The Monitor-register., 1896-07-24
n uIl1ca Hill.


Miss Rachel Davies is visiting friends at
Oxford, Pa.
Hope L. Moore is making a visit al
Asbury Park.
Mrs. VIM. Copestick is visiting friends
in Salem county.
Beulah and Hannah Panooast are visit.
ing relatives in Salem.
Lowell D. Ridgway and wife have been
visiting friends at Swedesboro.
Miss Alice Hazleton returned on Mon.
day from visit to Salem county.
Keasbey Panooast and wife, of Camden
are guests of DR.. ID. p. Pancoast.
Mrs. Romig returned on Monday from
visit to her parents in Pennsylvania.
Mortimer Ware and family, of Auburn,
were guests of Joseph Evans on Sunday.
District No. II, 1. O. o. F., held their
annual picnic at Aloyon Park on Wednes.
day.
Charles Kain. Jr., and wife, of Phila.
delphia, have been visiting Rev. Charles
Kahn.
Many of our citizens are finding recre.
alton in visiting the various parks in the
county.
The new barber has opened his shop in
the house of Humphrey Fullerton, near
the hotel.
Pastors Davies and Jewett took a cyc-
ling trip to Wissahiokon and Fairmount
Park, Philadelphia, on Tuesday.
The Clarksboro club defeated the homo
club in game of base ball on Saturday
afternoon by SCORE of 10 too.
The Changers of Gloucester county
will hold their annual picnic at Aleyon
Park on the first of next month.
Mrs Rachel Horner has fine garden,
from which she has gathered sweet corn
OF the best variety for more than a week
past.
Presiding Elder Harris will preach in
the M. E. Church on Sunday morning
and administer the Sacrament of the
Lords Supper.
The tomato crop has not been a sue.
cess, owing to frequent rains and scorch
ing suns, while melon and citron plants
have succumbed to insect pests.
The NJ. e. Sunday school has deferred
the annual picnic until next month. then
1t is proposed to hold it at Alcyon Park.
the favorite resort for Sunday schools.
Those who have exoelled heretofore in
the cultivation of the favori.e sweet pea
complain that 1t has been a failure this
season, probably on account of too muoh
rain.
Members of the Christian Epdeayor
Society enjoy the holding of their Sunday
evening services on the lawn In the rear
of the church These meetings are well
attended and an uplift to all present.
The Baptist Sunday school enjoyed
their summer outing at Cedar Grove
to day, q spot, which in all its pristine
loveliness, with only natures attractions
to divert, is a most innocent, inexpensive
and restful place.
The lawn social held by the Ladies'
Aid Society of the Baptist Church, on
Thursday evening, proved a delightful
and successful affair. Much credit is due
the ladies who displayed SO much taste
in arranging for the pleasure and comfort
OF their guests.
This locality is blessed with a remark
ably fine potato crop, abundant In quan-
tity and unsurpassed in quality. William
Colson has thirty five acres In early ones,
and others approximate; but low prices
seem poor reward for the time
and labor expended in raising the crop.
Deputy G.. G. VIM. Burning installed
the newly.eleeted officers In Mullica Hill
Lodge, No. "a, X. of p, on Thursday
last as follows: P. c., Frank Kier; G. H.,
Michael Melbur; V. G., B. H. Carr; p,
John Pratt; N. at A. Frank Kier; l. G.,
G. Morgan; o. G.. T. B. Williams. On
Monday, the 9th inst, the officers of
Sloan Lodge, at Harrisonville, were
installed, and on Saturday following, the
officers of Viola Lodge, Swedesboro.
The night blooming cactus of the
Misses Pancoast unfoided five matchless
blossoms on Thursday evening, and at
the same time that Of Mrs. Hannah Chat
ham displayed three. Over hundred
persons visited and paid homage to these
beautiful, mysterious blossoms, so rare
and pure. that come but once yearly,
loving darkness better than light, and
lingering but few hours. Surely, 1t
contains valuable lesson for those who
can interpret It's teaching.