The Monitor-register., 1896-08-21

Joseph Cole is quite sick, at this writ.
ing.
Miss Luella Pancoast is visiting her sis.
ter at Trenton.
Miss Pauline Moore is visiting her
brother at HuIffville.,
Mrs. Charles Rover, of Camden, is the
guest of Mrs. Romig.
Walter Adams and wife we're in town
on Monday evening.
Mrs. James Benezst has been quite
sick, but is improving.
William Copestick, of the Union store,
is taking weeks vacation.
Miss Nettie Welch, of Clayton, is the
guest of Miss Anna Iredell.
Clark Tomlin, of Woodbury., has been
visiting friends here this week.
Aaron Ridgway was in town on Thurs.
day, after many weeks of illness.
Mrs. Lillian Johnson, of Shamokin,
Pa, is the guest of E. r. Chatham.
Jonathan Colson attended the funeral
of his brother, Asa Colson, on Monday.
Mrs. Sarah johnson, of Florida, visited
her nephew, Joseph Evans, last week.
Thomas Brown has returned, to make
his home in the family of George Cole.
Mrs. Lizzie Ridgway and children are
guests of her parents, Thomas and Auna
Borton.
William Turner, of Millville, has been
renewing old acquaintances here for few
days past.
Quite a number of our citizens have
gone to attend the Swarthmore Conference
now in session.
Edward Perrine and daughter Emma,
of Philadelphia, have been visiting the
Misses Wallace.
L. D. Ridgway and wife spent Sun
day with Charles Wilkinson and wife,
near Swedesboro.
Herbert Tucker, of South Jersey Insti-
tute, BridgetoD, preached in the Baptist
Church on Sunday evening.
The local showers and cooler weather
following were truly grateful after the
intense heat which preceded them.
The second Bell telephone placed in the
residence of Rudolph Benezet, connecting
it with his store, has proven very satisfac.
tory
Potatoes were selling at seventy-five
cents per barrel, the first of the week, but
are bringing eighty-five and ninety at our
depot, at this date.
Charles 2. Shute, one of our well
known and most respected citizens, died
on Sunday after lingering and painful
illness. The funeral took place from his
residence on Wednesday.
Misses Lou and Hulda Allies, Miss
Mamie Stone, and Oscar Allies, of Wood
bury, have been visiting Mrs. W. s.
Ridgway and Mrs. e. Grimshaw, max
ing the trip on their wheels.
John Ballinger has purchased the water
melon patch of Michael Costello, for four
hundred dollars. The scarcity of that
cooling fruit was much felt during the
hot weather of the past two weeks.
The friends and acquaintances of Mr..
and M rs. Asa Moore express sincere sym
pathy for them, in the sudden d ,ath Of
their Interesting little son Ralph, whose
burial took place on Saturday morning.
Burglars have again infested our town
with their depredations. On Sunday
night at midnight they entered the barn
of Chas. Fullerton, taking hack wagon
and harness. The horse being locked in
the stable. they went to the barn of
Samuel Ashcraft and selected a horse
belonging TO Walter Evans, which they
hitched to the wagon and drove away.
The toll gate keeper at Mantua, as they
passed through his gate, noticed only
that the wagon contained d man and
woman. At North Woodbury. the gate
keeper observed that the team took the
trolley course instead of passing through
the gate. No further clue has been OBJ
tanned, but detectives have been employed