The Monitor-register., 1897-05-21
Additional County News.


SWeUcHDOEO AAoHnSs
1.-THE MONITOR REGISTER can be found for
sale every week at Pixies News Agency.1
Early peas are in market.
Our Telford road has been improved by a
coating of fine stone.
H.. G. Garrison has been appointed chief of
police at Washington Park.
A number of fine white catfish have been
recently caught in Raccoon creek.
DR.. Oliver Grimshaw is spending a few
days this week at Niagara Falls.
Mrs. b. A. Headley spent Wednesday with
her sister, Mrs. Kate Crispin, of Camden.
Frank Smith, of Bridgeton, spent q little
time here with his mother, on last Saturday.
Geo. W. am and wife visited Mr.. and
Mrs. W Miller, at Paulsboro, last week.
Henry s. Talman and wife, of Woodbury.,
visited his brother, Albert r. Talman, on
Sunday.
Mrs. Jacob Madara has been entertaining
her daughter, Mrs. Jacob Everline, and chill
dren, of Mt. Holly.
DR.. b. f. Buzby presented his daughter,
Miss Geraldine. with q fine Pennington
wheel last week.
j. Keasbey Weatherby, of Ocean Grove,
was the guest of his cousin, Miss Name
Weatherby, last week.
HOuNOA " w lIlldll5IOWl Nl5lDtu
Rev. and Mrs. W. s. Ludlow, at the Metho-
dist parsonage. last week.
The friends of Mrs. Mary Daley will be
glad to know that she has been returned to
her old place in the post office.
jersey strawberries are in market. and the
crop in this vicinity promises to be good
, Notwithstanding the untimely frost.
Mrs. William Springer. of Atlantic City,
has bnan snan6iDu cauaroI dova with Fr{oodo
in this neighborhood and Bridgeport.
Miss Laura A. Weatherby returned on
Monday from a protracted visit in Norris
town, Pa, Philadelphia and Camden.
The Methodist Church of his place has
been subjected to a thorough cleaning and
~renovating during the present week.
Rev. John D.. Skilton, of Cleveland, Ohio,
who was called to the Trinity Episcopal
Church of this place, has declined the call.
Mrs. W. A. Lilley, Mrs. DR.. OIiphant and
Miss Eva Truitt, of Bridgeport, called on
Swedesboro friends on Monday, making the
trip on their wheels.
The ladies of the Presbyterian Church will
give a strawberry festival on Friday and
saturday evenings of this week, tor the ben
cit of the church. All invited.
Quarterly meeting services were held in
The NJ. E.. Church on last Sunday, preaching
by the pastor. On Wednesday evening Pre-
siding Elder d. b. Harris held the Quarterly
Conference.
| Geo. M. Ashton, clerk in the Swedesboro
Bank, is taking o vacation of two weeks, and
spending d part OF it at Palmyra with Rev.
and Mrs. S. f. Gaskill, the parents OF Mrs.
Ashton.
John A. Dix Post will attend divine SER
vice in the Methodist Church on sunday
morning, 23d inst, and Diamond Council,
Jr. y. U. A. Nj, on the evening of the same
day. Every one invited and made welcome
to all the services.
a public meeting was held in Meley's Hall,
on Tuesday evening, to make arrangements
FOR the proper observance of Memorial Day.
w, IL. Mccullough was called to the chair,
and Geo. Meley acted as secretary. A gem
eral committee ofarrangements was elected,
consisting of the following A. M. Jone
l.. +. Mayer, W. w. Souder, w. IL. Brown, b.
Il. Motfett, John Il. Meley and Geo. Meley.
Committees to gather and arrange flowers
were elected, VIM. G. Hunter was made the
marshal of the day.
John A. Dix Post has secured Capt. Walter
A. Barrows, of Mt. Holly, as their speaker.
Council, Jr. o. U. A. NJ, will join
with the Post, and will have State Vice
Counclof, Rev. j Morgan READ, OF Camden
as their speaker. The exercises will begin
promptly ut 2 O'Clock in the Academy yard,
on Saturday, 10Th inst. The Post requests
that all business places be closed during the
exercises, and that, as far as possible, flags
and bunting be Displayed
The Epworth League of our Methodist
Church here celebrated its fifth anniversary,
together with the eighth anniversary of the
General League, on last Sunday evening,
The church was prettily decorated with the
League coloPs n emblems, also with ported
plants and cut flowers. The exercises con.
sisted of music, and an address by Geo. w,
Hannold, President of the League, giving @
brief history of the organization of the Ep,
worth League of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, its marvellous growth and its intiu
ence on the young people of the church, fol
lowed by reports of superintendent of the
several Departments of the Local League
These reports showed that a good deal o.
earnest work had been done. Miss Clara
Batten read an appropriate article, and Rev
W. S. Ludlow made an address full of good
ADVICE and en- couragement to workers The
audience was large and the evening pleas.
antly and proitably spent. The members
of the Christian Endeavor Society of the
Presbyterian Church were present by invi
| tatiOn of the League.