Gloucester County Democrat., 1901-08-22
SWEDESBORO.

Mrs. Sarah J. Haines, of Camden, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Warning
ton, here.
Mrs. Mary Shiyers is spending some time
| with her daughters Mrs. J. Downs Heri-
tage, at Glassboro, and Mrs. w. IL.
Eldridge, at Williamstown.
Mrs. John Adams and daughter, of Phila.,
are visiting relatives here.
Rev. and Mrs. w. S. Mitchell and daugh-
ter are spending vacation in the Catskill
mountains.
The Misses Elsie and Emma Zippler have
been spending a few days at Salem, the
guests of Bessie and Dora Sharp.
The Misses Annie and Frances Young, of
Phila. have been the guests of their cousins,
Laura and Name Weatherby.
Mrs Harry McCollister and son Percy,
spent last week at Wildwood.
Mr.. and Mrs. WILDER i. Beckett and
Mrs. Sarah Beckett have been sojourning
at Wildwood.
Mr.. and Mrs Harry w. Souder are enter
tanning Mrs. D. G. Mullen and Mrs. Percy
Lodge, of Paulsboro.
Mr. B. G. Clark, Of this place, and his
daughter, Mrs. Edmund Bu.k, of Phila.,
have gone to Atlantic City to remain until
the last of September.
Mr.. w II. Hannold is spending week
at Atlantic City
Mr.. and Mrs Adam Frederick and Mr.
and Mrs A. S. Parker have been enjoying
the delights Of Wildwood.
Miss Rebecca Pike has a position in
Davidsons Casino at Wildwood Miss May
Norcross, Bert. Kirby and Joseph Cantwell
are also employed there.
Mr.. and Mrs Phil Brunett, of Clarks-
boro, were in town on Tuesday attending
the funeral Of Mrs. VIM. Rieger.
Mrs Joseph r. Moore and Mrs. ] G.. Du-
Bois returned from their Western trip on
Tuesday of last week Mrs. B. A. Head
ley reached home ON Thursday and Miss
Emma Vanneman is expected this week.
William Y McIntire of Phila., spent
Sunday with his uncle, |. H. Weatherby.
Miss Emma Wills and Theodore Wills, Of
Marlton, spent Sunday with Winfield
Stratton and family.
Richard Somers, of Jefferson, has been
coming school year
A letter received from Leroy Rogers of
the U. S. Signal Corps, states that be reach
ed San Francisco on Aug. 18th, having
sailed from the Philippines on the trans
port Sumner. The sea voyage was of great
benefit to him after an illness Of several
months.
Thomas Lyons, q farmer near here, was
taken to the Hahnemann hospital on Sat
urday, where an operation was performed
for appendicitis. Last accounts report his
condition as favorable for recovery.
The funeral Of John Costello, of Mullica
Hill, brother Of Michael Costello, of this
place, took place at st. Joseph's church on
Saturday.
We learn that daughter of Edward
Warner has been stricken with appendicitis.
Miss Hannah Bassett, of near Harrison
vile, has been the guest of Miss Dorothy
| Myers.
The project for a sewerage system for
Swedesboro took definite shape on last Fri
day in public meeting, when the COM
mittee, consisting Of Chas D. Lippincott,
chairman, VIM L. Moore, secretary, and
VIM. H. Mccullough, appointed to collect
information and work up an interest on the
subject, reported that of the seventeen hun
dred dollars needed to insure the success of
the enterprise, twelve hundred had already
been subscribed at $25 per share. The
capital stock has been placed at S., 900 and
81 700 will be paid in before the work
is commenced. Another public meeting
will be held on next Friday evening, of
which we hope to report next week.
Mrs Emerenzia Reger, widow of VIM.
Rieger, decd, died on Saturday afternoon
after an illness of less than two weeks,
aged 6S years. She was good woman,
faithful and true in all the relations of life:
as wife and mother, as neighbor and friend.
| She was christian woman, devoted to her
church, and her example was worthy of
imitation. Her three sons and two daugh-
ters, who in four months have been called
to follow both father and mother to the
grave, have the sympathy of large circle
Of friends in their af1Iiction Her funeral
took place at st. Joseph's church, and in
terment at st. Joseph's cemetery.
Swedesboro housewives can sympathise
with their neighbors of Woodbury. in their
trouble over the pest of tiny red ants. They
respect neither conditions nor persons and
are an unmitigated nuisance against which
there seems to be no remedy
The heavy storms of Sunday night and
Monday afternoon did no damage in this
vicinity
Work on the water plant is being pushed
along rapidly by large force of men.
Miss Reba Moore is at home after spend
more than year with an uncle at Denver.
Rev. and Mrs s. F. Gaskill of Ceilings
wood, and Miss Lizzie Hagerman, of Tren-
ton are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo
NJ Ashton.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Taylor Rogers and
daughter, Miss Mary, and Mrs. Howard
Rogers and daughter Elsie drove to Elmer
on Sunday morning and spent the day with
Mr. Martin OFT and family. On the return
trip in the evening they were caught in the
heavy rain storm which prevailed, and the
night being pitchy dark, they were obliged
to seek shelter in the friendly farm house
of Mr.. Denelsbeck, near Jessup's Mill,
where they were Hospitality entertained
with lodging and breakfast next morning,
and sent rejoicing on their homeward way.
They reached Swedesboro at about ten
o'clock on Monday morning, after driving
several miles out of their road on account
of the washout at Jessup's Mill.
A son of Andrew Book, of near Swedes-
boro, died of diphtheria on Tuesday and
was buried in st. Joseph's cemetery on
Wednesday morning.