Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-04-26
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Mr.. aud Mrs. Wilmer Egee, of Alliance,
Ohio. are spending some time with rela-
tiyes here.
Miss Laura Ludlow, of Haddonfield.
spent Sunday with a. r. Talman and
/ family.
Miss Lou. Hunter, of Phila., has been
visiting w. H MCCULLOUGH and family.
Mrs. Elmer Locke and children, of
Woodbury., spent Sunday with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaae Ore, here. We under
stand that Mr. Locke will shortly remove
to Trenton, where he has a position as
! ianitor at the State House.
Miss Florence q. Pither is spending some
time with her au1t, Mrs Vincent Sharp, in
Camden.
Geo. M. Ashton spent Sunday with his
wife's parents, Rev. and Mrs. S. F. Gaskill,
at Collingswood
Mr. and Mrs VIM B. ZippIer, and son,
OF Pbila, were over Sunday guests of Mrs.
T. w. Dubois mother of Mrs Zippler.
Rev. Walter T. Leahy, of ST. Joseph's
church. has been entertaining Rev. Fathers
| Dngan, of Bordentown, and Petri, of At
lantic City.
! Mrs Bridget Tighe is spending some
time with her sister, Mrs Julia Neafsay, of
Woodbury..
The FIRE at Hurffyille on Sunday night
was plainly seen here.
The friends of Mrs. Millard Thompson
win be sorry to know that she is again suf-
fering with pneumonia and has been very
i'll, put is reported as improving
Word reached here from Denver, Col,
that G. Wilmer Brown, who went there
for the benefit of his health, had two
serious hemorrhages on Thursday Of last
week. Later advices report him as COM
| Portable and somewhat improved, and it is
hoped be may recover His friends have
the sympathy of the community in their
anxiety and sorrow.
Miss Frances S. Locke, a deaconess of
1.-THE Church of the Saviour" in Philada,
and Miss Sellers, have been the guests of
Miss Emma Batten.
Rev. R. j. Morris, of Phila., was the
guest of Mr.. John S. Batten last week.
Wilbert Fl. Guest, son of Joseph W.
Guest, of Aura, formerly of this place,
graduated from the Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy on Wednesday evening of last
week. he has situation in Phila.
About the first pest the trucker has to
contend with in the spring is the English
sparrow. He visits the pea fields, eats up
the young cabbage plants, and even pulls
the innocent young onions quite out of the
ground. He may be an interesting little
fellow to study as he chirps about your
door, but in the garden and truck patch he
is an unmitigated nuisance.
Little Mabel Simmerman met with an
accident on Tuesday which may keep her
out Of school for some time. While play
ing in the Academy yard, she fell and
struck her knee on sharp stone, cutting
cash that had to be closed with four
stitches.
Notwithstanding the annual cry that the
cinity are loaded with bloom, and there is
promise of an abundant yield.
Supreme Representative W. Fl. Mccall
Tough spent Monday night at Vineland,
where lodge of K. of p was instituted.
A great many shade trees are being
planted here this spring, mostly Norway
naples.
Joseph B. Smith, of this place, has grad
uated from the Peirce Business College and
has accepted position with the West Jer-
sey g. Seashore R. r. Co., at Atlantic City.
| Mr.. Robert Morris and his bride, of
Cleveland, Ohio, are spending their honey
moon with Mr.. and Mrs Isaac McCallister,
here. The groom is brother of Mrs. Nc
Callister whom she had not seen for seven
years, and there was great rejoicing when
the TWO met.
Postmaster James ]. Davidson, one of
our up-to-date farmers, broke the record by
putting tomato plants in his fields on
Thursday of last week, two days earlier
than he did the same work last year. On
Tuesday evening of this week be informed
your correspondent that he had about
twenty-nine thousand plants out, and had
nearly finished the work Our thanks are
due Mr.. Davidson for dozen fine plants.