Gloucester County Democrat., 1909-02-25
LOCAL bKIEFs.

Camps of P. O. S. of A. generally
attended church in a body last Sunday
The Third track in Woodbury. is
connected up again, and trains are
Running over it. ---a
aS-Benj. Howell. son of the late
DIR. Howell, is visiting his sister, Mrs.
John S. Jessup. 49,
Nimrod Chew is pointing out his
new concrete block house in North
Woodbury. this week.
-Ex- Gov. E. G. Stokes will make
the Memorial Day address for the G..
A. R. Post of this city.
/ The last section of the Ladd house
was drawn down Broad street by a
Hraction engine Monday. ~ Co
"A patron of our short adv. service
writes this week: please discontinue
adv. it brought results"
Miss Sadie Alcorn and mother,
of Salem, are visiting Mrs. Thomas
Wallace, of Hopkins street.
Arthur Bayer, a graduate of the
Democrat Office, has secured good
position in printing Office in Phila.
Members of the O. U. A. M. and
c. A R. attended services at the
First Baptist Church Sunday morning
Mr.. H. S. Bean and wife, of Bos-
ton, are visiting their son Walter, on
High St., enroute for the Taft in
auguration.
Sheriff Wilson went to Trenton
Tuesday to join the Sheriffs of the
State in opposition to the Jury Com
mission bill.
The Newton livery stables have
been rented by Undertaken Davis, as
he finds his increasing business de-
mands the room.
Mr.. E. c. Bruner, of Philadelphia,
has given up farming and gone into
the commission business. His home
is 639 Vine ST., Camden.
Judge Allen B. Endicott, of Allan
tic City, is brother of Rear Admiral
Mordecai Endicott, for many years in
charge of the navy yard in Washing
ton.
Walter Dawson has returned to
his duties at the Central Meat Mar
ket, after an absence of several mon
tbs caused by an operation for appen-
.dicitis.
Mr.. ]. H. Pancoast, whose sale
was advertised in our last issue to
take place to-day, the 25th, was
to get an auctioneer.
The entertainment given in the
Central Baptist Church last Friday
might was a decided success. The
~Tom Thumbs Wedding" was hit.
The receipts were $50.
The trolley bridge at Mantua is
being strengthened. A survey has
been made of the long trolley bridge
across Big Timber creek, and the re-
port is it is to be rebuilt at cost of
$4,000. ~
Rev. Edward Dillon filled the pull
pit of the Central Baptist Church last
Sunday, the pastor, Rev. Chas. De-
Woody, being i'll. Mr.. DeWoody is
not yet fully recovered from an at
tack of neuralgia.
The real estate agency of D. F.
Hendrickson & Co., reports the sale
of Mrs. Kate Warwick's general mer-
chandise business and property at
-Almonesson, to Mr.. George Alonzo
Dwier, of Sharon Hill, Delaware Co.,
Pa.
"A horse thief arrested in Rhode
Island had diary of his crimes, and
among the entries was one, Wood
bury, N. j., stole horse" Ora Sharp
lost a valuable horse on that date,
and never found any trace of the
stolen animal.
Charles. J. Baxter, State Superin-
tendent of Public Schools, never at,
tended public schools after he was II
years of age. With the help of
college-bred uncle he studied nights
while he worked days on a Sussex
county farm, meanwhile acquiring
learning that enabled him to become
country school teacher at the age
of Is.
The terms of Messrs. Underwood,
Parker and Hughes, as members of
the City Board of Education, expire in
March when their successors will be
elected. 1t seems to us that it would
be bad policy, in view of the import
ant work of new building they have
begun, to make change in the Board
at this time, and we believe the peo-
pie will so view. it and give each a
unanimous reelection.
Camden District, P. O. S. of A.
united in a Washington Birthday cele-
bration in the Broadway M. e. Church,
Camden, on Monday evening. The
CHURCH Was uduuSOuSly ucCOl dtcu dflu
addresses were made by State Presi-
dent W. Howard Meeker, of Pensau-
ken, and Chas. H. Elder, of Trenton.
State Chaplain, who was converted
and later licensed as a minister of
the gospel in that church. State Off
GERS, and past state and district Off
GERS were present.
The"Paper Chase" comedy in
three acts, was presented in the Coun-
try Club Casino Saturday evening to
a crowded house. A repetition of
the play Monday evening again at
tracted good audience. The play
was one of the best ever given in
this city and the participants showed
considerable talent. Mr. VanOstrom,
as Mr.. Buzby, the trouble maker, gave
such fine exhibition of a forgetful
old gentleman as to seem the original
Mr.. Weir and the other participants
were very good and well deserved
the enthusiastic receDtion accorded