves
Merritt's little friends gave him surprise
last Friday evening, and in return he gave
them surprisingly good time.
John Hampton has George Mankin and
his workmen painting properties on Broad
and on High streets, and 2. Zell & Son are
painting the Lord house on High street.
Harry Evans, of Williamsttown, on
Tuesday last bought from R. G. Stevenson
a farm between Turnerville and Cross
Reys. of about one hundred acres, fol
50, 200.
The South Jersey Gas, Electric and
Traction Company, that controls the light
facilities OF seventeen towns, will make
Camden its headquarters and establish in
that city large coke plant.
Undertaken S. r. Budd made his
funeral equipment complete and up-to-date
by the addition yesterday of new So, DOC
twentieth century hearse from the shops Of
A. Geissel & Sons, Philadelphia.
The Court House has been treated to
new front doors. They are fine doors, but
a good many people express the opinion
4 reaI q
to make them as good as new.
One Of the finest of the many fine
calendars that have come to our office this
wear. is that issued by the proprietors Of
The Chalfonte, Atlantic City, for which we
thank Councilman Leeds, one of the pro
prietors.
There is a movement on foot to form
the hollow ware glass factories of South
Jersey into trust and operate them under
one management. If the scheme is success
ful there will be some smokeless stacks in
South Jersey in the future.
"A Gettysburg Justice of the Peace
advertised for wife, and has received 265l
replies. He has sold the list of names to 9
matrimonial agency and bought wheel
The ladies must scratch this fellow off theiI
list.
Amy of our readers having data as t.
Woodbury. at the beginning of the nine
teeth century will confer an especial favol
ON the present generation and incidentally
on the publisher of the DEMOCRAT, by in
forming us, as we have in preparation fo
publication a paper ou that subject.
Following are the officers of Deptfort
Free Library: President, Miss Lucille
andrews; Vice President, John W. Kelley
Secretary and Treasurer, Lewis Starr
Library Committee, Mr. E. I. Broadway
Miss Lydia Griscom, Miss Charlotte Mat
lock, Mr.. Henry Morgan, Mr.. John w
Kelly.