Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06
LOCAL BRIEFS.


1t is alleged that there is a scarcity of
preachers at Pitman camp meeting.
The P. o. S. A. excursion to Brandy
wine yesterday was well patronized.
An epidemic of smallpox has broken
out in the Sixteenth Ward, Philadelphia.
-ReY. E. H. Durell is moving into his
new home at Cooper and Popular avenues
to-day
The Carton mill property at Iona has
been repaired and the road is open for
travel.
The City Board of Education will hold
the August meeting in the Academy to-
night.
DIR. Reading expects to discharge his
smallpox patient from quarantine this
week.
John Rachor, Jr, caught an pound
bass at Morgan's pond, Blaokwood last
Monday.
The M. E. and Presbyterian Churches
are holding union services, every Sabbath
this month.
The ladies of the Luthern Church will
hold tea on the church lawn next Satur-
day evening.
Company is at Sea Girt this week,
getting experience in actual field service
and target practice.
Farmers wagons, laden with truck,
passed through Woodbury. as early as eight
o'clock last Sunday evening
Red Men of South Jersey will have
big pow WOW at Tumbling Dam Park,
Bridgeton on eighth moon, thirteenth sun.
JOS Collins, colored farmer of Jeri-
cho, picked dozen watermelons to-day
which he claims are the first picked in Jer
sey.
The Thomas Lee property of Delaware
street, is being refreshed with coat of
paint, by Mr.. Geiger's force of competent
men.
The party by the conductors and
motormen of the c. G. and W. railway
company netted $500 to the relief associa-
tion.
The Public Service Corporation is lay
ing new inch gas mains on Delaware st.
The old three inch mains were too small for
present consumption.
George Reed, on John G. Whitall's
farm, picked one hundred and forty-seVen
baskets Of egg plants Monday morning off
two-thirds of an acre.
-Sportsmen must not shoot doves this
year as the law allowing an open season
has been repealed. A heavy fine is imposed
for every dove shot.
A story comes from Iona that white
huckleberries are produced there. The next
phenomena of the season will probably be
a flock of white black-birds.
Two houses are to be erected on High
Street this fall, one by Mr.. T. w. Bacchus,
on the first lot west of Broad, and the other
by Mr.. A. E. Gardiner on the lot adjoining
the Keasby property.
-Chas. Anderson was taken to State Prison
on Wednesday, As prisoners in the State
Prison are now clad in plain gray clothes,
Anderson is the first convict from this
county to escape the stripes.
"A piece of gold and purse as tokens
of esteem were presented by the choir OF the
German Luthern Church to Mr.. and Mrs.
Gebhardtsbaur, of Delaware street, on
Friday night last. The occasion being thelI
golden wedding anniversary.
Arthur Pleis, of Franklin township
aged II years, was committed to Jail yester-
day, in default of $500 bail, on charge Of
cutting and hauling wood from lands Of
Geo. Ware; and Chas Clifford, of Paulsboro
on complaint of his mother, for larceny.
The British-American yacht races, be-
tween Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock III,
and the New York Yacht Clubs defender,
Reliance. are scheduled to take place of
Sa ldy H)Dx on A1g1st 20, q, y q aud
30. May our reliance not be misplaced.
List of advertised letters in the post
Office for the week ending Aug. 3, 1903:-
Mr.. H. Cutter, Mr.. Edward Fitzgerald,
(per Arthur Beardworthl Dawson Hooper,
Miss Rose Martin, Maggie Smith, Miss
Sadie Wright, 9th and Park avenue !.
Persons calling for the above letters will
please say advertised.
-Messrs Chas. Wolferth, Mickleton,
Democrat. and Will III. Hoffman, Repub-
lican. are the newly commissioned members
Of the County Board of Elections. This
Board will be constituted same as for the
mast four years. and the organization will
nrobably not be changed. The Board will
meet next Friday at l. so p. m.
Deputy Sheriff Platt took Thomas
Kane to the State Hospital for insane on
Tuesday, but because the commitment
papers were defective, the authorities re.
fused to receive him, and he was returned.
AS there was no authority for detainine
him, he was released.
Red, white and black belts in great
variety. Duck belts, 10 cents each. Rec
leather, 25 cents and so cents. Black belts.
10 cents up. Bargains in ladies' vests
Regular 15 cent vests; closing them out a
10 cents; only three to customer Th'
Misses Cozens, 172 South Broad street
Woodbury..
1t has been ascertained that the Law
enacted by the legislature at its last ses
sion, which fixes the minimum age
which children may be employed at four
teen years. is defective in that the year II
which it shall become operative is no
named. II was no doubt the intention 0
the legislature to have the law go int
effect September 1, 1903, but the mont
only is named. It is said the glass man
ufacturers Of South Jersey will ignore tn
act and employ boys as heretofore.