The Monitor-register., 1897-12-17
LOCAL NEWS
1897 is waning.

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Don't forget your Christmas presents.
They were gathering ice this time las t
year.
The question now is, are we to have a
green Christmas?
Presents for Christmas at popular
prices, 5, 10, 10 and S5e,, New Idea Store.
Samuel Fl. Hudson a mill hand of many
years experiences ia driving Webster's
delivery wagon.
A pair of slippers would make a nice
Christmas present. See Frank Wright's
adv. for particulars.
DR.. T.. Fl. Miller has purchased the
Weatherby property, occupied by Asa G.
Pedrick, for $500.
A fine lot of robes and blankets, which
will be sold very cheap as I have a large
lot on hand. At L, B. Wright's.
List Of unclaimed letters remaining in
the post Office for week ending Dec. 18th:
Lydia Bittefs. John CLANCY, Juney
Gorntt, John Harbor, Lizzie Pernell.
A piazza has been erected on the front
of the residence occupied by w. B.
Hitchner, on East avenue, greatly i'm
proving the appearance of the house.
= 1l6 TAIN Ou w OAucb0bJ wal UlO VI Uub
heaviest of the year, and if the quantity
of water has anything to do with it the
springs ought to be pretty we'll filled up
for winter.
Have you thought about sending the
MONITOR REGISTER as q Christmas
present to a distant Woodstown friendP
Some have. They would no doubt
appreciate the gift.
The New Jersey Stats Teachers Asso-
ciation's fortyihnd annual m Getting will
be held in the Normal school Trenton,
on Monday, Tuesday and w ednesday,
Dec. 9th, 29th ann 295h.
W. p. Lippineott, residing on Bowen
avenue, will move his family to Phila-
delphia, TO be more convenient to his
business. The house ne vacates will be
occupied by VIM. Hunt and sisters.
The Edison Projectoscope Co., who
gave such a pleasing exhibition of moving
pictures, etc in the Opera House last
month, win return about the middle of
January. Dateaand particulars will be
announced later.
Extensive alterations and improve
ments are being made at Webster's East
Lake Flower Mis-. New machinery for
th6 manufacturing of roller -four has
ssbsen put in; also new gates and other
sneeded repairs. Mr.. Wolburt, of Elmer,
is doing the WORK.
Our farmer readers will find two
articles on the first page of to-day's issue
of special interest. One is, "What con-
stitutes a Frac5ieai ?armef?" A paper
~sn. by Elmer H. Smith of Salem, at the
recent Farmers Institute, and the other
an article on Beet Suagr Culture in Cali
~fornia, by 81. Fl. Kirby, of Oakland.
This industry ought TO find a foothold in
New Jersey.
Farrar's Life Of St. Paal" has recently
been placed in the Pilesgrove Library.
1t is a valut BILE boob Of reference for Sun
~dasSSn65l teachers and scholars. A
present of a share of Pilesgrove Library
Stock would be an appropriate Christmas
gift for man, wOman or child. 1t does
not cost more b one good book but
gives the privilege of reading many
books. The Library will bs open Christ
mas Day. Shares will be received by the
Librarian.
Adjutaut Escott. of the Salvation
Army, made s flying visit to Woodstown
this morning. The Adjutant is now in
charge of Corps No l, in Philadelphia,
ana Is mdklDR dD tApAb 10 scCuAO o cpu"
~sertina, a prize afforded by headquarters
for the sale IF the largest number of the
Christmas War Org. He wants to sell
two hundred copies of the paper in
Woodstowu, and we have no doubt is
many friends mere will BIO glad to help
him in this undertaking. Any contribu-
lions for this purpose can be left at this
office and the Var Cry will be sent to the
penitentiaries, where Uhey are greatly in
demand.
The Armenian massscrss, in which
over one hundred Thousand innocent
Christians we're slaughtered in cold blood,
have shocked the civilized world. The
real cause of these horrible events will
be wildly portrayed in q lecture to be
given 10 the public school house on Tues
day evening, Dec. 21st, by Rev. Samuel
Melkonyan, of Tarsas, Asia Minor. This
lecture will be illustrated by fifty beauti
fnl stereopticon views with calcium light.
The lecturer will appear in native Co.'S
tunes and during the exhibition of the
pictures will recite from four different
languages of the East, and will close his
lecture with a hymn in the Syrian tongue.
Many novelties and new goods this
Chrrstmas at the tsNaw Tdeav Prices