Gloucester County Democrat., 1904-11-17
sWEDEsBoRo.

Mrs. Clayton Eastlack and children are
spending few days with Mrs. Amanda
Lock in Camden.
Miss Sara Moore is the guest of relatives
at Salem.
Mrs. Olivia G. Berks, Of Alexandria, Va,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Rode.
Miss Lucretia Black has been visiting rel
atives at Toms river
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Halter, of Cohan-
sey, Cumberland county, were callers on
Mrs. Louis Weber Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gibson and daughter
were over Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Snyder at Pedricktown
Mayor Mccullough who has been confined
to his house over week with severe illness
was able to visit his Office on Tuesday.
We regret to state that Mr.. John Ash
craft, a young merchant OF South Swedes-
boro, is very critically il. A Philadelphia
physician was called on Tuesday to consult
with the attending physician.
A case of scarlet fever and one Of diph-
liberia have been reported within the last
2 weeks in the town. Both cases are mild.
Mr. Franklin G. Bennett, of Repaupo,
and Miss Lizzie Jones, Of Swedesboro, were
married by Rev. A. Lawrence, d D., on
Wednesday eveningof last week.
Sgurd H. Brauner, humorist Of the
Ithaca, N. Y. Conservatory o Music, will
give an entertainment in Guests Hall on
Monday evening, Nov. 81, for the benefit
Charity Circle Kings Daughters of Trinity
Episcopal Church.
Mrs Judith L. Casperson died at the
home of her son-in-law, Franklin Fl. Lip
pincott, near here on Tuesday Of last week
in her eighty-fifth year. Her funeral took
place on Friday with interment in the
Episcopal cemetery.
Rev DIR. II. W. Bolton, evangelist, be-
gan his two weeks of special services in
the Methodist Church on Sunday. During
the services of last week two persons pro-
fessed conversion.
Uncle John Pierson, the fGrand-0ld-
Man, of Swedesboro, whom we all delight
to honor, celebrated the ninety-ninth ami
versary of his birth on Sunday, and not
withstanding the terrible storm which
ragged he attended the Trinity Episcopal
joyed the special sermon of the rector, Dr.
Geo. G. Sutton. Mr.. Person was born in
Battentown or South Swedesboro on Nov.
18th 1905, and the whole of his long and
useful life was spent in his native town.
On election day he went to the polls aud
cast his nineteenth vote for Presidential
candidate. Although feeble in body his
mind is still strong and active. He enjoys
.o,k .4e
keeps posted on the current news of the
day and is especially interested in the rapid
Improvement of his own native town, and
often compares the Swedesboro of to-day
with the Swedesboro OF his boyhood days.
He lives quietly in his own comfortable
little house on Main Street, tenderly cared
for by his only granddaughter, Miss Ella
Taggart, whose dearest wish seems to be to
anticipate every want Of her fond old grand
father. His friends hope he may live to
celebrate his one hundredth ann versary.
It has seemed difficult to get the true
story of the trouble in South Swedesboro on
Saturday night which resulted in the death
of Charles White, colored, but the facts in
the case as near as your correspondent has
been able to get them are these A quarrel
was commenced between White and Rich
ard Coy, in the home of the latter and with
whom White boarded. The quarrel was
continued in the street where the couple
were joined by a party of men, both white
and col0red, who had congregated at the
house of John Girkenbach nearby. At
this time the fight became general and sew
eral were Slightly injured, among them be-
ing Jacob Dupper, German farmer of the
neighborhood who it is alleged was slightly
cut on the head by brick throw by White
This SO enraged Dupper that he went home
and getting his gun returned and delib-
crate shot the colored man, first in the leg
which felled him to the ground, and then
shot him in the side making an ugly, gap
ing would. Seeing the mischief that had
been done the company dispersed leaving
the unfortunate man where he fell and
where he remained through the night On
Sunday morning the authorities were noti-
fed and detective Garrison worked on the
case all day The man was sent to the
Cooper Hospital Sunday afternoon where
he died Of internal hemorrhage at / O'Clock
Monday morning. Dupper was arrested on
Monday and taken to Woodbury. where he
had a hearing and was committed to Jail
without bail to await the action of the
Grand Jury in February. White, whose
home was in Germantown, was employed
as farm hand here. He is said to have
been of quarrelsome di position, and Dup
per had also an ugly temper when under
the influence of liquor. Intoxicants seem
to be at the bottom Of the whole terrible
affair.
The storm of Sunday reached almost
blizzard proportions and only the brayest
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