Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-13
LOCAL BRIEFS.

See adver of Green's Opera House
entertainment tonight.
The financial statement of Logan
township is advertised this week.
Mrs. Theresa Hughes moved from
Woodbury. to Mantua last Monday.
Read the New York Horse Manure adj
vertisement. Prices have dropped.
The public schools, banks and post
office had a holiday yesterday, Lincoln's
birthday.
The February meeting of the City
Board of Education will be held in the
Academy tonight.
Geo. W. Crothers sold twenty-eight
horses at Woodstown, on Feb. 1, at prices
ranging from SIS to 5000.
DR.. B. Kirby, who has been i'll a week
with pneumonia, is believed to have passed
the danger point.
The Gloucester boat to Phila. was held
for three houEs in-the ice on the up trip to
Chestnut street Wednesday morning.
The ladies in charge of the supper at
the Presbyterian Church recently held,
find that their net proceeds are $170,01
The ice gathered this week in this
county varies in thickness from six to
twelve inches, the best that has been
housed.
The engagement of Mr. Frank G.
VOORHEES,, of Boston, formerly of this city,
and Miss Delore Villiers, of Cambridge, is
announced.
Great interest is still manifested in the
revival meetings in the M. E. Church where
services are still being conducted, with
good results, by Pastor Moore.
in the teachers examination for county
certificates last Friday and Saturday, there
were thirty-fve applicants. The numbeE
of successful ones has not yet been ascer-
tanned.
Prank Hendrickson has bought the
Burris Turner farm of IA acres in Deptford
township from Mr.. DeSano for So. 500. A
little over year ago this farm sold for
$4,000.
List Of advertised letters for the week
ending Feb 10, 1902: Mrs. Winfield Allen,
Clara Betson, Thomas Caulfeld. Persons
calling for the above letters will please say
advertised.
One of the six new trolley cars was
nut on the road on Tuesday. They are
elegant coaches, and each has a smoking
compartment. 1t will be a pleasure to ride
in these moving palaces.
Rev. C. P. P. Fox, wife and son, of
Morris Otsego county, n. Y, are visiting
Mr.. Fox's cousin, Mrs. John Redfield. Mr..
Fox was native of Upper Pittsgrove town
ship, Salem county.
Marvin Davis, of Clayton, has bought
the Coleman House, West Orange, and
already taken possession. Mr.. G. A. Davis
has bought the Railroad House, South
Orange, and will take possession March 1.
At the sale of horses at Green's stock
farm on Tuesday, ''Timmy Naylor" was
bought by D. L. Sweeten for 5000; Lady
Bluff'' by P. Herring, of Phila., for ST. so,
and Edna May by Harry I. Grant for $780,
The wife of VIM. F. Stone, superin-
tendent Of the Woodbury. Manufacturing
Co., was stricken with paralysis in front of
the residence of her sister at 9TH and Di-
vision streets, Camden, Monday afternoon,
and died on Wednesday.
THE flies Of the Fairton branch of the
Woodbury. Bottle Works were put out on
Saturday last, throwing about thirty
blowers and thirty-five to forty other labor
ers out of work. This is one of the pros
,perity boons of 1902.
The John Stewardson travelling schol-
arship, worth $1,000, was last Friday
awarded to John Molitor, employed in
the Office of Architects Cope & Steward
son, Philadelphia. Mr.. Molitor resides on
woodland Avenue, this city, adjoining Maj.
ID. t. Matheis.
The ladies' of the Central Baptist
Church will serve a chicken salad and fried
toyster supper Thursday evening, Feb. 20,
from 6 to o'clock. Menu-chicken salad,
4 fried oysters, biscuits, coffee, celery, cram
berries, cake Tickets Boo. Ice cream l0c
extra.
THE pupils of Mantua Grove school
will have on entertainment in the school
house ON the 18th inst 1t will consist of
singing, speaking dialogues. etc, Adj
mission adults, 15c.; children, 10c. All
are invited
The Blasius Aid Society has filed ar
t;cles of incorporation with the County
Clerk and James G. Warren, Charles
picard. Augustus Queren, f. w. Miller
and P. F. Rice are named as incorporators.
THE society will give an entertainment on
March 10.
The penny-a-iner are at it again.
~rbeir latest sensation is that Woodbury. Is
moor fund is exhausted and the poor of the
eitv are in dire straits. The difficulty with
this penny-a-liner is that he ignores for
day his prosperity story. How can there
be 50 many poor people here as to exhaust
the poor fund by Ground Hog Day, and yet
everybody be prosperous and rich? Dance
mn. oh We penny-a-liner.
~ Wilson T. Fitzgerald reports the sale
~ the Eagle Point farm, containing about
10 acres, with large river front, fol
sS0 900. The names Of the purchasers are
Dot made public, but the sale was consu
, mo- l'' through George Jessup, real estate
.1lssIs. II, Camden. The farm joins Wash
-, a., park on the south. From the same
ss zoe we learn that the old Cloud farm, OF
Ped Rank road has been purchased By
nc no -. of the Eagle Point farm.