Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-11-21
MicKLEToN.

Rosanna Rulon. Of Moorestown, has been
family.
James G. Dawson and wife entertained a
number of guests for tea on Saturday.
Edward Ogden and Mrs. Frank Ford
attended a linen shower for Miss Laura Lep-
pee, at Woodbury. on Friday evening.
Shipley Flitcraft and Phebe Eugle, Of
Woodstown, were guests Of Jerrie Haines
on Thursday of last week.
Elizabeth Engle left home on the four
tenth to spend some time with her son
James and family at Williamsburg, Pa.
Little James Dawson was taken to the
Methodist Episcopal Hospital on Thursday
of last week. We all hope he may be per-
manently benefited by the treatment.
Ann O. Borden, accompanied by her nurse,
Mrs. Horner, was moved to her own home
on Friday. We hope she may be able to en-
joy her new associations.
Ann Thorn, Allen Davis and wife and
Edgar Moore and wife, all of Woodstown,
were guests of John c. Heritage and Jerry
Haines on the seventeenth.
Several from here attended the General
Conference OF Young Friends Association
held at Swarthmore, Pa, on Seventh day,
the 10Th. They report large attendance,
especially OF young people, and an except
ionally helpful meeting.
At the last meeting Of the Womans Christ
ian Temperance Union reference was made
to the recent local option campaign in Della
ware. Before election the liquor forces an
nounced that they had 500, 600 to spend on
the election and offered W.C.T. u speaker
SIC. 900 to leave the State and stay out. The
annual address of New Jerseys state presi-
dent was read. 1t was replete with encour-
aging items. The twenty seven years of
compulsory physiology teaching in the pub
lie schools of the United States gives SPLEEN
did results. The average length Of life has
increased four and FIVE years. An ind asst
rial awakening has brought the almighty
dollar to the side of the temperance reform
railway, telegraph, telephone, bank and fac
tory managers are no longer willing TO en-
trust costly equipments or the protection Of
hundreds of lives TO brains that are befudd-
led and nerves that are shattered by indul-
gence in drink. An increasing number of
the best magazines publish articles on the
effectssof stimulants and narcotics and refuse
to advertise liquors and patent medicines.
The liquor traffic is driven out of the navy,
the army, the capitol buildings, the immi-
grant stations, the national museum, and
she soldiers homes. The brewers of the
United States spending millions Of dollars
in an extraordinary educational campaign
to make the people believe that beer is the
best food in the market. A steady increase
in the territory that exeluds the sale of in
toricants' as beverage, more than half the
territory and one third of the population Of
the United States being now under prohi-
bition law. Senator Carmack of Tennessee
| (which has only four cities where liquor is
sold says: We have come to the parting
of the ways with the liquor traffic in Ten
nessee. It refuses TO be reformed. It must
therefore be destroyed. Is has proclaimed
by its conduct that it would rather die than
obey the law so but one course is open for
self-respeoting and lawbiding people The
saloon must go. Prohibition Kansas has in.
creased in population fifty per cent in the
last ten years, while the near high license
State of Nebraska has only increased less
than one per cent.
The Grange Hall was beautifully decor
ated for last meeting. The program ar
ranged by Ceres Martie III. Heritage and a
program committee was enjoyed by all.
J.. Omar Heritage and wife are entertain,
ing their father, William U. John and their
sister Ruth. from Elysburg, Northumberland
County, Pa.