Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-04-16
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LOCAL BRIEFS.

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seriously ill.,
MIR. William A. Atkinson of Franklin
street, is in the South buving Strawberries.
Mrs Joseph S. yanDyke Of Hightstown
Nj, has been a recent guest Of the Misses
Cozens.
ssThe Story of Calvary was rendered
by the NJ. T. choir, to large audience last
Sunday evening.
Miss Flossie Kean and Miss Luvene
Wentzell Of Elmer, have been recent guests
Of Miss Esther Hawn.
The engagements Of Mr.. Benjamin F.
Smith and Miss Edna Budd, both Of Wood
bury, has been announced.
The engagement Of Miss Nettie Angle
of Woodbury. and Mr.. George Eagan, Of
Washington, D. c., is announced.
There were nine candidates baptized
in tbe Central Baptist Church, last Sunday
evening by Rey G. A. Jenkens.
Clarence Laub is going to buy four
cylinder touring car, and is building home
for it in the rear OF his parents home.
"A Bible Glass was organized in the
Kemble NJ. E. Sunday school last Sunday,
whlch will be known as the PASTORS class.
CHARLES Keebler, student at Rutgers
College, is spending his Easter vacation
with his sister, Mrs. Earle Champtn', on
Hopkins street.
Wade Reichard, of Troy, n. Y, recent !
" of Hartford, Conn, spent a few days in
Woodbury. this week, preparatory to going
to Albany, n. Y.
Rev. George Reynolds now occupies
the Baptist Parsonage on Red Bank avenue
and will take charge of the First Baptist
Church next Sunday
B. f. Bruner, of Thorofare, cut fifty
one bunches of asparagus on Tuesday, the
18th inst Whose who, in asparagus cul-
ture in Gloucester County.
Mrs. H. G. Barker, Of Glover street,
sailed on the American Line Steamer 'Mer-
ion'' last Saturday from Philadelphia, for
Europe to be gone for the summer.
-Dan'l B o k, constable of swedesboro,
brought waring party Of three-a man aud
two women before Justice Merchant We'd
nesday morning, it cost each So and costs.
The farmers about Swedesboro are put
Bysing out a new eantaloupe, the seed of
which cost S12 a pound. One farmer
s5ought 12 pounds Of the seed at that price.
Two new houses are to be built in the
First Ward, one by Enoch Moore, on
Green street, opposite Packer, and one by T
Dan'l. L. Pine, on the Watkins tract on
North Broad street.
DIR. John G. Curry's twins celebrated
their eleventh birthday last Saturday after
noon. A number Of little boys were pres
ent. Each received an Easter egg as a
memento Of the occasion.
Mrs. H. K. Bugbee is very i'll at the
family home in Williamstown. Mrs. Bug
bee has taught school more than thirty years
in that place, and is perhaps the Oldest pub
lilo school teacher IN this county.
Last Monday, Sheriff Wilson sold the
Clement F. Myers property near Centre
Square to Verna S. Justice, the complain
ant, for $500 above encumbrances. The
sale of the Ladd property was adjourned for
one week.
Two carloads of land lime that Wm.
Gibbs spread over his land last Friday, was
blown away by the high wind Of Saturday.
The Crown Point road, north of Thorofare,
was piled high with richly fertilized sand
from the fields, some of the banks being
six feet high.
Last Thursday afternoon at 17th and
Arch Streets, Philadelphia, Prof. Alvin S.
Clark Of this city, was struck by trolley
car and rendered unconscious for an hour
and half. After medical examination
it was discovered shat no bones were broken
and be returned home later in the day.
Our old friend and patron, Hewes G.
Sharp, of Centre Square, paid the DEMO
Graf a social visit last Monday. Mr..
Sharp is just getting about from ten weeks
confinement TO the house with walking ty-
phoid aud pneumonia, and says the country
looks pretty good to him, even il he can't
get into the fields and stir the soil as be
has done withont break for As years past.
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Clement, OF
Shiloh, brother Of Marian Clement, of this
city. returned last Sunday from a fifteen
weeks trip in foreign lands They went
wherever inclination and convenience led
them. They spent much time in Italy,
and assembled 900 miles NJ the Nile. visited
the important cities in Egypt within that
distance; thence to Palestine, and the
points Of interest there, including Jerusa-
lem, and on the return many Of she Medi-
serranean parts. The trip was enjoyable