Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1912-06-06
CLAYTON

Haddonfield,, spent Decoration Day
with Mr.. and Mrs. p X. Dubois.
i Mr.. Coleman, who was taken to
the Allentown Hospital and operated
on for appendicitis, is reported to be
getting along nicely.
! DR.. AShcraft and family, of Null
| lica Hill. were entertained by Mr..
and Mrs. C. Frank FISHER on Decor
alton Day.
Rev. Samuel Sergeant, formerly Of
myra, was here Tuesday afternoon
looking up old friends and ac-
acquaintance.
| Pastor Sour, of the Baptist Church,
has arranged to hold open-air SER
/ vices on the church lawn during the
| hot weather.
Under an order of the court, Re-
| ceiver William Pierce will dispose
of the Moore Bros Glass Works at
public sale. The date of the sale
has not been made known as yeH but
/ it is understood that Mr.. Pierce will
hurry the thing along so as to give
the prospective purchaser sufficient
time to arrange for an early resump-
tion of work.
DR.. c.. Frank FISHER and wife at
tended the Doctors Convention at
Atlantic City Tuesday and Wednes-
day.
Mrs Nicholas Getzinger gave the
members of her Sunday school class
an outing on Saturday at Moores lake
All enjoyed the day and the occasion
very much
The doors of the High School were
thrown wide open Saturday evening
to the people of the town and of the
lower section of the county, who are
interested in the school by reason of
their children enrolled here. The oc-
casion was the grand display of hand
iwork of the students. The exhibits
were highly appreciated and tended
to demonstrate the very efficient work
that is being carried on in our High
School.
l. Harrison and His Band will leave
There the 2Sth of June for Ocean City
kwhere they have engaged to play or
isdiscourse music all summer. This
will make the second summer the
boys have played in Ocean City and
we hope that they acquit themselves
in the same efficient manner and thus
bring home with them the contract
for the season of 1913. ca
Word has just been received here
that Mrs D. Wilson Moore fell in
her home at Denver, COL, and broke
her collar bone.
Beaten to fragile. 1t must be
true, for that is what they all say
Some time ago the Clayton Concert
Band gave minstrel show, not the
first, but the sixth of it's kind, and
you all know the style of the enter
tainment. The ladies of the fire com
pany needed little money in their
treasury, so under the dictatorship
of Mrs Hattie Houck, they gave a
burlesque on Harrison and His Band.
It is mild to just say that it was good.
1t was simply out of sight. Those
women certainly gave the men cards
and spades in doing the minstrel act.
Why Mrs. Fitch, is a wonder She
just carried the audience away and
Floss Steelman, well she just brought
it back again (the audience ] mean).
Every lady in the circle made a good
clean hit | haven't the space to tell
of the different characters but / can
say this much that from beginning to
end the audience was in continued
good humor, and each performer was
at their best and hereafter the boys
will have to go some to get ahead of
the Auxiliary ladies. and then they
will have to go some more, and then
you cant beat the ladies for it can't
be done, so take off your hats, boys,
and admit that yoT are beaten to a
fragile.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Smith
were Decoration Day visitors here.
The pupils of the high school held
their Glass Day exercises in the OPP
era House last evening, and the grad
uation exercises will be held in the
M E. Church this Friday evening.
There are four High School graduates
this year.
/ don't think that in the history of
Clayton we ever had such Decoration
Day services as his year. To begin
with the day was ideal and the town
was astir bright and early. Services
were held in the afternoon. The
parade formed at the Opera House at
2 o'clock and was led by the Glouces-
ter City Fife and Drum Corps. In
line were the old soldiers (and there
are only thirteen left, the firemen,
the Jersey Blue Guards, who fired the
statutes over the graves of departed
soldiers, the, Boy Scouts (they carried
an iramense American fag), about
100 little girls dressed in white and
carrying huge bouquets. Following
these came large number of car
riages and automobiles. After the
services at the cemetery, the people
returned to the Opra House and lis
tened to an address by G.. B. Whit
ton, also DR.. Ogden, and singing by
double quartette. In the meantime
the ladies had prepared supper for
the old soldiers their wives and wild
ows, which was very pleasing to them.
Taking everything in account we had
a great day. and we sincerely hope
that the good work will be kept up
from Decoration to Decoration
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CATCHING Wild Ducks In England.