Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1911-09-07
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Contractors WILKINSON q G1DDS, OF
| Paulsboro, started new house this
week for Mr.. George Wolferth, in
Clarksboro, on the street leading to-
the Station.
| Aaron Somers and wife, who recent
| ly sold their farm, near Harding
vile, have purchased the former home
of Meredith Owen, deceased. We
will be much pleased to have Mr.. and
Mrs. Somers as residents of our vii
llage.
| Our schools re-opened on Monday.
The new teacher, Miss Annie Lippili-
colt, Of Collingswood, will have her
boarding home with Mr.. and Mrs.
Burieigh Packer.
! Benjamin G.. Heritage will start to-
! day, with several young friends, on an
extended trip to Jamaica and Panama
They are expecting to return about
| the second or third of October We
wish for them happy and profitable
time.
Mrs. Jas. Hoffman entertained her
mother, Mrs. Henry Austen, of Woods
town, on Friday of last week.
| Mrs. Sarah Haines, of Camden, has
! been visiting her niece, Mrs. J. Her
bert Brown.
| Miss Rebecca John, of Elysburg,
one of the teachers at Woodbury., was
a recent visitor at the home of her
sister, Mrs. j Omar Heritage.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph T. Carey
j were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
! Kirkbride, of Redwood, on Sunday.
Mrs. George Wolferth is improving
as rapidly as can be expected. Her
surgeon desires that she remain at
the hospital three weeks. Her many
friends will be glad to welcome her
home when the right time comes.
Friends and relatives in this locality
attended the funeral of John Gaunt
4 from the residence of his son, Geo.
W. F. Gaunt, at Mullica Hill, on Sec
ond day, the 4th, at 1890 a. m. The
deceased was twin as was also John
G. Pool, whose funeral was held at
the home of his parents, on the same
day, at 10 o'clock.
The community was saddened the
past week to learn that John c.. Pool,
son of John and Annie Pool, was SER
iously ill with tetanus; during the
previous week he ran splinter in
his hand and went to physician to
have it removed and no further trouble
was apprehended, but on the follow
| ing Tuesday evening he mentioned
I, symptoms of tetanus to his brother,
but neither gave the matter further
thought; by the next morning the
j dread disease had fully developed and
the sufferer passed away Friday morn
| ing. The deepest sympathy is felt
by all for his father and mother and
three remaining brothers.
His teachers and playmates all
speak of him as good boy and mn
doubtedly the eighteen happy, help
full years Of his life will leave an inn
press for good never ending in it's in
I fluence. The funeral held Monday
morning at the residence of the fam
: lily was largely attended. The speak
{, ers were: Rev. J. B. Vannatta, Rev
iC. G.. Weber and Hannah A. Herr
tage. Hnterment was at Eglington
4 Cemetery.
i Robert Barnes and his daughter
Amy, of Chappaqua, N. Y, were
recently guests in the home of John
and Hanna A. Heritage.
Friends here are attending their
Quarterly Meeting at Woodstown to-
day:
The Friends Association, on First
day evening, the third, conducted by
! Benjamin G.. Heritage and Cora Daw-
son, was we'll attended and helpful
along Friendly lines.
Mary Owen read from Life of
! James and Lucretia Mott" Clara
Haines read a clause from Friends
sos, Mi Il 1xxx zf1;t
tracts on same subject from Life and
Letters of Elizabeth Newport" in
cidents along the same line were
given by DR.. Sarah Taylor, of Woods
town, and others present. Gideon
the Discipline" and Mitch shraodin
/ Peaslee read extracts on sOaths,"
from the Discipline" and "Mitchner's
| Retrospect of Quakerism." In 1850
George Fox was the only one in
England who had a testimony against
taking oaths, now many not Friends
prefer to affirm. Emma Carter read
| from the Discipline and John
Woolman's Journal concerning plain
ness" extracts were read from the
DISCIPLINE" on "Overseers" by j.
Omar Heritage; the Scriptures" by
fLizzie i. DuelI; Books by Mary J !.
Heritage; Games and Diversions" by
IRebecca John, and Days and Times
ssby Hannah A. Heritage. L. E.
Holmes read selections from the
Friends Intelligence. One of which
was an account of the vacation schools
on the Meeting House properties in
New York and Brooklyn; the New
4 York one started about fifteen years
ago was one of the first for poor
children, and was at first rather
ridiculed by pedagogues and philan-
thropists. One patron says it has
kept straight her Jimmie and Mann
lie. !"
The annual meeting of Woman's
Christian Temperance Union will be
held at the home of Bessie v. Ogden
on Wednesday afternoon, the Goth,
lat 2.30 o'clock. This is the meeting
,fY3 oo..e