Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28
Testimonial Rannuat.

| At the conclusion of business last Thurs
day, Director Miller, of the Board Of
Chosen Freeholders, was rendered testi-
monial banquet at Newton Hotel by adj
miring friends. All the members of the
Board, augmented by the county officers
and prominent citizens in all aggregating
sixty, participated in the pleasant function.
After the feast of solids, VIM. j. Adamson
led the feast of sense and nonsense by
reciting with Bryan-like flourish a poem
applicable to the occasion. Then every
body was given an invitation to talk, and
everybody did talk. Mr.. Miller took the
abuse (?) heaped on him with serene COM
posture, not even protecting when Jealous
admirer intimated that higher honors were
just ahead of him. Messrs. John Brown,
County Clerk Ridgway, and Freebooter
Nichols, the promoters of the pleasant oc-
casion, disclaimed every Interior motive in
assembling friends and official associates of
the genial Freebooter from Greenwich, and
the banquet arose at 4 p. m.
A letter Of regret was read from former
Freebooter John Pierson, of Woolwich.
County Notes.
Mrs. Sallie E. Conway, wife Of James
Conway, near Sewell, died on Tuesday of
last week, of cancer. The interment was
at Ellington.
Pocahontas Council, of Glassboro; Jersey
Blue Council, of Clayton, and Cross Keys
Council, of Cross Keys, will present flag
to the Downer school this Thursday morn
ing.
State Road Supervisor Budd has approved
the application for two more county roads
from Clayton to WiIliamstown and Har-
dingyille to Glassboro-about twelve miles
in all These roads are both to be of
gravel
Mrs Keziah Prickett, of Williamstown,
aged 80 years; Mrs. Prudence Fisher, of
Clayton, aged rs years, and Mrs. Mary
Pancoast, of Bridgeton, aged II years, have
been visiting their brother, Jacob DeHart,
of Camden. These ladies are sisters and
widows, and their brother is a widower.
They all communed together in the Broad
way M. E. Church.
fire was discovered in the residence Of
Samuel Kendrick, of Silver Lake, West
vile, about 2 p. m. Sunday morning. The
building was completely destroyed despite
the heroic efforts of Union Fire Company to
extinguish the flames. The family were
absent on a visit to relatives in Camden,
and the origin of the fire is mystery. The
loss is about 81, 500, insured for $1,000.
Thorne D. Hallett has sold his II acre
farm, just north of Newfeld, to William
Henry Maule, scotsman, of Philadelphia.
1t is stated that the place will at once be
put under the pillow, and used as a testing
ground for seeds, plants and bulbs Mr..
Maule has trial grounds near Villa Nova,
Pennsylvania, where thousands of tests are
made every year. Vegetables and flowers.
especially new varieties, are thus tested
and proved before they are catalogued for
sale. In addition to the novelties pro-
duced in America, each season, many new
things come from abroad, especially from
Germany, England and Japan, and leading
seedsmen are always on the lookout for
vegetable and floral treasurers, and depend
upon their trial grounds to determine them.
Mr.. Maule comes to New Jersey to take
advantage of our warm, light soil. He will
retain his Pennsylvania trial grounds, and
thus have the combined advantages of two
testing stations. lNewfield Item.
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