Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-01
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Saturday.
Tuesdays rain caused no frowns amonI
the farmers.
The bit of county stone road on Ger
man street is nearly completed.
Col. G. G. Green and family arrive,
home from California last Friday.
George Eisenhart has gone to Winber
Pa, to work His family will soon NOV
there.
B. W. Andrews and D. o. Watkin
are on trout fishing trip up in Pike Co.
Penna.
Miss Alice Lippincott has been re
elected one of the teachers of the Swedes
boro schools.
Undertaken Budd has relinquished hi
lease of the Newton Hotel stables, and Orr
Sharp has taken them.
Jacob Pease, of Brooklyn, formerl,
manager of the Woodbury. Glass Works
was in the city last week.
The cornerstone of the Central Baptis
Church will be laid with suitable ceremonie
on Thursday, the 18th inst.
Prof. James A. Wentzell, Principal o.
the Wenonah public schools, will return K
Elmer schools next year as principal.
Mr. M. w. Newton will give plankeG
shad dinner to some of his friends at New
ton Hotel, this city, this afternoon.
Miss Ella Klock, teacher of the sew
enth grade in our public schools, will take
her pupils to the Geological Garden OF
Saturday.
The Franklin Township Committee
has determined to appoint Fire Marshal
under the new Minch law, and enforce all
its provisions.
The Woodbury. Real Estate Mutual
Loan Association in an advertisement in
another column offer valuable mill prop
erty of our county at public sale.
The State Board of Veterinary Medical
Examiners will meet at the State House,
Trenton, at noon next Monday for the pur-
pose of organization.
From a Pasadena, Cal. paper, we learn
that our former townsman, George I'll.
Barker, is building a $4,000 residence for
himself in that beautiful city.
Hon. D. o. Watkins, Solicitor of the
planked shad dinner to the officers and
un6CUOIS VI blC ASSUCldUlOu Ills lCSluCuOC
on Tuesday evening last.
"A Cape May official was last week fined
500 for violating the law against officials
having a financial interest in municipal
contracts. There are others, not in Cape
May, who have escaped this penalty.
The County Board of Elections will
meet at 2 o'clock this afternoon to fix a
date for the borough election at National
Park, and appoint election officers. The
total vote Will probably not be above 25.
While there has been no concerted
action here to combat the avarice of the
beef trust, the local dealers assert that sales
of meat have fallen off materially since the
trusts exactions have become burdensome.
Mr. John w. Newlin, Of the New
Jersey bureau Of Labor and Statistics was
in Woodbury. yesterday on official business
and honored our sanctum with call. Mr.
n was for forty years editor of the Mill
vile Republican.
List of letters in post Office for week
ending April 30: John H. Neal, A. A.
BACKYARD, John 3. Staegel, Richard Stanley,
Mrs Sophia Sickle, Geo. Watson, Mary S.
Wood. Persons calling for above please
say advertised.
Thursday, May Is, has been decided
upon by the Young People of the Central
Baptist Church for their entertainment.
The program will consist of vocal and
instrumental music, recitations, and farce
entitled, ga Patron of Art"
Mayor Ladd has permitted the general
electric lighting, telegraph and telephone
ordinance to become law without his sig
nature, for the reason that while he sees no
objection to the ordinance he likewise sees
no advantage or benefit in its enactment.
We don't seriously object to the South
Jerseynadn copying three columns of matter
more or less from our paper week, but we
do protest at the bungling way in which
they do the job. It's not true, and we did
not name ten men as having been appointed
road supervisors in our county.
Presiding in the Surrogate's court last
Friday in the matter of the proof Of the
will, in solemn form, of the late Mary
Downs Judge Jessup dismissed the pro-
ceedings because OF lack of jurisdiction.
An appeal was later filed in the Orphans
Court from the order of the Surrogate
admitting the will to probate.
One of our coal dealers says that while
there is an alleged reduction of fifty cents
per ton in the wholesale price of coal, he is
unable to get his orders filled, and in con-
sequence cannot fill next winters orders.
President Roosevelt should send his At
torney-General after the coal trust-and at
least compel them to sell.
Our county budget will run up to
500, 900 next year we are informed. Note
the difference taxpayers The last year of
Democratic control of county affairs, the
county budget was $56, 900, now 800, 600;
the last year of Democratic control of State
affairs, appropriations 81, 857, 282, now
81, 2S3, 428. Is it any wonder there is no
meat in the dinner pail /?
On account of the high price of pro-
visions, the hotels of South Jersey have
increased rates from 81. 100 to So so per day,
IS cents to take effect May 1. These
rates will go into effect at Newton Hotel,
this city, on Maybe. The exactions of the
trusts have at last reached the travelling
man. They have been with the general
consumer several months.
Governor Murphy has vetoed the bill
providing that veterans of the Spanish
American war should be exempted from
taxation to the same extent that the
veterans of the Civil War are exempted
The Governor gave as his reason for his
veto that he did not think the men who
enlisted in the Spanish-American war had
given sufficient service to warrant their
exemption.
The Wenonah Cemetery, without
doubt, is the most beautiful in South Jer-
sey. The ground is high and rolling, and
when one stands on the highest point, eight
acres of the most beautiful lawn can be
seen. The Chew mausoleum, that is now
being erected, when completed, will be one
of the handsomest in South Jersey We
understand the lots are selling very freely,
and it will pay anyone to visit that spot
The management deserves a great deal of
credit for getting it in such fine shape in so
short time.
Two cases on the criminal calendar
were disposed of before Judge Jessup last
Friday, that of Fred. Welehter, resident
of Oak street, accused of assault by his
wife, and John Holodnock, farm hand,
alleged to have assaulted his employer,
VIM. Wilson, a farmer near Paulsboro.
The former German of excitable DISPOSE
ton, plead not guilty, and with so much
ponderosity of Particularly described his
domestic throubles that he won the sympa-
thy of the Court and received a prompt
discharge. John was less fortunate only
in having served two weeks in Jail before
trial. He was accused of assault on his
employer, his troubles dating from the