Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-05-12
REGISTER OF SALES.
LOCAL BRIEFS.

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Birmingham advertises reduction in
shoe prices.
There is an unusual acreage of white
potatoes in this county, this year.
Mr. Warren Redfeld, of Atlantic City,
was the guest Of his parents on Sunday.
The Republicans had wet as well as
spiritless State Convention on Tuesday.
"A growing rain was one of the good
things that came to this section on Tues
day.
The May meeting of the Board of
Education will be held in the Academy
tonight.
Ed Dobbs near Woodbury., put out
two acres of kale last August, and has had
fair returns.
"A ten pound box of California cherries
was sold at auction in Philadelphia last
Saturday for $40.
Rev. E. Bruce Price, of the Central
Baptist Church, will be the Memorial Day
orator IOF ORQ6Tdl I1UWelI 1OSt.
Edward Foster and Frank Taylor, of
Pittsgrove, and William Fl. Ford, of FL
mer, Salem county, have gone to Montana
to try ranch life.
Local builders say that there is no
prosperity in the building line in Wood
bury this Spring, even the iobbing work
being UNUSUALLY light.
The report is that Loudenslager dele
gates were chosen in Harrison and Glass
boro, while Watkins got the balance of the
county-even Paulsboro.
The new city sprinkling wagon arrived
on Monday, 1t looks all right, and with
cooperation of the trolley life on Broad st.
should be tolerable this summer
-Mahion W. Newton entertained COM
pany of sixty friends at Newton Hotel,
this city, last Thursday. Planked shad
formed the basis of the elegant repast.
There were 572 deaths in Philadelphia
last week OF these were from old age,
IS each from pneumonia and consumption
Of the lungs; typhoid, 38; smallpox, 5.
Thomas Bowe and George P. Pierce
will represent Woodbury. Branch of the
Glassblowers organization in the annual
Convention to be held at Buffalo beginning
July 5.
Mr.. and Mrs John Estell and daugh-
ter Miss Anna, of Curtis avenue, and Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Breeze, of Newton Hotel,
spent Sunday with friends in Wilmington,
Delaware.
George Bethards, Jr., aged 8 years,
died on Thursday and was buried on Mon
day from the home of his grandmother,
Mrs. S. A. Shaffer, on Green street, North
Woodbury..
Conductor Daniel R. Blizzard and wife,
Walter T. Grisel and Mr. and Mrs George
Lord, all of Camden, spent Sunday with
Conductor William s. Lord and wife, in
their new home at Parkside.
The working force at the New York
Ship Yard is greatly reduced over a year
ago, and the reductions continue. Aside
from the government work now under way
no contracts are at hand or in prospect.
Elizabeth Powell Bond, Dean of Swath-
more College, will address the Young
Friends Association, at the Friends Meet
ing Hou.e at Mickleton, Saturday evening,
the 18th, at 7.30 o'clock. All are very well
come.
ANNA NJ Nolan, daughter of Martin
and Deborah A. Nolan. died at her home
at Woodbury. Heights on Thursday last,
aged % years. The funeral took place on
Sunday, interment being made in Green
Cemetery.
Judge Endicott has directed Sheriff
Jones to have the petit jurors present on
the first day of the term. as he will begin
the trial of cases on that day. The practice
heretofore has been to begin trials some
other than the opening day Of the term.
List OF advertised letters in the post
office for the week ending May 8, 1904
w. Jones' Mrs Katie Gibson, Miss Louise
Smith, Willie Smith, Edward Williams.
Persons calling for the above letters will
please say advertised.
Henry Meyers, of Bridgeton, formerly
OF Woodbury., who has been working for a
long bime for Clarence Crane in his barber
shop and who is president of the local
BARRIERS union, has been offered a fine
position as manager of shop in Bradford.
Penna, and has accepted and started on
Monday morning.
The grangers and farmers in the vicin-
ity OF Clayton, Glassboro, Aura and Frank
linYille, have petitioned the State Board of
Agriculture to hold Farmers Institute at
Clayton this year. The petitions are mum
erouslY signed and set forth many advant-