GLOUCESTER LOCAL HAPPENINGS, GLOUCESTER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

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From the  Jan 16, 1940 edition of this paper (I only have the front/back of the front
page)

Under "Local Happenings"

Rev and Mrs. Gordon Robertson and daughter Rachel were dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Booker on Fri evening.

Mrs. Arthur Bastow entered the Presbertian Hospital in Philadelphia on Sat for treatment of a
knee injury which she received in a fall some time ago.

Mrs. Samuel Katz spent last week in New York visiting relatives.

William Gant is enjoying a motor trip through the South.

Mrs. Bertha Odgen is spending some time in Bridgeton, owing to the illness of her mother, Mrs.
Fitch.

William Weinstein and family have moved from the Snyder property on Clinton Street to the Coles
property on S. Delsea Drive.  Horace Snyder and family are occupying the property vacated by
Mr. Weinstein.

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Turner attended the wedding of the latter's cousin, DR Norman William
Garwood and Miss Hilda Hardman at St. Joseph's  Episcopal church, Trenton at 12 o'clock noon,
Thursday.  A wedding breakfast and reception followed.

Mrs. Frank Cassady is recovering from an attack of quinsy.

Mrs. Frank Myers entertained the members of her bridge club at her home on Friday evening.

Mrs. Metta Taggart of Haddonfield, formerly of Clayton, is seriously ill with pneumonia.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Geer of Newport, RI were guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gear on Friday
evening.

Mr. D. L.  Silver returned, on Monday, from a business trip to Chicago.

Mrs. Paul  Shaerer attended the meeting of the Women's Home Missionary Society at the home of
Mrs. Ruth Simmermon of Williamstown, on Thurs evening.

Joseph Nelson, who was taken to the Cooper Hospital last Thursday morning for an appendicitis
operation is recovering nicely.

Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hoffman and Mr. and Mrs. Vermont Frie motored to Port Norris, on Sunday
afternoon

ENTERTAIN SATURDAY EVENING

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dennis entertained the following guest at their home on Saturday evening;
Mr. and Mrs. J Earl Chew, Miss Jane Chew, Miss Mary Louise Wolfe of Seaside Park, Mr. William
Nowicki, of Schenectady NY and Mr. Harvey Thompson, of Ft Monmouth.  ( my own note...Jane Chew
eventually married  William Nowicki and Mary Louise Wolf married  Harvey Thompson)

SEWING CIRCLE TO HOLD COVERED DISH LUNCHEON

The members of the Presbyterian Sewing Circle will have a covered dish luncheon at the home of
Mrs. Martha Nelson on North Delsea Drive on Thursday, Jan 25 at 1 o'clock.

ENTERTAINS AT BRIDGE

Mrs. Almarine Woodruff entertained the following guest at fridge on Monday evening.  Mrs. D. L.
Silver, Mrs. Edson Fitch, Mrs. Harold Leddon, Mrs. Carlton Brown, Mrs. Mulford Crane, Mrs.
Chester Steelman and Miss Katherine Smith of Woodbury.

OBITUARY

Benjamin Nowac, age 55 years, of East Greenwich Township, passed away on Friday, Jan 12.
Funeral services were held at the home of his brother Ferdinand Nowac, on South Main St. in
Williamstown on Monday Jan 15, at 8 A.M. Solomon High Mass was held at St. Mary's Church at 9
A.M. Interment was made at St. Mary's Cemetery.

He is survived by his brother and several nephews.  The funeral was in charge of J. Harvey
Hartman.

Mrs. Bertha Mae Hunter

Funeral services for Mrs. Bertha Mae Hunter, nee Bachelor, wife of Charles h Hunter, who died
on Saturday at her home in Mantua were held from her late residence, on Wednesday at two
o'clock.

Mrs. Hunter was 63 years old and was born in Clayton.  Interment was made in Cedar Green
cemetery in Clayton.