Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-03-29
THoRoFARE.

THoRoFARE..
| We have had an entertainment at the
Grange since wrote you last. 1t may be
little late to write about it now,l but real
good things never grow old, you know, and
this was much too good to have grown old
already, so / will take she risk. The even
ing was introduced by delightful little
recitation, given by Miss Maggie Gibbs,
called Something for the old man to do. 2
No matter what the piece it always receives
| its highest reward at the hands Of Miss
| Maggie. This was followed by drama,
ssThe Valley Farm which was beauti-
| fully PLAYED. In fact one wondered that so
much could be done by persons-old and
young, who had had no stage training, and
many of them had not had the advantage
of seeing good plays in the theatre. Still
the parts were we'll taken, and well sus-
tanned The make up of Mr.. Silas Hol-
comb deserves word of criticism. He
looked as little like a respectable, well-to-
do farmer, whose daughter was the prettiest
girl in the county, and SO much like a
dirty tramp who roasted wherever he could
find place at night, as was possible
Both he and Azariah Keep had made too
| lavish use Of white powder, thought
The stage setting was almost impossible as
times, but the wit and tact of the, actors
| enabled them to overcome many difficult
ties and the imagination of the audience
enabled them to see princely drawing rooms,
where princely drawing-Tooms were not.
| At anyrate we are all grateful to the
Literary for the pleasure afforded us,
and hope that the Literary will remem-
Der us again.
a Rural Telephone is TO be the next good
thing in Thorofare. Paulsboro will be the
central point, and the wires are to extend
| five miles in every direction, and these
| lines will be up in sixty days. Mr.. w. P.
Poole. Jr., is the manager for the Camd en-
| District of the Delaware & Atlantic Tele-
phone Company, and Mr. John R. Downer,
OF Williamstown, New Jersey, is the repre-
sentative of the Company in this vicinity.
| He has been very successful in securing
subscribers already, and Messrs. Elmer
Clement and B. f. Bruner expect to secure
from 100 to 300 farmers. 1t will certainly
be of untold advantage TO the farmers
since it will enable him to exchange views
with distant neighbor with little loss OF
time and at trif1ing expense. And for the
| farmers wife-think of it When those
| feels little let down, she can have nice
CHEEKY chat with her dearest, If not her
nearest, friend, at almost no cost, and return
in time for her home duties, allbrighten ed
up. Yes, it is evident, the Rural Tele-
phone is the thing
Conference in its wisdom returned the
Rev. George s. Golf to us for another year.
He preached two fine sermons on last Sun
day, and proposes a series of evangelistic
sermons for the near future The coming
year will. undoubtedly, be full of good
things for Thorofare.
One Saturday afternoon, not many years
ago, little maiden, Miss Maggie Gibbs
having taken her music lesson in Wood
bury, as usual, stepped from the train, on
her return. and walked toward home quite
as if nothing was going to happen. Now
her young friends had arranged a surprise
for her and had gathered in her home for
that purpose, but not wishing to be caught
atsit they had concealed themselves as much
as possible, and when Miss Maggie opened
.the door she was not only overwhelmed
with their greetings. but found them pop
! ping up at her from all the unexpected COR
ners The surprisers were the Misses Mar
garetta and Benetta Truncer, Marion and
Martha Armbruster, May, Abbie and Laura
Rambo, Edha Bowers, Mary Low, Clara
1 Zahn, Ada Wilkins, Ethel Shuster, Mabel
| Rambo, and Ruth Wilkins, Of Thorofare;
the Misses Clara and Harriet Thies, of
Bunker Hill, and Sadie Mcbride, of Brides
burg, Penna; The Messrs Herbert, Elwood
and Edward Rambo, Samuel MchIaster,
| Autumn Hewitt, Howard Clement, Frank
and Leon Bruner, Harry and Joseph Platt,
Norris Armbruster. and Allen Phifer
Games were played what else are young
people for) delicious refreshments were
served, and the young people all went home
happy.
| The house formerly owned BY Mr.. Elmer
E. Haines has been bought by Mr.. Samuel
B. Heritage. Mr. and Mrs. Howard PHI
fer moved into is last Saturday, having
rented it for year.
| Mrs. William Thompson and son, from
Paulsboro, visited Mrs. Margaret HammeIl
last week.
| Mrs. L. K Wilkins has returned from a
visit of some days in New York City, and
has brought back with her an old friend,
Mrs. M. A. Lamming, to spend some weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Shuster, from Barns
boro, haye been recent visitors in the home
Of Mr.. Alonzo P. Rambo.
The recent wagon and carriage sale Of Mr..
H. A. DeHart was in all respects success.
Large numbers we're present everything
was sold, and at least eighty future buyers
Of ehelyings and carriages dinsd with the
DeHart's On that day.