The Monitor-register. [volume] (Woodstown, Salem Co., N.J.) 1892-1972, 1897-08-27


Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel A Croft are spend
ing some time at Ocean Grove attending
the camp meeting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Heritage offended
the Friends picnic at Mickleton last week
and report most delightful day.
Misses Irene Sharp and Susie Smith, of
Mantua, are the guests OF Miss Florence G.
Pither.
Miss Lou Hunter, of Philadelphia, spent
Sunday and Monday with W. H. McCul-
Tough and family.
James II. Tharp, of Sumter, s. c., has
been making short visit with friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel s. Guest have been
enjoying the delights of Asbury Park.
Miss Florence G. Pither has been visiting
her uncle. Harry Zane and amiIy, in Cam
den.
Samuel Voegtten, of Newark, veteran of
the late war and a member of the 9th N. j.
Regiment, has been spending few days
with his old comrade in arms. Capt. Edward
Eastlac k, whom he had not seen in thirty
two years.
Andrew Sheldon and family have been
entertaining friends from New York
Mrs. Luther Nj. HaIsey, of Williamstown,
has been the guest of Mrs. Kate Halsey.
Miss Julia Rainey has b, en- spending n
few days at The reversing Mountains near
Reading, Pa.
Mrs. Emanuel Stratton and grandson
Harry Bacon, of Philadelphia, have been
the guests of John f. MeIey and family.
Miss Anna Champion, OF Millville, has
been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Sails
bury.
Mrs b. F. Buzby enjoyed the delights of a
trip up the Hudson RIVER In company with
f~f, ID.
Thursday of last week.
1t is estimated that over five hundred peo-
pie from this neighborhood visited Wash
ington Park on Wednesday.
Mrs. Hattie Croft and children, Gertrude
and Joseph, spent last week with relatives
at Mullica Hill.
Miss Dorothy Gwynne, of Salem, has been
visiting he1 grandparents, MIR. and Mrs.
John c. Rulon.
Mrs. Geo. Sparks is still very sick with
only slight prospects of recovery.
David B. Richardson and Thomas W orrell
are no better at this writing.
Mrs. Chas. Justice, of Bridgeport, has been
visiting her parents, MIR. and Mrs. Chas d,
Lippincott.
Rev. II. E. Wanderer, of Paterson, has
been spending few days. vacation 18th his
old friends here, where he spent pleasant
pastorate in the Presbyterian Church sew
eral years ago.
Miss Matte Batten and the little Misses
Helen and Mabel Batten, of Woodbury.,
have been calling on Swedesboro friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elan Woodeth, of Moores-
town, have been visiting J. Frank Faucet
and family.
Miss Lille Colson, of Mullica Hill, was in
town on Tuesday.
Rev. S. F. Gaskill, of Palmyra, spent a
few days last wet elk with his daughter, Mrs.
Geo. Nj. Ashton.
Newsdealer Thomas Pike, while passing
up Main street on Sunday morning, picked
up an under set of false teeth, evidently be-
longing to a woman. He says that any one
proving property can take immediate pos
session.
Fireman Thomas Mccullough has been off
duty over two weeks nursing n sprained
ankle which he received while stepping
from his engine at this station. His en-
forced vacation is not at all to his liking, and
requires considerable amount of patience,
especially just at this busy season on the
road.
Mrs. John Gill has been quite sick for sew
eral weeks.
Walter X. Shoemaker has removed from
Mick Teton to this place and will open his
store in the near future. His friends well
come him back, after an absence of few
months, and hope that success may attend
his again entering into business here.
Quarterly meeting services will be held in
the NJ. K. Church on Sunday morning. Love
feast at 30, and sermon by Presiding Elder
D. b. Harris at 1890. The Epworth League
| will have charge of the evening service.
Rev. w. S. Ludlow will leave this week
/ for a short vacation.
The ladies' of Downs Union held very
pleasant ana well attended parlor meeting
on Tuesday afternoon at the residence of
Mrs. B. A. Headley. County President Mrs.
l.. p. Gilmour, of Wenonah. gave an inter-
| esting talk on the organization and growth
| of the w. G. L. U and the work done in its
various departments. Her wise words OF
| counsel and encouragement greatly cheered
| the workers.
The steamer Vega, which several years
ago was owned and run by the late Capt.
David f. Taylor, has been chartered by
Capt VIM. Shaffer and will again run in
Raccoon creek, carrying truck from Moore's
| wharf to Philadelphia.
Rev. Edmund Burke son of Rev. j. Y.
| Burke, of Clarksboro, has been called to the
pastorate of Trinity Episcopal Church,
which has been without a settled rector
since the resignation of Rev. Geo. W. Wat
| son, nearly year ago.
| Rev. j. H. O'Brien will occupy his pulpit
| next Sunday after a vacation of two weeks.
| Rev. MI McCorkle, of Paulsboro, occupied
| the pulpit last sunday
The rite of baptism was administered to
| Mrs. Aida Vincent at Jennings pond last
| Sunday afternoon, according to the usages
| of the Baptist Church
Rob. 0. Eaton, of the firm of Estey &
Bruce, Philadelphia, placed an elegant
| Brambach piano in the home of Editor Geo.
w. Pither on Wednesday. We are glad to
know that the long promised era of pros
| perity is dawning and that it strikes Editor
| Pither among the first.
| 1t is said that our townsman, Aaron Hurff,
was relieved of his pocketbook containing
| over eighty dollars in money and check
on the Swedesboro Bank for hundred dol
lars while standing on the street corner
near Merritt's drug store, in Woodbury.,
waiting for car to go to Washington Park
on W ednesday morning.
| The funeral of Mrs Catherine Irwin, wife
| of Robert Irwin, o near Mullica Hill, was
| held at St. Joseph's churcn on Tuesday.
| Mrs. Irwin died of consumption, and had
| buried five grown-up children with The
same disease. Her husband and one son
| survive her.
The funeral of Martin Tighe, living near
| Harrisonville station, was held at st.
Joseph's Church on Thursday morning. in
Il terment at St. Josephs Cemetery. The
| funeral was largely attended.
The glass works will go into blast on
| Sept. lst, with encouraging prospects, The
| furnace has been rebuilt and several i'm
provements made to the plant Several
large orders have been secured.