Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-06-22
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Henry Salisbury student at Bucknell
University, is at home for the summer va
cation.
Bank Clerk Geo. M. Ashton and wife
are enjoying weeks vacation.
Mrs. George Drummond and children
and Miss Mary Louisa Rogers spent We'd
nesday at Atlantic City.
Miss Francis Leape, of Phila has been
spending few days with Mrs. Harry Nc
ColIisteF
Mrs. B. c. Clark is visiting Rev. and Mrs
Edmund Burk in Phila.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Batten spent Sun
day at Evergreen Hall, Woodbury..
Mrs. Mary Daley spent Sunday and
Monday with friends in PhiIa.
Mrs. Frank Black of Camden, is visiting
friends in this vicinity.
Miss Reba Moore is at home from the
State Normal school.
Mr.. and Mrs Robert S. Austin. of Phila.
are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
McAllister, parents of Mrs. Austin.
Mr.. Harry McCollister is spending a
week at Cincinnati, o., attending as dele
gate from New Jersey, the Music Teachers
National Association of which he is a
member.
Mrs. Matilda West, OF Phila., has been
spending several days with her friend Mrs.
Kate Rode.
Mr. and Mrs. Owen L. Guest visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph L. Guest at Aura, on
Monday
Miss Lulu Kuhule has been engaged by
the school board of Mantua township, to
take charge of the school at Emlyn, during
the coming school year.
Messrs. Thomas Mullen and VIM. Nc
Quiglan, of Camden, spent Sunday with
Frank Parker and family, making the trip
awheel.
Grand Master Workman W. II McCul-
Tough will visit the A. o. U w. Lodge at
Passaic on Thursday evening.
The men at the glass house had holt
day on Tuesday on account of the falling
in OF portion of the cap of the pot furnace.
1t was laired and work resumed on
Wednesday. The firm is rushed with or
ders which must be filed before the final
shutdown for the summer and every day
counts.
The Board of Education of Woolwich
township has, elected the following teachers
for the ensuing year: Principal of Swedes-
b0ro Academy, Miss Sue Fl. Cole, of
Woodstown; Miss Vida Lippincott. of
Woodstown; Miss Helen Cooms, of Dare
town; Miss Anna s Conoyer, of Wood
bury; Miss Mabel Batten, of Auburn !;
Miss Sallie k. West, of Swedesboro; Mrs
Mary II. Yourison, of Swedesboro and Miss
Florence M. Wiley, Of Woodbury.. Mrs
Yourison will teach at South Swedesboro,
and Miss Wiley will probably return to
the school she taught last year at Clover
dale
The plum crop in this vicinity promises
to be enormous. I. FL. Weatherby has an
orchard of four thousand trees near here,
which are so loaded that he has a number
OF men engaged thinning the fruit to pre-
vent the trees breaking down under the
weight.
Messrs Norton and Zane, truckers here,
shipped their first peppers on Tuesday.
Tomatoes are bringing our truckers
81 rs per crate. The first ones sold for
$3.50. The shipment has been light as yet
Postmaster Davidson had sold about fifty
crates up to Tuesday and others are max
ing IKE shipments.
The hay crop is failure in this neigh
borhood and farmers say the white potato
crop is ruined and sweet potatoes never
looked worse, all owing to.the dry weather.
Mr.. John F. Meley took his Sunday
school class and number of other friends
on an excursion to Pennsgrove on Thurs
day of last week.
At the sale of the property of the late
Frances Thompson held on Saturday last
the farm land consisting of IA acres was
purchased by Henry W. Ridgway for
$4,000; and the dwelling house and lot
was purchased By Geo c. Jones for 81 200
The property fronts on Main street and is
desirable and will no doubt prove a good
Investment.
This section was visited by heavy and
most opp0rtune rain on Tuesday evening,
accompanied by considerable wind and ter
rife lightning and thunder.
derailed coal car on the afternoon
freight at Mickleton on Tuesday threw all
passenger trains out of time. causing con-
siderable delay and inconvenience
The Board of Education of Woolwich
township has issued a call for special
school meeting on June Both, to consider
The plan of buying piece of ground on
Broad street on which to build a school
house the cost of the ground not to ex-
coed four hundred dollars, and the school
house not to cost over eight hundred dol
lars. The location to be near the draw
bridge on Raccoon creek. At the last town
meeting it was decided to close the school
at Poplar Grove and Logan township de-
cided TO close that at Oak Grove, thus
making it necessary to provide other school
accommodations for the pupils in those
neighbOrhoods, and to prevent undue
crowding at the academy.