Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-02-14
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over Inc county.
There are two cases of scarlet fever in
Glassboro.
J. Wilson Hera, of Glassboro, lost a
S135 horse last week.
Robert Ramsey lost fine driving horse
last week from pneumonia.
Adon w. Muller filled his ice house with
nine inch ice off Almonesson Lake last
Friday
w. J. Thompson has housed between
twenty and thirty thousand tons of ice off
Lake Martha.
That portion of Monroe township between
Williamstown and Cecil is being rapidly
settled by Germans-the most thrifty of
our adopted citizens.
The Washington Township Committee
recommend the following appropriations for
next year: Roads, 81 200; old turnpike,
$3.50; incidentals, 5000.
A new Catholic church is to be erected at
Mullica Hill in the Spring. There are
a large number of families of that faith in
Harrison township, who now go to Swedes-
bOro to worship.
Glassboro Board of Trade is endeavoring
to get the Independent Telephone Company
to extend its lines TO that town. This
company has quite an extensive circuit at
and south of Vineland.
Mr. j. NJ Plum, of Westville, has pur-
chased the Steelman hotel at Clayton. Mr.
P. was for many years proprietor of the
Falls hotel, Westville, from which he re-
tired on account of his health, with a
record as painstaking host.
Greenwich Township Committee has
recommended these appropriations for the
coming year. Roads, $500; poor, 5000;
Paulsboro fire company, 500; Gibbstown
fire company, $50.
The Smyrna, Delaware Times says that
the packers Of . art of Delaware,
discouraged ny the Robinson failure, will
only offer S. per ton for tomatoes the COM
ing season, and that the farmers will raise
sweet potatoes rather than take this price.
A man named Zee, of Iona was called
out of the house a few nights ago by an
angry mob of residents, given thrashing
and told to leave town. This he did and
he has not been heard from since. A son
made complaint that his mother had been
whipped by the father.
Assemblyman Blohm, of Salem county
will introduce bill calling for the appro-
priation by our State of $3.50 towards estab-
fishing a sturgeon propagating plant,
similar sums to be appropriated by Della
ware and Pennsylvania. The hatchery
will probably be located at Bristol.
At Frank L. Cares vendue near Mullica
Hill last Friday thieves stole fine robe
and blanket belonging to Nathan Lloyd,
and fine robe, blankets, halters and whips
belonging to Mr.. Care. We believe this is
the first attempt of thieves to prosecute
their business at public sales, and should
prove warning to people having sales.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Monroe Building Association was
held on Friday evening, when the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year
President, w. H. Bodine; vice-president,
John R. Tice secretary and solicitor, H.
K. Bugbee treasurer, E. G. Bodine di-
rectors, J r. Tice, W. c. McIlvaine, H. K.
Bugbee, George Y. Tice, Frank Sharp, G..
H. Garwood, Albert Eldridge, Henry Naabe,
George L. Pfeiffer.
Messrs Chas Smith, Gilbert Kirkbride
and c. 7. Molony appointed to audit the
accounts of Deptford township met last
Friday to perform that duty. They found
the accounts substantially correct, but de-
clined to sign the report at this time be-
cause of the expenditure of $1,000 in
opening the road from Wenonah to the
stone road without authority of law. The
road was regularly laid out, but the Town
ship committee exceeded its authority in
going to the expense of opening same with
0 1t authority of the Town Meeting. Ac-
cording to section 107, general statutes,
expense of this character must be author
lied by the Town Meeting, and appropria-
ton voted. The county has gone to
considerable expense in constructing a
bridge over ''dry stream on this road.