Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-03-23
LOCAL Briefs.

Easter is but one month off.
Tuesday was the official opening day of
Spring.
-Dilkes Bros, OF Barnesboro advertise
plants for sale.
Miss A. F. Herbert has returned from
her trip to Florida
Jos. w Merritt is confined to the house
with severe cold
Co l basket ball team goes to West
Chester Saturday night to play.
The National Bank and Trust Com
pany's statement are advertised this week.
Mrs. Daniel Mumford, of West End
is i'll with diththeria. At this writing she
condition is much improved.
Mrs Clinton Ladow and son Arthur, of
Burlington, are spending a few days with
Mrs. Elizabeth Ladow, of Centre St.
John D. Graf, a poultry raiser on
Hessian avenue, lost a chicken house and
ninety two fowls by fire last night.
We thank friends and District Clerks
of the various townships for prompt reports
OF the school meetings held Tuesday even
ing.
Walter C. Wescott of this city and
Miss Mary E. Petit, Of Gloucester, were
married last Wednesday by the Rev Geo.
w. Powell, of Gloucester.
There must be general rejoicing in the
county at the prompt passage by the legis-
lature of the bill appropriating $4,000 for
monument for Red Bank battlefield.
The ladies of the German Lutheran
church cleared over sixty dollars from their
oyster supper, at the home of Mrs. ]. n.
Coombs, last Thursday evening.
Landlord Rachor was Woodbury's re-
preventative aa the gathering of the Friend
ly Son of Ireland held Friday evening, at
the Bellevue Stratford Phila.
Among the bills passed by the Senate
which now go to the Governor is the Avis
bill-appropriating $4,000 for momu-
ment to the Revolutionary heroes who fell
at Red Bank.
The first electrical storm of the season
swept over this section Sunday evening
last and near midnight was quite severe.
Saturday and Sunday were almost May
days and heavy clothing was a burden.
There will be grand rally and confer
ence of Prohibitionists Of Gloucester Coun-
ty in Association Hail. Glassboro, on Mon
day afternoon, March 81, at l.30 o'clock,
to which all friends of temperance are in
vited
While eating oysters at her home in
Gloucester last Satuidiy night Miss Mary
Barber, teacher in the public school, bit
upon a pearl which experts declare to be
worth at least $50 Miss Barber will have
the gem mounted.
-Paulsboro Press:-An old resident
gives us the following mortality item for
Paulsboro and immediate vicinity, from
March 10, 1881, to March 10, 1906 There
have been 453 persons over sixteen years
of aye who have died, of this number pa
were males, 2l9 females, 81 married couples,
s accidentally killed, Z drowned. suicides
and 2 murdered
The EyangIestic Meetings held in the
Central Baptist Church last week were of
an interesting character and proved to be
helpful and instructive to all those who at
tended The speakers were Rev DIR. Ford,
D. D., of Philadelphia; Miss Schuyler, of
the Baptist Training School Phila. Rey
Madison Hare. of Camden, and Rev
Frank Smith, Of Haddontield.
AT the last meeting of the Woodbury.
Board of Education of 1904-'05, held at
Clerk Redfeld's home last Thursday even
ing, a committee Of Deptford township
Board consisting of Messrs. J. P. Avis,
William c. Allen and Charles T Molony
was present and asked for a reciprocal
arrangement for exchange of pupils more
equitable to their township than that of past
years, their claim being that they were
providing instruction for forty-fve Wood
bury pupils in their Park avenue school,
while less number from their township
was attending Woodbury. schools A mo-
ton that Woodbury. pay that township $l2
for each pupil in excess of the number
received in Woodbury. schools, and that the
township pay Woodbury. like amount for
each pupil received here in excess of those
taken from Woodbury., was adopted
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