Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-01-18
The sleighing is good.

vendue to Monday, Jan. %.
Several robins have been seen in
this vicinity the past week,
The penalty for noncompliance
with the snow ordinance is So.
The County Medical Society is
meeting at Pauls Hotel to-day.
Butter is higher in price at pres
ent than at any period since 1889.
The N. Y. Shipbuilding Company
has contracts aggregating $15,O00,000.
The Thos. C. Kelly sale, near
Blackwood, is adjourned to Jan. 49,
The people who look high saw
great fiocks of crows flying South last
Sunday
City Council is investigating the
matter of giving the city filtered water
this year.
Thieves stole eighteen fowls from
Matthew Smalley, Hessian ave-, on
Tuesday night.
Edward Kean, of Curtis ave., fell
in Philadelphia Saturday afternoon,
breaking an arm.
The annual banquet of the City
Board of Trade will be held in New
ton Hotel tomorrow evening.
Mate" stetser, a well known To-
cal character, died at the Almshouse
last Tuesday, aged 6S years.
Prosecutor Rogers says the Feb
ruary term of Court, from present
prospects, is going to be light one
The Bridgeport Building and Loan
Association purchased the Adamson
property sold by Sheriff Allen at We
nonah Monday.
Sheriff Allen sold the Adamson
property at Wenonah on Monday to
the Bridgeport Loan and Building As
sociation for $500.
The average thickness of the ice
harvested the past week has been ten
inches. Its rare that such ice is har-
vested in this section.
Miss Lucy Titman, of Tunkhan-
mock, Pa, former teacher in the
High, School, was the guest of Miss
Ann Tyack over the week end.
List of letters advertised January
Is, 1912: Mrs. Ella Coones, Rebecca
E. Cooper, Franciszka Mroz, Edward
Smith, VIM. Treadway.
The lecture by j. Arthur Schlicter
in the Central Baptist Church next
Thursday is entitled, TO laugh, to be
cheerful, to be happy Admission rs
cents.
head of horses at Westyille last
Thursday at prices ranging from $175
to S297.50. T. Wood Wyne paid $5S7
for team of bays.
Owing to the low supply of water
in the reservoir, the Water Depart
ment has requested that the spigots
be not opened, as has been the case,
to keep the water from freezing.
-Woolwich township has paid the
County Collector $3,8S5.52, that amount
being 10 per cent. of the cost of that
portion of the Auburn-Swedesbor
county road running through the town
ship.
The trustees in charge of the ex-
hibition will be those residing in
Woodbury. and Dr.. j. G. Halsey, of
Swedesboro. Mr.. G. D. Lippincott,
of Swedesboro, was elected chairman
of the board of trustees at meeting
held last Monday.
Charles Cohill, aged 10, son of
under-sheriff Cohill, of Westville, who
last year made a remarkable record
as pitcher with the Westville and Had
donfield teams, has been offered
position with the New Britton, Conn,
team, and will have tryout this
Spring.
Z, The Gloucester County Historical
Society will hold a loan exhibit of
historical relics in Woodbury. on May
1st, I'd, and 3rd This exhibition will
include all the interesting historical
material to be found in this county,
the owners loaning the articles to the
Society for the three days of the ex-
hibition. CO
while on the Harmony road be-
tween AIickleton and Gibbstown, on
Tuesday, an automobile containing
Sheriff Allen, skidded into the ditch,
and driver, A. S. Wilson was two
hours getting the car on the road
again with the assistance of a team of
horses. The accident happened near
the home of Harry Keech.
DIR. J. C. Curry is installing
complete Skinner overhead irrigation
plant in his half acre garden on Hol
royd Place this city. His object is to
try out intensive farming on a small
scale, and prove to our farmers that
Mr.. Seabrook, Of Cumberland county,
is not the only person who can reap
$S8, 900 a year from a 25 acre farm.
DIR. H. B. Diverty has been elect
ed Almshouse Physician by the Aims
house committee of the FreehOlders
The Street and Water departments
of the city have been working day and
night repairing breaks in the water
mains one at the southern end of
Broad street and the other at the cor
ner of Salem avenue and Glover st.
-At a meeting of the Mems League
in the Presbyterian Church Tuesday
night, Hon. J.. Boyd Avis was elected
president; James Maxwell and Solo
mon s. Iszard,, vice presidents; Edgar
Trask, secretary The trustees are.
DR.. e. M. Sullivan, Walter Wooley,