Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-04-16
LOCAL BRIEFS.

line Ddnk Std6H1EIlpS arc auNOl OioOu
this week.
IA class of seven was baptised at the
Central Baptist Church last Sunday morn
ing
The county public school examinations
will be held on the 4th, 9Th, 9th and 9TH
Of May.
The April meeting of the Board of
Education will be held in the Academy
this evening
Jos. F. Pierce, a Chester fisherman,
caught $50 pound sturgeon in his gill net
last Monday.
MIR. E. L. Farr, of Wenonah, will
place handsome pipe organ in the new
Wenonah Presbyterian Church.
The Thorofare Grange will hold their
last entertainment Of the season on Monday
evening next, the Doth instant
Robert Atkinson, of Philadelphia, has
Ieaeed the Tatem property on Morris street,
and will make extensive repairs before
occupying Is.
Fred Thorn, on the James farm, near
Hurffville, has lost his field of fourteen
acres of early potatoes by reason OF the wet
weather, the seed having rotted IN the
ground.
John Heblut, Of LaGrange. Tenn, is
visiting his brother-in-law, F. w. Bowen,
of Glassboro. MF Neblnt is postmaster
there, and this is the first visit north in
thirty-six years.
THE South Jersey Educational Or
eanization has arranged for the following
addresses for its meeting in Vineland on
Saturday next. t'Tests and Examinations,
by Principal E. ). Frey, Woodbury.; "The
Relation of the Superia tendent to his
Board, :" by Fred A. Benton, of Ocean City.
The annual meeting Of the Gloucester
Ferry Company was held yesterday, and at
the close OF the business session the annual
dinner was held at Washington Park. One
hundred guests gathered round the tables,
and speeches and feasting were the order
List of advertised letters in the post
office for the week ending April -, 1903:
Arnold AbramoHitz, Mrs. Isaac Citizens,
Mrs. George Hinchman, John Isaac, B. L.
r.. Jr.. Anna Leonard, Charles Lisper, Geo,
W Pancoast, S. S. Sagues. Persons call
ing Cor the above letters will please say
advertised.
Despite the terrific advance in the price
of nearI in the last sixty days, you will
find that YOU can save money on pearl
buttons by buying than here, Yo4 will
also find the latest novelties in hair pins,
fancy combs, barettes, waist sets, brooches,
stick pins, beauty pins, sash pins and belt
buckets The Misses Cozens, 172 South
Broad street.
Sheriff Jones sold the following prop
critics last Monday: The H. J. Hendrlckson
property In Woodbury., was purchased by
The Woodbury. IL. y. M. L. Association,
Che complainants, for $500; the Francis
Cookson property at Wenonah was pur-
chased by Mary K. Purcell, of Philadel-
phia. for So, AIS; the Benjamin r. Thomas
lots at Biiiingsport were sold to John Hipp,
for 81. $50, and the II. e. Hurff property in
West Deptford, to Conrad Kessler, the
complainant, for $3.50.
Grant Kellar is still at large, and the
Chosen Freeholders are closing up the
avenues of escape from the Jail, and the
naeans of passing in revolyers, saws, ETC.,
from without. It's better to lock the door
after the horse is stolen than not at all,
INIT when it is remembered that Kellar had
a loaded pistol in his pocket and was
desperate enough to use it, there will be no
regret that he has got away without she'd
ding the blood Of Sheriff, Warden OF any
officer, or innocent citizen,
A gentleman of our county drove over
1850
week and reports them in infinitely better
roudition than those of our county. He
savs the surface of all was smooth and free
from ruts. and clean as when first built,
,Ohile in our county the roads are rutted
and badly out of repair. He is unable to
saw whether the contrast is due to original
construction. more thorough repairs, or that
Camden roads are subject to less travel. He
saws Crown Point road, especially the lower
,,ortion. is badly out Of repair. This con-
trass should not be allowed to continue
The INJUNCTION suit of Arthur Chaplain
asn;nst Mrs. A. 8. Barber, Jr., in the mat
ter Of the sale of her residence on Centre
. street. was heard before Vice Chancellor
Reed on Tuesday, and the injunceion dis
missed 1t seems that Mrs. Barber made
an agreement of sale of the property on
Centre street to Mr. Chaplain, and accepted
a payment Of $50 on the purchase When
the fact became known there was protest
against selling property on this exclusive
street to black man, and Mrs. Barber
refused to convey, and sold the property to
an0theF purchaser at the same price. MI
Chaplain secured an injunction against the
contamination Of this sale, and its dismissal
was on the ground of the insufficiency Of
tha receipt given to Chaplain.
The past week has witnessed several inn
x,ortant real estate transactions in Wood
bury. namelys The sale of the late Chas.
6. Jessup residence on Cooper street, to
Dr VIM. Brewer, for $4,000, and the
,ouuehase by Mrs. C. G. Jessup of the brick
residence on Newton avenue, occupied by
Mrs. Barton, in her lifet me, from Mr.. nj.
". Newton Yesterday morning the puF-
chase OF the late Judge VIM. Beckett prop
erty. on Cooper street, by Or. H. A. Will
SON. was announced by T. E. Burke's
estate agency Price not stated By the
Jessup and Beckett sales, Cooper street
will become the residence of three M. DIS.
and QUE dentist, in adjoining properties
Brewer, Diyerty, Wilson and Clifford.