Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-07-09
LOCAL BRIEFS.

The Board of Education will meet in
the Academy tonight.
= DIR. H. A. Wilson has removed to his
new home No Al Cooper street
An infant daughter of John and Mary
Kleinhanz was buried last Friday.
e. Birmingham, the shoe dealer, has
moved to the old Town Hall store.
See adver. of seashore excursions by the
West Jersey and Sea Shore Railroad
The Methodist Sabbath-school is pic
nicking at National Park to-day.
The Presbyterian picnic at National
Park on Tuesday, was an enjoyable one.
The National Convention of the Glass
blowers League is in session in Cincinnati
The July meeting of the Board of
Chosen Freeholders will be held next
Thursday.
Jail Warden Platt had thirty one
prisoners oyer Sunday-the largest num-
Der in the history of the Jail.
Benjamin Engard, of Almonesson,
picked thilty-eight baskets of cucumbers
at first picking Tuesday morning July z.
Next Saturday some valuable Woo
bury real estate will be offered for sale by
the executors of the estate Of the late John
Hampton.
-Thos Kane, young man of this city,
was adjudged lunatic by Doctors Reading
and Clark on Monday, and committed to
the county asylum
JAS. Patterson, of FRIES Mill, has a
COW that gives "A quarts of milk per day,
that yields 48 pounds of butter per week.
Good COW, that.
The annual lawn fete given by the
Young Peoples Society OF the Central
Baptist Church, will be held on Morgan's
Lawn Tuesday, July IA.
-Sixty-five acres of land in Franklin
township was sold by George Bunden,
administrator of the estate of Henry Willig,
last Monday, for $500.
Rev. John Ewing, of the West Jersey
Presbytery, died at the home of his neice in
Camden last week, Wednesday, and was
buried at Daretown on the fourth instant
Christ Church Parish will give gener-
a! reception to their Rector, Rev. Malcolm
TAYLOR and wife in the parish house this
evening. Members and friends of the par
ish are invited.
Samuel Ladner harvested $1,000 from
four-acre patch of cabbage, and is now
planting sweet corn in the same ground.
Thus does the busy farmer improve each
blooming acre.
John j. Cornell, minister from Balti-
more, will attend public meeting for
Divine worship in Friends Meeting House
In Woodbury. on fifth day evening Thurs
day. the 9th inst, at 8 O'Clock. All will
be welcome.
On Monday last Sheriff Jones sold three
properties of the late Septimus Chew, at
So Westville, under three executions, fol
800, $3.50 and $500, the Woodbury. Real
Estate Mutual Loan Association being pur-
chaser in each instance.
The City of Elizabeth is besieged witt
mosquitoes, the air being literally dark
ened by the pests. The Oldest citizens say
they never saw anything like this visitata
ton. At Elizabethport sides Of houses
were literally covered with the insects.
AT the last meeting of the Woodbury.
Council, o. o. A. M, the newly elected
officers were installed by District Deputy
Evan, OF Lincoln Council, Glassboro. The
reports of the various officers were rea6
and received, and the financial condition
Of the Council found to be very good.
Capt. Fenton Louder, OF the Washing
ton Park police force, says that the best
ordered throng that ever visited the ParE
was that of Saturday last the 4th. Will
half the force of last year-1S men-ex
cellent order was maintained with but ons
arrest, and there were no accidents.
"A case Of smallpox has developed il
Woodbury., the afflicted person being Syl
yester Jones. a colored man, who boarded
II is said that Jones aided in the rem0va
of the Faubell family from Williamstowl
to the Isolation Hospital. He is reported
to be progressing toward recovery
"A crowd Of happy young people visite'
Rev. and Mrs. George Tomson, of Euclid
street. last Thursday night, to celehrat
Mr.. Thomson's birthday in unique way
Many games were enjoyed by the guests
Refreshments were served by a committe
who prepared them, and the event will b
long remembered as being very pleasan
one.
Two gentlemen of the Government
Coast Survey were in Woodbury. Tuesda,
4 making observations Of magnetic bearing
of this locality, to compare the magneti
with the true bearings. Surveyor Carte
informs us that the prevailing impressio
that the needle points due north is eFTOne
Gus, and that the true bearings are onl
ascertained by frequent comparison. TIL
needle, he says, hasn't pointed due mort
since 1900, and it is estimated will not &c
back to right point until 1920.
"A party of eight men who drove froI
Philadelphia to Almonesson on the Fourt
aroused the indignation of the law-abidin
citizens of that town by the abuse of the
horses, and were placed under arrest Cor
stable Cunard undertook to pilot the part
to Woodbury., but they flung him out, an
he followed afoot Dopson was phoned fl
and went,out on trolley car until be mi
the party coming in, and when he unde
took to board the coach was flung out to
Both officers followed on foot, and landt
their men who we're fined 80 cents eat
under the cruelty to animals act