Gloucester County Democrat., 1909-07-22
LOCAL BRIEFS.

morning.
Mr. Claude Martin has been spend
5ng a few days at Patterson, N. ].
James Park, who has been i'll
for ten days, is much improved
Miss K G. Carpenter is visiting
friends at McVeytown, Pa.
National Park camp meeting will
begin August IL.
Miss Ella Banks and Mrs Chas.
Wilson are spending some time at
Wildwood.
Prof Leutke, of Annapolis, IS
spending week in Woodbury. with
his family.
A. S. Dean, the National Park mer
chant, has been appointed borough
postmaster.
Ernest Blackwood has been quite
ill the past week, and though much
improved, is yet confined to the bed.
The German Lutheran Sunday
school of this city will hold their an
nual picnic at Lutzgus Park to-day,,ro
VIM. H. Shaner, aged SO, died near
Almonesson last Thursday from al
coholism.
-Pennsgrove boys trounced Coun-
try Club last Saturday by score of
4 to 2.
John Shloer is now occupying his
model home on West street of which
he is justly proud.
Mrs. Mary Martin, of Poplar ave-,
is visiting relatives in New York City,
Brooklyn and Paterson.
The graduates of Woodbury. High
School went on picnic to Lorwood
Park, Delaware, on Tuesday.
Mrs. A. J. Pollock, of Germantown
is visiting her brother, F. E. Allen, OF
Hunter street.
Mr.. Rudolph Benezet and family,
of Delaware street, are spending
few weeks at Blackwood.
The Misses Hattie and Mary Coz
ems are enjoying the sea air at Asbury
Park, stopping at the Grand Central
Hotel.
Miss Pearl Robinson, of Tuck
honnoch, Pa, has been a recent guest
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph H. Williams,
of Cooper street.
Miss Viola Robinson, of Roxford,
Pa. has been recently visiting her
aunt, Mrs. c. Pennington, of German
street,
Bethel Church, of Carpenter ST.,
: s4aas purchased the pipe organ from
4 the NJ. P Church at Wesville. Mr.. D..
A. Fisher has been elected organist>9
The Ushers Union of Kemble M.
e. Church took forty people on their
moonlight excursion to Wilmington
Hast Thursday night.
Mr.. Geo. E. Pierson has sold his
=, r,v, Do1a1or fn Mrc Mary n
Dubois. the present tenant, for a con-
.sideration Of $1,000.
Mrs. Edward Scott, near Cross Keys
presented her husband on Monday
night with twins, "a boy and girl, maxi
1ng three children born within year.
Between five and six hundred peo
ple Joined in the Retail Merchants
Association excursion to Augustine
Park yesterday.
Miss Helen Dobbins ~ ny our n
ave. left for PortlanS1Oaes: b st
week and will visit tt
tion and points of intereS~-s :
mia and will return in the falE -
Miss Elizabeth Hustled assisted by
Mrs Samuel Sneyd, and Mr.. Holmes,
gave a delightful organ recital in the
First Baptist Church last Sunday even
ing
DIR. C. T. Bennett and family will
spend two weeks at Ocean City. The
doctors Office will be closed from
August 1st to the 10th, when he will
return and be ready for business.
During Saturday afternoon Mr..
and Mrs. Guy Lee gave their son Rob-
ert a birthday party on the lawn at
their home About twenty-five of his
little friends were present and help
ed him enjoy the occasion
-Sam1 H. Ladner slipped on Mar
ket street, Phila., Tuesday, and broke
bone in his right ankle. He got to
4he train with difficulty, and home,
where Dr. Stratton reduced the frac-
ture.
-Thos Brannin, an employee of
the powder works at Gibbstown, was
found dead in the yard of Hanley's
3sofef Gibbstown, last Monday, and
Coroner DeGrofft issued a certificate
of death from alcoholism.
Mrs. Smith Hewes, nee Edna Lay,
formerly of Woodbury., has been SER
5auslv i'll but at this writing is some
what improved, though still very
weak. Her many Woodbury. friends
hope for her early recovery.
The Glassblowers' convention end
ed in Milwaukee last Saturday, and
this week the wage committee and
manufacturers are at Atlantic City try
ing to agree on wage scale for 1909
and 1910.
Mr.. E. L. Farr, of the committee
TO receive subscriptions for the erec-
tion of the new $4,000 wing to Cooper
Hospital, Camden, writes us that the
New York Ship Building Company has
sent it's check for 81 200 toward that
fund.
Mrs. Guy Lee, nee May Henderson
of Centre street was hurriedly taken
to the Hahnemann Hospital last Sat
slrday night by DR.. Campbell and i'm
mediately underwent an operation for
4 1ctn ar re