Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-06-27
LOCAL BRIEFS.

IN this issue.
&C. R. Peddle has purchased a
Buick touring car.
Mrs. H. C. Foote is visiting rela-
tives at Harrisonyille.
w. D. Fletcher is riding new
Excelsior motorcycle.
Dennis Hayes addressed the local
branch of the G. B. B. A. Tuesday
might.
The new Sharon improvement
Company is planning big day on the
Fourth.
w. G. Hodges, of High Street, is
enlarging his front porch with cement
blocks.
Captain B. w. Cloud and wife left
for their summer home at Longport
Saturday.
David Brewer and Ernest Black
wood are camping at Ocean City for
some time.
+ The Ladies of the Central Baptist
Church have compiled cookbook
! which is now for sale.
The West Jersey Marl and Trans.
Co. is distributing number of very
Npractical souvenirs. l0
Mrs. H. B. Diverty is spending a
few days with her mother, Mrs. S. III.
Wheaton, at Tuckahoe.
City Treasurer Ernest Redfield
will leave, Saturday, with his family
for Bustinis Bay, Maine.
Mrs. Wellington Kugler, of Wash
ington, D. c., is visiting at the Kugler
residence on Lake Drive.
-Gibbstown defeated West End,
Saturday, to A. First Ward won
easily from Covenant, 8 to 2.
Miss Adelaide Livermore, of Cali
fornia, is visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. w. H. Livermore.
Edward T. Broadway and wife left
this morning for their summer home
at Kennebunk Beach, Maine.
The Woodbury. Y. NJ. G. A. team
won from Wenonah at Woodbury., Sat-
urday, by the score of 8 to 2.
Leon Budd has purchased a two
passenger, 80 horsepower Overland
from the Hutchinson Motor Company.
Guy Lee and family returned Sun
day night from a 965-mile auto trip,
touching Pittsburgh and Washington,
d. C.
Miss Grace Duff1eld, of Center
street, and Mr. Robert S. Woolston
were married last evening at the home
of the bride.
IS. B. Munyan, district deputy. en-
tertained a score of grand officers OF
the u. o. A. M, at Newton's Hotel,
Saturday afternoon.
Miss Reba Murphy will retire
from the millinery business in this
city and will travel for New York
concern for few months.
Norman Hewitt and Forrest Nc
Lain attended the Leaders Institute
of the County Y M. G. A., at Point
Pleasant, ~ j., over the week end.
I Pie cherries have been selling for
twelve cents a pound this week, and
lthere are very few to be had. Pre-
lvious years they have been. as low as
Vfour cents.
The thirteenth annual meeting of
the Bridgeport Loan and Building AS
sociation will be held on Friday, July
18th, when new series of stock will
be issued.
The Children's Home Society, of
New Jersey, has been enriched by
$75 check from the Girls Minstrel
Club, this sum being the proceeds
from their entertainment held a few
months ago.
Mrs. VIM. c. Dilkes, of Mantua,
was struck by George Crofts limou-
<l,r fx,cr 1xt7fNo or
down and considerably bruised. Mrs.
Dilkes had just alighted from the
trolley car and stepped in the path
of the machine.
Delegate J. Boyd Avis to the
Chicago Convention, returned home
Sunday night. AS in the case of
twenty-five other New Jersey dele
gates, Mr.. Avis followed the wishes of
Colonel Roosevelt and did not partici-
pate in the balloting when Mr.. Taft
was renominated.
The County Board of Taxation has
nearly completed their examination of
taxing methods and inspection of pro-
perty assessments in the County. Ma
tional Park and Woodbury. have not
yet been gone over A few assess
ments have been ordered reduced.
AT an adjourned meeting, Monday
night, the Board of Education awarded
furniture contracts as follows: the ].
B. yanSciver Company. seats for the
assembly room, $717.5O; desks, ETC.,
New Jersey Furniture Company,
S1Sl3.S0. The vacancies in the teach
ing corps have not yet been filled.
AS a result of the appearance of
City Solicitor Davis before the Public
Utilities Commission, Tuesday, at
Trenton, bells will shortly be placed
at the railroad crossings at Carpenter
and Hopkins streets, and it is very
likely that the railroad company will
be compelled to stop trains before the
Cooper street station is reached, pro-
vided there is a train standing at the
station at that time.
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