The Monitor-register., 1896-02-21
swedesboro Items.

John Mayer has been seriously i'll fol
some time.
Mrs. l. 81. Vanneman has been confined
to her room for several days by illness.
Miss Kate Crispin, of Camden. has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. B. A. Headly.
Miss Anna Cheesman has been spend
ing week with friends in Salem county.
Mr.. Murry, blacksmith at the glass
factory, has removed to Rogers Ford, Pa
Mrs. Samuel A. Croft has been visiting
her son, VIM. A. Sailor, in Philadelphia
ill with typhoid fever, is slightly improv-
ing.
Miss Geneva Batten, of Woodbury., has
been the guest of her aunt, Mrs. VIM. 81.
Brown.
Miss Retta Z. Fox has been spending a
| few days with her sister. Mrs. Wm. A.
Miller, in Philadelphia.
The thermometer touched the zsro mark
on Monday morning, giving US taste Of
| Winter not at all to our liking.
! Mrs Whittle, of Newark, wife Of Prof
| Whittle, the ventriloquest, is spending a
few weeks with Mrs. John F. Meley.
B. R. Moffett and wife attended the
funeral of their mother, Mrs. Mary
Moffett, at Glassboro, on W ednesday of
last week.
Percy, the little son of Harry MeCollis.
! ter and wife, who has been prostrated
with intermittent fever, is, we are glad to
note, improving.
Rev. s. F. Gaskill, and Miss Drue B.
Cheesman, were the delegates appointed
by the Swedesboro Epworth League, to
attend the League Convention at Camden
last week.
John K. Adams and family were hastily
summoned to Tuckahoe on Wednesday
| of last week, by the dangerous illness OF
! his father, but hope they reached his
home before he had passed away.
The many friends of Mathew Muhl.
baire, remembering that he was seventy
years of age on Monday last, gave him a
very pleasant surprise, and old and young
came together to do him honor. Supper
was served in the afternoon to large
company, and refreshments in the even
ing. At late hour the company separ-
| aUed, with the hope that their friend may
live to see many more birthdays.
| Carp fishing has come to be an industry
| of no small Importance along the line of
Raccoon creek, and the despised fish has
suddenly grown into great favor. Thous-
ands of pounds have been taken between
this place and Bridgeport, and a ready
market is found at our station at 43 cents
per pound. They are mostly sent to New
York, and rumor says they leave that
great city in cans, labled choice salmon.
Andrew G. Rode and wife, have the
sympathies of the community in the loss
of their little son, Henry, four years of
age, whose death occurred on Monday,
under peculiar affecting circumstances.
While playing with other children some
brush which was being burned, his CLOTH
ing caught fire, and although the flame
was Immediately put out, aud be was
only slightly burned, the fright threw
him into spasms, from which he died a
few honrs later.
A party of friends of Adrain P. Lock
and wife called and spent pleasant time
with them on Monday evening. They
were uninvited, but more than less well
present were: Misses Sarah Hurff,
1 Dthucu0 Oiafh Guhtt6 aoos 11tAA IL o
Batten, Mary Rulon, Maria and Emma
Lock, Constance and Estelle Lock, Laura
and Name Weatherby, Messrs. VIM.
Poinsett, Howard Lock, VIM. Wolf.
George Jones, l. H. Weatberby. Alex
Reeves, of Swedesboro; Miss Cotteral,
Of Philadelphia; Henry Poinsett and wife,
lof Mullica Hill.
A merry party OF phantoms surprised
Miss Bertha Turner on last Friday even
ing, and proceeded to the enjoyment of
the occasion after the fashion of merry
young people. Those present were:
| Joseph Sitbens and wife, James Hortman
and wife, Owen Guest and wife, Mrs. w.
H. Brown, Misses Viola Irelan, Gertie
Parker, Ida Lawrence, Ella Warrington
Clara Batten, Name Weatherby, Mabel
Norcross, Ella Brown, Lizzie Haines,
Maria Cozens, Hanna Sparks, Messrs.
Wilmer BfowD, Herbert Brown. Howard
Moore, Asa Lawrence, Clinton Norcross
Arthur and Augustus Sparks, Joseph
Mitchell, Edward Vandsrslott, George
Meley, Jr., of Swedesboro; Bert Guest, OF
Woodstown; the Misses Batten of Wood
bury; Miss Florence Black, of Aura; Mr..
Green, of Pedricktown.