Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-05-09
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The series of May meetings which
have been arranged for ait the First
M. e. Church will begin tonight
(Thursday.) The pastor will be as
sisted at these meetings by num-
Der of well known ministers from the
New Jersey Conference The meet
ings will continue until May 18th.
Rev. Mr. Harris has announced the
following speakers: Tonight, May 8,
Rev. j. L.. Surtees; Friday, May 10,
Rev. G. G.. Sensor; Sunday evening,
May IL, the pastor; Monday 13, Rev.
IL. j. Messler; Tuesday, IA, Rev. J..
W. Lee; Wednesday, Is, Rev. J. r.
Mason; Thursday, 16, Rev. Thomas
Ogie; Friday, II, Rev. L. r. Baus-
man; Sunday, 10, Rev. Mr.. Harris.
The public is invited to all of these
services and will receive most cor
dial welcome.
Everett Buck, the young son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Buck, of Main street,
while playing on the veranda at the
home of DR.. ,Stultz, on Friday, fell
and broke an arm. DIR. Duffield set
the broken member and Everett is
doing very nicely at this writing.
I The new ice cream factory of VIM.
sCarney's is about completed The
fengine and all the machinery has
Ibeen installed and Mr.. Carney in
tends to start his plant in operation
ION Friday of this week. az
Ground has been broken for the
new home of Clifford Smith, which
is to be erected on North Broad st.
Prof. r. Franklin Rush, who has
been quite sick at his home on Broad
street, is much better at this writing.
This community learned with much
regret of the death of Thomas Bor-
ton, who died very suddenly at his
home, at Mullica Hill, on Monday,
from rheumatism of the heart. Mr..
Borton was we'll known to many of
our townsfolks, and was for many
years assessor of Harrison township
and at the time of his death was
vice-president of the Farmers Nation
al Bank of Mullica Hill, and treas
urer of the electric light and water
plant at AIullica Hill. 4
J.. Leon Barton, F.. NJ. Porterfield
A. G. Stewart, Jr., H. B. Krouse
and w. l.. Dunham have been ap-
pointed by the Glassboro Fire Co.
to draft "a new set of bylaws for
the government of the company.
Miss Elizabeth Kirby. of Mullica
Hill, and Miss Katherine Wilkans, of
Pitnan, will be valedictorian and
salutatorian respectively, of the
graduating class of the local high
school The annual class day ex-
ercises of the class will be held on
Monday evening, June 3rd, and the
commen cement will be held on We'd
nesday, June 5th.
/, The prospects for a heavy apple
icrop in South Jersey is unusually
good this year. The bloom at pres
ent is tremendous and the outlook, is
by far the most favorable in years,
Whitney Glass Works are about to
lerect a new ware shed in the rear
aof factory No. 8, at their works.
lIThey have now six Owen automatic
Jmachines in operation and another
one will be installed very seon.fSf1
Quite number of ladies from here
attended the Spring Conference of
the County w. c.. T. U. held at
Thorofare, on Thursday last.
1t is expected that a large num-
Der of Episcopalians from here will
attend the Thanksgiving service at
Pitnan on next Thursday May 16,
when the Chapel of the Good Shep-
herd, at that place, will be formally
opened.
like Johnson of Bavalone, l.. L.,
former Glassboro boy, was calling
on friends here ON Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. w. Hoy, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. L. Gay, and Hugh Hoy were
at Wilmington, Del, on Sunday, MAX
ing the trip in Mr. Hoys auto.
Mr.. and Mrs. William EVAN and
family of Nlillville, were guests of
Mr.. Ewan's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Evan, over Sunday
Frank StackenwaH, who has been
at Jacksonville, Fla, and New Or
leans, during the past year, has re-
turned home.