Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-10-05
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Mrs. Sarah j. Haines, of Camden, was
visiting friends here last week.
Miss Mary Young, of Phila., visited hel
Cousins. the Misses Laura and Name
Weatherby on Tuesday.
Mrs Rebecca Reynolds is spending some
time with her children in Camden.
Mr. and Mrs B r. Moffett are making
ten days visit with relatives in Wash
ington Miss End0Ta Patterson 10 also
visiting Washington friends.
Mrs. Sarah P. Batten, of Woodbury.,
spent Sunday and Monday with friends
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Mccullough have
been the guests of Capt. Leonard Mulford
and family, of Cedarville.
Mrs. Walter R Shoemaker and children
have been spending week with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Ballinger, at
MuIIica Hill.
Miss Daisy Jones, of Beverly, spent Sun
day with Swedesboro friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. W. Hannold, Mrs.
Geo. M. Ashton, Mrs. William E. Black
and Mrs. VIM. Hancock are the delegates
to represent the M. E Sunday school at
the convention at Clayton on Thursday.
Mrs. Theresa Trimnell and children, of
Malaga, have been visiting her mother,
Mrs. Mary E. Black.
Mrs. VIM. Richardson and children, Of
New Bridge, are visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. w. H. Mccullough.
Mrs. Elizabeth Howell has been visiting
relatives in Phila.
Grand Master Workman, w. II. McCu1-
Tough, made an official visitation to the A.
o q. w. lodge, OF Atlantic City, Oh We'd
nesday evening.
Notices, forbidding the riding of bicycles
on the public school grounds. also forbid
ding lettering on said grounds during
school hours, have been posted about town
by the Board of Education, and it is the
hope of the Board that these notices will
needed, else the school grounds may be
closed to the public.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was
held at the residence of Mrs. F. w. Dubois
on Tuesday evening.
An autumnal service will be held in the
M. E. church on Sunday, October Is. The
church will be decorated with fruits, grain
and flowers.
The Epworth League of the M. E.
church has instituted cottage prayer meet
ings which will be held weekly in addition
to the regular Wednesday evening prayer
service in the church. A well attended
and interesting meeting was held at the
home of Thomas Davidson, in South
Swedesboro, on Thursday evening of last
week.
The heavy frosts this week have caught
the farmers with thousands of baskets of
sweet potatoes yet in the ground.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Norton will cele-
brate the twenty-fifth anniversary of their
marriage on Tuesday afternoon and even.
ing, Oct. 10th.
Anna, the eldest child of John Clifford,
died on Tuesday night of last week, aged
II years, and was buried ON Wednesday in
st. Joseph's cemetery. The family have
the sympathy of the community in their
affection.
Mr.. I. II. Weatherby, who is becoming
known as one of the successful fruit grow
ers of South Jersey, has fine specimens of
Dutchess pears, twenty five of which filed
truck basket, and one of which weighed
twenty five ounces.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. c. Kirby gave a
dinner on Thursday of last week in honor
of c. G. Ford, of Salem. Those present
were: Mr.. C. c. Ford, Miss Marie Ford,
Mr.. J. Jessup Ford, Mrs A. S. Burr, Miss
Ethel BUR, Mr.. G. G Ford, Jr. and wife, of
Salem Mr.. William Ford and wife and
Miss Frances Ford, of Clarksboro; Miss
Clara Hillnan and Miss Ella Kirby, Of
Phila and Miss Rebecca Ford, of Swedes-
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