Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-05-13
SWEDEsBORO.

william ID. MCCULLOUGH or Camden,
visited his mother M RS. Mary Nc
Cullough, on Tuesday
Mrs. William Ballinger of Wood
bury, was calling on Swedesboro
friends on Monday
Mrs. John G. Sharp has been visit
ing her mother and other relatives in
Philadelphia.
After a residence of several years
in Swedesboro, Mr. Emil Mampe has
removed his family back to Phila,
his former home.
The Spring meeting of the Camden
District Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society will be held in the Methodist
Church on Tuesday, May 18th. The
morning session will be devoted to
business, but in the afternoon there
will be an address by Miss Lewis, a
returned missionary from Japan.
Miss Helen Stratton, of New York,
is spending few weeks with her
niece, Mrs. Frank Bachman.
Miss Ella Citizens who has been
spending the winter in New York,
has returned to Swedesboro for a
few weeks and later will go abroad,
and spend the summer in England.
Mrs. Owen l.. Guest is visiting her
sister, Mrs. j. ]. Robinson, in New
York
The many friends of Miss Lucy A.
Welsh, of South Swedesboro, will re-
greet to learn that she met with a
serious accident at her home on last
Saturday evening, falling and frac-
turing her hip. Her condition. is
thought to be serious. so
Mrs. Bertha Long, of Phila., is
spending some time with her cousin,
Miss Lucy A. Welsh.
Z Mrs. Somers, wife of Lieutenant
Richard Somers, and little daughter
returned to their home at Fort Strong
near Boston, ON Tuesday, after a visit
of several weeks with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. G. Shute.
Rev. G. A. Bchringer and family
have gone to spend ten days with
relatives in Delaware.
Mayor Detroit has appointed as
Borough Protectors under the new
B. A. Headley and S. w. Gaskill. That
the borough needs protection goes
without saying, and we are all an
xiously waiting to see what the new
order will bring forth.
Frank Callahan, son of Thomas Cal
lahan, has an attack of scarletina,
and the house has been put under
quarantine.
The Presbyterian Church has call
ed Mr.. Ernest Hansel, of Orange to
take charge of it's pulpit for the sum-
nier. He has another year in school
and will return to his studies in the
fall.
Mothers Day did not appeal very
strongly to our people and we are
wondering why the fathers are left
out in the cold so entirely.
Miss Ella Hillman, of Camden, is
spending week with Mrs. Otto Rode
and Mrs. Howard Ham.
Herbert Compton, of Salem, was a
Sunday guest in the home of Mrs.
Lena Willig.
A new pipe organ for the Metho-
dist Church has been contracted for.
and it will be installed about Sept.
18TH go
The Spring meeting of the Camden
District Woman's Foreign Mission
esboro Methodist. Church on Tuesday,
May 18th.
Frederick j. Ernest has purchased
of Geo, M. Ashton his new double
house on Anderson avenue
Estella P, only child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jacob S. Ware, died in Jeffer-
son hospital on Thursday afternoon
of last week under the most distress
ing circumstances, aged seven years
and four months. Her illness began
four weeks before her death with an
attack of grip followed by neuralgia
which finally developed assesses
back of her eyes, from which she
suffered the most intense agony.
Everything that medical skill could
do at home was done and a week
before her death she was taken to
the Jefferson hospital, where she I'M
derwent three operations on her eyes,
but all to no purpose and death came
to release her from her sufferings.
She was a dear little girl, bright be-
yond the average of children, fa-
vorite with all who knew her. The
parents hearts are wrung with an
guish over the loss of their dear and
only child, the light of their eyes,
and the darling of their hearts, and
they can only find consolation in the
thought that she has been transplant
ed ITO those beauteous everlasting
gardens, where angels sing and SER
apis are the wardens;" and in that
other thought that although she can
not return to them, yet they can go
to her They have the sympathy of
great many friends in this sad aff1ic-
ton that has come into their lives.
Her funeral took place on Monday
at the Methodist Church, con
Quoted by Rev. G. /. Fitzgeorge, who
spoke most comforting words, and
interment was made in Lake Park
cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob S. Ware wish
through the columns of the Demo-
crat to thank the. many neighbors
and friends who so kindly gave them
sympathy and help in their great af-
Fiction, the sickness and death of
their little daughter, also the Method
list Sunday school and the pupils of
the public school for their gifts of
beautiful flowers.