The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17
Additional County News.
~swedesboro Items.

y SwedesbOrO Items.
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sale every week at Pixies News Agency.]
Mrs. V incent Sharp and children, OF Man
tuH. haue been the guests of her sister. Mrs.
Geo. W. Pither.
Mrs. Elizabeth Beckett, of Glassboro. has
been visiting her brother, b. K. Moffett.
Mrs. Jos. Gill. of Nit. Royal. spent Thurs
DAY with her mother, Mrs. Maggie Adams.
Miss Name Weatherby has gone to spen d
some time with relatives in Camden Phila-
delphia and Norristown, Pa.
Mrs. Wilmer Egee, of Alliance, O.. is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Howell.
Mrs. Louis c. Green, of Woodbury., has
been visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Batten.
MT. and Mrs. John Simpkins and daugh-
ter, of Camden. spent Sunday with Swedes-
boro friends.
MI. and Mrs. e. M. Atkinson, of Salem,
have. been the guests of Geo. Cheesman and
sisters.
Mrs. w. II. Hannold is spending some time
with relatives in Camden and Philadelphia.
Miss Lille Eastlack has been visiting
friends in Woodbury..
Mrs. Robert Ham, of Camden is visiting
her brother, A. r. Talman.
Walter Cheesman, of Elmer. has been WIS.,
fting relatives here.
William Strang and family, of Borden
town, have been visiting his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Strang.
Miss Eva Huber, a nurse in the Pennsyl-
vania Hospital, Philadelphia, is spending a
short vacation with her cousin, Mrs. j,
Frank Faucet.
Miss May Young is spending several
weeks with the family of Rev. A. e. Wan
derer, at Paterson.
Editor Geo. W. Pither spent Sunday and
Monday at seaview, Atlantic county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Vanneman, Mrs. Mary
Musgrave, Mrs. Sam uel b. Gaskil and 9th.
ers awe gone on a trip to Gettysburg, Cav
ems of Luray, Washington and other points
of interest.
Miss Nellie IL. Richman, of Woodstown,
has been the guest of Mrs. Harry Hewitt.
Miss Lizzie Cozens is attending Prof.
W private school at Woodbury..
VIM. ii. Mccullough left here on Tuesday
morning to attend the reunion of his old
regiment, the Forty-eighth New York,
yhich took place at Sheepshead Bay, Long
and. His son, William, accompanied
ga.
Yrs John Gill, who has been seriously i'll
Tor several months. is in q dangerous condi-
ton, with very slight hopes of recovery.
Louis nelvin is quite i'll with rheumatism
and dropsy at the home OF his employer,
Joseph Heritage.
The ''pichic tea" held at the old stone
church on Thursday last, for the benefit of
the Oak Grove Sunday-schooI, was an en-
joyable occasion and a financial success,
adding $27 to the Sunday-school fund.
At a special school meeting held last Fri.
day evening, the sum of 5000 was voted to
maintain a night school, anG 1t will open as
soon as the necessary arrangements can be
made.
Rev. d.. K. Vishanoff, of Thessaloniea,
will preach in the NJ. Z. Church on Sunday
evening, and also give an account of the
manners and customs of his native country.
Mrs. Joseph Heritage has in her yard a
double red geranium, four and one-half feet
high and bearing torty-five large punches of
bloom. 1t is a very beautiful object among
her large collection of flowers.
William Emme, an old resident, died at
the ounty aims house last Saturday night
and was buried in the Methodist cemetery
on Tuesday. He leaves a wife, who has
been for several years al Inmate of the in
sane asylum at Trenton.
The annual meeting of Downs W. C. T. U.
will be held on Friday afternoon. Reports
of superintendents will be given and Off
GERS elected for the ensuing year.
The Gloucester County Board of Agricul-
ture will hold its annual institute here on
Nov. 18th and 10Th.
AS an Offset to the extreme heat of last
week, the mercury dropped twenty-seven
degrees between Saturday night and Sun
day morning.
On last Sunday while Robert s. Porch, of
Poreh's Mill, and his wife were attending
church here, a young man who had been
In his employ only a few days. unlocked a
desk and took from q private drawer a
pocketbook containing fifty dollars in
money and two checks. Mr.. Porch discov-
cred his loss on his return home, but could
not find no trace of the thief.
The Garrison homestead, late the property
of Mrs. Mary Clark, which was advertised
to be sold on Thursday. was withdrawn on
account of the low bids, nineteen undred
dollars being the highest.
On Thursday afternoon of last week a
team belonging to william Bennett ran
away with a hay wagon and leaving the
highway crashed through a fence into a
field near the toll gate. The wagon was up
set ana the horses thrown down in a he ar
One horse had its shoulder broken, and the
bone pierced the heart, causing deathin an =,
hour. The horse was valued at $3.50. Z
The nan was heard to remark on Saturday :,
evening, after they had closed up business
that Swedes boro was a pretty slow kind of a
town, but he found to his sorrow that it was
fast enough for him. Great credit is due
Butcher Homan for the prompt manner in
xuh fah he anfnd In ona,rfn- @Lo u-G-
these dangerous characters. as later develop
ments have proved that the were not only
passers of counterfeit money, but manufact-
urers as well. at their home in Philadelphia
Considerable excitement prevailed here
on Sunday morning over the arrest of a
well dressed man and woman just as they
were about to board the train for P%hiladeI-
phia on a charge of passing counterfeit
money. They arrived in town on Saturday
and visited nearly every business place,
making small purchases of a few cents
value, and offering silver dollars in ay-
ment until they had passed fifteen of the
spurious coins. Butcher william A, Homan
was the first to discover the fraud, which he
did as soon as he had made the change for
the dollar offered him in m for q
pound of pork, but supposing the parties to
be strangers, just moved into town, said
nothing. However, seeing them in the
street early on Sunday morning he recog-
nized them as the persons who ha d passed
the counterfeit dollar on him, and hurryfng
to the home of Deputy Marshal Garrison
soon had that official on the track and they
were arrested while sitting quietly in the
station, waiting for the train. They were
taken before Justice Ford, who committed
them to Woodbury. jail to await g hearing
before United States Commissioners M organ
on Monday. They gave the names of John
Smith and Mary Anderson, although they
registered at Ford's Hotel, where they pass
cd the night, as man and wife. When
searched several spurious dollars were
found on their persons, each one bearing
date of 1890.