The Monitor-register., 1897-10-22
LOCAL NEWS.


Halloween falls on Sunday night this
year..
Geo. M. Andrews has a very fine dis
play Of chrysanthemums.
For a line of ~laundered and unlaund cred
white shirts, Grier 81 Boone have the
finest line.
Candidates Crispen and Plummer were
in town on Wednesday shaking hands
with the voters.
Geo. G. Waddington sold twenty-oue
COWS at his sale on Wednesday at an
average price Of $4790.
Weather Prophet Deyoe PREDICTS a ter
rible cyclone along the Atlantic coast
from Oct. 26th to 296h, with now in New
England.
M. Eskin, the taller, has sold his
business to a man from Bridgeton, and
gone to Philadelphia to accept a situa-
ton.
Thomas NJ. Tice advertises a sale of
high-bred Kentucky cattle at his farm at
Deerfield, on Monday next, Got. 25th.
See his adv.
Howard Harris adyertisss q sale of
cattle at Edward Austin's farm, near the
County House, on Wednesday, Oct. 9th.
See his adv.
M. d. Dickinson has had a concrete
pavement laid in front of his residence
on West avenue. Fl. E. Pine, of Wood
bury, did the work.
Howard G. Cooper, of Oldmans town
ship, has sold his farm, near Pedrick-
town, to Elizabeth B. Lippincott, and
will engage in other business.
The Stevens A. A failed to make their
appearance on Saturday and a nine COM
posed of Swedesboro players defeated
the home club by a SCORE of 10 to Z.
Thos. II. Bowen, Of Bridgeton. who
recently purchased the jewelry store of
r. F. Smith, has closed out the goods
and fixtures at auction and left town.
A letter from Rev. Jesse Stiles, of
Bordentown, that he has re-
covered from bis recent illness and Is
again attending to his pastoral duties.
M. l.. Shrotes, of Philadelphia, will
have a sale of fresh COWS at the hotel
yard Of Samuel French, Woodstown, on
Monday next, Oct. 25th. Consult his
adv. for particulars.
Our cent. a.word column is popular
with transient advertisers. Ii you have
anything to sell, or van anything, it
meets the eye of the reader at once and
brings results.
The rain on Wednesday was a welcome
visitant for those farmers who have been
belated with wheat sowing. 1t came
very gentle, and will help the wheat to
get a start before winter sets in.
Jas. Lloyd, of Pennsgrove, is entitled
to be termed the veteran corn husker OF
the county. He is husking corn for
Assemblyman Crispen this fall for the
twenty-second consecutive year.
The Young Friends Association will
hold a meeting in Friends Meeting
house on the evening of the 26th inst,
to be addressed by Isaac H. Clothier, of
Philadelphia, on the "Life of Paul"
list of unclaimed letters remaining in
the post office for week ending Dot. 10th:
w. Il. Churchill, Chas. l. Garrison,
Allen P. Howard, Anna M. johnson,
Mrs. John McKeever, Thomas q. Taylor,
Estelle White.
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Edward Duffy, living in the upper end
of the town. had sixty-six chickens
stolen on Tuesday night. The thieves
carried the coops some distance away
and then emptied them, taking both old
and Young fowls, not leaving SO much as
a feather to tell the tale.
The musical given by the Mercy and
HELM Department. of the Epworth League,
At the residence of Samuel Webster, on
last Friday evening, was a gratifying
snceess. about SO being realized. John
q. Moore, of Pennsville, assisted in the
exercises with his g~raphophone.
Charles Peterson, while engaged in
cleaning out a we'll at Charles Hewitt's
on Saturday, had the misfortune to re-
oeiye a fall which shook him up and
bruised him considerably. He was being
drawn from the well when the chain
broke, allo wing him to fall to the bottom.
Collector Butcher, of the First New
Jersey Internal Revenue District, has
appointed Charles K. McPher son as Chief
Deputy Internal Revenue Collector to
succeed FL. M. Royal, resigned. Mr..
MCPHERSON was the Chief Deputy under
the former administration of Mr.. Moffett.
The next regular quarterly meeting of
the Salem County Board Of Agriculture
will be held in the Grange Hall, at
Friesburg, on Wednesday next, the 9th,
at ]. 80 p. m. Prof. Voorhees, will address
the meeting. Subject, "The Making and
Using of Home Manures." Papers on
poultry raising and pear culture will be
presented.
A colored man employed by Richard
L. Layton, near Woodstown, was arrested
by Marshal Seagrsves early OF Wednes
day morning, on the order of Prosecutor
Acton, and brought to Woodstown on
suspicion of his being murderer Hill, but
when Constable Carney saw him be
readily discovered the mistake and the
man was released.
On a az of $50, made on Tuesday,
Peter Callahan, Jr., of Warrington, was
to husk five loads of corn, or 200 bushels
from 6 O'Clock in the morning to q al
night, and not stop to eat dinner. ID
won the bet by husking $50 bushels, hi
limit Of five loads being husked by
O'Clock in the afternoon. He also tool
time to eat his dinner.
On Dot. 9th, while Herbert Gaunt wa
Smelling corn, he caught W OF TIN
fingers of his right hand in the Coz
wheels, causing liberation, and the los
of both nails. He is now doing well
On Monday afternoon a somewhat simila
accident happened to Frank Driver, Jr.
near Mullica Hill. While huiling wal
nuts with a corn shelter he caught tn
thumb OF his right hand in the CO.
wheels, causing a painful though no
eerfous liberation,