Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-07
WESTYILLE-NEWBOLD.

/ Thieves entered the stables Of express
man Elwood Lacey some time Thursday
night last and stole set OF single harness,
and storm apron belonging to Mr.. Lacey,
pair of shoes belonging to DR.. NEWMAN,
father-in-law to Mr.. Lacey. No trace or
clue has yet been found.
The pipe organ of the NJ P. Church is
an assured thing.
Miss Edna Pratt returned from Asbury
Park last evening.
David Davis wishes to announce to the
people of Westville and Newbold and
South Westyille that he has reopened his
shop at Broad aud Church streets, and will
be glad to see his old patrons again. He
will start his wagon on August II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r. Barker have re-
turned from trip to Newark, N. j.
Miss Sadie Horner was the guest of Miss
Edith Schrader.
Miss NJ Albert is on the sick list
Mr.. Charles K. Lacey, of Portsmouth,
Virginia, is visiting his brother, Elwood
Lacey.
Mrs. BERTHE Snyder is entertaining friends
from Wilmington.
Miss Name and Rose Foy are the guests
of their sister, Mrs Miskelly, Of South
Westville.
Mrs. A. Kingston, of Phila., is visiting
at Newbold.
Mrs. Ehrenzeller who has been sick is
now conyalescent.
August 10 is farmers day at Washington
Park.
A jolly party of young people of New
bold went on the steamer Columbia to
Augustine Park, Thursday
Rip Van Wynkle yawned; then he drew
up his two bony fists and rubbed the sleep
Of fourteen or fifteen years from his steel
gray eyes.
One more deep yawn and he raised him
self to his elbow. CHANGING to the right
and then to the left as if to be assured of
some fancied condition, he uttered a cry of
disgust and casting himself again upon the
crushed weeds that had been his couch for
| so many winters and summers was lost in
| contemplation.
| Rips dream had been Of the utopia.
| When first he stretched his weary limbs
their length upon the soft receptive earth,
the birds were singing blithly in the tree
tops, the bees were gathering the sweets
from nearby blooms, and nature was
generally serene, people were discussing
great things.
| The little town in which he lived and OF
which he was justly proud had recently
been surveyed and well proportional,
stately lines of trees already adorned either
side Of the yellow roadways; mansions
| Imaginary were beginning to raise them
selves at respectable distances along the
avenues the green lawns and ever-blooming
roses were pertaining the atmosphere with
their fragrance.
| Was it wonderful then that Rip should
fall asleep with these conditions Of mind
and dream of an Eden. Yet his awaken
| ing is rude shock, and as he lies back,
probably never again to raise, one hears
| him sigh.
Methinks yon streets are poorly kept.
Some cinders lily spread,
| With brick well interspersed,
Make unsuitable track for up-to-date We
hicles.
Ok carts and like might relish such way.
Rip signs heavily, and imagines the SEN
sation of crossing such a highway with
tattered shoes such as his. Again he lapses:
Be that dwelling place for man?
My sleepy eyes must mock me, sure,
Such thing is fit for horse or cattle, but no
more.
| recollect, if memory favor well,
Aud such is what my comrades used to tell,
That this fair town should see a dearth
OF 'shacks'' below certain kind and worth
| see few grassy lawns well kept and green,
But rather are my eyes panied at the sight
OF rank weeds grown up, five feet quite
Rip stretches out limb and pulls a
grimace as the stiffness of that member
advises him that the malaria microbe had
gotten in its work. He blames himself
for sleeping besides a swamp where germs
do propagate, where moss-grown pools and
stagnant eddies are potent with disease.
what in a name" Rip again turns to
reflect:
'Twould seem that yonder name had seen
neglect,
IT'S RACED and must be far decayed,
Its characters can no longer be read.
What pity that these things should have
to be,
Such person who this vast estate would
keep
Must be to all quite fast asleep.
r. V. W. has fallen asleep but we hope
he may awaken again and find things more
agreeable to himself