The Monitor-register., 1897-02-19
LOCAL N EWS.
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The frost is about out of the ground.
The ground hog evidently lost his
reckoning.
Now is the time to plant your spring
advertisement.
George W. Crothers has fine lot of
horses to sell tomorrow.
Samuel G. Bortoa purchased at private
sale the Jacob j. Moore farm at Mullica
Hill.
The foe weather makes the early
gardener feel like getting out his spade
and rake.
The roads have been a mortar bed of
late, but with good weather they will
soon dry up.
l. L. Davenport yesterday moved into
the house vacated by ThOs. U. Clark, on
Auburn street.
L. B. Wright is stocking up with bug
gies and Wagons for the spring trade.
Give him q call.
Aaron Cole is making some repairs to
his saw mill. Machinist E. G. Haines is
doing the work.
The weather has a real springlike
appearance. 1t is all right if March has
no Oll2z&fd up ilS sleeve.
The scrapar was. put on the streets
yesterday, aud the mud scraped up. 1t
will help them to dry off.
Contractor Goslin is putting bulk
window in the MoAllister house, South
Main street, where he resides.
Gottleib Brown, an aged resident,
dropped dead this morning while in the
yard at his home on Salem street.
How much easier it is for people to
speak OF the evil person has done and
the mistakes he has made, than to praise
The good qualities he msy have.
Harmony Council, No. SO, American
Mechanics, will celebrate Washington's g
Birthday, in their council room, next
Monday night, with appropriate exercises
Martin Carney has rented the John
Wallace farm and will move there in the
spring. Mr.. Wallace will occupy the
house where Mrs. Fillmore Gaunt now
resides.
A general bicycle store in Woodstown
with practical aud experienced
mechanic ia that branch of business, is
in contemplation by one of onr enterpris-
ing business men.
List of unclaimed letters remaining in
the post office for week ending Feb. IS:
Jas. Jacoby, Mrs. Annie Kick, William
Montcue, Mrs. Henrietta Simpson, 2;
Mrs. K. H. Steward, Mrs. Jane DuNham.
Asa L. Colson, who is to take charge
of Davis & Lippineott's mill, will move
here on Saturday, occupying the house
Just vacated by l. L. Davenport. Paul
McAllister moves the same day to the
Colson farm.
- W. H. Rogers sold over ons hundred
barrels of apples at Ghe station on Sat ur-
day afternoon, at an average price OF
81 go a barrel, some selling as high as
$1S0 barrel. The bidders seemed to be
hungry for apples.
Some of our young men are anxious
to organize Young Mems Christian
Association, and the field is being looked
ov ,r as to the prospects for such move
The matter is worthy of encouragement.
Properly offieered, it ought to be means
of good.
Milas Clothilde, owned by l. Smith
Reed, was shipped on Wednesday to
parties ia Philadelphia. The animal
weighed at the station 1905. He was
one of the finest bulls that ever went out
of this comfy and was of the Holstein
Fresiau stock.
W. G. Fox, of Evans Mills, sold Il
head of Iowa horses at Paul's Hotel
Woodbury., on Thursday last. A few
wagons and harness we're sold. The horses
only brought an average of about VIZ
apiece. Mr.. Fox expects to have anOtne
sale at the same place in about two weeks
These who were present at the saliva
ton meeting on the night of the visit ol
an officer from Philadelphia, will remem
Der his descriptions of the homes the Saliva
tiou Army were preparing for homeless
wonderers in that city. Last Monday
evening one of these Hshelters" was
formally opened at Eighth and Vim
streets. and ehristened the working
mans Metropole." Lieutenent Colone
Evans presided over very business lik
and happy meeting in which he Lsssi
Singing Brigade look prominent par
in the exercises.
Charles J. King, who had for sometim
been a sufferer from cirrbosis of tn
liver, which produced dropsy of th
abdomen, was taken to the Howar,
Hospital, Philadelphia, on Tuesday weel
by DIR. Patrick, for an operation. s
serious was his malady found, that worC
was sent to his family on Saturday tina
if they wanted to see him alive TO com
at once to his bedside. On Monday wor
was received that he was dead. In
remains we're brought home and burie
from the residence of his son-in Ia"
Joseph Hewitt, on Dickinson street, O
Wednesday. the members of WoodDin
Lodge of Odd Fellows, of which th
deceased Was a member, attending ID
funeral in a body. Iaterment was mad
in the Baptist cemstery. Mr.. King ma
been engaged in the harness bushes
here for some years.