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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-11
WILLIAMSBURG.

Constable Blttle, who was reported to be
improving last week, is still in precarious
condition. The family are very much alarm
ed, as his recovery is not an assured fact.
1t is claimed that he was poisoned by eat
ing cake, the poison believed to have been
in the baking powder. The cake is being
analysed, but unfortunately the powder
was destroyed. Joshua has great many
friends who are anxious to see him about
again.
Rev.. Mr. Peter Provost preached an
interesting sermon last Sunday on I'm
moral Literature What he said should
be remembered by some of our young people
who spend great deal of their time read
ing trashy books and papers.
Fred. Robinson and Miss Ida Sneathers
were married last Saturday evening.
We hear that the Bodine Glassworks
have been sold to the Cumberland Glass
works, of Bridgeton. The people of our
community are anxious to know what the
future has in store. AS the Cumberland
people seem to be very up and doing there
is no reason why the plant should not be
run successfully.
Landlord Moebins has added very much
to the appearance of the hotel property
since he has had possession. The place had
become very much dilapidated.
Jacob Smith is confined to the house with
a serious case of rheumatism.
Vernon Champion has received the con-
tract for rebuilding the Cecil school.
Mrs. Chew, the mother of NJ NJ Chew,
was buried last week. Mrs. G. was about
80 years of age.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-11
BLACKWOOD.

On last Saturday evening Ira Wood and
Miss Gertrude Godfrey were married.
Of the examinations held in the schools
last week Misses Anna G. Chick, Viola M.
Hagerman and Florence Kircher were
successful in the Advanced Grade.
Charles p Hagerman moved into his new
house on Central Ave. this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. VanAlen have invited
their Sunday school classes to spend the
evening with them this evening.
Mr.. and Mrs Edward Wilson and family,
of Evansville, Mass, are visiting her father,
Reg F. R. Brace.
Safhe Junior Christian Endeavor of the
Presbyterian Church will hold their picnic
at Alcyon Park on Thursday, June 18th.
Several members took the fourth degree
in the Grange last Saturday evening and
more are expected to take the first degree
this week.
A tennis party has been formed and they
meet every Saturday afternoon at the
county buildings.
The decorations in the Presbyterian
Church for Children's Day are expected to
surpass what it has ever been. Owing to
the scarcity of flowers surprise will be
given to all. The service in this church
will be on Sunday at 1890 a. m. The
Children's Day service will be held at Gren-
loch on Sunday afternoon. The Methodist
in the evening at 7.30. Great care has
been taken in securing music and preparing
Rotations.
Frank Rapp's shop has been enlarged by
making another room which will be used
for serving ice cream. The two upper rooms
have been rented
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-11

The extent and ramifcations of the pos
tai scandal continue to increase, and the
Postmaster General, who is consulted only
after the applications for warrants have
been made, shakes his head and says sor-
rowfully, "It is appalling" Machen,
former general superintendent Of free de-
livery, close friend of Abner Mckinley and
Perry Heath, and petted favorite of Payne,
has been indicted ON nine separate counts,
by the Columbian grand jury. Two of
Machen's subordinates and trusted init
mates, Thomas W. McGregor and G. Els
worth Upton have been arrested for mulct-
ing the Government on plan similar to
Machen's. They have purchased from one
Smith, a trunk manufacturer of Baltimore,
rural free delivery mail bags, which could
have been bought for SO cents or less, to
the amount of $4,000. They paid Smith
80 cents and received commission of 40
cents each, thus robbing the Government of
SIS, 600. Numerous other officials are under
The implication Of some of the most promi-
nent Republican politicians is momentarilIy
threatened, and the post office officials are
confident that most of the spoils of the
Machen, Beavers gang have reached the
pockets of prominent men. For all
their corruption, Machen and his pals are
comparatively poor men.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-11


Upon the whole, the habit of diary
keeping does not deserve to be decried
If the diary be veracious record Of
public events, it may, at any rate, serve
as an exercise in prose writing and
precis to the writer, and, on the other
hand, if the diary be merely parochial,
domestic or even personal in tone the
same may be said of it, with this add
ed qualification-that at least in the
last case it may act in preserving a hui
man individuality.
Among my papers and books found
the other day an old yellow brown d.
airy of my great-great- grandmother I'm
tiNthat moment had no more idea Of
the old lady than of Julius Caesars
nurse, but when / read of her journeys
to and from Bath, which she much af-
fected and where she "see a great deal
of Company" of her loss on Thursday,
April 2, 1867, of FL As. at cards; her
payment on April 2 of Is. 10d. for ''face
wires (whatever they may have BEEN;
of II shillings on April 10 for "Chare
Sedan, no doubt and Gloves" and
how, on leaving Bath on the 18th of
April, she gave the maids los. Cd. and
the bath Servant (she was evidently
a poor hand at spelling, dear old soulD
another half guinea, then seem to
see her dim shape assume material
tone.
For your posterity's sake, therefore,
if you think well of your own individ-
uality and also that you may get a sort
of outside view of yourself, you may
be counseled to keep diary; but, for
goodness sake, do not get hysterical in
your condolences with itl-All the Year
Round.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-11
PEDRICKTOWN.

neat sum was added to the Epworth
League treasury on Thursday evening
Red, White and Blue Social being held for
the benefit of the League.
William Turner, Steward of the Salem
County Aims House, visited James Swee-
ten, Sr., on Saturday.
William HaggertY was taken to the
University Hospital on Sunday to be oper-
ated on for appendicitis.
Jacob Justice continues very i'll.
Miss Florence Gibson is spending some
time with Mrs. Curtis Mathis, Of New
G etna.
The strawberry festival given by the
Trustees of the M. f. Church on Saturday
evening, was quite well attended, notwith-
standing the very stormy night.
Mrs. Albert Risner visited Mrs. Wilbert
Justice, of Gloucester county, during the
week.
Henry Holton has returned home after
spending the week at Ocean Grove.
Willis Heard, of Woodbury., visited at
the home of Harry Justice during the
week.
Miss Edythe Pedrick entertained friends
from Philadelphia on Sunday.
Miss Anna 9omers, of Camden, is the
guest of her cousin, Miss Hannah Somers.
James Sweeten, Sr., and wife. visited
Wilbert Hitchner and family at Woods
town, on Wednesday.
William Dilks, who has been suffering
from blood poison for several weeks, and
was thought to be improving, was taken
worse on Sunday, making it unnecessary to
undergo treatment at the hospital; he was
taken to the st Joseph's Hospital by DR.. H.
I. Thomas on Tuesday. His many friends
hope for his speedy recovery.
Miss Olive Layton is spending some time
with relatives in Philadelphia
Mr.. aud Mrs. Richard Gorden, of ATTAIN
tic City, are the guests Of Mrs Gorden's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Robinson.
The ladies Of the Baptist Church will
hold strawberry festaval in Red Mem
Hall on this Saturday evening, proceeds to
go toward pipe organ
James C. Morrison, who is employed in
Philadelphia, was compelled to remain at
home this week on account of sickness.
Miss Julia Leaning, who has been
spending several weeks in Philadelphia,
returned home on Satmd ~.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-11
A REMARKABLE SHOT.


Fired In the Dark, 1t Injured Three
Men Half Mile Away.
Zone of the best and most remarka-
BILE shots made during the war with
Spain,' said gentleman who made an
effort to get into the thick of the
fight, was, in my judgment, made at
Miami, and the man who fired the shot
was Louisiana boy and member of
my company. He was doing duty as a
provost guard at the time. 1t was late
at night when the soldiers were reused
by the quick, clear crack Of Krag-
Jorgensen on the outskirts of the camp.
No particular attention was paid to
the matter at first, as only one shot
was fred. But with a couple Of Off
GERS we went out to where the guard
was stationed in order to find out just
why it was that he had fired at that
time of night. He explained that he
had seen a man slipping through the
bushes some distance away and had
called on him to halt. He failed to
obey the command, and the guard
blaZed away at him, more to frighten
him into stop than anything else.
OF course, the fellow never halted. He
was probably too badly frightened to
stop at that time.
while we were talking to the guard
we heard a fearful noise at least half
mile from the guards station, and we
made break for the place to see what
the matter was We heard several
people screaming as if in great agony.
Down the road we went at full speed,
and in a short while we came upon a
little cabin which stood on the road
SIDE The noise was in this cabin, and
I never heard such groaning and wall
ing In my life. We found three men in
the house. They were in great agon.
and we asked them what was the mat
ter. we have been shot, they said,
and sure enough they had been shot.
Zone was shot in the right arm, an
other in the back and the third in the
hip. They had all been wounded by
the same bullet. The man who was
wounded in the arm was lying on his
right side. The ball passed through
his arm. Next to him one Of his COM
panions was sprawling out on his back,
and the bullet split the hide on this
part Of his anatomy as smoothly as a
knife. Then it passed through the
feshy part Of the third mans hip and
sped on.
1--WE could not find the ball. 1t had
passed through the side of the house,
wounded the three men in the way in
dictated, bored through the wall on the
opposite side and kept on going. Now,
that cabin was fully half a mile from
the point where the guard was sta
toned, and yet the shot he fred had
wrought all the havoc we found."--
New Orleans mes-Democrat.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-11
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Children's Day will be observed in the
different churches here Sunday, June Ia.
All vegetation has taken on new life
since the recent rains. Farmers who were
dispondent over their sweet potatoes are
now happy.
Several arrests were made Sunday at the
boat houses. Drunkenness and all cursine
should certainly be stopped.
c. E. Hilliard will have one of the finest
residences in town when completed.
George Price came near meeting with a
serious accident Tuesday, while making a
descent in the elevator.
The Ladies' Aid of the NJ P. Church
realized fair sum from their social Sat
urday evening.
A young widow put up costly
monument to her late husband, and in
scribed upon it. my grief is so great that
| cannot bear it," A year or so later,
however, she married again, and feeling a
little awkwardness about the inscription,
she solved the difficulty by adding one
word to it" alone"
Rumors has it that late widower has
taken to himself wife.
Mr. George Cohill is expected home to-
day from Baltimore for a short visit.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-11
SHERIFF,s SALE.


BY virtue OF writ OF fieri facias. to me d.
rected, issued out of the Gloucester County
Common Pleas Court OF the State OF New Jer-
sey, VIII be exposed at public sale, on
Monday, the Thirteenth day Of July, next,
between the hours Of IL and o'clock. to-wit at
O'Clock in the afternoon OF said day. at the
Court House, in the City of Woodbury., County
Of Gloucester, and State of New Jersey. all the
following described real estate that is to saw
All that certain tract, parcel or piece of land
and premises situate in tie Township of Wool
wich in the County of Gloucester and State Of
New Jersey and bounded as per deed to the
said William Saunders, hereinafter referred to
as follows. viz
Beginning in the middle OF Grand Spruce
Run, corner to Allen Jones' land, thence az by
the same North fifteen degrees West thirteen
chains to stake corner, corner of Allen Jones'
and William Towards lands, thence (2) by
William Howard's land to the middle of a
branch OF Grand Spruce Run, to another corner
OF the said William Towards land thence (3)
down the same the several courses and dis.
tances thereof to where the said Grand Spruce
Run forks thence az up the main branch Of
said Grand Spruce Run, the several courses and
distances thereof to the place OF beginning.
Containing ten acres and sixty-seven hundredths
OF an acre of land be the same more or less.f
Seized as the property of Joseph Terrell.
defendant, and taken in execution at the
suit OF William Brown, complainant, and to be
sold by
Dated June s. 1893. Sheriff
Prs. fee, 1920
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-11
CLAYTON.

Reuben Hall has new wheel in place Of
the one stolen from thu custody of the
Railroad Co.
Nathaniel Shreyes and Frank Marshall
have been elected ianitors Of the public
schools.
Harry Runner, Of Phila., employed in
the shirt factory, brought his bride from
Phila. last week and was met with quite a
reception.
The Rev. Mr.. Cleeland has been enter
tanning his brother, Alex. Cleeland, Of
Phila.
Quite number Of people went up to the
Davis farm to witness horse race on Tues
day evening.
The Knights Of Pythias marched to the
cemetery on Wednesday evening and dec
GRATED the graves Of the members buried
there.
The monthly business meeting and social
of the Presbyterian C. E. was held in the
church on Wednesday evening.
The authorities would do we'll to put a
stop to the racing Of horses through our
main street.
Mrs. John Madara is visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Rob't McKeighan.
Masons are very scarce in this vicinity
and work on new buildings is being held
up.
Levi smalley, of Wilmington, is visiting
his son Alfred.
Alex. Corson, of Madison, N j., is visit
ing friends in town.
The rain on Sunday has done great deal
of good to the gardens here.
The Baptists held festival in the Town
Hall on Wednesday evening.
The commencement exercises will be
held Friday evening in the Methodist
Church. Dr. johnson will be the speaker
A little boy came into the family of
Henry Wood last week.
A. G. Harris and wife have been visiting
relatives here.
Miss Bessie Ashbridge has been visiting
in Princeton.
Mrs. Rhodes Davidson, of Pitman, has
been visiting relatives here.
VIM. Pome1ear is doing mason work at
the seashore.
Miss Eberly, of Phila., is visiting Mrs.
Chas. Stephenson.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-11
A FOREIGN PRODUCT.

America Has Not Yet Developed the
"Perfect Spendthrift."
Uneconomical and extravagant as we
are, we have not yet developed the
perfect spendthrift" as he is to be
found on the other side of the Atlantic.
1t seems at times as If he must be a
product of an older, more ''effete'
civilization. The man, either young or
old, who runs through large fortune
quickly is rarity with US. High as our
standard Of living and of the ordinary
expense of living is, our standard of
what might be called profigate extrav-
agance is by no means so high. OF
course pretty large sums are wasted in
various forms of dissipation here as
elsewhere. But that is not the point.
To take the single item of gambling,
how often do we hear of mans being
ruined by it here? No doubt we hear
stories of tremendous sums lost and
won, but ST b sums do not seem either
ITO make or to break anybody. For
men whose incomes are reckoned by
the hundreds of thousands or millions
to play hundred dollar poker is no
great recklessness. But how often do
we see young men of the small salaried
sort punting $1,000 or $1,000 at time
at baccarat, as you can any day in
France? We have not the instinct to
save and scrape for eleven months in
the year and then she'll out all our
savings in fortnight.
once met in France young man of
old provincial family, Legitimist to the
backbone, proud and very poor. He
was about twenty one, modest, thor
oughly correct" as good, innocent a
young fellow as one would care to
meet, the sort of young man who seems
to have been overlooked and left out In
the cold by French fiction, though by
no means a great rarity in French real
life. | happened to ask him one day If
he ever played cards. He said no, he
did not care for that sort of thing, and
besides his means would not permit 1t.
II never go into gambling saloon"
said he, ''or into the cardroom of a
club. Sometimes / may join in a little
game of poker among friends just to
pass the time, but only a very small
game, never more than a louis limit. "
A louis limit! wonder what clubman
tout of the millionaire class In New
York. Boston, Philadelphia or any Of
our larger eastern cities would call
four dollar poker a very small'' game!
-Scril,i.es :
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-11
8 HOW TO ANSWER ADS.
The Prs1er Way of Making Appli
catisn For Work.

The Pr11ar Way of Making Appli-
catisn For Work.
Use full size commercial letter paper
Of good quality and an envelope Of cor
responding size. Write on one side of
the paper only. Make the letter as
brief as consistent with the informa-
ton to be impaired. If the advertiser
conceals his name and address, as he
generally does in advertisements, no
salutation, as "Dear Sir" or Gentle
men," is to be used. This requires that
the letter of application shall be left
at the Office of the newspaper In which
the advertisement appeared, and it is
not to be stamped.
AS letters of application are ordina-
rily much alike, the writer should try
to give his letter some individuality,
thus attracting special attention, says
the Chicago News. Originality is al
ways noted and admired. While some
what different, most letters begin, RE
plying to your advertisement" I'm re-
ply to your advertisement" Referring
to your advertisement" SIN reference
to your advertisement" Answering
your advertisement" Noticing your
advertisement" Seeing your adver-
tisement," so that the letter that be-
gins IN the hope Of getting the posi-
ton advertised ask the privilege of
filing an application with your is diff
ferent, and by this fact alone attracts
attention among hundreds of letters
that are so much alike. 1t individual
ICES the letter and thereby gives the
writer the leading chance for the posi-
ton.
I Don't incIose stamp, as it is way
Of urging attention and reply. Let the
letter be short, stating only that you
desire to get the position, and state a
few important qualifications you may
possess in order to show your ability
to ill the position satisfactorily. No
wording of the closing paragraph Of
the letter can be more appropriate than
slipping to hear from you, am" etc.
This closing leaves the matter entirely
with the one who controls the situation
and who will be pleased with your ap-
parent subordination, which is valua-
bic characteristic in an employee.
Sign your name plainly and In full
and put your address under the sigma
fure, so that the name and address may
be together for convenient reference.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-11
Monday, June 20. 1908

between the hours of II and in the afternoon,
to-wit at O'Clock at the Sheriff's office in the
City of Woodbury., all the following described
tract or piece of land situate in the Township of
Franklin, County OF Gloucester and State of
New Jersey, and bounded as follows:
Beginning at stone set for a corner in the
centre of the public road leading from Swedes-
boro to Franklinville (late Little Ease) it being
corner also to a tract of land, once quitclaim-
ed by John Ashcraft and wife to Benjamin FL
FISHER; thence (1) along said Fishers line South
twenty-four degrees and forty-fiye minutes
West, twelve chains and forty-four links to
stake and corner to said Fishers land and in
thence ~ along said Hunters line South forty
four degrees West, twenty-five chains and
twenty-five links to corner in the side of
Reads branch; thence 81 up said branch North
fifty-four degrees and thirty minutes West
twelve chains and forty five links to corner in
said branch, it being a corner also to the said
Benjamin H. Fishers land thence az along the
FISHER line North thirty degrees and forty-five
minutes East, forty-three chains and fifty-two
links to q corner in the public road aforesaid
(being corner also to said Fishers land); thence
(5) along the said road and the FISHER line
South thirty-six degrees East eighteen chains
and five links to the place of beginning, con-
tanning sixty-fve acres and ninety-fve hun
dredths of an acre of land be the same more or
which William p Hildebrand and wife, by deed
bearing date the twenty eighth day of January
A. D., nineteen hundred and one, and recorded
in the Clerks office of Gloucester County, in
Book 50, page 296, granted and conveyed to
Henry Willig.
Conditions made known on day of sale
GEORGE BUNDENS,
Administrator.
A. H. Swackhamer, Proctor
Dated May 81, 1903.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-11

Awaiting purchaser are $l30, 900 worth
of Trenton city bonds, for which there
seems TO be no demand from fnanciers.
The capitol of our State is probably afflicted
with as CONSCIOUSNESS gang of hooters as
exist; the ex-Treasurer is being sued for
$50, 900 illegally retained as fees, and
schemes of graft multiply. 1t is just as
easy to bankrupt city or county as an
individual.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-11

The discovery of wholesale dishonesty in
the post Office has caused Secretary Shaw
to become uneasy, and he has ordered that
the cash in the Treasury be counted. The
reserve, recorded as 1904, 0OO, 900, has not
been counted for six years and the under
taking is herculean one. Only recently,
clerk in the Chicago sub-treasury was
discovered to be short several hundred
dollars. His method of stealing had con-
sisted of the substitution of short weight
coins for new ones, and some years ago a
similar scheme accomplished the looting
of the New York sub-treasury to the
amount of $4,000
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-11

Mr.. DeCoursey May, General Manager of
the New York Shipbuilding Company, was
advanced to the position of President, to
succeed the late President, Henry G. Morse
on Monday, and Mr.. Chas. S. Hall, well
known in lis city, has been promoted to
the position of General Manager.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-11
HURFFVILLE.

Mr.. Samuel J. Evans, who has been very
sick, is very much improved under the
care of DR.. Reed.
Ice cream parties are very numerous here
at present.
The Children's Day services will be held
in the NJ. E. Church on Sunday morning
next, at ten o'clock. Everybody invited.
Mrs. Jerry Pearson has opened her
boarding house for the Summer.
Frank Travers is running McNulty's saw
mill.
The grass crop in this section is about
one-fourth
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-11

There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For great many years doctors pro-
nounced it local disease, and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly falling to cure with
local treatment, pronounced it incurabIe. Science
has proven catarrh to be constitutional dis
ease land therefore requires constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by. e.
F. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only con
stitutional cure on the market 1t is taken
internally in doses from 10 drops to teaspoon
full. 1t acts directly ON the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system They offer one hundred
dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials
Address, +. J. CHENNEY & CO.,
Toledo Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.