The Monitor-register., 1897-11-05
LOCAL NEWS.

AOCAA NE WIS.,
Look at the New Idea" stock. New
goods every week.
The cunning season opens next We'd
nesday. The cotton-tails will smell pow
der.
Thos. M. Tice will nave a sale of Ohio
COWS at Deerfeld on Tuesda y next, Nov.
9th.
Four veteran soldiers of the war nave
died in this community within a short
period.
Henry 81. Stepler is making some i'm
provements to his blacksmith shop on
South Main street.
Monday was what might be termed a
rainy day, and perhaps some people
thought 1t rained the next day.
]. B. Youker, of Salem, buyer for
Edison Bros, of New York, took in over
a ton of poultry here IN Tuesday.
The Sidewalk Improvement Company
is increasing in membership every week.
G. French Moore is improving his prop
erty front.
The Salem County Teachers Institute
will be held in the High School building,
Salem, on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, Nov. 10, II and 10.
Young America celebrated Hallowe'en
in high style on Saturday night, distrib-
uting lots of corn and attacking every
defenceless gate within reach.
ELAN Fl itchner has had a brick pave
ment laid in front of his property on
Salem street, and others of that neighbor-
hood are catching the infection.
Gen. Sewell, Superintendent Dayton,
Division Freight agent Coffin and other
railroad officials passed over the road on
Monday to Salem on a tour of inspection.
Mrs. Geo. H. Kirby, who has been at
the University Hospital, Philadelphia,
for three weeks, undergoing an operation
for appendicitis, expects to return home
tomorrow.
Sheriff 'Westcott sold the Empson
Atkinson farm, near the Almshouse, at
public sale, in Salem, on Saturday
afternoon, to DR.. David Wiley, repre-
senting the mortgage, for $1,000.
List of unclaimed letters remaining in
the post office for week end ing Oct. 80:
Miss Hannah NJ. johnson, Mrs. Jane
Moore, William Thomas, William
Temather, Mrs. Susan j. Rider, James
Tharp, Walter Wilson, G. Pierce.
The young people of Compromise Sun.
day-schOol will give a musical on Thurs.
day evening next, Nov. 18th. An inter.
esting program has been arranged, and
talent from both Woodstown and Salem
will assist. The public is cordially in
vited. Admission, Is cents. If stormy,
the following night.
Big corn yields are now in order.
Josiah Humphreys, living on the How ard
Bassett farm, reports 112 bushels to the
acre. He had thirteen acres and the
yield was 400 bushels of shell ed corn by
weight. Farming is not the least pro-
ductive business yet, figured in this
years crops and prices.
A certain Fox after killing ninet p
chickens in one place and another about
town one day last week entered Frank
Mounts poultry yard after dark and
killed seventy five more. Every week
this steel-toothed fellow makes the
feathers fly around somebody's hennery
and the owner pays the price for
what the chappy has done.
The demand for Cream Valley Dairy
bottled milk is still growing, as Mr..
Flitcraft had a record breaker recently,
when he sold in one day three hundred
and ten bottles of milk. This exoedes any
sale in one day since he has been in the
III ouCAhCcc U o RCAIO Va
twenty-three years. 1t shows our citizens
appreciate a good article when put in a
proper package for the
A second meeting of the Warrington
Township Sunday school Association
was held in the Haines Neck M. E.
Church on Thursday night. Rev. Geo.
8. Wendell, of Alloway, President of the
County Association, made an excellent
address. and remarks were added by l..
B. Wright, President of the Township
Association, and County Secretary
Patterson. There was a good attend
ance.
Jacob Howell, while crossing the rail-
road at Fenwick station this morning,
was struck by the engine of the mail
train down, due here about TAO a. m.
The train was about half an hour late,
not leaving Woodstown until after the s
a. m. train up had arrived, which
probably accounts for the accident.
Fortunately the rear part of his wagon
was struck, so that only the vehicle was
damaged.
Last Friday evening Miss Alice Moore
while getting ready to join a masquerade
party was completely surprised herself
by the arrival at her home of the same
company of youthful ~masqueraders who
had come to stay and make the occasion
interesting for Miss Alice. And in this
feature they we're as successful as In
planning the surprise. Merry plays, fol.
lowed by a set out of some good things
to ear and a general nice time generally
made the evening a short one for Miss
Moore and her welcome guests.
A few new and secondhand bicycles
still on hand at Humphreys bicycle
tore will be sold at less than cost,
Prices from So to $50. If you want o
bargain, here is your chance.
PtIesKrOve Township Sunday-schOoI
Convention.
The annual meeting of the Sunday
school Association of Pilesgrove Town.
ship will be held in the Chapel at Yorke.
town, on Thursday evening next, Nov.
18th. Rev. Geo. s. Wendell, County
President, will make an address, and
Miss Lydia Cooper, of Woodstown, will
read a paper on Primary work and give
some illustrations of teaching a lesson.
Addresses may also be expected from
other Sunday school workers. 1t is
hoped every Sunday school in the town
ship will be represented.
Previous to putting in the new 1893
model bicycles, Humphreys will sell his
present stock at less than cost.
Rucklen,s Arn1ca Salve.
The Best Salve In the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores
letter. Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns
and all Skin Eruptions. and positively cures