The Monitor-register., 1896-02-28

Inc Republican caucus meeting was
held on Saturday.
Ollie Pimm, of Camden, was ont Al
church on Sunday.
| Rev. VIM. Blackiston took drive r.
Alloway on Tuesday.
There has been very little blowing done
by the farmers this month.
The boys are again enjoying the skat.
ing on East Lake, which is first class.
We are glad to report Joseph Horner
improving some, so as now to be able to
sit up little.
Some OF our farmers will fat calves this
year III place of selling milk, thinking It
| more profitable.
James Dubois and wife, near Sharp
town, were visitors of William Dubois
and wife on Sunday.
John Riley filled his ioe house on Mon
day, with good quality of ice, of about
four inches in thickness.
Mrs. Wardell Humphreys, of Sharp
town, paid short visit at her sisters,
Mrs. Richard Fox, on Tuesday.
Farmers can now get 85 cents for their
wheat. In consequence, we have to pay
~ cents more per hundred for -four.
Rev. Howard Conover preached on
Sunday morning and evening, in the M.
4. Church, to attentive audiences.
Sweet potatoes are being taken out this
week at $3.50 and $2.75 per barrel. Wal
Ter Parsons got his out on Wednesday,
and Rich. Fox took out bin on Thurs
day.
Horace Givens had one of his buggy
baRtg hAdlu hrnLcu hv
able horse, in the hands of another driver,
rearing and coming in oontact with his
wbeel.
N. R. Wilkinson killed the balance of
his thirty one May pigs on Monday, which
weighed as follows: 298, 266, 1926, 1928,
$40, 304, 245. 292. 2S4, 1922, 1856, 26O, 2SS,
3l6, 246, 284, an average of 2754 lbs.
Mr.. Wilkinson carted his pork to 1horo.
fare, where he received six dollars per
hundred.
AilOway news.
Washington's Birthday passed unno-
ticed here.
The special services still continue In
the Baptist Church.
Town meeting is approaching, but you
would hardly suspect it by the interest
manifested.
Miss Lizzie McQuilton, of Daretown,
spent Sunday in Alloway with her sister,
Mrs. Ellen Shiveler.
The devotional meeting of the Epworth
League next Sunday evening will be led
by Charles P. Corson.
Joseph G.. Stretch and wife, of Woods
town, took spin over to Alloway on
Sunday and spent the day with Mr..
Stretch's parents.
Diament's pond has been again frozen
over, and the skaters have had a merry
time There ice yachts were on the pond
on Friday, one being from Woodstown.
Frank Ale will leave John B Dunham's
farm and go on the farm in Upper Pitts.
grove where the late John Hillman died.
Joseph Smith, Jr., of Huntington, will
go on Dunham's farm.
Edward Roork, who drives onei of
Dupham's butcher wagons, had a runaway
at Yorketown on Saturday. He hitched
his horses, and while absent the horses
brose lose and started off. They ran to
VIM. Robbins farm, where they were
caught. The wagon was somewhat
damaged and one of the horses injured.
On Saturday evening Miss Amanda
Dolbow, daughter of Charles Dolbow,
was astonished at the arrival at her resi-
dence of twenty nine carriages containing
about seventy five of her young friends
from Salem, Upper and Lower Penn's
Neck, Warrington, and other places, who
had come to celebrate her seventeenth
birthday. 1t is needless to say that the
evening was very pleasantly spent and
that the refreshments, of which there
was an abundance. had ample justice
done to them.
James Reeves, who was nearly ninety.
one years old, being the oldest man in the
township, died on Saturday morning. He
had been remarkably hale and hearty
man, and up to within a few months of
his death could be seen at work every
day when the weather permitted. He
was highly respected and loved by all
who knew him, and during his long lite
we do not think he ever made an enemy,
and his death will be sadly felt by all of
our citizens. He had been a consistent
member and a liberal contributor to the
Methodist Church for over fifty years
He was buried in the family burial lot in
the NJ E. Church. yard on Wednesday.
He leaves three daughters, Mrs. Robert
Bell, of Swedesboro; Mrs. Charles D.
Smith, of Monroeville, and Miss Rebecca
Reeves, who has always lived at home.