Gloucester County Democrat., 1894-08-30
NEWS OF THE COUNTY.
ITEMS OF INTEREST GATHERED BY
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
swEDESBORO.

| Miss Annie Graham, of Washington, D.
c., has been the guest of Swedesboro friends
during the past week.
Mrs. Howard Hendrickson, of Wenonah
has been visiting Mrs Harry McCollister
Miss Bessie Holmes, of Salem, has been
spending some time with Mrs. s. William
Gaskill.
Mr.. William Clement, of Smyrna, Della.
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs Harry Nc
Collister, on Sunday.
Samuel Il. Croft is enjoying the camp
meeting at Ocean Grove.
Mrs. r. G. Clement spent Saturday and
Sunday at Ocean Grove.
Mrs. Geo. T. Ford and her son Geo. left
here on Monday for Philadelphia, where
they will make their future home
Miss Rebecca Pike is visiting her grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John DEM, at Salem.
Evangelist Geo. L. Barker and family are
spending some time at Ocean Grove.
Misses Annie Long and Marietta Collins,
of Oxford, Pa, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. s.
Taylor Rogers.
Miss Joe. Batten is visiting her brother
Rev. Samuel 2. Batten, in New YorE.
Mildred, the youngest daughter of DR..
and Mrs. B. F. Buzby, has been dangerously
ill during the past week, but is now slowly
recovering.
David Hawn, one of our enterprising and
young business men, wife and daughter,
spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Chas.
Hawn, at Daretown.
Our freight depot is beginning to assume
something of its old time business activity
Large shipments of sweet potatoes are being
made, although the prices haye fallen from
$4. so paid Monday of last week, to So rs
per barrel, condition of things which has
caused some of our farmers to stop shipping.
A special freight train of 28 cars loaded
at Swedesboro went up the road Tuesday.
Mr.. s. viii Gsskill and family, Adrain
Locke and family, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. R.
Poinsett and Miss Gertrude Garrison have
been spending few days at Sea Isle City.
Mr.. Frank Parker and family have been
spending week with friends at Salem.
Mr.. w. E. Manning and wife. of Edge
water, N. j., are spending some time with
their parents, Mr.. and Mr.. M. E. Manning,
of this place. They made the trip from
there on bicycles.
Postmaster james J. Davidson, Harry
McCollister, Wilmer Brown and Frank
Beckman left on Wednesday to attend the
Good Roads Bicycle Tournament,at Asbury
Park this week, on their wheels, expecting
to reach there in the evening, and will
spend several days at the fair little city by
the sea.
VII Mccullough and Chas. L. Mayors
left on Monday for Washington, to repre-
sent Viola Lodge, K. of p, at the great BIZ
ennial encampment of Knights of Pythias
being held this week at the National Capt.
tai.
Mrs. Mary Neafsay, the wife of Michael
Neafsay. died on Thursday night last after
a painfnl illness of over two months. The
funeral services were held on Monday and
interment made in st. Joseph's Catholic
cemetery.
The school trustees of Woolwich town
ship have decided to adopt the Pathfinder
series Of the temperance textbooks for the |
schools OF the town.
Swedesbor0 farmers complain of the dep |
of thieves who carry off water
tomatoes and sweet potatoes from
their fields
The dense smoke which has hung over
this part Of the country since Sunday, is |
to be due to the extensive forest
fires in Michigan.