Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-06-30
LOCAL BRIEFS.
The old Jail is badly broken up.

The would-be jail suicide, is out OF
danger.
The new tax law goes into effect TO-
morrow
Gamblers school budget amounts to
1905, 242.
Company sI7 boys look fine in butter
nut toys.
Mark Clement, of West Deptford, has
built a large new barn.
William E. speakman and family are
at Kennebunk Beach, Maine.
Mr.. and Mrs Benjamin Thorpe and
daughter, Miss Margaret, have returned
from their trip abroad.
Hon. John Carpenter and wife, Of
Clinton, spent last Sunday with Woodbury.
relatives.
The ceiling of the lecture room of the
First Baptist Church has been white coated
this week
John Toole is about to build home
or himself at the corner of Broad and
Carpenter streets.
Mrs. Rosa A. Furey and son William,
of Davis street. are spending few weeks
at Long Island City.
Mr.. Clarence Batten and family, of
Maple avenue, will enjoy week along the
New Jersey coast.
The banks will be closed next Monday.
Also the post Office except between $50 and
$50 a. m. and 40 and $50 p. m.
Smith Hewitt, an old fisherman, com
mitted suicide in his cabin near Penns-
grove last Monday by shooting himself
with a shot gun.
The embalming wagon which John
Sennett has just finished for Undertaken
Gourley, is the most complete on the
market.
Miss Matte G. Batten, Miss Lillian G.
Bennett. Miss Mae Reeves and Miss Anna
Reeves leave to-day for trip to ST. Louis
Fair.
The Fourth will be celebrated at Gren-
loch and Alcyon Parks, Wenonah, Pitman
and Newfeld; also at Salem, where horse
racing will be the attraction.
John w. Granfeld, of Clarksboro, won
the ten dollars in gold in the Junior Decla-
nation contest at Bucknell Academy, Lees
burg, Penna., of which he is student
Substantial fire escapes have been
nlaced on Green's Block and Gus. Prehl's
hall building this week, and fire ladders
are being placed on Newton Hotel.
MAX" Engles' barber shop has been
given Presidential year dress OF new paper
and paint, and wlth extra Welsbock lights
for night service looks very inviting.
Ten shares of the stock of the First
National Bank of Williamstown were sold
a few days ago at S1O3. There are plenty
of people waiting to buy at that price, the
Glassboro Enterprise says.
M. Ware Scott has souvenir of the
Worlds Sunday school Convention that he
prizes highly, in the form of polished
block of Olive wood on which is engraved
Jerusalem, 1904, y a gift from DIR. George
w. Bailey.
Miss Laura Leepee, assisted by Miss
Mabel Borden and Miss Bertha Achilles,
gave an afternoon of pleasure last Saturday
to ten young ladies Of the Edison Bros,
Philadelphia where Miss Leepee was for
mally employed
The many friends of John H. Broadway
will regret to know that he has been a
sufferer from sciatica rheumatism, and his
departure to Maine delayed thereby. The
bank directors sent him boquet of roses
on Tuesday.
The regular June meeting Of the Young
Ladies Missionary meeting was held at Miss
Elizabeth Persons on Monday evening,
near Almonesson. The topic discussed was
aPort Rico and Cuba, " which proved to be
very interesting one, also beneficial.
There are thirty entries for the Fourth
Of July races at Salem seven in the 3
minute class; eight in the 2.27 class; nine
in the 3. 20 class and six in the 81 class.
Purses OF S2VO are oHeIed u each GLASS.
Racing begins at one o'clock p. m. See
adyer.
The quarterly meeting Of our county
historical society on Monday, July II, will
be an event Of more than county interest.
See the program on our first page, tel your
friends about it, and prepare to spend the
day on the historic spot.
The city is needlessly alarmed over
the published report that we have an
anonymous letter writer IN Woodbury..
1t is simply the usual hot weather ex-
plosion, because then it is easier to manu-
facture fake than obtain legitimate news.
Boys, exercise great caution in using
erl ..,,,s s,,d fro araclxars IN the Fofs7fh