Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-03-28
LOCAL BRIEFS.

A. S. Wilson unloaded carload
of Buick autos last Friday.
Game Warden Avis put out 125
pheasants early in the week.
Walter Page has purchased a
Buick touring car from Agent Wilson.
Ellison H. Davis has purchased a
model 29 Buick auto from A. S Wilson.
Robert NJ. Burrows is now en-
ployed with the. VanSciver Co., of
Camden.
The farmers National Congress
will be held in New Orleans next No
vember
j. J. SunMmerill is spending his
Spring vacation at his parents home
in Woodbury..
Mrs. H. B. Diverty has been en-
tertaining Captain Belford Smith and
wife, of Tuckahoe.
Mrs. John Urban, who has been
very i'll at the German Hospital, Phila.,
is reported to be improving.
March 81 last year, the first Del
aware shad were sold in Woodbury..
There are none in evidence yet.
A bill passed the Legislature on
Monday requiring that milk bottles be
marked so they may be identified.
The girls basket ball team of the
High School will play the Vineland
girls in the Town Hall this evening.
Jail Warden Crist, on taking pos
session of Woodbury. Jail on Monday
found eleven prisoners awaiting his
care.
This is potato planting week
among the farmers who expect to dig
early crops, and many acres have been
iplanted.
The Board of School Estimate met
Monday evening and appropriated $l2,-
900, the amount necessary to finish the
school building. C0
The f. l.. wilkins Agency has
sold the Is acre farm on the Mulllca
Hill turnpike from Harry E. Robinson
to Charles G. Musch.
-Sealer of Weights and Measures
W. P. Abdill is finding number OF
short weights and measures in lis
tours about the county.
The Trustees of the, Gloucester
County Historical Society will meet
in DR.. t. E. Parker's office next Sat
urday afternoon at o'clock. 80
Harry Crist, of Williamstown,
iail-warden under Sheriff Allen, NOV
ed to Woodbury. last Monday to oc-
cupy the warden's residence.
John Campbell, of North Broad St.,
received broken leg and several mi
nor injuries Saturday night, the result
of being struck by trolley car.
Mrs. Casper T. Budd has been
entertaining her four sisters and three
nieces for several days. They are
from Layport and Eglesmere, Pa.
DR.. VIM. Brewer broke two bones
in his right foot last Thursday even
ing. the result of fall from step
while making call at Almonesson.
Alfred Twells is undergoing fur
ther treatment at the Jefferson hospi-
tai for the injury received to his hip
a couple of years ago while playing
ball.
= A. H. Swackhamer and JOS. ]
Summerill will be sworn in Monday as
Judge and Prosecutor respectively of
the Gloucester County Common Pleas
Court.
The 36th wedding anniversary OF
Mr.. and Mrs. George Lee was cele-
brated on Tuesday evening at their
German St home when about fifty
friends offered congratulations.
A large number of relatives and
friends were entertained by Mr. and
Mrs. A. ]. Higgins at their home on
Saturday in honor of the 10th birthday.
of Chas. t. Stratton, their uncle.
-"I have sold my property through
adv. in the Democrat writes pa
tron of this paper 'sWe are very
much pleased with the paper so add
one years subscription to our adver-
tising bill. !"
Harness Dealer Knisell, of this
city, discovered on Tuesday that fer
six years the Mayors Office, above his
store, had been getting gas through
his meter, and the Public Service Cor
poration refunded him $34.75
Owing to the cost of "fixings" for
graduation, there is considerable de-
bate as to whether or not some limit
as to cost of the graduating dress
should be fixed 1t has been sug-
gested that nothing more expensive
than gingham be used.
List of letters advertised March
25. 1912: Mrs. Laura Burrell, Mrs.
Marie Ensey, Mrs F. L. Greenwalt,
Mrs. Peterson, Mrs Ethel Hudson
Smith, Mr.. Allen Eastlack, Mr.. SAM
uel Lowder, James S. Roberts, Span
jer Bros, Frank e. Wagman.