The Penn's Grove record., 1903-04-10
Woodstown Whtsperings

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Geo. Macaltioner.
Miss Laura Reed, of Orange, was the
guest of MI. and Mrs. Jos. Reading owe
Sunday.
The musical given by the Mandolin
Club on Monday evening in the Opera
House was a great success. At the close
q reception was given by Miss Linda
Reeves at the home Of her uncle, VIM.
Hitchner. Each one present was given
cardboard an instrument as a token of re-
memberance which they drew from a
box placed in the center of the table.
Those present were Misses Edyth Fit.
craft, Cora Weatherby, Ernestine and
Antonetta Becker, Martha and May
Clayton, Sarah Fogg, Sara French, Emma
Burt, Edna Riley, Rev. and Mrs. Skin
ner, Miss Jeanette Broomell, Messrs.
Legrand virgins, Ralph and David Bas-
sett, Samuel Weatherby, Edward Bassett,
Mr.. ard Mrs. VIM. Hitchner, Mrs. Wee
zee and Geo. Macaltioner. The club
presented Mr.. Mcaltioner, their leader,
with a handsome clothes brush.
At the progressive euchre given by
Miss Achsah Grier and Mrs. Aldonna
Dickinson about seventy guests were pre-.
sent.
Misses Wilma Coles and Verna Colson
OF Trenton Normal School are spending
their Easter vacation with their parents.
Mrs. James Sweeten, Jr., and son Ed
win, OF Pedricktown, arc visiting E.
Becker's.
Work has been commenced on the
building of the National Tool and Wise
Company, now located in Camden.
II. H. Stepler and B. Allen Bassett
have formed a partnership and succeed
the late Lewis B. Wright in keeping q
wagon bazaar and doing repair work.
Miss Sara E. Fogg, of Woodstown. has
been elected superintendent Of junior
work of the Bridgeton District Epworth
League, to succeed Mrs. N. j. Zelley, re-
signed. Miss Carrie Haley, of Millyille,
has been elected recording secretary, to
succeed Miss Fogg.
The Woodstown National Bank which
has been IN existence 20 years has had
its charter renewed for another 20 years
from February "a, 1908.
Rev. William Spencer Skinner, pastor
of the First Baptist Church, on Sunday
received into membership "a persons who
had been recently baptized. It was the
largest number ever received at one time
in the church.
THE PRINTERS WOES.
The printers of Woodstown have Great
ed considerable excitement the past two
weeks. The Newsletter which has been
published here weekly for about sixteen
months announced that the issue on
Thursday of last week would be the last.
It was owned by Mr.. Gardner and edited
by Henry George until last December.
Lucius E. Allen, who was compositor,
quit the Newsletter the week before it
expired and last week got out a small
paper on a job press, called the Baptist
Messenger, edited by Rev. VIM. Skinner,
the new pastor of the Baptist Church.
When the Messenger appeared the owner
of the Newsletter recognized some OF
his type and had Mr.. Allen arrested.
Mr.. Allen claimed that some of the type
was given him by the former editor Hen
ry George. MI. Allen owned several
cases of type which he loaned the News
Letter with which to get out their Christ
mas edition, and some type and quads
got mixed in distribution. The suit was
Withdrawn upon the agreement of Mr..
Allen to pay the cost.
On Monday Benz. Patterson had a war
rant sworn out for the arrest of Mr.. Allen,
on the charge of having in his possession
some of the type from the Monitor-Reg-
lister office, where Mr.. Allen formerly
worked. Mr.. Allen claims he got the
type he did not buy from the Evening
Journal Office in Wilmington. However
it may be, Mr.. Allen took leg bail for
PENIS Grove and went to Wilmington to
look after his interests, IN which hang
another tale.