The Monitor-register., 1897-11-26
nnuAL NEWS.

Soon be time TO think about New Year
resolutions.
The football season is over and the
BARRIERS are happy.
& fine line of stormer overoOats from
81 up TO S12 at Grier & Boone's
John Wriggius has rented the Baptist
-parsonage. aud will move from Harrison
vile here.
Thos. M. Tice sdvertises another sale
of Ohio cattle at Deerfeld, on Thursday.
December I'd.
Il has been a nice fall for husking corn,
but some farmers are going to get their
fingers nipped.
Winter is on in earnest, and if it keeps
it up until next April no one need sigh
for the Klondike.
Beautiful 3 light and 4 light chande-
liers, new and perfect in design n
finish az Andrews.
The holiday season is approaching and
the time is here to think about your
Christmas presents.
David Fox dry picked this season
1000 ducks and says he will dress the
next thousand just as neatly.
G1aIGDC6 OuH6bnaH iOESo
South Woodstown into the McAlll ster
house, on lower Main street.
Read what Frank Wright has to say
about ladies' shoes in another column.
Perhaps it will save you some money.
The borough authorities did a good
thing in sorapiOg the mud off the streets
on Tuesday. They were made passable
at once.
Any one wanting to buy farms now is
the time. They will never be lower.
Several good ones are advertised ia the
MONITOR REGISTER.
A query: Ii it keeps on raining and
the borough authorities keep on scraping
the mud off the streets, how long will it
take to reach Cdina +?
From a ten acre field on one of Ben
jam Bishops farms there was be rvested
270 bushels OF wheat and there were
twenty-five loads OF straw.
The Evening Star Quartette, of Cam
den, will give a concert in the Bailey.
town Church on Friday evening, Dec.
10th. Every art list is said to be a star.
Persons of sedentary habits, especially
salesladies, seamstresses, etc., who feel
over worked, will find DR.. Bulls Pills a
true, uterine tonic, and an active stimu-
liant of the bowels. % Cts.
The first snow of the season fell on
Monday night. Ii was very light, but as
this indicated that we are to have twenty
four SHOWS during the winter, there will
evidently be sufficient to satisfy all.
A Klondike trading company i exhi-
biting a miners outfit for that region,
including grub for one year in a promi-
nent store on Chestnut street, Philadel-
phia. 1t is a novel sig ht to the average
teDderioot.
The Supreme Court has decided that
poultry running at large is wild game
and the party on which they trespass has
a right TO kill them. No man has a
right to allow his chickens to run at
large and bother his ~neighbors,
On Tuesday evening Mrs. F. j. Collier
had the misfortune to get a severe fall in
front of the East Avenue Hotel by trip
ping on a low wire guard around a small
grass plot. By the fall her glasses were
broken and she was bruised and cut
above her left eye.
Glouee ster county keeps right on
building stone roads, and therefore must
think they are a good thing. And Salem
county hasn't a mile of stone road yet.
Why? Certainly we could use some in
W~oodstown, and invest the money we
now spend for scraping up the mud.
The hearing before the Orphans
Court in the matter of the will of Ann
Gilman. deceased, was concluded on
Monday morning and Judge Sinniokson
refused to admit the will to probate on
the ground that it sufficiently appeared
that Mrs, Gilman was not at the Gine it
was executed of sound mind. A decree
was entered accordingly.
From the itemized accounts of the
receipts and expenses OF James Kill
patIick's duck farm during the season
lust closed, the following summaries are
taken: Number of ducks raised, /, 955;
total weight of birds dressed for market,
1888 lbs {; vsiue of feathers sold, $40 16;
sales of eggs, $40; eggs produced from 45
ducks, c. 600; PAID for feed, $466.65; cost
of picking, SS5. The average cost of
raising, five cents a pound. Many of the
birds weighed fourteen pounds per pair
at ten weeks old. Mr.. Fitzpatrick is
keeping 40 birds for next seasons ruu.
Officials of the improved Order of Red
Men are considerably exercised over the
recent decision of the Court of Error
and Appeals declaring hat a subordinate
lodge cannot reduce its sick or death
benefit without the consent of all the
members affected. David B. Peterson,
collector of the Port of Camden, Great
Saohem of the Red Men in New Jersey,
says the decision will seriously cripple all
fraternal beneficial societies in the State,
aud the Red Men more than others. The
Camden tribes will appoint a john
committee to prepare a bill establishing
the powers and limitations of secret ben
efcial societies, and urge its adoption al
the next session of the Legislature.
The people OF Woodstown were init
ateaa ;ata the mysteries of football yes.
terday in. q game at the Ball farl
between teams from the Salem Higf
School and the Gilderoy A. c., of Phila
deIphia. The Salem lads carried toe
much ayoirdupois for their opponents
and that was the principal factor which
gained them the victory over the lighter
smaller players of the Giideroy team
The latter, however. put up a gam
struggle, but were unable TO to overcom'
me YER heming ODDS against them an
the Salem boys Q the game by Q SCOT
OF % to 0. There we're several accioene'
but none very s%efions, that is, from
footbaIier's view.
Ii you want a iue dress overcoat g
one of Grier q Boone's fine kers6ys, ebsC