Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-11-12
GLASSBORO.

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Howard Hughes was taken to a
Philadelphia hospital the past week
where he was operated upon for ap-
! pendicitis.
Mrs. Joseph Leap fell from the
porch at her home Wednesday, and
! broke her wrist.
Mrs Anna e. Wells, the Newark
evangelist who is visiting here was
agreeably surprised on her arrival by
handkerchief shower from her
friends
To pay an election bet, Robert
! Creamer wheeled William Heritage
| from Pitman to Glassboro in wheel
barrow, Thursday evening, accompan-
led by the Fife and Drum Corps.
Mr. and Mrs. John sSeibert and
daughter, of Milwaukee, H., are Wis
iting Mr. and Mrs G. Seibert.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Warner en-
tertained the members of the Wom-
ans Foreign Missionary Society at
| their home Wednesday evening.
Mrs H. S. DuffieId, Mrs. James Nc
Fadden and Mrs. Walter Stanger have
been elected delegates from the Meth
odist Protestant Sunday School to the
State Sunday School Convention at
/ New Brunswick in December.
A merry party of Clayton young
people spent Saturday evening at the
home OF Mr. and Mrs Charles War
ner
The choir of the Methodist Episco
pal Church gave a musicale Sunday
evening, when the cantata, s'The Har
vest is Ripe was rendered.
Glassboro firemen were kept busy
Friday responding to alarms. The
first call was made for a chimney
fire at the home of Mrs. Morrison on
Lake street, which was extinguished
without damage to the house. About
eight o'clock in the evening the ware
sheds at the old Warrick glass works
at South Glassboro, used as store
house for ware by the Whitney Glass
/ CO., were found to be on fire. The
fremen responded promptly and were
several hours smothering the fire
from quantity of salt hay which had
evidently been smouldering for sever
al hours. No damage was done the
sheds. A little italian boy running
with the hose cart was knocked down
and run over in the excitement. His
| injuries were at first thought to be
serious but after an examination they
were found to be slight, fright prob
/ ably being the most serious.
George Jackson, employed at the
South Glassboro saw mill was knock
ed from the trestle where he was
standing by log and painfully in
jured, Saturday last HE was remov
ed to a Philadelphia hospital, where
he is in a critical condition.
Miss Bessie Hustled, of Woodbury.
assisted by Mrs. B. Frank Moore, so
prano, and Mrs. Warren E. Stanger
elocutionist, gave an organ recital al
the Methodist Episcopal Church, Wed
nesday evening, before an audience
which filled the church. The program
was well rendered and neat sum
realized for the church.
Charles and Albert Repp have peti
toned Justice Starr for rule to show
cause why the wholesale and retail
licenses of William Davis shall not be
revoked. The rule was granted and
November oath, set to hear the case
Mr.. Davis is accused of selling liquor
to habitual drunkards and minors.
Two hundred friends of Rev. and
Mrs. F. F. Craig gathered at the Meth
odist Protestant parsonage Friday ev-
ening to welcome them back for anoth-
er year. Jacob F. Imhoff on behalf
of the members and friends of the
church presented Mr.. Craig with a
handsome leather rocking chair and
Mrs. Craig twenty-five dollars in gold
Rev. Chas. B. Dubell of ST. Thomas
p E. Church was present ana spoke
of the good being done in the town
by the pastors work among the peo
pie John Zimmerman also spoke a
1 few words of welcome and the Rev.
Craig responded with words of appre-
citation for the gifts and the kind
4 thought which prompted them. The
remainder of the evening was spent in
pleasant social time. A light lunch
was served. Rev Craig comes back tc
the church for his seventh year.
Mrs. John Taylor is visiting her
daughter at Millville. who is critically
i'll.