Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-07
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Dempsey advertises seed potatoes.
Ben Martel has put out twenty-four
quail
Mayor I.add has signed the sewer ordi-
nance.
The celebrated Miller-Rambo road case
is before the Supreme Court.
Winter is bearing its full weight in the
lap of spring-120 above zero this morning.
Redwood schools are closed because of
several cases of scarlet fever among the
children.
There is big demand for watch dogs
in Woodbury. this week, and prices are
advancing.
The springs and wells are so low that
many farmers are obliged to haul water
quite a distance for the stock.
Fred Kirby has sold ''Trilby Girl, !"
the prize winning setter, to Brenthenorl
Lathbury, of Philadelphia, for $500.
Next Tuesday will be lonesome day
in Woodbury., especially to the colored
voters who will miss their free semi
annual smokes.
The County Board of Elections will
meet in the Court House to-day and Satur-
day next, from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m, to add
names to the township registry lists.
Mayor Laid favors midnight curfew
ordinance empowering the police to arrest
suspicious characters found on the streets
after midnight, and committing them to
jail till morning.
The Grand Lodge, l. G. Il. NJ, at the
session last week, again appointed Angus
tus Prehl District Deputy Grand Sachem
for District No. 81, that includes Gloucester
City, Mantua and Woodbury..
Henry Starr was placed on trial before
Judge Bowker, of Passaic, last week for
shooting his neighbours Maltese cat. In
pronouncing sentence after conviction, the
Judge said: Jersey law is law. fine you
ten dollars and COSTS"
The family of William Devault, of
Repaupo, has had its share of affliction
recently. Scarlet fever carried off two
children on Sunday within two hours apart
and third and remaining child is very i'll
with the disease. Two other bright chill
dren died some time ago.
Chosen Freeholders Jones, Silvers,
Stranger, Hendrickson, Bender and Walton
Yesterday reviewed the action of Surveyors
of the Highways in laying out the new
road from Wenonah to Sewell, and by a
unanimous vote reversed the Surveyors.
The project is now dead for one year, at
least.
-Haddonfeld has contracted with a
new home company to light that village at
$50 per annum for 1900 candle power arc
lights, and $18 for incandescent lights
That town now pays the South jersey Gas,
Electric and Traction Company $120 for
1000 candle power arc lights and $40 for
incandescent lights. The whole matter
was surprise to the South Jersey Electric
Traction people the franchise being granted
and contract made at the same meeting by
unanimous vote.
-Pensauken township officials brought
down Bell Telephone stock last Tuesday in
genuine Mrs. Nation style. The Bell
Company had treated the Township Com
mittee in contemptous way, ignored
injunctions etc., until committeeman
Isaiah Hatch, Kellen Bennett and John
Pidgeon felt compelled to do something to
uphold not only the majesty of the law but
the dignity of the Office of Committeeman.
To that end theyemployed partyof linemen
from an opposition company, and by four
p. m. Monday 2S5 big sixty-foot poles,
loaded with wires, were in a tangled mass
along the highway from Bideman's to
Hilton's farms, in Pensauken township.
The damage to the Bell Company is esti-
mated at 10000