Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-01-07
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The Misses Laura, Hanna and Alice
Lippinc9st spent last Sunday with relatives
in Camden aud Philadelphia.
Miss Merle Black has been the guest Of
Miss A ma McGeaF at Bridgeton.
DR.. Harry Justice, of Lamoor, West
Virginia, and Miss Mary Justice, of New
York. have been visiting their mosher, Mrs
Lydia ustice, here.
The Misses Hazel and Mabel Simmerman
Of Rogers Ford, Pa, have been spending a
few days with relatives here.
s. Lewis Moore, OF Atlantic City, has
been visiting his parents here.
VIVA. M. Walters spent the holidays with
his son at Cape May.
Leroy Rogers has returned 30 his duties
in the War Departments at Washington
after spending the holidays with his parents
here.
SwedesbOr0, have been entertaining Mr.
and Mrs Jonathan 7. Turner; of Salem.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moses Bttten entertained a
family dinner party on New Years Day.
Mrs Geo. W. Taylor, of Camden, has
been visiting relatives and friends here.
The Misses Mamie aud Bertha Jones, Of
Glasshore, have been spending few days
with Mr.. aud Mrs Jacob s. Ware
Mrs. B. r. Moffstt entertlined her Sun
day-school class at her home on New Years
Eve Mrs. Edgar Dilks also entertained
her large class OF young misses on the same
evening
The Christmas trees. of which there were
numbers Of hands lme ones about town, are
rapidly disappearing from parlOr windows
and being dragged ANONYMOUSLY to the
wood pile or some other equally disgraceful
place. To what vile uses do we come at
last y
Mrs Louis Weber aud son Christian
have returned from visit with relatives
near Bridgeton.
FreehoIder Charles Wilson is suffering
with typhoid fever.
William r. Stone has purchased of Sum
mer B. Leap his house on Allen street.
Charles Hall has purchased the house he
now occupies on Lake avenue.
Frozen pumps and water pipes are caus-
ing no end of annoyance not to mention
expense to housekeepers these day.
The churches were very slimly attended
on Sunday on account Of the severe cold.
The regular month meeting of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society OF the
Methodist Church will be held at the home
Of Mrs A G. Morris on Saturday evening.
Mrs B. z. Moifett's large class in the
Methodist Sunday school, presented her a
handsome cut glass bowl as a Christmas
gift.
Services will be held in the Methodist
Church on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday evenings of this week.
We are glad 80 note that Mr.. Samuel A.
Croft who has been confined to his bed
several weeks with severe Iness, is i'm
proving, and able to sit up for short time.
Mrs George Ham, who underwent an
operation at Prices Hospital, is improving
rapidly, and came home on Thursday of
last week.
Notwithstanding the large number of
new houses that have been erected here
during the past year, there is still a great
scarcity, and peaple who rent, are full of
anxiety as TO where they will find roofs to
shelter them the coming year. Many who
Thought they were all provided for, were
VA aootAAeeo
have to move, as the houses they occupied
had been sold. The regular boarding
houses are all fall, and the problem that
faces these people seems not easy to solve.
Mr.. and Mrs John R. Gill are about to
occupy their handsome new home on Main
street
Miss Ethel Kirkbride, Of Camden, has
been visiting here
Mr.. VIM. A. Shivler died very suddenly
at his residence in Shivlerville, on Tuesday
afternoon, aged SO years. He was taken
i'll on Saturday, but no alarming symptoms
appeared, AID he was not confined to his
bed Heart disease caused his death He
was the son Of the late Benjamin Shivler,
and is survived by an aged mother, a
brother aud two. sisters, an only daughter
and three sons, to whom he was an affec-
tionate and tender father He was good
citizen and highly respected His funeral
will take place on Saturday morning from
his late home With fnterment in the Episco-
pal Cemetery.