Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-05-24
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Chaplain G. C. McCabe gave his famous
lecture, The Bright Side Of Life in Libby
Prison, before large audience, in Guests
Hall, on Tuesday evening. To describe
| the lecture is impossible; it was simply
wonderful. The personal magnetism of the
man is great. You feel as if you had always
known him. And then, the easy grace with
which he gives his experiences, with moth
! ing of the stiffness of lecture; the wit,
the humor, the pathos of it all; and then
undertaking all, the deep tone Of religious
feeling gave to the speaker and his subject
a charm simply irresistible. To add to the
interest of the evening, the chaplain sang
the old war song, rive are coming Father
Abram; Three Hundred Thousand More, y
and THE Battle Hymn Of the Republic,
as he only can sing them. Everybody left
the hall delighted with the lectrre; and all
| felt that we had been honored in baying
| the man who has stood before audiences
nearly the whole world over, to visit our
little town, and we hope that sometime it
may be our good fortune to welcome him
again.
Mrs. Walter R. Stiles and children, of
Camden, are spending some time with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzo Patterson.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. r. Moffett were guests
Of their son, L. B. Moffett, in Phila. last
week.
Miss Blanche Springer, Of Bridgeport,
has been visiting her friend, Miss Julia
Rainey.
Mrs. Jacob S. Ware and daughter Estella
are spending two weeks with her father,
Thomas Vannaman at Willow Grove, Salem
county.
Miss Lucy A. Welsh, of South Swedes-
boro, has been entertaining Mrs. Bertha
Long and Mrs. Mary Norton and daughter,
Miss Jennie, Of Phila.
Mrs. Walter Campbell, of Camden, is
spending week with her aunt, Mrs. Geo.
W. Pither.
William Fl. HannoId has been spending
ten days in Washington, D. c., the guest
Of his grandson, William Hannold Chees-
man. Mr.. Hannold was accompanied by
his daughter, Mrs. John P. Cheesman, Of
Elmer.
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Harris have returned
from their vacation trip which took in
Buffalo, Niagara Falls and other points Of
interest. They report a delightful time.
John A. Dix Post, Diamond Council, Jr.
O. y. A. M. and Washington Camp, P. o.
S. A. will attend service in the Methodist
Church next Sunday morning.
A meeting of citizens was held on Mon
day evening to make final arrangements for
Memorial Day. DR.. III. W. Bolton, Of Alb
secon will be the orator for the occasion.
Alfred Lawrence, brother of Benjamin
Lawrence Of this place, died at his home at
Repaupo Station on Sunday after an illness
of several weeks. He was brother-in-law
of Mrs. Elizabeth Howell and Mrs Wilmer
Egee, Of SWedesb0ro, and we'll known here.
He leaves a wife and two daughters.
Potato bugs are doing great damage in
the tomato fields around Swedesboro, and
lice are bad in the citron fields.
The Swedesboro centre Of the University
Extension Society. through its executive
has perfected its arrangements
for lecture course next winter. Prof.
Leslie Willis Sprague. one Of the staff
lecturers, has been engaged for course Of
six lectures beginning on Tuesday evening, |
January LIST, 1907. Subject, The Ethics
Of Social Life, under six heads, Of which
we shall speak farther later on. The course T
Of last winter was great success, and the 7
society had morAy in it's treasury after all T
expenses were Sold, We predict greater
success for th1ot being course.