Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-20
-Blackwood is going to have National

/ wednesday nlSnb.
The liverymen charge $3.50 per hour
for horse and sleigh.
There will be an assembly dance at
the Country Club tonight
-Sportsmen, quail need attention this
weather, or they perish,
--Theo Laub can fit the public out with
rubber footwear anything you want
The banks and post Office will close
next Saturday ashington's Birthday.
On Saturday evening next a series of
entertainments will begin at the Country
Club.
Joseph w. Pratt, of Westville, has an
interesting announcement in our paper this
week.
Woodbury. Bottle Works have closed
down for the week on account of a short
age in fuel.
Mrs H. V. Rogers and daughter, Miss
Margaret, are spending few days at
Princeton.
National Park gives notice that appli-
cation will be made for Borough charter.
See adyer
Councilman Sithens and wife celebrated
the twenty-fifth anniversary of their mar
riage on Saturday last.
County Clerk Ridgway was so glad to
get home Tuesday night, that he didn't
come up Wednesday.
Indications are that one hundred new
houses will be built at National Park the
coming spring and summer.
-Assemblyman Avis has introduced a
bill to make the open season for rabbits
between Nov 10 and Dec. Is.
At Jacob Vittner's sale near Almones-
son last Saturday, hogs sold at from Sc for
sixty pound shoats, to $50 for full grown
hogs.
Chosen Freebooter Miller, of Green
WITCH, has announced his candidacy for
another term. All signs indicate lively
contests in Greenwich this year, as well
as in some other townships.
The new NJ. E. Church at National
Park will be dedicated early next month
The building which cost between four and
| five thousand dollars. has seating capacity
of three hundred.
| Constable Drummer, of Wenonah, on
Monday picked up Anthony Fire, six
teen-year-old boy who ran away from his
home in Bridgeton, and landed him in jail
for safe keeping.
The conductors and motormen of the
G. c. and w. trolley line have been noti-
fed that after March their wages will be
increased from Is to II cents per hour. The
increase was made voluntarily.
List of advertised letters for the week
ending Feb. II, 1902: Catharine Clement,
Jennie Bealler, Charles Baynard, Ella
] Smith, J. M. Weatherby. Persons calling
for the above letters will please say adver-
tised.
"A committee has been appointed by
the New Jersey Law and Order league to
confer with similar organizations through
out the State, to plan a direct appeal to
the courts for relief from the constant ig-
noring of complaints by grand iuries.
Don't leave your lighted lamp half
l turned down in the house. The New York
Board of Health has just declared that it is
the greatest known breeder of diphtheria
Nothing so poisons the air of room as the
fumes from a smoking or turned down
lamp.
VIM. S. Richman, assessor of Franklin
township, died at his home in Malaga last
Sunday, aged 80 years, of Bright's disease.
His wife ana two daughters survive. He
was a son Of the late Joshua Richman.
There have been thirteen deaths in Frank
lin township since Jan 10.
A public school building was destroyed
by fire in Trenton last week, because
the fire hydrants were frozen and water
| in sufficient quantities could not be pro-
cured, and now the authorities are en-
deavoring to fix the responsibility for
the care Of fire hydrants. Are the fire
hydrants in Woodbury. frozen? Who
knows?
The Monroe Building Association has
elected these officers: President, W. H.
| Bodine; vice president, J. r. Tice; secre-
J tary and solicitor, H X Bughee: treasurer.
E. C. Bodine, directors, w. G. McIlvaine,
George Y. Tice, C. IL. Garwood Frank
Sharp, Henry Naabe, G. L. Pfeiffer, Albert
Eldridge, j. r. Tice and II. K. Bugbee.
AT the meeting Of the Board of Educa-
ton last Thursday evening only routine
business was transacted. Unless a new
school law is enacted before the third Tues
day in March, the annual school meeting in
March will be held under the old law, and
will vote the appropriation for school pur-
poses as well as elect three members of the
Board to succeed John E. Estell, of the
First Ward; G. A. Madden, of the Second
Ward, and J. D. Carpenter, of the Third
Ward.
VIM. J. Thompson, Of Gloucester, on
i Monday filed petition in the Superior
| Court at Wilmington, Delaware, to inter
vene ia the suit of James E. OTIS assignee
of James Ii. S. Gam, against John Gam
and his wife, which involves the Delaware
river resort known as Augustine Pier. Mr..
Thompson claims that he has certain rights
in a steamboat landing at the pier, and
desires to aid John Gam and his wife
to pay the money involved to prevent a
foreclosure.
President of Council E. c. Leeds enter
tanned the Eucre Club of which he is a
member at the opening of the Chalfonte,
Atlantic City, from Saturday to Tuesday.
Among those who accepted the SYMPTOMS
hospitality were Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Pan
coast, Mr. and Mrs. Bonsal, Mr. and Mrs.
J. w. Maxwell, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Green,
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Starr, Mr.. and Mrs
Grove, Mr. and Mrs. G.. r. Ogden, Mrs. M.
Abbott Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. VOORHEES,, DR..
and Mrs HI. I'll. Clark, Mrs. F. d. Lean
ing, Miss Lillian Durell and Miss Bessie
Green, DIR. D. Campbell, Mr.. Bird Pan
coast.
The following item from Freehold
newspaper, will interest many Wood
i burians: The Freehold Fire Department
feels highly honored in numbering among
its active members clergyman, the Rev
Howard L. Thompson, rector of st. Peters
Church. Mr. Thompson has just been
elected a member of Good Will Hook and
Ladder Company, the first FIRE company in
the State to utalize bicycle in drawing a
light chemical cart. Mr.. Thompson has
turned out with the company at recent
fires, and has done effective work.
The pound fishermen along the Jersey
coast are preparing to set their nets earlier
than usual this year. They expect to be
ready for the early run of shad up the
coast. The capture of this toothsome fish
is becoming an important feature of the
pond fishing industry. Thousands are
sometimes taken at catch. The first run
of fish up the coast is the herring which
come in enormous shoals. The shad ac-
company or closely follow the herring, and
the Fishhawk makes its appearance at the
same time They all appear about the
middle of March.
Smallpox probably reached high water
mark in New Jersey during January.
According to the reports made to the State
Board of Health, there were 1896 cases Of
the disease and % deaths for the four weeks
ended January %. This was the largest