Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-03-22
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ceedingly that sudden and unex-
pected call from home left no oppor
tunity to provide for another CORES
pondent during our eight weeks alb
sence. As the Gloucester County
Democrat came each week without any
message from the community whose
interests and people were SO import
ant a part of our lives, we realized
mean to those out of touch with for
mer associations.
Love is the greatest thing In the
world even a maltese kitten can
agree with Henry Drummond on that
point; however kind the neighbors
may be they can not supply the asso-
Citations Of home for cat
James White, of Philadelphia was
a guest recently at George heritage's.
Joseph Pancoast and daughter Anna,
entertained this week Mabel, Esther
and Peaslee Potts, of Trenton.
Gideon Peaslee spent the eighteenth
with his son, Amos, at Swarthmore
College.
Herbert Borden's friends were glad
to welcome him home last week after
winters work at Wisconsin Agri-
culture College, located at Madison.
He found the instruction profitable
and hopes to return next winter.
Elizabeth Lloyd, of Lansdowne, Pa,
gave talk at the Friends School on
Sixth day afternoon the sixteenth,
subject, Hands and Arms She in
terested the children greatly who re-
sponded readily with answers to ques-
lions concerning the physiological
structure of hands and arms and
helped trace the analogy between cur
hands and arms and the limbs of lower
animals. The stories told EN- 2hasized
the Importance of keeping the brain
in condition to command, the nerves
in condition to carry messages and the
hands capable of carrying them out,
usefulness not beauty being the OBJ
ject Of attainment.
The last meeting Of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union was of
especial interest. Elizabeth Moseley,
Rachel L. Borden, Mary Owen and
Ann O. Borden all gave current events
along reform lines. Typographical
Union No. 16, of Chicago, when it went
on strike decided that no member
should take drink Of liquor until the
difficulty was settled, all took a pledge
to that effect and point with pride that
only two arrests of printers have been
made in eighteen weeks. A leading
bank of Cleveland has adopted and is
enforcing a rule that no employee
shall enter place where intoxicating
liquors are sold
Last Thursday evening the Grange
had a debate. Resolved, That women
should have the right of suffrage; af-
firmative, William H. Hoffman, Elmer
Bradshaw, Alexander P. Owen; mega
tive, J. Omar Heritage, Albert N. Bah
man, John G. Wolferth; judges, Ben
jamin Heritage, Frank Ford and Al
bert Heritage The debate lasted one
hour and fifty minutes. Strong points
were brought out on both Sides The
judges decided in favor of the mega
tive It has always been our pleasure
to regard the Grange as a progressive
organization and we confess sense
Of disappointment upon learning that
with a membership of over two hun
bred and fifty, a good proportion OF
whom are women, it was not possible
to find three women willing to take
the affirmative side of this question
undoubtedly furnishing the negative
side with one of their strongest argu-
ments. How delighted the "Josiahs'
of the organization must be to have all
the sisters perform the rose act sc
perfectly. "Just charm and be silent