Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-08-08
LOCAL BRIEFS.

alS lle present week at FOlteSCut.
Mr.. C.>L. Wolferth has our thanks
Tor a crate of delicious cantaloupes.
For being drunk and disorderly,
Thackara Holmes was fined $2.95.
DIR. J. X. Manning is spending his
vacation at. Red Bank and Trenton.
Miss Gladys Slackhammer, who
was a fever victim, is recovering
nicely.
The Misses Hattie and May Coz
ems are at Caldwell, N. j., on short
vacation.
-Thos. c. Dilkes, President of the
County Board of Taxation, is i'll with
eFysipelas
John G Tevis and family are
spending the month of August at
Holly Beach.
The Public Service has the most
attractive and suggestive window dis
play in the city.
The Hutchinson Motor Co.'s cleo
tfic sign is attraetively placed high up
on Broad street.
Charged with assulting VIM. Red
field, Lewis Sparks was held under
500 bail for court.
-Aliss Luella Rice entertained sew
eral friends Monday evening, the oc-
casion being her birthday
-Westville beat West End Saturday
by a score of 8 to /. First Ward won
easily from ST. Davids, 4 to 1.
George W. Curtis and family left
for Camden, Maine, Monday, where
they will spend some time.
MIR and Mrs. P. F. Rice are enter
tanning Miss Hattie Miller and. Char
les Miller, of Columbia, Ohio.
The Woodbury. Boy Scouts left
for camp yesterday. 1t is located at
Pequa, Pa, on the Susquehanna
The late c. c. Hughes store busi-
ness at Clarlzboro, has been sold to
Denton Stillwell, of Ardmore, Pa.
w. S. Bonsal and family left this
week for Cape May where they will
spend the balance of the summer
The County Board of Elections
will organize tomorrow Election Off
GERS must be appointed August 25d.
Former Prosecutor Alex. L. Rogers
has announced his candidacy for the
Republican nomination for Mayor of
Woodbury..
Miss Mary Garrett and Miss S.
Y. AIMS left for Boston, Monday via
boat. They will return in about two
weeks.
Miss Ada Rice, of Curtis avenue
has been elected a teacher in the
commercial department of the Glouces-
ter High School.
The Gloucester County Historical
Society will make pilgrimage to
Gettysburg battlefield September 20.
Full particulars later.
Ali the assessors except two com
piled with the law by filing their tax
lists with the County Board of Tax
a5ion last Tuesday.
The c. H. Frisby property was
sold by Sheriff Allen on the I'd inst,
the Woodbury. R. E. NJ. Association be-
ing the purchaser at 500.
The Crispin family of New Jersey,
Delaware, Penna. and New York viii
h5ld a Reunion at Washington Park
on Wednesday, August 21st.
Farmers read the adver. of the
Autocar Co. on the 7th page and the
International Harveter Co. OF America
on the I'd page of this paper:
Arthur Seabrook, the Deerfeld
trucker. raised 943 baskets of potatoes
to the acre, under his irrigation sys-
TEN. He used 5000 lbs. of fertilizer.
&C. G. Pearson has the agency for
shepard's House Fly Driver and Insect
Exferminator. "Cress' will show how
this article cleared his shop OF the
pests.
Joshua Joyce had seven turkeys
killed by dogs last week. W. Deptford
Township will pay the bill and James
Carter and Edward Dobbs will make
the appraisement.
The Union Services were begun
Sunday and two large audiences lis
tened to excellent sermons by Doctor
Lucas; in the morning at the Kemble
Church; in the evening in the Central
Baptist
civil Engineer VIM. NJ. Carter has
been i'll since last Monday, but his
trouble seems to be yielding TO treat
lnent. His physician will not yet say
his illness is typhoid, but he has some
symptoms of that disease.
Wesley B. Richman, who was be-
lieved to be improving, took turn for
the worse yesterday, and is very sick.
Wilson Housal is convalescent; Miss
Amy RamBo, Mrs. Chas Umba and
Mrs. Evans may almost be termed out
of danger.
The seventh annual excursion OF
the Retail Merchants Association OF
Gloucester County will be run to
Lorewood Grove, Wednesday, August
21st The steamer will stop at pier
adjoining Gloucester Ferry at S.15 A
NJ, Lincoln Park, $50 A. N. Tickets
60 cents, adults; children 80 cents.
The Board Of Education has ell
eeted the following persons: Howard
Simpson, engineer of the new high
school building, at $75 per month, fo1
nine months, and $50 per month fol
three months. Mrs. Linck and Miss