Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-02-09
LOCAL BRIEFS.

will be found in another column.
Benjamin Bachelor has adjourned his
vendue to Thursday, February 49,
County Collector Pierson has received
from the State treasurer the last payment
on school account 81. 694.64
An injunction against the sale Of the
goods of the Steel Machine Company was
secured last week by A. H. swaskhamer.
George Croft, of Red Bank avenue,
received two frst-class prizes aud one sec
ond-class prize from the Newark fair, for
poultry.
Albert Suffer, of Glassboro, went before
the Grand Jury as witness on Tuesday in
an intoxicated condition and was com
mitted to Jail
The annual Presbyterian supper given
by the Ladies Aid Society was iaancial
success. One hundred aud seventy five
dollars was cleared.
The syn will meet tomorrow Friday
eveing at o'clock, in the w c. T. U.
room, 10 Cooper street. A cordial invita-
ton is extended to all young people to
attend.
Frank Penn, who has been living on
Hopkins street, has stored his goods and
taken his family to Brockwayville where
he has secured position in the Pierce
factory.
"A recital is 10 be given in the Kemble
NJ E Church Tuesday evening, February
2lst by Mrs. T Dowdney Clark, ASSESSED
by B. C bippineotts Tr, baritone soloist
and dramatic reader.
List of advertised letters for the week
ending Feb. 6, 1908: NJ A. Greed, E. a.
Lupton, Mrs Z. Renning, Jules Rogers,
Mrs. Maria Thomas. Persons calling for
the above letters will please say advertised.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. Breecesexp ected to
leave Oh Wednesday for Rockledge, Fla,
but could not secure a sleeper on account
of the heavy storm South. They have
postponed their their trip until tomorrow.
James r. Clark, representing the State
department of Banking and Insurance,
yesterday began the official examination
OF the books OF the Woodbury. Real Estate
Mutual Loan Association, as provided by
law.
There were 46 applicants for teachers
certificates before the county examiners III
Woodbury. last Friday aud Saturday, sixteen
for Sd grade, seventeen for ID grade, nine
for 1st grade and four to increase in the aver
ages in former examinations.
Our North Jersey exchanges came to us
last week containing half tone cuts Of snow
scenes in the village streets, showing, in
some instances, drifts half as high as the
telephone poles. North jersey must have
been the storm centre of the blizzard
The Cleveland Board Of Health has de-
clared pneumonia contagious disease and
has p aced it on the list of communicable
diseases, which physicians must report 1t
is stated that Cleveland is the first city to
adops this rule.
Pastor E. Bruce Price, of the Central
Baptist Church, this city, gave his eongte
CATION a surprise last Sunday morning by
announcing the receipt, the day previous,
of notice Of his unanimoui election as
pastor of the Summit Avenue Baptist
Church, Brooklyn, New York.
One Of the most exciting games of has
ket ball of the season was played on Satur-
day night last, between the Crescent team
of the Amateur League and Co. l, of Wood
bury, in which the Crescents were defeated
by a score of 81 to 20. Co. Sd, also defeat
ed the Sd team Of Glassboro by a score of
"a to u.
Or. Vim. Brewers gray horse vexed the
mortorman Of the $50 North bound trolley
last Tuesday He was walking up the
crack when the car overlook him at Thack-
Aa's hill, and no matter how furiously the
gong rung, or how loud or strongly the
anotorman talked, the horss would neither
change his gait nor get off the track The
motorman modified his feelings when he
found the horse without driver Harry
Wish slipped in the carriage at Laub's and
drove back in quest Of the doctor.
The distribution OF envelopes contain
ing tablets and pellets of patent medicines
by manufacturers through local agents, is !
dangerous nuisance, and as a result Of these
packages being left at the doors Of residents
Of Phillipsburg two children of well-known
families have been made seriously i'll from
the effects Of eating the tablets and pellets
in mistake for candy. The medicines are
claimed to cure headaches and other ills,
and generally contain some dangerous drug.