Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-02-17
Frtends, Home.

A Friends Home is to be opened at la
Overlook avenue, Trenton, about April l
The arrangements are now practically com
pleted. The home will be under the care
of the Burlington Quarterly meeting a
committee of which has made unsuccessful
attempts to permanently locate it at differ
emit sites proposed.
The offer of Andrew G. Reeves for the
temporary use of house owned by him
on Overlook avenue was then made and
accepted. The committee in charge is now
receiving subscriptions for the furnishing
of the place, which will be used until cir
cumstances warrant the securing of perma-
nent quarters.
The institution is to provide home for
aged and infrm Friends, whose board will
be paid by the meetings or by themselves.
according to their financial condition. Il
will be partly maintained by legacy, a
share of which is available to each quarter
of Philadelphia yearly meeting.
The committee reports to the next quar-
terly meeting. which is held at Mt. Holly
on the first of next month, when its plans
will be formally approved, and the details
will then be arranged and a matron ap-
pointed. True American.
Bishop Scarborough confirmed class
of four in Christ church last Sunday even
ing, and consecrated the new organ.
We congratulate Mr. Geo E PiersoD
on his reelection as Keeper of Records and
Seal of the Grand Lodge, z of P. of New
Jersey.
The chimney at the residence of Geo.
Davis, of the First Ward, took fire We'd
nesday morning. and the fire department
was called ont to e1tiDguish it.
The third generation of the Budd
family began life on Tuesday morning on
Spring Lane Farm, Crown Point ROAD
son of Walter T. and Eliza Budd.
The glass house near the bridge has
been taken down, much to the improve
ment Of Broad street, as the buildings were
in very dilapidated condition.
The ladies OF the First Baptist church
are arranging for an oyster supper to be
held in the lecture room of the church on
Tuesday evening, FEBRUARY 92d. Tickets,
Is cents.
Miss Ella Klock, teacher OF the Sixth
grade room in the Academy, is i'll at her
home in Philadelphia, with typhoid pneu-
monia. Mr.. Clement has taken the class
during her illness.
The Sunday school lesson entitled
q The twelve sent forth" will be taught by
Mrs. A. Wilson, of WeEonah, before the
Sunday school Teachers Union, Friday, p
M, at g. Is, in the Central Baptist church
Not only teachers, but all others interested
in Bible study, are welcome.
List of advertised letters for the week
ending February IA, 1898: Mrs. B. Bard
W. L, Baker, Miss Mary Baptist, Miss
Lydie Coulley, A. E. FISHER, Miss Maggie
Simmons, Harry w. StIang, Charles w
Wilson. Rob't B. Wood. Persons calling
for the above letters will please say adyer
tised.
AT the meeting of February LIST, Coun
Gil RENTED ST. 1000 of taxes that were moi
collectible because legal formalities had
not been observed to enable their collec
ton. It is an easy matter for Council tc
remit such an amount, but not SO easy fol
tar payers to make up the shortage.
just law would make the negligent officia
responsible for sub loss mot tau payers.
The presentation of books to thoss
scholars who were present fifty sessions O
the Sunday-school of the First Baptis
church, for the year 1897, will take plac'
tomorrow evening, Friday. Mr.. G. R
Evans will make an address, Pastor Chill
! drey will present the twenty rewards
vocal and instrumental music will add T.
the evenings entertainment. The public
will be welcome.
| MlHu6tUuka ANtUc III AAcu AACu Va 1H4
city held a jubilee session last Frida.
night. the event of the occasion being tn
presentation Of pair of silver tomahawk
by the Grand officers. This tribe ha
Increased its membership from SO on Jul,
/ /, 1897 to 141 on January .lst, 1893. tn
presentation was made by Great Sacheu
Patterson, of Camden, and speech Of accept
ance was by W. Harrison Liyermore o
this CITY, This was the grand event in tn
history of the Minnetonka Tribe.
4 Albert Muller, Joseph Gibson, Jas
| Asphen, Howard Young and Gertie Young
and other colored people Of North Wood
bury not yet in custody have been liYinI
on chicken stolen from Chas Eastlack, En-
Skill, Ray Ware Pratt, Merritt Pierce an
Others, but have at last come down
prison fare, aud are likely to subsist there
on for some months yet Marshall Dopso
caught them red handed, and covered wit
feathers, and those named are 10 Jail, an
old sleth Dopson is on the trail Of the
! cOnfedeEates.