Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-05-24
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LOCAL BRIEFS.

See adyer. Of railroad excursion to
Wildwood
The bass and pike season opened on
Monday last.
See change in West jersey and Sea
shore timetable.
&C. r. Budd, Of Spring Lane Farm, is
agent for the stickney gasoline engine. See
adver.
Senator AVIS has been elected Solicitor
of Paulsboro, succeeding Hon. David Q.
Watkins, resigned.
Mrs. J.. McClearnan, Of Brooklyn, is
spending few weeks with her sister, Mrs
Harry Murphy, 81 Broad street.
-Alois Seifritz, has accepted position
for the summer in wholesale drug store at
Eighteenth and Diamond streets, Phila.
Last Thursday the small child of Fred.
Barnes, Of Hopkins street was badly
sca'ded by tipping over pan of hot water
from table.
Colonel Green is having concrete
walk laid on Bayard avenue, and consider
able other improvements in progress IN that
section of the city.
The citize2s Of Williamstown con-
tributed 1898 so to the San Francisco
relief fund OF this amount 500 was by
she employees Of the glass works.
-Alcyon Park will open for the season
next Saturday. By reading the Park adser-
tisement in another column, you will see
that there will be something doing.
Mrs. Norman Grey, of this city, was
last week elected one Of the managers OF
the New Jersey Society Daughters Of the
Revolution for a term Of three years.
Harold Heritage, who has been Ill
with typhoid fever 10 Philadelphia IS
now on the road to recovery and is visiting
his friend. Clarence Borden Of Glover St.
The iron fences between the tracks OF
the W. ]. & S. S. R. R. at the various sta
lions are being replaced with wooden Ones
this avoiding danger when the road is
electrified.
The closing exercises of the Carpenter
street school, with a fitting program ar
ranged by the teacher, w. F. Dickerson
and his assistant, will be held in the Town
Hall June 8.
The West Jersey and Sea Shore (. K
Company needed strip of land on Green
street to straighten their line, and a strip
1880 feet was sold to them by George
Wright for $l75.
John VanHess, who is employed at the
new railroad bridge. oyer the creek, was
ser;assly injured on Tuesday, by the mud
bucket falling On bis foot and breaking
three small bones Of the ankle Dr.
Brewer SET the bones.
The musicale given by the pupils OF
Mrs. Blackwood in the Central Baptist
Church was success ia every way, the
scholars one and all, acquitting themselves
in manner pleasing to the audience and
gratifying to their instructor About SlS
was added to the church treasury.
"A re- ident Of Bridgeton recently found
an old account book in which were recorded
the prices Of merchandise, eighty-two years
ago. They are, viz: butter, 20 cents; beef,
4 and 5 cents; beafsteak, Z cents; shoes, SO
cents; potatoes, 20 cents; cigars, for one
cent, and wood, 50 per cord.
The members Of General Howell Post,
Company l, and the American Mechanics,
will attend services in body next Sunday
morning at the Kemble Methodist Church.
A special sermon will be preached by the
pastor. Special music by the choir. Every
body is welcome to the service.
The Public Service officials have made
an amicable settlements with Mrs. Mary
Lupton, by which the trolley track will
be moved westward in North Woodbury.,
thus giving the needed room between the
fence erected by the West jersey Railroad
and the tracks of the Public Service Cor
poration
The annual meeting Of The Old Dept
ford Township Sunday School Association
was held last Thursday night in the NJ. E.
Sundav-school room. The discourse given
by the Rev. William F. Myer, Of the Ches-
ter Avenue Baptist Church Of Philadelphia
was very practical and helpful to all Sun
day-school workers. The music furnished
by the choir and orchestra led by Superin-
tendent Dubois, was a greas addition to
the meeting.
List of advertised letters for the week
ending May %, 1906: Mrs. Charles Il. Ba-
con, Barrrick & Sons, George a. Camp
bell, George Corey. William F. Farrell,
Mrs. Fannie Fixman, Mrs. Jos. Gilman,
Mr.. G. B., Mrs. Sara Hamel, Frank Hoff-