The Monitor-register., 1897-03-26
NEWS AT THE C0UNTY-SEAT.
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This is the annual moving day, and as
usual a good many families are on the
wing and not a few will sleep in new
homes to. night. 1t is fortunate that they
have such a pleasant day for tearing up
and shifting their bed and board, and it
is to be hoped that all will find their
changed conditions for the better.
Sheriff Westco.t moved into the Jail
building yesterday and ex-Sheriff Wrig-
gins moved to a house on Grant street.
Mayor Gwynne is still enjoying upmo-
Tested the Office to which the City Council
so unexpectedly appointed him last week
and it is more than likely that he is
secure in it's tenure until the next munic.
ipal election, when the people will again
have a say as to who shall fill the posi-
ton. Mr.. Gwynne is likely to make a char
acteristic Mayor, and he has ample
opportunity to exercise his executive
ability. Somebody asked him soon after
his appointment about the condition OF
/ the streets, and, with his usual suavity,
he replied, "Oh, we'll have them all
macadamizsd within a year." He might
lengthen the time a little and then immor-
talize his NAME.
Rev. George Thompson. pastor OF the
Fourth M. E. Church, Mill vile, and son
of Rev. J. R. Thompson, of this city, has
obtained a good deal of newspaper motor
iety because of a course of sermons he
preached on the morality of clubroom
life in that city. II was represented at
the time that he stirred up a hornets
nest, but this was no doubt largely exag-
gerated, as now proves to be the state.
ment made the first of the week of a
stormy session of the official board of the
church on Monday night, and the pres
ence of policemen to prevent bodily harm
being done him. Mr.. Thompson has
written a letter in explanation, which
gives the truth of the whole matter. He
says: "Ths statement appearing in the
Philadelphia papers, Of the Gath instant,
that 1 have apologized for my sermons
against Millville clublooms is false.
First, l never preached a sermon con-
| corning the morality of Millville. l did
preach two sermons upon 'Millville Club.
| rooms and the Effects Second. The
statement that l a pologized to the Official
Board of the Fourth Methodist Episcopal
Church on the 22d inst. for preaching
those sermons is absolutely untrue. The
Official Board meeting of the 22d instant
was a purely business meeting of the
church, and l made no apology whatso-
ever for any sermon that I have preached.
1 hooe not, and do not, apologies for my
sermons preached against Millville club
rooms"
the Quaker City Band has been en-.
gagged by the Epworth League of the
Broadway M. E. Church to give a concert
in the church on Thursday evening,
April 9Th.
The ice cream plant of W. D. Griscom
will be sold next Saturday by Receiver
billiard. This is a rare opportunity for
some enterprising man, and we under
stand there are several likely buyers.
Sallie Munyon, of Palatine. who, but a
little while ago, was in the tolls of the
law here for an alleged abortion case, bas
just been arrested and bound over before
the Cumberland county authorities to
answer a similar charge. 1t is hoped she
may be caught this time.
The hearing in the caveat filed against
the will of Mayhem Sparks, late OF
Sharptown, was begun before Judge Sim
nickson yesterday, and the COUNSEL.
W. Acton for the caveators and w. T.
Hilliard for the executor, Peter Sparks,
will sum up on Monday. The contention
is that the testator was of unsound
mind when he added a codicil making
Peter Sparks his executor.