Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1912-05-30
HURFFVILLE.

Sunday services: preaching 10. 80,
subject, A Strange Ambition" Sum
day school 80; Epwonth League,
O'Clock, topic, Abstinence the Glory
of Manhood, leader Mrs Joseph
Pearson. Evening preaching, 7.45
preceded by song service; subject of
sermon, The Intruder"
During the month of June the pas
tor will preach a series of sermons
on the Parallels. Everybody invited
to attend all of these services.
Mrs. Emma Horner and Miss Min
ME Horner, of Camden, are visiting
at the parsonage. They are the moth
er and sister of Mrs. Whitton.
The official board of the M. E.
Church will hold their monthly meet
ing at the parsonage next Wednesday
evening. Every member is requested
to be present.
One of the most enjoyable birthday
surprise parties in this neighborhood
took place at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Scott last Saturday even
ing. One of the neighbors had ar
ranged to spend the evening there,
just to keep them home that night,
and when sufficient number had
gathered at the rendezvous the expect
ed guest went up to their house.
While Mrs. Scott was helping her Wis
itor to put the baby to bed upstairs,
in stole the surprise party, some lad
en- with cake and cakes and more
cakes, and then some. Others car
ried sugar, others bananas and others
lemons (the real kind, tool After
the worthy host and hostess had
brought every chair in the house down
to seat their guests, the company got
busy talking to each other, listening
to the graphophone and otherwise
enjoying themselves When the eat
time arrived what sight! Such cak-
es-layer- cake, jelly-cake, cocoanut-
cake, good cakes, better cakes and
the best cakes we ever tasted; in fact
every kind of cakes but poor cakes
The lemonade too was good, judging
by the way it disappeared. Among
those present we noticed Mr. and
Mrs. Joshua Scott, Sewell; Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Bee, Sewell; Mr.. and
Mrs Thomas Batten, Mrs. Stetzer,
Blackwood; Mr.. and Mrs. Goddard,
MIR. and Mrs. Gilbert Kirkbride, Mr..
and Mrs John Bee, Mrs Samuel
Myers, Mr. and Mrs. c.. H. Doran,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Carroll, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Turner Mr.. and Mrs.
Carr, Sewell: Mr.. and Mrs Ellison
K Turner, Wenonah; Miss Beatrice
Ware, Sewell, Mrs. Thomas Bullard,
england.
Foil focl, n
graduates of the public school: Anna
Pearson. Harriet Thies, Jane Warren,
Theodore Shaw. Roy Evans.
Joseph A. Nicholson spent Sunday
in New York.
The knights of the Golden Eagle
attended the memorial service in the
M. E. Church on last Sunday morning.
There was goodly number of the
order present and large congrega-
tion
Penrose Thorn is the first one here
to cut hay.
The grange will confer third and
fourth degrees this Saturday night;
all members know what this means.
The entertainment was given by
our people at Pitman on last Friday
night. While we may have a say re-
garding some things, we do not have,
in relation to the weather. AS it
rained, we have to be content by
realizing $16 90
Mrs. Author Lyons, formerly of
near here but living in Camden died
on Saturday. Funeral service was
held from her parents home, Mr.
George w. Fowler, on Wednesday. The
people of the community extend sym
pathy to the husband and parents in
the sudden death of beloved wife and
daughter.
Eugene Sherman, Jr., and family
have been spending part OF the week
at EIwood
Mr.. and Mrs. William Keyser of
Phila., spent Sunday with Mrs. Edith
James.
Mrs. Albert M. Hurff was visiting
relatives in Phila., ON Saturday and
Mr.. Ellsworth Weatherby and fam
lily, of Phila., spent Sunday with
Martin Weatherby and family.
The work. of finishing the road
through the town was commenced
on Tuesday by the County.
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