Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-31
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home after spending several weeks
with her son, Frank, at Woodbury.
and with relatives in the vicinity of
Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry McCollister en-
tertained the Bridge Club at their
home in South Swedesboro on Thurs
day evening of last week. During the
evening the guests were treated to de-
lightful music rendered by Prof Jona-
than Milford, of Bridgeton, on the
clarinet; Miss Kate Talman, on the
violin, and Prof. Harry McCollister, on
the piano.
Mrs. William A. Sailer of Lans-
doWne, Pa, was guest of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Garrison,
last week.
Miss Drue r. Cheesman has been
i'll and confined to her home for some
time
Mrs. John Cans is slowly recover
ing from tedious illness.
The friends Of DR.. Oliver Grimshaw,
will be glad to hear that he is out
again after an Illness of over two
weeks.
Miss Emma Locke still remains
very i'll with no improvement.
Contractor Parks is building a
double house for the Swedsboro Land
Company on Helms avenue.
William R. Cooper has sold his
property on Grant avenue to Walter
G. Stanton, who will occupy it, and
Mr.. Cooper will remove to Easton, Pa.
The price paid was $2500.
The Official Board of the Methodist
Church, by a unanimous vote, has
asked for the return of Rev. Peter
Provost for the third year.
A number of the smaller ice houses
jim this vicinity are already filed with
Flour and fve-inch ice and the larger
ones are being filed as rapidly as pos
sible.
John Kicker, a young man nineteen
years of age, was drowned in Mitch
ellis mill pond on Wednesday night
of last week. The night was clear
and cold, an ideal night for skating,
and the pond was alive with people,
a number of whom we're near the head
of the pond back of Lake Park Gene
terry. A large iron pipe runs under
the road leading to the cemetery, and
| it is said that at this spot the water
never freezes, a fact of which the I'M
fortunate young man could not have
been aware as he skated directly into
the open water. His cries of distress
brought willing hands to his aid but
before he could be reached life was
extinct. Dr. B. F. BuZby did all in
his power to resuscitate him but in
vain. Young Kicker was an orphan
and was brought here several years ago
by Rev. Walter T. Leahy, then pastor
of st. Josephs Catholic Church, COM
| ing from a Catholic orphans home in
the northern part of the State. At the
| time of the accident he was living
with John Gibson, farmer here. and
was highly thought of by Mr.. Glib
son and his family. His funeral took
place at st. Joseph's Church on Sat
urday morning, and interment was
made in st. Joseph's Cemetery.
At the annual meeting of the Peoples
Rural Telephone Company, held at their
office here on Monday, the following direc-
| tors were elected: Elmer Bradshaw, Albert
n Bahman, Francis B. Davis, George w.
F. Cant, George H. Horner, Edgar O..
Moore, William Richman, Samuel A.
Ridgway, George B. Schooley, Frank ID.
Sweeten, William III. Wolf. The Board of
Directors organized by electing George w.
F. Gaunt, President; Francis B Davis,
secretary. William H. Wolf, treasurer, and
w. K. Sloan. superintendent
The committee in charge of the Uniyer-
Lsity Extension Lecture Course, running
Hheie, finds itself short of funds to meet the
Eexpenses of the course. Rev. DR.. George
eC. Sutton, through the effort Of Trinity
gGuild, will deliver lecture in Lippincott's
I uau On Tuacdav evening Fnhrnarv 10
Subject HThe Elizabethian Age, or the
First Settlers of North America. " PROCEEDS
Of lecture to aid the lecture committeey The
lecture will be particularly interesting from
the fact that this year at jamestown, Va,
will be celebrated the four hundredth ami
versary Of the settlements of North America.