Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-07-06
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Bibo, s Junbos cigars are better than ever.


". E. Grafton Of California.
At Dan'l t. Packers grass sale last
week, grass sold at from S12 to s36 per
acre.
Mr.. Alexander Jordan removed his
family from Woodbury. to Williamstown
last Monday.
Howard Wilkins has accepted a posi-
ton at the Hotel Chalfonte, Atlantic City,
as bookkeeper.
Rev. Edward Dillon filled the pulpit Of
the Central Baptist Church last Sunday for
pastor Price, who is i'll.
Miss Eva s. LaDow is attending the
National Teachers Association being held
this week at Ocean Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. NJ. Faust spent Sun
day with Jacob H. Bibo and family at his
Summer home in Maine.
President Roosevelt will address the
National Educational Society at Asbury
Park and Ocean Grove, July Z
Daniel McCollisser, whisall Bethel
and Frank White are now at the Glass
blowers Camp at Beasley's Point.
The sale of Albert H. Smith, advertised
70 take place Monday, July Sd, by Sheriff
Jones stands adjourned for one week.
Alter being off six weeks with broken
arm, Lee Timberman resumed his duties
on Saturday at Lawrence's lumber yard.
The sale of ice cream at the Central
Baptist Lawn Fete held on Morgan's lawn
last Thursday evening, amounted to S23.5o.
The census shows the population Of
Sussex Borough, formerly Deckertown,
Sussex county, to be 1907 which is an in
crease of just one person in five years.
Gus Prehl has just received car
load Of buggies and bouts, cushion
tires on high wheels This is the latest
style, and these are the best goods out.
Two loads Of truck sent to market by
John G. Whitall last week so d for oyer
800 each. A load Of tomatoes and cab
bage, sent on Friday, brought over 1925.
Branch No. H. Of the G. B. B. A. will
be represented at the annual convention Of
she State Federation of Labor, at Trenton
ia August, BY George Pierce and Thomas
Bowe
Southern potatoes were ninety cents a
barrel on Monday, while Jerseys we're
thirty cents basket Tomatoes kept up
well all last week falling to 81 80 basket
on Friday
Charles Bill, Of our city, who holds
position in New York City, is home for a
two weeks vacation His brother James
who also works in New York City, accom-
panied him for short stay.
A census enumerator fell an easy VIC
tim at Jersey City recently to an Irishman
who told the enumerator that he had been
born on Mars The census man made the
entry in his books, and then tried to find
Mars on the maps in his sons geography.
The State Board of Agriculture has
just begun campaign Of education for
farmers and fruit growers. Secretary
Franklin Dye says; We want to teach the
farmers of New Jersey TO produce larger
and better crops from smaller acreage =
"A news item says: Former Freebooter
Edward B. Hoagland of Neshanic Station,
while tearing down an abandoned stone
house near Herlingen the other day, found
Embedded in the cellar walls the skeleton OF
a child about year old. It is supposed
that il had been secreted there for yer
half a century. The building was torn
down to get stone for repairs on different
bridges in the township.
The Peoples Rural Telephone Com
pany hasissued its first phone book, and
we find that there are something like five
hundred phones now installed, in Barns
boro, Bridgeport, ClarksboIo, Clayton, Ew-
an, FranklinyilIe, Gibbstown, Glassboro,
Harrisonville. Iona, Jefferson, Mantua,
Mickleton, Mullica Hill, Pitman, Repaupo,
Redwood, sharptown, swedesboro, We
nonah, Wing Lane, Woodstown and York
town. The largest lists Of subscribers
areat Mullica Hill, swedesboro and Woods
town.
secretary of State Dickinson is busy
compiling the census returns as they come
In from the various counties. Up to last
Thursday only those Of Clayton, franklin,
Greenwich, South Harrison townships and
Wenonah had been completed. All these
show decrease except Clayton and Weno-
nab, the former Of which shows an increase
of 1926 and the latter II. Franklin shows
decrease Of 81 and South Harrison Of 26,
while Greenwich shows a decrease OF 49s.
The cause Of Clayton's increase is probably
due to the fact that in the 1900 census, the
Township was taken separate from the
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