Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-06-14
THoRoFARE.


At last the long promised rural telephone
system Of the Bell Company has material
lied. 1t is over q year since the Peoples
Rural Company secured contracts, bought
poles, and were to have been in operation
by last July, but that was found impossible
and Mr.. e. E. Clement advertised the poles
for sales. Mr.. John r. Downer, Of Will
iamstown responded and found the people
of the vicinity eager for phones no matter
who put them in. The district manager,
Mr.. w. P. Poole. Jr, of Camden, sent Mr..
Downer to sign up the citizens with the
Bell Company, who, with the efficient help
of Mr.. E. E. Clement met with splendid
success. The phones would have been in
before this time, but for difficulty in secur-
ing right Of way across Mantua creek
meadows. This has been overcome and
last week Mr.. Downer began work, and
about 200 poles have been set up. The
work will be pushed and it is expected will
be completed by the coming July. It will
be another means of shortning time and
distance, and farms will not be SO much out
of-doors as they once were.
The Presiding Elder, Z the Rev. James
Moore, D. D., preached for us on last Sun
day morning. He announced that it had
been deemed wise to transfer the pastor Of
the M. E. Church here. the Rev. George S.
Golf. to the M. E. Church at HurffYille, the
pulpit Of which had been left vacant by the
recent death Of the Rey. Thomas Hall. The
ReY. Thomas Foley, Of the Iowa Confer
ence, will be sent here Mr. Golf will
preach his last sermon. as pastor here on
next Sunday, June IL.
Miss Nellie Bndd, of Almonesson, is
visiting Miss LilliesC. Budd.
Miss Sadie Miller and Miss Lillian Stokes,
from Philadelphia, spent last Saturday with
Mrs. Rogers.
Miss Agnes Croley, of Philadelphia.
visited Mrs. Howard Phifer last week, and
Miss Lizzie Beaupain, from Philadelphia is
her guest this week.
Miss Mamie Garrigan, from Philadelphia,
visited Miss Alics Gibbs last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert j. Gibbs, from
Billingsport, are spending some time in the
home OF Mr.. Robert E. Gibbs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lionel Grimpson, and two
children, Rose ana Bessie, from Philadel-
phia, were guests over Sunday OF Mr.. and
Mrs Harding Richardson.
Mr.. Thomas Runyon, an old resident of
Thorofare, was knocked down by a train
near here, on last Saturday afternoon. He
was walking very near the railroad track, or
attempted to cross it, and being very deaf
did not hear the train coming. A broken
collar-bone and osher injuries are the result.
He was taken to the Cooper Hospital.
The thunder storm, on last Saturday
afternoon, played havoc in Thorofare and
vicinity, though no lives were lost, and no
buildings burned The lightning struck
the house of Mr.. William Bowers, knocked
over chimney, broke down stove pipe,
and some stove plates, ard then, in fine
frolic, passed through the rooms, knocking
the plaster from the walls, demolishing the
carpets, and finally made an egress for itself
by knocking off some weather-boards. It
showed itself equally facetious, and equally
considerate at the home of Mr.. Robert e.
Gibbs, 1t went through every ROOM Mrs.
Gibbs was knocked down and somewhat
stunned, but not seriously injured. 1t
struck their pork house also, and fire was
found there but was easily extinguished
Trees were splintered in all directions, and
telephone and telegraph poles were demol-
ished 1t made one feel that 1.-THE cleo
tricity, had come with healing on its wings,
to show us its power, and prove to us that
it could be harmless.
Mrs. Mary A. tanning, from Ocean
GROVE, died OF Bright's disease, on last
Sunday, just at noon, in the home Of Mr.
aud Mrs. Z. K Wilkins She was taken
to Trenton on Wednesday morning for
burial. Mrs. tanning was in her sixty
sixth year, and all these years had been
full of kind acts. She was noted for her
kindness Of heart and the ready sympathy
which overfows in the desire to help those
who might need her aid. Mrs. Wilkins
made her home with her before her mar
riage, and the love that existed between
them was that of mother and daughter
She was woman of many sorrows, and her
last illness was a painful one, but now
she is
"a truant from tears, from time, and from sin,
For the angel on watch took the wanderer I'M
Mr.. and Mrs ]. P. Trustum, from New
York City, arrived on Saturday. Mrs.
Trustum is niece OF Mrs. tanning, and
between them, also, was the love of mother
and daughter. Mrs. Trustum felt it to be
privilege that she had been enabled to see
her aunt before Death claimed her for his
own.