Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-09-03
LOCAL BRIEFS.
-Laub advertises school shoes.

"A SIS, 900 steel pier is to be erected at
Wildwood
Woodbury. Friends school will open
next Monday.
Caution notices may be obtaind at the
DEMOCRAT office.
Who speaks good word for the Pri-
may Election law?
DIR. T. F. Clifford returned from his
vacation on Tuesday morning.
See advertisement of Minister, the
Woodbury. clothler and gents furnisher.
The State Normal and Model schools
will open at Trenton on the 18th instant
The Woodbury. Prohibitionists will
probably nominate City Ticket this Fall.
The September meeting of the Board
of Education will be held in the Academy
tonight.
The Interstate Fair at Trenton will be
held on September %, 30, 30 and October
l and 2.
Estate Agent Burke adVertises num-
Der of desirable properties for sale in this
issue of our paper.
The City of Newark pays Miss Eva
Struble, its supervisor of drawing in the
public schools, an annual salary of $500.
The official list of Democratic and Re
publican members of Boards of Registry for
this county are advertised in another col
umn.
Mr.. Snuffer, an employee of Wood
bury Mill and Lumber Company, lost one
of his thumbs in the mill machinery last
Thursday.
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Amendments Election is given by the
County Board of Election in our adver-
Using columns this week.
The properties of Samuel E. Warrick,
at Clayton, sold for taxes, have been re-
deemed by Watkins & Avis, attorneys for
those interested in the estate.
-Messrs. Thos. c. Dilkes, of Mantau;
James J. Davidson, of Swedesboro and
BENZ. G. Paul, Of Greenwich, are spoken OF
for the Democratic nomination for Surro-
gate.
-Democrates attend the primaries next
Tuesday afternoon, and vote for your dele
gates to the County Convention, to nOmi-
na-e candidates for Assembly, Surrogate
and Coroner.
The Republican county ticket will read
Woodbury.; For Surrogate, Anthony G. Sill
vers, of Clayton For Coroner, DR.. H. A.
Wilson, of Woodbury..
Woodbury. High School is attracting
to it students from various sections of the
county who, having completed the county
course at their home school, desire to pur-
sue their studies further.
The South Jersey Gamers have had a
poor season. Cherries were almost a fail
nre, strawberries short crop, peas a
failure, peaches too high to put into cans,
and tomato rot predicted.
"A bequest of $500 has been made to
the permanent fund of the new Masonic
home at Burlington, N. j., by the late F.
F. Martinez, Jr., of Bayonne, N. j. De-
ceased was at one time steward of the
grand lodge.
The old oak tree in West End school
house yard has been condemned as unsafe
and removed. John Storm, who removed
it, found nest of yellow jackets in the
top, and learned from contact that they
were hot stuff.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union will
be held on Monday evening next in their
is desired as this is also the annual meeting
of the Union.
AT the business meeting of Company ]
on Monday evening last, Edmund Dubois
was unanimously chosen Captain, and Lieu
tenant Eldridge was selected to inform him
of the fact and secure his acceptance. Mr..
Dubois has declined the honor.
August, 1903, has broken the record
for low temperature, with the result that
the watermelon and eantaloupe crops are
practically failure, and the people who
have been Obliged to spend the month at
home, have done so in comfort.
Chief, C. Walter Shivers, Fred V. My
ers, John c. Ford and Thompson Allen,
will represent the Woodbury. Firemen's
Relief Association at the State Relief As
ISOLATION Convention, which meets in At
lantic City, September and 10.
The Republican City Convention to
nominate candidates for Mayor, Treasurer,
Commissioners of Appeal and Overseer of
Pc r, viii be held in the Club room on
Thursday evening, September 10, at eight
O'Clock. Seven delegates will compose this
august body.
There was a great slaughter of reed
birds last Monday. Frank and William
Maier, who gunned together ON Woodbury.
creek marshes, brought home eight dozen,
and ] D. Carpenter, Jr., who went alone,
four dozen; Joseph j. Summerill, Esq,
and Willie Hammel, who gunned the reeds
in Logan township marshes, downed four
dozen. These, we learn, were the high
strings.
-Handkerchiefs for everybody, and for
everything that handkerchiefs can be used
for. Pillow tops, kimonos dust caps, neck
ties, stock collars, corset covers, &c. We
bought one hundred and twenty-five dozen
last week, all kinds and prices. Fifty
dozens are wide, medium and narrow hem
stitch, regular and 1oc kind we have
marked then SC. White and colored hand
kerchiefs for school, Sc. and DC. Every
Friday is remnant day. Terms cash The
Misses cozens, liz So. Broad st.