Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-03-02
PITMAN GROVE.

Warren Atkinson was in town Monday.
Jos. Carr and W. G. Fox are both in the
West buying horses
Miss Carrie Schock is very dangerously
i'll at her home at Lambs Road
Miss Lura Jewett, of Phila is visiting
her brother, Rev. F. L. Jewett
Rev. S. Carr Woodhead, Of Philadelphia,
preached in the M p Church Sunday morn
ing and evening.
Mrs. Anna Brace, now Of Gassboro spent
a part Of last week with Pitmau friends.
Mr. and Mrs H. Focer are visiting
Pittshurg relatives, and will 90 to Wash
ington for the Inauguration
Mrs. Mary Price is quite i'll at the home
OF her sister, Mrs. A. p. String.
Miss Cora Steelman, of Wiliamstown, is
visiting her sister, Mrs David virgins
Notwithstanding snow, ice and mud, APP
plicants for Pitman houses and cottages are
seen here daily.
All-day services will be held in the NJ f.
Church the last Sunday of the conference
year.
Miss Iva Dufield one of our teachers,
was too III to attend to her school duties
last week
John Ayers, for fifteen or twenty seasons
policeman in the Grove, died at his home
in Bridgeton on Friday or Saturday
Mrs. Joseph Lodge went to Allentown on
Saturday to see her father who has been i'll
for several months. He died OH Sunday
evening Mrs. Lodge has the sympathy Of
many friends.
Our popular summer resident, W. G. K.
Walls, will change his onefy state on Mar
9th. Invitations are out for the wedding.
John Lupton, Sr., had the misfortune to
fall on the ice and break bone in one
wrist and also badly spran the member.
Our congratulations to our neighbor, Or
me Armstrong, Of Redwood, on being
classed as the best blue rock shot in South
Jersey.
Harvey Prendaville, of Clifton Heights,
Pa, and resident here last summer, has
bought lot on Myrtle Ave and will build
soon.
The largest and best social ever given by
the Epworth League Of this place was held
at the home of James Riley on Pitman
Avenue on Friday evening.
The local Knights of the Golden Eagle
celebrated their sixteenth anniversary on
Thursday evening. The ladies were invited.
The refreshments were first-class
Miss Lizzie MCGOWAN, who was operated
on for appendicitis at a hospital near Pitts
burg, Of which she is the head nurse, was
again operated on at the Presbyterian hos
pital Phila on Saturday Miss Meow
ans life is a very useful one and her many
friends and professional associates are hope
full for speedy recovery.
A barrel of fruit intended for the Eagles
repast was being opened on Thursday morn
ing when an immense spider, possibly ia
rantula, fell to the floor The creature was
too much chilled to do any damage and was
placed IN jar. 1t is female and carries
commodious pocket which furnishes a
snug home for a number OF little ones. The
little things crawl over the jar at WILL but
at signal in the spider language scampeI
for the nest and hide themselves.
The following citizens went to Trenton
on Tuesday in the interests of borough
government and had pleasant meeting
with the committee: Charles Kemmerer, /.
W. Newkirk, and VIM. Kerns representing
citizens committee; j. NJ MCGOWAN and ]
c. Rulon representing the Board of Trade
S. P. Clark, r, NJ. Shoemaker and John
Sayre, Rev A. L. Ballard representing the
Camp Meeting Association made objections
to the measure.