The Monitor-register., 1896-05-29
LOCAL NEWS.
Decorate the graves to morrow.

1Straw berries are plenty and cheap.
Cyclers will ride in the streets aftel
Sunday.
There will be a light hay crop this
summer.
Some of the gardens look fac, but they
need rain badly.
A good, soaking rain would be beDe.
fetal just now.
Strawberries have taken tho place of
the toothsome shad.
The post office will be closed to MORO W
from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m.
Bicycle races and base bali at the Ball
Park tomorrow afternoon.
Mrs. King, an aged widow, was taker
to the Almshouse this week.
Tomorrow is Memorial Day. Let it
be worthily observed, in memory OF the
heroes of '65.
The bicycle ordinance takes effect next
Monday. Bicyclers should govern them
selves accordingly.
Herbert Gaunt, living on the Gilman
farm. had a COW to die the other DAY from
some unknown cause.
The w. G. T. u, beginning with next
Wednesday afternoon, will meet at 3 81
0nTIlO LItt mn mum
Geo. M. Andrews has completed the
census of school children in Woodstown,
and reports the number at 400.
The weather has been hot and cold this
week. no doubt affected by the terrible
cyclones tina { have ragged out West.
There are four Germa carp, several
terrapiu and a lot of minnows in the
fountain, which attract a great deal OF
attention.
i B. Wright will have q large sale OF
carriages and wagons on Wednesday,
June Gath. Lookout for large posters fol
particulars.
One of our wheelmen run into a cow
on Sunday. His wheel is now getting
repaired, but the COW is doing business al
at the same old stand.
List of unclaimed letters remaining in
the post office for week ending May 22nd
Mr.. Aron Carter. Mrs. Mary b. Cook,
Miss Mary Francy.
P. w. Wallace and F. B. Peterson
eau ght forty pike in the Dealtown pono
on Monday. Large quantities of tina
fish are being caught there now.
The Ladies' Aid Society will hold a
strawberry festival in the MONITOR
REGISTER block on Saturday Afternoon
and evening. Ice cream, cakes and
straw berries.
Isaac X. Lippincott is having his
potatoes planted by Gaunt's pateni
dipper. Samuel Ridgway owns The
Machine and his mau is doing the work
for Mr.. %Lippincott.
Harry Davis caught a drum fish al
Ocean City, where he is now working, or
Friday last that weighed twenty pounds
He and George M. Foster brought it
home on Saturday night.
Decoration Day exercises will take
place at the public school this afternoon
TO which the public is invited. An address
will be made by W. P. Haines, the
''ighting Quaker" of Mickleton.
Samuel Carney, while engaged at the
raising Of the new barn at ALFRED
McAllister, near Sharptown, on Satur
Day, had his right foot injured by a piece
OF timber falling on it, SO that he il
obliged to walk with crutches.
The Compromise Sunday. school will
hold a straw berry festival in the school
house in Warrington, on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings next, June Sd and 4rh
A general invitation is extended the nuh.
lie to attend, and thus aid the school.
Stacy Kirby, a farmer on the Anh,rv
road, has been very much annoyed latal,
by the foxes that burrow in the hillside,
nearby. They have become so bold as t.
venture out in the day time and take his
setting hens from the nests. Recently he
traced them to their burrowing places
where he found the remains of poultry II
abundance. Here he set some large ottel
traps and in spite Of Reynard's cunning
he succeeded in catching two old one
and two young ones.
The eight O'Clock train up yesterda,
morning struck a woman at GloucesteI
City station, and killed her. Enginee
Kennedy was running about fifty mile
an hour, and as he approached Glouceste
City he saw a person on the platform. al
i making an attempt to cross the tracks
He at once whistled, when the woman
apparently heard the whistle, but being
bewildered perhaps, looked up the track
and then stepped down from the platform
Just in front of the engine. She was Gu
literally to pieces. The train wa
stopped, and parts of the body and cloth
ing we're strewn along the track for hal
mile, and parts found on the engine
Inc woman, as it was ascertained. wa,
the wife of Alex. Harvey.