Gloucester County Democrat., 1907-01-17
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Mr.. and Mrs. William Fl. Hoffman
visited relatives at Glassboro last
week.
Harry Black, from below sweies'
boro, has taken the James B. Cooper
farm
Mrs. Gaunt is visiting her daughter.
Mrs. Edward Ogden.
Mary r. Brown, John and Hannah
A. Heritage and Martha White attend
ed the week end Friends Conference
at Moorestown on the 18th, they re-
port a large and interesting meeting,
even though the day was continuously
rainy
Members who attended the last
meeting of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union report Anti-Narco-
ties the subject for the day. From
readings given it was learned that
number of business houses and corpor
ations will not employ cigarette users.
among the number John Wanamaker
Current events along temperance lines
brought out the fact that Kaiser Will
helm, of Germany, insists upon abso
lutte abstinence from the use of alcohol
on the part of chauffeurs, who drive
his big motor cars; also that Sir Fred
erick Treves. the famous British sur-
geon. who operated with wonderful
skill and success upon King Edward
VII, at the time of his coronation, de-
clares that alcohol is distinctly poi
son and that its use ought to be limit
ed as strictly by law as that OF any
other poison. It was decided to in
vite the pupils OF each of the four
schools in this township to write es-
says upon Reasons Why Alcohol De-
stroys Health and Impairs Useful
ness?" A book to be given for the
best essay from each school, essays
to be numbered SO judges can have no
knowledge of who the writer's may be.
Considerable business claimed the
attention of the Young Friends Asso-
citation on the evening OF the 18th.
The program was partly devoted to
colored people, their work and our re-
sponsibility to them An interesting
sketch of Blind Tom" was read, none
of the audience knew anything of him
since 1901, he was then living near
Egg Harbor For many years he liv-
ed in comfortable cottage at the
highlands of the Neversink on the
Jersey side with Mrs Eliza Lerch,
who was appointed his guardian by
Justice Andrews of the Supreme
Court He was handed over to her
with no money or no property out OF
the hundreds of thousands of dollars
which he had earned during the pre-
vious quarter of a century, SO it was
necessary to keep him at work longer
in order to provide for his old mother
who was living in the Southern states,
his care-taker finally saved enough to
warrant the temporary withdrawal of
Blind Tom from the amusement world
to recuperate his health.
Mrs. Perry, of Dividing Greek, is
visiting her daughter. Mrs Enoch ".
Loche.
Our blacksmith, Mr. Eichler, and
|wheelwright, Mr. Madara, are busy
smaking carts, hack wagons, farm wag-
i ons, ETC., to meet the varied needs OF
Rthe farmers of this county. They ex-
pect to have sale next month, well
worth the attention of farmers watch
for the advertisement and Wait until
after the sale before purchasing
elsewhere. Aside from articles of
their own make they will sell large
assortment of farm implements and
machinery.
The household goods of Rachel Car
ter, deceased, will be sold on Seventh
day the 10Th, at her late residence,
the home of Joseph T. Carter, see ad-
vertisement in this issue of Democrat.
Herbert Borden will attend the State
Board of Agriculture at Trenton this
week as delegate from the Grange.