The Penn's Grove record., 1923-07-20
WOODSTOWN

Prof. E. Reeves Hitchner, Of Ban
gor, Maine, is spending the summer
at home, in WoodstOwn.
Miss Helen Sharp has returned
home after visiting her cousins, Nh.
and Mrs. John Weber, in Bayonne.
Mrs. Frank Ridgway is spending
some time in the Pocono Mountains
Postmaster Ridgway has joined
her.
Mr.. and Mrs. LeGrand virgins
will return this weekend after having
spent an enjoyable ten days at Avon
by-the-Sea.
Mrs. Annie Flitcraft and Miss Sarah
Pancoast have been entertaining
their brother, DIR. Omar Pancoast, of
Baltimore.
Miss Lavinia Reed, of Baltimore,
who has been a visiting teacher in
Rochester, New York, is spending her
vacation with her mother, Mrs. How
ard Reed, in Woodstown.
Mrs. Howard Harris has returned
home after a most pleasant stay in
Ocean City.
Miss Frances Borton, of Norris
town, is the guest of her grandmother,
Mrs. Mary Fogg.
Franklin Flitcraft will conduct his
annual popular excursion to Betterton,
Nd, on Thursday, August %. The
steamer Lord Baltimore will leave
Penns Grove at $50 A. NJ, standard
time, and return the following day.
Prof. J.. S. McCurdy and family
will leave about August first to as
sumo his new duties as supervisor of
public schools at Matawan.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Waddington
have gone to their new cottage, at
Seaside Park, to spend a month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Flitcraft, on
East Avenue, have been entertaining
the Misses Ida Matlack and Jessie
Cogswell, of Pasadena, Cal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Turner and
son, Edward, have returned home
> after a pleasant week spent in Wild
wood.
Beauty specialists are preparing to
an entrant for the Atlantic City
beauty parade.
The annual picnic of st. Joseph's
Catholic Church will be held on the
Church lawn, Broad Street, Woods
town, on Wednesday evening, August
list. A chicken supper and other re-
freshments will be served, followed by
dancing. The proceeds will go to-
wards the benefit of the Church.
Mrs. John P. Leap has been enter
tanning her sisters, Mrs. Kate Mcln-
tyre, of Erie, Pa, and Mrs. Carrie
Abel, of Catskill, N. Y.
Joseph Howey's new bungalow is
nearing completion, on North Main
Street.
Miss Helen Gaunt, who has been
teaching at Weehawken, is spending
the summer with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Gaunt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joel Borton are spend
ing the week at Asbury Park.
Woodstown post office has recently
come under the second class rating
which has effected a big improvement
in service by having the delivery win
dow at all times.
Rev. Omar Goslin, a former Woods
town boy, preached in the Baptist
Church last Sunday, where he was a
Sunday School scholar. His parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas S. Goslin.
moved from here to Wildwood. After
being graduated from the University
of Pennsylvania he studied at Crozier
Theological Seminary and Cambridge,
England. He was ordained a Baptist
minister in Wildwood Baptist Church
July 18th, and will teach in a theo-
logical seminary in California.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph A. Cobb, of
Rochester, N. Y, former residents,
are visiting relatives here. Mrs. Cobb
was Miss Vida Lippincott. He has
been with the Curtis Canning Com
pany since leaving Woodstown.
Some old friends visited Benz. Pat
t~erson, in jefferson Hospital, Philadel-
phia, last week, and found him re-
covering from a broken leg and
shoulder, caused by being run down
by an automobile some weeks ago.
Flowers from the NJ. E.Sunday School,
of which he was superintendent for
several years, were appreciated.
Samuel French has accepted a posi-
ton with the Farmers Exchange.
DR.. Elan Hitchner, dentist, and
family, moved last Saturday from
Swedesboro into the Hitchner home
stead, on East Avenue.
Mrs. William c. DeGrofft and
daughter, Phyllis, are spending a
month at Wildwood.
Misses Ella Carson, Lillian Brad
way and Elizabeth Stephens are
spending a week at Camp Yowockas-
ka, near Clayton.