News From West Creek, 1930

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New Jersey Courier 31 Oct 1930
George MATHIS and family have moved to Gibbstown where he is employed by the DuPont works.
Mrs. Myrtle FLOMERFELT has returned from a successful tonsil operation.
George M. COX is spending the winter with his grandson Elliott JONES and family at Upper Darby, PA.
Mrs. E.P. Brown and Mrs. Wm. P. RUTTER were delegates from the P.O.S. of A. Lodge to the recent convention in Albany, NY.
Edward HAYWOOD has returned from a trip to Canada. He is now confined to his home with a cold.
Mrs. Betty SHINN and the Misses Mildred JONES and Mildred SHINN were Thursday shoppers in Atlantic City.
Mrs. R.H. GASKILL and Mrs. J.F. BECKER spent last week with relatives in Wenonah and Philadelphia.
Kathryn COPE and James DOWNS have returned to their home in Falsington, PA from a visit with Geo. M. COX in this town.
An evening of song service will be held in the M.E. Church Sunday evening next.
Little Miss Florence REID of Toms River is visiting her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Wm. D. SPRAGUE on Main Street.
Edward and Robert POTTER and Marshall HOLLOWAY were Boy Scout delegates from this town to the annual excursion to Oyster Bay to the tomb of Theodore Roosevelt. The report of the trip made by Marshall HOLLOWAY at the M.E. Sunday School on Sunday last was very interesting.
Miss Sue SALMONS and Mrs. Florence SALMONS were Saturday visitors in Philadelphia and over Sunday visitors with relatives in Trenton, where they were joined by Mr. and Mrs. SALMONS and Milton SALMONS.
Several of our townspeople were Sunday evening visitors at Vineland, to hear Billy Sunday.
Francis GORDON and family are occupying the James DOWNS place.
Miss Esther KELLY of Rider college in Trenton was home for the weekend.
Location: West Creek, Eagleswood, NJ 08092, USA

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