Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-06-02
JOHN WANAMAkER
sWEDEsBORu.

Miss Helen Walton, of Phila has been
spending few days with her friend, Miss
Retta G. Fox.
Mr.. and Mrs Robert S. Austin has been
visiting here.
Co. School Superintendent VIM. FL.
Eldridge and fsmily have been the guests
of Mrs. EIdridge's mother, Mrs. Mary
Shivers.
Geo. M. Ashton and wife spent Sunday
and Monday with Rev. S. F. Gaskill, at
Paulsboro.
Mrs. John Robinson and Miss Arity De-
Mont, of New York, has been the guest of
Mrs Owen L Guest.
Mr.. Henry Clayton, of Ocean View. spent
spent Sunday and Monday with Joseph
Snyder.
VIM. A. Sailor and family of Phila.. have
been visiting Fl. c. Garrison.
Miss Daisy Jones and Miss Lulu Os-
mond, of Beverly, have been visiting here
Miss Marguerite Mergenthaler, of Ger
mantown and Miss Sidney Head, of Attain
tic City have been the guests of Mrs. Han
nah Sparks.
Mrs. VIM. Quinn and Miss Martha
Quinn, of Paulsboro, spent Memorial Day
with Mrs. B. r. Moffett.
Mr.. and Mrs Emanuel Stratton and
Harry Bacon, of Phila., have been the
guests of John F. Meley and family.
Wilbert Guest, of Phila, spent Monday
with his uncle Owen L. Guest.
Mrs T. W. Dubois has been entertain
ing VIM. B. Zippler and family Of Phila.
Miss Blanche A. Clark, has gone to spend
a week with her friend Mrs. VIM. A. Sailor
in Philadelphia.
John B. Adams and family, of Phila..
have been visiting friends here.
Miss Hannah Sparks attended the we'd
ding of Miss Name Beasley, daughter of
DIR. Bsasley, of Belvidere on Wednesday.
E. ]. Blatherwick and wife, of Wood
bury, spent Monday here
Clarence Batten, Of Woodbury., was in
town on Monday. v ~
Mrs Sallie Horner of Camden, called on
Swedesboro friends on Monday.
Rey. Father Petri of Atlantic City, has
been the guest of Rev Father Leahy.
Mr.. Michael Costello has been quite
seriously i'll for reveral days.
About thirty of the relatives and friends
of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel I. Stewart visited
their home last Saturday and gave them
great surprise, it being the birthday ami
versary Of Mr.. Steward. The party went
amply provided with all things necessary
for feast, and it is safe to say that no jol-
lier party ever surrounded 4 well filled
board.
The services on Memorial Day, held here
under the direction of John A. Dix Post,
q. A. r. were of more than ordinary in
terest and attended by crowds of people
Business places were closed and the town
was gay with flags and bunting. The ex-
ercises began at 2 o'clock in the yard OF the
Academy. where platform had been
erected for the speakers, and seats arranged
for the people. The program opened with
music by the Swedesboro band, followed
by singing 1.-THE Star Spangled Banner" by
choir of "a voices under the direction OF
B r. Moffett. Prayer was offered by Rev.
w. S. Ludlow; singing by choir.
Past Commander Geo. Meley, then intro
duced Rev. d. B. Harris, presiding Elder
of the Camden District, of the M. E.church
who made an address full of patriotic zeal,
to which the people responded by vigorous
hand clapping. Mr. Harris, himself a
veteran of the Twelfth New Jersey Regi-
ment, and member Of John A. Dix Post,
spoke of the late war and of the changed
conditions that confront us to-day. Then
we were fighting to put down a rebellion
on our own soil, now we are at war with
a foreign nation. Then it was a question
whether we had country or government,
now we are united country, we know no
North, no South, no East, no West. All
sectional lines are wiped out, and those
who wore the blue and those who wore the
gray are to-day banded together to fight
the common foe. Rev. Edmund J. Bhrk,
of the Trinity Episcopal church followed
with an eloquent tribute to the men who
in the dark days of the rebellion took their
iiYes in their hands, and went to the front
In the coqntFy's hoHr Of peril He spoke of
the war in which we are nov engaged as
another holy war and qpe in which we
shall win for ourselves, honor and prosper
ity and honor 70 orr God. His address
was listened TO with close attention and
heartily cheered at the close.
The exercises closed with singing sCol-
umbia, and 'mHsie By the bagd. VIM. c.
Hunter ACTED as Marshal Of the day.
The line Of March was taken mp and
John q. Dix Post, VIM. P. Haines Camp,
Sons of Veterans, Diamond Council Jr. @.
u. A. H., and citizens on foot and in car
riages, visited the six cemeteries of the
Of the town and tenderly covered the
graves Of fallen comrades with flowers. The |
day closed with pretty bicycle parade.