The Monitor-register., 1896-10-30
LOCAL n E WIS.
Next Tuesday tells tie tale.

cunning notices for sale at this office
Quail are reported to be plentiful tn ID
fall.
Tomorrow is Flag Day. Put out the
national cOlors.
We must be having Indian summer.
How delightful 1t is.
The gunners are anxiously waiting for
the rabbit season to open.
The country will be full of II told you
so" people on Wednesday.
The campaign parades have been COD
spicuous by their absence thus far.
Joseph Macaltioner is trimming the
large naples around his residence.
G. French Moore is making some i'm.
provements upon the dwelling house at
his farm.
Be sure that your name is on the
registry list if you want to vote next
Tuesday.
Snelbaker Bros. have contracted to
place one hundred aud fifty headstones
in the Friends Cemetery
Miss Rebecca Austin has one of the
finest collections Of cLrysanthemums to
be fou nd IN this SECTION.
Rev. J. T. Craig will address a meet
ing TO night in the Opera House in favor
of the cause of sound money.
The regular monthly gospel temper
ance meeting will be held III the Baptlst
Church on Sunday evening at = O'CLOCK.
Manager Carr's Colts last Saturday
beat the Bacon Academy Boys by score
of % 60 2. They play again on Nov. 7th.
Some of our residents are complaining
about their water supply giving out 1t
is rather late III the season TO have dry
wells.
List of unclaimed letters remaining in
the post Office for week ending Oct. gath
William Pollard, Cera Frostie, Mrs. Mary
Smith.
Mrs. Robert Darlington will have a
sale of household goods at her residence,
on Creamery avenue, this afternoon. On
Monday the family will move to West
vile.
Reeves Flitcraft's new milk wagon will
be seen on our streets shortly. IL Is no"
at the wareroom Of SEepler q Schooig,
and is handsome vehicle.
1T is said that if Bryan is elected next
Tuesday all the banks in the country Will
he closed four months from the day ne
lakes tae chair. Don't shoot.
Some parties about town have been
missing their finest chrysanthemums OF
late. If those who are helping them.
selves are not careful they may De invi0eo
10 a chrysan themum show at the mayor
Office.
Franklin Dye, Secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture, mas issued the list
of farmers Institutes to be held through.
out the State this fall and winter. Those
In this vicinity are: Elmer, Nov. 10,
three sessions; Woodstown, Nov. IL and
18,fve sess ions; Mullica Hill, Nov. IL
and 20, five sessions; Haddonfield, NOV.
30 and 81, three sessions.
Davenport Bros. are introducing to the
people in this community their A-kay
Egg Tester. 1t is handy device and
will no doubt have large sale among
those in the chicken business, as the con
ditiou of an egg can be told at glance,
and the price OF the tester can be made
in a short time by saving the lnfertile
eggs before they are spoiled oy the hatcn
ing process. The tester Is the invention
OF l, L. Davenport, and is sold for 20
cents.
Joseph Dorrell, who left here on Mon
day for the deer hunting grounds in Cape
NAV and Cum berland counties, bagged
young doe, weighing about 100 pounds
which he sent home and was viewed by a
nunber of people at Dunham's butcher
shop on Wednesday. Word has been
received from DR.. Bignell, who is with
party in that section, that they killed 9
forked horn buck that weighed over 2OU
pounds. 1t is said to be the largest that
has been killed in those parts for years.
1t is an event in the mercantile history
of this country that is passing before the
eyes of the people of Philadelphia just
now in the sale of the assigned stocks OF
Hilton, Hughes g. Co., who occupied
close relations TO the property and bust
ness of A. I. Stewart & Co., of New
York. The successorship of this old
concern, the greatest of all American
business enterprises of q mercantile
character, has passed over to John w lana.
maker, Who is now moving over to Phila.
delphia and selling off the assie NED
stocks of the great New York store pre-
paratory to the reopening of the A. T
Stewart structure at Broadway anc
Tenth street, New York. These ar,
great underJakings-the disposal of tn,
present stock and the reoonstructing o
the New York business.
That part of the Friends cemetery, il
which the dead are buried in rows, il
undergoing great transformation. Tn
committee having charge of the ground
have decided to grade or level down 81
the mounds aud place the foot stone
close against the large stone at the heat
of the graves marked by relatives of tn
deceased. One hundred and fiftv small
plain head stones, of uniform size hav
been ordered, TO be fixed at the graves O
persons which have never been marked
by stone of any kind. The new stone
will bear only the namber OF the grav
aud the initials of the deceased, A fe'
of the foot stones will be re lettered an
put at graves never before marked, bu
this will be done only by persons wisnin
them changed, and at their own expense
Nearly all the ornamental trees an
bushes have been cut away. Charlie
Davis and Charles Peterson, the sexton
are doing the work, and when it is RI
ished the appearance OF the grounds wi
be greatly improved.