Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-02-18
THnRnFARE.

| ing the epidemic--its nature and its
results, most people here consider the
quarantine case of much cry and
little wool" But then, we have a
Board of Health" and it must do
something, you know, else why is it
a health board at all? Most public
meetings have been resumed. On last
Sunday the usual service was held in
| wilkins hall. The Rev. DR.. Heisley,
from Woodbury., preached an excel
| lent sermon from the text: Keep
yourselves in the love of God He
spoke in the first place of the differ
ent loves which draw man from his
love of God; and then he exalted the
love of God, and at the last he en-
phasized the hindrance to keeping
ones self in the love of God. DR..
| Heisley has been member of the New
Jersey Conference during fifty-six
| years.
The fourth Quarterly Conference
of the M. E. Church was held on last
Saturday afternoon, and the Rev. j..
Morgan Reed, D. D., District Super
| intendent, presided. After the usual
routine business had been disposed
of, the question of date for the ded-
| ication services of the new church
was in order. 1t was finally decided
to hold it on the seventh of March,
that will be two weeks from the COM
ing Sunday.
There will be a meeting of the Ush-
ers Union in Wilkins hall on Friday
evening of this week.
On Tuesday of last week the w. c..
T. u. held a meeting in the home OF
Mrs Emma Wilkins. 1t was a mem
orial service to Miss Frances Willard,
and fine tribute was paid to her
character and life, and life work.
The public school opened again on
last Monday with both teachers and
pupils in their places, and glad to be
there.
The store of Mr.. Chas. w. Wilkins
was broken into Friday night OF last
week. The thieves entered by rear
window and stole about $25 worth OF
goods.
The P. o. S. of A. held their usual
meeting in Wilkins hall on last Thurs
day night, and hope to meet regularly
fSin the future.
Il A basket ball game was played in
1.-THE town hall on last Saturday night,
Ebetween Thorofare and the Racket
EClub of Woodbury.. The score stood
| in favor of the Racket Club.
Mrs. Emma F. Gill, principal OF the
Thorofare school, spent Friday OF last
week in the manual training classes
of Camden. This cannot fail to be
an advantage to the school here.
Alonzo P. Rambo, Jr., of New York
City, was an over Sunday guest in his
old home.
Mrs. Harry Munyan, from Camden,
spent last Sunday with the Rev. and
Mrs. H. Mercer Hunt.
Miss Tillie Kerns, from Woodbury.,
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Blalre
Hughes over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Wilkins and
Ralph Wilkins, from Camden, visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Wilkins over Sun
day.
Miss Bessie Rambo has been spend
| ing a few days with Mr.. and AIRS. Al
exander L. Rogers, in Woodbury.
Mr.. and Mrs Earl Spaulding, from
Woodbury., were visitors at the parson
age last week.
4 Mrs Frank Eastlack and two chill
dren, of Woodbury., have been spend
ing a few days with relatives here
The funeral of Mr.. John Grimm, OF
Mantua Grove, took place on Monday
! afternoon of last week. He was 80
wears of age, and had been one of the
| first, trustees of the old M. 3. Church
at Thorofare. The Rev. Isaac L. Fow-
Ter conducted the funeral service, and
testified warmly to the consistent
christian life of Mr.. Grimm, and to
the high regard in which he was held
by his friends, and in the community
in which he lived. The funeral was
very large one, and the burial was
in Eglington cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. James Carter gave an
elegant reception on Monday night OF
this week, in honor of the eighteenth
birthday of their daughter, Miss Anna
Carter, and the twenty-first birthday
of their son William James Carter.
The house was made beautiful thro'-
out. and brilliantly illuminated. The
refreshment room was decorated in
pink and green, interspersed with red
hearts in honor of st. Valentine.
Everything that could tempt the pal
ate was served, and nothing that could
delight the eye was omitted A room
was set apart for dancing, and there
merry young feet kept time to the
music of harp and violin-music
which made
'eThe senses float on perfumed breeze
Ger f1ower-decked fields and sun-kiss-
ed seas.
In other rooms games were played,
and music, and conversation made the
hours fly only too swiftly. The array
of presents was almost startling in
number, variety and beauty. The
young people honored by the occasion
received from their parents a beau
tiful gold watch and chain each, and
other beautiful things were added
thereto by the friends who came to
grace the evening-about two hundred
all told. These we're in part-the
Misses Laura DeHart, Kizzie Wilkins,
Ella F. Banks, Sydney S. Thomas, Liz
zie and Mamie Philan, Florence Herr
tage, Margaretta and Mary Low, Edna
Bowers, Lillian and Laura Budd, Liz
zie and Mabel Clement, Clara Zahn,
Nina Morgan, Luella Hunter, Annie