Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-05-10
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LOCAL BRIEFS.


Bibo's Jumbo cigars are better than ever
The monument at Red Bank is being
erected
June Z is the date of the Woodbury.
High School commencement.
John Powell left our city last Tuesday
for Colorado. for his health.
The May term Of Gloucester County
Courts will begin next Tuesday.
The May meeting Of the Board at Ed
ucation will be held in the Academy to-
night
Farmers at Swedesboro are paying
$3.50 per day for hands to put out tomato
plants. This is top price for farm labor in
Jersey.
-B. Frank Bruner, a successful aspara-
gus grower of West Deptford, raises the
kind that every twelve stalks make a
bunch.
Mr.. and Mrs. William F. Bouhl, of
Pennington, spent Sunday with Mrs.
Bouhl's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus
Prehl
Mr.. aud Mrs. William Newkirk, Of
Kansas City. Missouri, are visiting Mr..
Newkirk's sister, Mrs. E. L. Cloud, on
South Broad street.
Arthur Roxby, who has been spending
two years as AlexAn Virginia, has re-
turned to Jersey, which seems to be his
fayorite place to live IN.
Adam Knight has received word from
his son in San Francisco that he was one Of
the many who had everything snatched
from him, but escaped injury.
-'sDan'' Mumford is now engaged in taxi
ing another residence to Mumford Town.
The house or ginally stood on the Broadway,
now Hughes property, on Delaware street.
Walter Osborn, formerly Of Woodbury.,
now of Camden, who has been vistim of
typhoid fever for five weeks, is now able to
be about, as he was visitor here on Sat
urday.
The concrete arch bridge that the West
Jersey and Sea Shore Railroad is erecting
over Woodbury. river, IS said to be the
longest arch span on the Pennsylvania sys-
TEN, and its cost will exceed $4,000.
Hon John G. Horner, as Special Mas
ter, sold the Alien S, Morgan estate, at
Mantua last Friday under PARTITION pro-
ceedings, for $l2, $50. Job Scott, the Man
tua lumber merchant, was the purchaser of
the entire estate.
"A fve-year-old son Of William Long,
Of Grenloch Terrace, got hold of bottle
pntainiug strychnine on Thursday and
swallowed the contents causing the little
fellows death in short Time. Coroner
Wilson gave a certificate of accidental
death.
-An idea Of the scarcity Of farm help
may be gathered from the fact that two
farmers within short distance Of Wood
bnry. one with one hundred acres to culti-
vate, and another with one hundred and
fifty acres, are without help.
Mr.. w. E. Speakman and family have
planned delightful summer outing. They
sail from Hoboken next Saturday, the 12tb,
for Genoa, Greece. The early spring months
will be spent along the Mediterranean, and
the summer months in Switzerland,
The youngest daughter Of Prof. A. S.
Clark, OF Centre street, while playing in
the yard one day last week, fell on board
striking her head on nail, cutting deep
cash opposite the eye The wound was
dressed by DR.. stratton, and the child made
as comfortable as possible.
The old Deptford Township Sunday
School Association will hold meeting
Thursday evening, May 18th, in the NJ. E.
Church, at eight O'Clock. Rev. Frank A.
Smith, Of Haddonfeld, will address the
meeting, his subject being, aThe Sunday
school and Evangelism. y
The Hawkins Company, Of Camden,
has leased the Old Union Store on South
Broad street, and stocked 1t with groceries
and provisions. It is now open for business
and the firm promises rock-bottom prices
and goods Of she best quality. See adyer.
on the last page Of this issue Of the DEMO
Graf.
On Monday last Joseph T. siokIer,
representing E. NJ. Dobbs, sold the tract Of
land known as the Dickinson tract, in South
Woodbury., to Philadelphia capitalist, who
will absonce begin the erection Of brick
plant Of capacity for 10000 per day, and
give employment to sixty men.
The Monroe Township Board Of Edu-
cation has elected these teachers for Viii
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