Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-02-25
GLASSBORO.

! ULAS0DVhVs
| Joseph Repp and family, of Camden,
were over-sunday visitors at Albert
Repp's home here.
An all day revival meeting was held
in the M. E. Church Tuesday.
Mrs. Carter D. Shute is quite sick
at her home suffering with stomach
trouble.
The high school students cleared
Eover one hundred dollars at the val
tentine fete held last week The mon
fey will be used to purchase reference
Rbooks in addition to money given by
pthe State for this purpose. ~
James Hera is moving the school
building at Mullica Hill.
w. FL. Rile has accepted a position
at Paulsboro and will move his fam
lily there.
Mabel Warner is recovering from
an operation for appendicitis at the
Samaritan hospital. The operation
was regarded by the physicians as
an unusually severe one and her re-
covery little short of miracle
The Daughters of Liberty are ex-
pecting to purchase up-to-date para
phernalia for the initiation team
They are preparing to hold a pot
pie supper to enlarge the fund in the
near future.
/ Mrs. Walter Davis is recovering
from an attack of scarlet fever. No
other cases are reported at present
Henry Lutz has sold his High street
: property to Clifford Pimm. Mr.. Lutz
will not move until Summer
Two freight cars jumped the track
at the Reading station Thursday after
noon and a wrecker had to be sent
down to replace them. The track was
badly damaged.
The Cceronian Literary Society held
a Washington G Lincoln birthday
afternoon at the high school A mock
trial is being arranged for March 2.
Six ushers from the Union here at
tended convention of ushers of So.
Jersey at the Wesley Memorial Church
last Saturday afternoon at Bridgeton.
! Mr. John FISHER entertained the
NJ. e. Church orchestra and a few
friends at his home Wednesday even
| ing.
Eugene Dougherty went to White
Haven again Monday to remain for
some time in an effort to recover his
health.
The crossing of an electric and tele-
| phone wire set fire to the transformer
at the corner of Broad and High Sts.,
Tuesday morning and put all tele-
phones in town out of business for
the day Everything was in working
order again by night.
Edgar Tombleson has left town to
accept a position at Washington, Pa.
He has stored his household goods
for the present.
Pensions have been secured through
]. Ellis Paulin for the following per-
sons Mrs. Emily c. Earring, widow of
Michael Earling, from July 1908. She
will receive twelve dollars per month.
Mr.. Earring died 1882, thus she has
lost twenty-six years pay. Mrs. AIDE
laide Allen will receive two hundred
dollars back pay and twelve dollars
per month from February 1908. Mr..
Allen died 1907.
Albert C. Stranger had his annual
! hog killing at his farm at Westyille
last Tuesday. Among the houseful of
guests were these from Glassboro:
! /. C. Souder, Mr.. and Mrs. David
Stranger. Mr.. and Mrs. Brasier Wes-
coat, Levi Campbell, Miss Ethel Camp
bell, Mrs. William Tomlin, Mrs. Bur-
ris Tomlin, Mrs. A. P. Wilcox, Bessie
and Vera Wilcox, Elsie Tomlin, Helen
Stranger, Mrs. Pohn Buck, f. Louis
| Pullman, Fred Tomlin-
John T. Rowen had his face badly
bitten by a small dog while on bust
ness at Gloucester Thursday afternoon
A Gloucester physician cauterized and
dressed the wound.
| The two Methodist churches held a
| temperance and reform rally Satur-
day evening and Sunday here. Satur-
day evening d. Clarence Gibboney, of
Phila., addressed a mass meeting at
the M. E. Church.. at which time over
one thousand dollars was pledged for
the temperance work. Samuel H.
Ham preached twice on Sunday and
addressed mems meeting in the af-
| ternoon. Several hundred dollars was
raised at these meetings for the work
about town.
Burglars visited Glassboro Tuesday
night and had things all their own
way but obtained little to pay them
| for their trouble. They first visited
| James Nuts store and broke out the
| telephone box tit being a pay station)
This was found next day in the M. P.
cemetery. The party then proceeded
to pry open a back window of the
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church from second floor to cellar,
burning about a box of matches
which they left in all parts of the
building. Nothing was taken. At
Whitney's store where they next went
they took about one hundred dollars
worth of jewelry. Officer Martin
tracked the men out the railroad next
day. The footprints indicsssd that
there were four in the gang. They
also smashed the cash register at
Nuts store.
Mr.. William G. Morrison, of this
place, and Miss Title Doughty, of
Riverton, were married Saturday even
ing at Clayton by Rev. Samuel Sar-
gent.
! Hosea Garrison, shearer at the
Whitney glass works, was accidently
burned Monday by an explosion in