Gloucester County Democrat., 1907-10-10
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William r. Cooper and wife and son
Raymond, of Easton, Pa, spent Saturday
and Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. H. g. Gar
ris0n.
Thomas Vanaman, OF Willow Grove, was
guest of his daughter, Mrs. Jacob s.
Ware, last week.
Miss Lizzie Cozens is visiting relatives
and friends at Millville and Leesburg.
Mrs. Helen Stratten has left this:place 10
make her home with her daughter, Mrs. D..
j. Robinson, in New York,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Murray have been
spending a few days in sightseeing in Cam
den and vicinity, visiting League Island
and other points.
| DR.. and Mrs. Oliver Grimshaw are tax
ing we'll earned vacation Of a week, spent
in the South.
Mrs. Jacob S. Ware and little daughter
Helen are spending few days with her
father and sister who have recently moved
from Willow Grove to Forest Grove.
The Misses Josephine and Kathleen Hid
debraDd, Miss Hannah Lippincott and Miss
Edna Weber were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Chew at Trenton last week and also
attended Trenton Fair.
c. B Armstrong, student at Princeton
Seminary, will occupy the pulpit of the
Presbyterian Church next Sunday morning
and evening.
| Several gIassblowers and their families
Fare about to leave this place for Newark,
NOhio. Others will take their places. %
F Mrs. A. E. Zane, who has been spending
the summer with her daughter, Mrs. Geo.
W. Pither, and other relatives in this vi
cinity, has returned TO her home in Camden
Miss Florence G. Pither has been spend
ing few days with relatives in Camden.
Rally day services will be held in the N.
E. Church next Sunday. In the morning
Pastor Provost will preach and persons will
be received into the church. In.the after
noon there will be special program in the,
Sunday school with an address by Rev. j.
B WhittoD, Of Bridgeport. In the even
ing Charles G. Trumbull, of Phila., editor
Of the Sunday School Times, is expected
to give an illustrated address on his visit to
the Holy Land, be being delegate to the
Worlds Sunday-school Convention, held in
Jerusalem last spring.
3 terrific storm of wind and rain equal
ling in intensity that of September 23d,
and doing vastly more damage, visited this
ssection GA Tuesday morning between 5 and
q O'Clock A2ain had fallen steadily through
the latter part of the night and early morn
ing but the storm had ceased, when sud-
denly there loomed up in the west and
north inky black clouds, and almost with |
out warning terrible storm broke over the |
town doing hundreds of dollars worth of
damage A new dwelling house being
built by contractor John M. Hunter for the |
Swedesboro Land Company, was lifted bod |
ily from the foundation, carried little to
one side and crashed down in a mass, the |
four sides falling inward with the roof on
top. Several carpenters who were working, |
some in the building and some just finish
ing the roof, were warned just in time and
escaped from the building, thus probably |
saving their lives The loss to Contractor
Hunter will be heavy. Two large maple |
trees in front of Mrs. Mary Shivers' resi-
dence on Main street that had withstood |
the storms of years, were lifted out of the |
ground and fell on the house Large
branches were torn from trees in all direc- |
tions and many fine trees were ruined.
Electric light wires were broken and the |
cable badly damaged. A roof was blown /
from freight car at tue station, and, fall |
ing on John Woodruff's team. caused itetol
run away scattering its load OF baskets,
shelvings etc, in all directions It was
finally caught at the corner of Main street
and Ashton avenue. A tall chimney on
Mrs. Mary E. Hildebrand's residence was
blown down, and fences and small out
buildings in various parts Of the town went
down before the terrible wind.
On Wednesday evening, September 25th,
at the residence OF Widest Fl. Guest. Of
Sacramento, Cal, Mr. Justice Black Guest
and Miss Anna Kaeffier, of Aura, Gloucester
county, were married by Rev. Mr.. Robbins
OF Oak Park, Cal. Mr.. and Mrs. Guest
will reside at Oak Park.