Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-20
LOCAL BRIEFS.
The new timetable is published.


Miss Lydia Runyan,o of German Valley,
is visiting Mrs. E. J. Frye.
The annual financial report of the
township OF Mantua is advertised this week.
One of Norman Gray's children is
seriously i'll, attended by Drs. Wilson and
Reading.
VIM. T. Madara, of Redwood, has
adjourned his vendue to Monday next, the
oath instant
Thomas Black sold twenty three horses
at his sale at Westville last Wednesday at
an average price Of $40.
On February 5, 1902, the first coal was
burned in the United States, and the cen
4ennial was celebrated in several Penn
sylvania towns.
-GeJ your supper at the Central Baptist
Church tonight 1t will be served from
6 to O'Clock. Chicken salad fried oysters,
coffee, ETC., 35c.
Don't forget the chicken salad and
fried oyster supper in the Central Baptist
Church tonight, from 6 to O'Clock.
Tickets 35 cents.
The Agricultural Experiment Station
at New Brunswick has just issued Bulletin
No. 155 relative to orchard pests. 1t can
be had free by anyone interested in the
subject.
The city of Salem is overrun with
ttramps the authorities having committed
ever two hundred to the county Jail during
January at cost to the county of nearly
$500.
The rural mail carriers are now under
the civil service rules, but at the present
salary of $500 each carrier, those in our
county find it not profitable job, as they
are obliged to keep two horses.
Editor Foster of the Elmer Times is
authority for the statement that churches
generally are having hard time to pay
expenses, and he is an authority on such
matters. Yet some fellow who yells for
pay, will stand up and shout, Prosperity
"A man up in Warren county surprised
"A large party that came to surprise him last
week. When the tables was set with the
GOOD things brought by the surprisers, the
old man of the house demanded quarter
from each before he would permit them to
sit down to the table
At meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the Gloucester County Sunday
school Association, held in this city on
saturday last, it was decided to hold the
Saying Conference on April q, next.
f, THE place of this conference has not yet
lbeen decided upon.
Samuel E. Warrick, of Redwood, is
about fine most resourceful individual the
tax collecting authorities of Clayton have
ever tackled. He has appealed the levy OF
that borough to the State Board Of Tax
ation and lost; to the Supreme Court, and
lost. and now has secured another hearing
before the State Board of Taxation. In
the mean time, the Borough has sold his
property at tax sale.
A certificate incorporating the Pressed
Steel Speciality Company" the principal
office of which is at WeRonah, was filled
in the Clerks office on the 18th instant.
The incorporators are Oliver G. Knipe, OF
Norristown, Pa; John p. Knobelock, Il.
WnizeI Swint; Richard C. Carlton, of
PHILADELPHIA. and John ]. Kroner, OF
7Wenonah. The object of the corporation
is To manufacture and sell pressed steel
Iball bearings.
-SoR2e people have become unnecessarily
charmed at a report that Woodbury. is on
,J~etverce of a coal famine, the report even
bein0 that there is not one hundred tons OF
this winter necessity in the possession OF
orr four dealers. One of our dealers in
forms us that there is no immediate cause
for alarm in that direction. While it is a
t.act that orders for coal are slow In being
,stied. for the alleged reason that the rail-
roads are short of cars, yet the supply Is
ample for quite seige
The trolley people succeeded admir-
ably last Monday in keeping their cars
s.,oyino Their powerful sweeper, appear
;;ne more like q great moving bank OF snow
thon ANYTHING else, made frequent trips
S-1ar tho main line, and cars were kept
.,o,7;no with considerable regularity until
~ when banks formed and the snow
S.sesoe too heavy to be moved with a
sweeuer. These were promptly opened oy
ssboyelers. however, and traffic was only
temporarily delayed.
Tho Glassboro Enterprise ha: & somehow
a;soovered that the present staeding OF
..so,,Ia trees in this county is c. able OF
.. valuable crop of maj sugar
p r. svrnn' and advises those owning these
trees to tap them and get rich. That
sA,oyvs how little the editor OF the G Il.
tncvVs about maple sugar making, De
ssanse there amt sugar naples enough III
this county to produce sap enough lor
.s;nele boiling. Years ago the Northern
indians produced the major portion o.
mamie sugar. They stored the sap 10
GREAT logs beloved vut, IN whl9h the lIttlf
fn 91is 9spopted and swan. When enough
l lai was storea for boiling it was purified
ssa S being strained through two Indian Indian
s ~ and poured into hugh Kettles
' S.na red1ced to sugar, an article in high
. .ana among the Four Hundred OF Late
wears wears the industry Of maple sugar making akin,
has been taken up by the s. white Peo 4ht
Of ofs the tier Of Northern States and tn.
Drod Inc is held in high favor whenever
placed on sale,