Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-04-17
LOCAL BRIEFS.


LOCAL BRIEFS.
The big shad net will be cast at Wash
ingtOn Park to-day
Gus Prehl is having concrett
pavement laid in front of his residence
on Cooper street. by Dan'l L. Pine.
Butter has got to forty cents pound
hence those people who have turned from a
meat diet to eggs, cannot have their hen
fruit fried in it,
Uncle Sam is an applicant for post
Office building in Woodbury. particulars
as to which are set forth in an advertise
ment in another column.
Fish and Game Warden Muller has
begun the Sunday night patrol of the river
with both eyes open for yiolators of the
Sunday embargo against the gillers.
in an advertisement, the Woodbury.
r. E. NJ. Loan Association give notice OF
proposed amendments of the Constitution
to pc submitted to the annual meeting on
May IA.
"A number of fine farms in Deptford
township are without tenants this year,
among them being the Davis and Shields
farms near Woodbury., and the Synnott farm
near Westville
John McCleary5 the SewelI nursery
man, put out large number of fruit and
ornamental trees in Woodbury. Tuesday.
The people are learning where to obtain
good trees at right}prices.
Mrs Clara Phipps, widow Of the late
Ellis Phipps, of Philadelphia, has bought a
desirable building lot on Cooper street,
near Woodland avenue, and will build a
p handsome resideRce thereon.
The surviving members of Gen'l How
ell Post, No 81, G. A. R., met Tuesday
evening to arrange for the Memorial Day
Aserviee. The program will be fully ma
Qred at a meeting to be held next Tuesday
kening.
Nine weeks ago, paper hanger Gibson
and injured the knee cap of his left
b. Local applications were tried I'M
eessfully, and last Saturday he sub
ted to a surgical operation at the hands
Philadelphia specialist
Road Supervisor John c. Budd's term
Expire next November, and already
Aare several candidates for the place,
them being: John c. Budd. J. Wood
bid, E. C. Cattell, Lewis S. Stranger
eorge C. Leonard.
5nry w Morgan has notified the
IF Directors OF the Woodbury. r. M.
Is, he cannot longer serve as one of
hditors, and Cashier II. S. Talman
len chosen his successor
Arly in the morning on Tuesday last,
Chew, of West Deptford township,
mad dog in front of his house.
st was a shepard dog, brown in
Ii medium sized, and stranger in
thborhood Beware of mad dogs
of arranging the interior of the
Id Mechanics bank to accommo-
" Trust and Safe Deposit Com
ressing rapidly under direction
N Thompson Allen. 1t is ex-
company will be organized
th of May.
Artised letters for the week
1902:-Charles Baynard,
la Fisher, Geo. E. Hart,
fertzfeld, Mrs. Rachel
Ackard, Paulin Powers,
ge Sawyer, Miss May
her, John B. Staegel,
ing your Saturdays
the sale of home
les, candy and hot
Baptist Church,
he Young Peoples
eople earnestly de-
ir work, as the pro-
ae devoted to a fund
ir new church.
bat the decision by
oh held that the
a in no wise affected
election officers will
les of the State about
is talk of calling a
he legislature to save the
strike at Bridgeton and
oused the glass workers all
to action They will hold
Getting and parade at Bridge
sturday night, and during this
unions throughout the State will
yial meetings to select committees
5n Governor Murphy to urge en-
Int of the Child's Labor and Cash
Ment laws.
1.-THE April meeting Of the Board Of
Chosen Freeholders will be held to-day.
Business that has cast its shadow In adj
vance Of the meeting is confined to county
road construction, and includes three
petitions. one for road from Barnsboro to
Athe Salem Co. line over the old Plttstown
A1rnpike. the other one stone road IRON
Woodbury. to Red Bank, on the line of the
Bid turnpike, and the last from Jefferson to
Paulsboro. Late reports indicate that there
Is a hitch in the last-named petition. The
Board and officers will dine with the Pauls
boro Traction Company at Newton Hotel.
Petitions are on file in the Post Office
Depart ment at Washington for two Rura
Delivery routes radiating from Thorofare-
one to cover the Mantua Grove section Of
the township, and the other the Red Bank
section If the people interested desire
service from Thorofare, nobody will object
but naturally quicker service would be
secured by making Woodbury. the point Of
distribution, because Woodbury. is the
distributing office for Thorofare, and now
the postal Office of majority of the peo-
nile in the districts covered by these routes
in the office of Joseph J. Summerill
Esq. Yesterday, transfer was made of thu
HURT Weatherby farm, of fifty acres, II
the Borough of Swedesboro, to Davie
Berryman, of Philadelphia, representing
syndicate headed by w. j. Peal, for tn
sum of S15, 1000. The farm is situated cas-
of Swedesboro r. r. station and contain
no waste land. The syndicate is now en-
gagged in laying the farm out in bulldlni
lots, which will soon be placed on th
market. 1t is estimated that about fou
hundred lots can be made. Surveyor Car
ter, Of this city, is mapping the tract