Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-01-07
LOCAL BRIEFS.

WONDERFUL 10 Eedte VIC nave nau AVuA
days of good sleighing.
Ira g. Carter is quite sick at his home
SIS Wood street.
The next State officer will be high
school inspector.
You want good printing and cheap, try
she DEMOCRATS job department..
Miss Margaret Rogers has returned to
her school duties at Mt. Holyoke.
-Chas Pierson, Of Deptford township,
is now able to get about the house.
Senator Joseph B. Roe is yet confntd
TO his bed, with noIimprovement in his
condition.
Jail Warden Platt says his borders
don't appear anxious to change their
boarding place.
Geo. E. Pierson bias leased the
Norris, IRIS residence on Cooper street and
will occupy it about February LIST. rs -
Our Woolwich, Greenwich aud Logan
readers will find John Magin's advertise
ment interesting and profitable reading.
-''Hitch your wagon to star is all
very we'll, but you'll find it more profitable
to hitch it to good newspaper advertising
p. B. Burke's estate agency announces
the sale of the Geiger residence on Curtis
Ave. to Mrs. Jennie Livezey, Of Doyles-
town, Pa
We learu that Vim. H. Taylor, of
National Park, is after Capt AbdilI's job
as care taker of the Government farm al
= Red Bank.
The annual supper Of the Presbyterian
Church will be given ON Thursday evening,
January % Further particulars will be
published later.
The Committee on Public Property,
organized with d. Thackara Mathers as
chairman, will go to New York tomorrow
on a iaiE-inspecting tour
VIM K. Robson, Of this city, has sold
his interest in the wholesale dry goods and
notion business in Phila. to his partner, Mr..
Gallagher, and retired from business.
The Historical Society already has
many valuable relics rendered to it, which
will be placed in the cabinet set up in the
corridors of the Court House, yet there is
room for mole
j. Stanley Twells makes the following
report of the arrivals at the Port of Wood
bury for the year of 1903: Barges, Al; Tags
IS, Shops, 8; Total, so. MIR. TwelIs states
that navigation on Woodbury. creek was
double of that in 1902.
William H. Turnbull has leased the
store in the J. D. Green building, Soutb
Broad street, and will open shoe store
therein. Mr.. Turnbull has dea il shoes
in wholesale way for thirty years, and
feels confident of his ability to successfully
conduct retail business.
Several farmers between Burlington
and Rancocas have lost many Of their bog
by a strange disease, which they say is nni
chorera but something more in the nature
Of diphtheria Aaron W.,Iohnson lost 45 fine
hogs, his father also lost some and 50 did
Jacob Bauer and other neighbors.
There is feeling among property
owners that the city ought TO set an ex-
ample to easy-going people in the matter Of
side walk cleaning, and clear the snow
from the pavement in front of the City
Hall, then we might with great effect,
complain Of our neighborS, who do as THE
city doas-let the snow take itself off.
Last .FIilay morning the coal offices Of
three of our coal dealers Walton, Chew
Bros and s. Atwood Stewart, showed that
thieves had been in them during the night
At Mr. Walton's the combination of the
safe was found in drawer, and $l31 n
cash and two watches were extracted from
the iron box. At the other places nothing
Of value was found
Last Saturday as JosbuaS. Joyce drove
off the Gloucester boat and as the horse
stepped on the bridge from the boat to the
ferry, the bridge slipped from under them,
and the hind parts Of the nigh horse drop
pea between bne boat ana the slip. Inc
ferry rugged block and fall and the
horse was raised from his periIous position
Strange to say. the horses skin was broken
in only one place, and that very slightly.
Woodbury. Republican Club has chosen
the following ofi,ers: Presidents Charles
N. Bell; Vice President, W. Harrison Liv-
ermore; Recording and Corresponding Sec
rotary, VIM b. Albright; Financial Stcre-
tary, John Boyd Avis; Treasurer, D. Ora
ham Craig; Marshal, VIM Smith; Trustees,
David @. Watkins, Victor E Kugler aud
George Percy Brick; Membership Commits
tee, B. W. Andrews, Daniel T. Mathers,
Arthur Starr, Frances B. Davis and VIM.
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