Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-06-07
SWEDEsBORO.

SWEDESBUKO.
Miss Florence G. Pither has been enter
tanning her cousins, Misses Irene, Lizzie
and Julia Sharp, of Camden. and Miss
Edna Jones and Mr.. Walter Cuen, also Of
Camden.
Mrs VIM. r. Poinsett and her sister, Miss
| Vanneman, returned on last Friday from a
soiourn Of two weeks at Atlantic City. Mr.
Poinsett also spent last week at the city by
the sea.
Mrs. Lowell Ridgway, of Wenonah
spent Monday with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred McAllister, here.
Miss Florence Pither left on Monday fol
stay of several weeks with her aunt, Mrs
Vincent Sharp in Camden.
Rev. and Mrs Edmund Burk, Of Phila.
have been visiting MI and Mrs. B. &
Clark, parents of Mrs. Burk.
Miss Florence Williams, of Phila., has
been the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. l. s.
Strstton.
Harry B. Gleeson, of Lahaska, Pa, ha:
been visiting relatives and friends in this
neighborhood.
Rev. Geo. L. Barker has been spending
several months in evangelistic services in
the West, has returned home and expects
to spend the summer with his family here
Mrs. Frank johnson and daughter Irene
of Camden, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Frew
of Phila., and Miss Mary Eckman, of Ian.
caster, Pa, have been the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Milton Myers.
Mrs l. S. Stratton and Mrs George W
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nesday for visit of month with relatives
in the Catskill mountains.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Cozens are visit.
ing friends at Ashbourne, Pa.
Word from Mrs. J. J. Robinson, of New
York, is to the effect that she is slowly
recovering from her recent dangerous ILL
ness. Her mother, Mrs. Helen Stratton, il
still with her.
Mrs. Harry Mayhem, who has been
spending several weeks at the bedside Of
her sick mother, at Port Elizabeth, has re-
| turned home.
Mrs. Thomas Callahan is dangerously
i'll with inter mittent fever. Mrs John
Estello is suffering with intermittent and
malarial fever
Supreme Representative w. II. McCul.
Tough, in company with ]. Alpheus Van
SAINT, of Camden john w. Dieffendorf, Of
Newark; and Walter A. Barrows, of Mt
Holly, will leave on next Saturday fol
Sioux Falls, South Dakota to attend the
sessions of the Supreme Lodge A. O.U W
On Monday evening after the regular
meeting of the Cour de Lion Castle, K G
E., preliminary meeting was held looking
10 the organization Of Ladies Temple
Another meeting will be held on mex
Monday evening.
Postmaster Davidson is considerably
afflicted with rheumatism in his RICH
hand.
The friends of Mrs. Henry Shiyler viii
regret to learn that she is failing rapidly
and her death seems to be a question of {
very little time She was stricken with
paralysis on Monday of last week.
Mrs. VIM. Fl. Brown, and her son G.
Wilmer Brown left Denver, Colorado, fo
home on last Sunday evening, and arrived
home on Wednesday. His condition il
critical.
| Mrs. Kate Gallagher accidentally cut hei
| hand on last Friday and afterwards useC
Paris green on the potatoes in her garden
some of the poison got into the cut, and she
has been lying at the point of death nearly
ever since as result.
Memorial Day brought with it the usua
| crowds, indeed, it was remarked that there
were never more people h,re than on last
Wednesday. The morning was full of prep
aratioD. A platform was built and seats
arranged in the Academy yard, and
promptly at 80 o'clock the exercises be
gan. The Woodstown band and selected
choir furnished music. Prayer was offered
by Rev. John q. Lloyd and addresses were
made by Benjamin Patterson, of Woods
town and Rev. w. s. Mitchell of the loca
M. E church. Six cemeteries were visited
and nearly hundred graves received fora
tributes.
Swedesboro Grange, Patrons of Husban
dry, celebrated its annual Children's Day
| festival on last Saturday afternoon in Ma
sonic Hall. The children carried out /
well arranged program, one of the chief
features of which was Mother Goose and
her large and interesting family in costume
and parents and friends were carried back
to childhood's delightful days when ''Littl.
| Boo Peep "Old King COle,n "Jack Spra
and his wife, and all the other Mother
Goose people entered so largely into th'
child life. The wonderful pie in which
four and twenty blaekbirds were bakeC
was cut, and out sprang dozen little girl
to the great amusement of all. The chill
dren gave some pretty Rotations and alst
furnished music for the entertainment
There are over fifty children under four.
teen years of age belonging to grange
families, and each child was supposed tt
have part in the program. Mrs. Ellt
Brown, the Flora of the Grange, presided
and in cordial address of welcome, made
even the strangers feel entirely at home
Each child was presented with potte6
geranium and told how to care for it. The
afternoon closed with treat of strawber
ries, ice cream and cake. Swedesbort
Grange numbers about two hundred mem
hers and is the second in size in Glouceste
county. 1t is a wide-awake, up to, dat
organic ition.