Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-01-02
LOCAL BRIEFS.

fail In blast again. ~"
-Four of A. A. Stokes clerks have been
i'll With the grip this week.
Mrs. A A. Stokes has just installed
one OF the latest National Cash Registers.
VIM. Means has bought the Lewis
Schwobel property at Mullica Hill for $4,000.
MIR. G. A. Madden is yet confined to
his room, bus is considerably improved in
health.
&C. @. Clark is now in the West buying
a car load of draft and business horses for
his trade.
The report that Pastor Wendell is
about to leave the First Baptist Church to
accept call to Chester is denied.
Miss Grace Stowe, Of Scitioo, Conn.,,
spent holiday week with her former
class-mate, Miss Margaret Rogers.
Miss Lester Ogden of Trenton has been
spending the week with her cousin, Miss
Hazel Munyan, of North Broad street.
-Sam'l Fl. Kirby, one of Woodbury's
oldest citizens, who has enjoyed excellent
health the past year, is grip victim.
Mr.. W. D. Fletcher has taken poses
sion of the Burdsell house on franklin
street which be recently purchased.
Mrs Anna NJ Costello, widow of Thos.
Costello former well-know Gloucester
Countian, died on the 2Sth ult., at GIuces-
ter City. The funeral took place yesterday.
The Young Ladies' Home Missionary
Circle Of the Presbyt erian Church met at
home of Miss Marion Ware on Maple street,
last Monday evening.
Mrs John Zee, one of the best known
women of Mantua, died on Saturday morn
ing, after a protracted illness. The
deceased was a woman of kind disposition
and noble Christian character.
Isaac Wilson, minister from Bloom
field, Ontario, will attend Friends meeting
in Woodbury. ON next frst-day, Sunday,
the 9th inst, at 10 a. M. in the east end of
the meeting house, to which all invited.
Last Friday Judge Starr fined Maggie
Anderson, colored, $25 for keeping dis
orderly house, and sentenced Thomas
Thomas, oolored, to State Prison for one year
for breaking into the depos at Ciarksboro
He plead guilty.
The following officers have been elected
for the Firemen's Relief Association:-Ge
e. Reading, president; Adon W. Cattell,
vice president; Samuel Fl. Laid, secretary;
Benjamin w. Cloud, treasurer and Mr. Fox,
efuSbee, IOT bnree years
Mrs. Rebecca Wallace, mother of Mrs.
John B. Clayton, died at home in this city
on Saturday, aged 80 years. Her funeral
took place yesterday morning from the
residence of her daughter, on Newton ave.
Interment private as Cedar Grove Gene
terry.
We thank Mr.. Johns Truitt, treasurer,
for an invitation TO the opening of the
Mutual Trust Company, in the Bourse,
Philadelphia, on Thursday, January 2ad,
from a. m. to p m. The new insti-
sutton opens under most suspicious circum-
stances.
LIS of advertised letters, December 80,
1907. Mrs Kathryn Andrews, Mrs.
Arshur D Hilton, Mr. Evertt Curtis, Mr..
Isaac Dunton, George J. Ewing, Mr. d. ]
Duck or Quick. Persons calling for above
please say advertised
The annual meeting of the Gloucester
County Historical Society will be held in
/ the Conrt House on Tuesday, January IA,
at 80 O'Clock, when new officers will be
Z elected, new Constitution adopted and
valuable historical papers read.
Frank Lorton, giving his residence as
Bridgeton died suddenly on Sunday night
in the county jail where he had been COM
mitted for disorderly conduct. Lorton
was seized with an epileptie fit and expired
in a short time. Coroner Hunter took
charge of the body and had it removed to
the morgue.
Special Master David O. Watkins on
Saturday sold two farms at Elmer, one
for S3100 and the other for 1925 On Mon
day Mr.. Watkins, as Master offered the
property described in another column,
Brooks ,Ys Brooks, 5000 was bid and the
sale was adjourned until January 13. A
lot at Newbold was sold for $3.50.
Judge Starr stepped off an evening
train before it came to full stop last Mon
day night and had he been less nimble on
his pins, the esult is not pleasant to con-
template. The train had more momentum
than be thought. but he kept his feet, and
slough burdened with a heavy satcbel
passed safely between she tracks, past the
third rail over the cattle guards, and to
che side walk. The Judge is excusable for
being in haste to reach his pleasant home,
but be must be more conservative in the
future, because he can't expect TO have
such luck every day.
Nearly everv county in the State was
represented at the annual meeting of the
Farmers Reliance Insurance Company in
the Auditorium Hotel. at Burlington, last
Friday. The report shows that she COM
pany has had a very successful year. The
losses by FIRE and lightning amounted to
about $27 900 while she new business for
the year Amounted TO So 300, 900. The
company is now carrying insurance on real
and personal property to the amount of
SIS 600 600, all Of which is owned by Pat
rons of Hnsbandry No one is insured
that is not member Of this organization
The officers elected for the ensuing year
are: President, Thomas Borton, OF Mullica
Hill; secretary, Franklin s Zeily, Of
Mount Holly; treasurer, Charles Collins, of
Horrestown; assistant secretary, George E
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