XOUVT ISLLf rio. October 6, 7, tai 8, 1903. To farther »fcoqjmod»l* ihoea deelrlng lo tifil the Fair at Mt. Holly, N. J.. on (heabove datee the 1‘enoaylvanla Railroad (umpaiW #lll^ell excuralon tlokeU from all alatwaa on the ‘United llallroadr of New Jrr»ey. and from Ailantle City, MlMvllle. Hi Ulgeton, Salem, IVinwgroee, and ■ Intertnedlate atatioo* on the Wear Jereey and Seaabore Railroad, a> redu.^.1 ra'oa, Inclndlns admlaalon to the Fair gn-unda. Special traina will bo run aa fnilowa: from Philadelphia (Market Ssrerl Wharf) On rtetnbor #, 7 and 8 at 8. 12 A M., and on October 8 only at 0 A. M., etopplng at all principal etalkma between Camden and Barilngtod; on October and 8 only at 10.80 A.“M.. andonOctob 8 only at 11.10 A. M.. amppinK at all principal atationa except Kirertoti and Delanco; on Octuher 7 and 8 on the Medford Branch, connectiiig with train leaving liaddoufleld at 7.40 A. M.; on Octoh er 7 and 8. from Trenton, Borden town CixTRaat Burlington, leaving Trenton 9.50 A. M ; and on the aamc datee on t Kinkora Branch, leaving Kinkora at 8. A. M For apecific infonaation couault ticket

EMIKKHT CITIZENS.

Che moat eminent dtiaena of the fnited St a tea of negro blood will ad* ireaa the country In a book to be publlahed in Beptrmbcr entitled “The Negro Problem.” The race queatlon will be dlacuaaed by Booker T. Waab* Ingtoa, Prof. W. y. Burgbardt Dubola, Chariea W. Cheatnutt. Paul Laurence Dunbar, T, Thomua Fortune, Wllford H. Smith and H. T. R. ntlng. When Samuel W. I'ennypaclcer, the governor of Pennaylvania, waa a young Philadelphia lawyer, a friend met him one day going down Cheatnut atreet with a aumber of big law hooka under each arm. "Hello,” aaid the friend, pointing to the hooka, “1 thought you carried all that atuff In your head.” “So I do.” returned young Penny-packer. "Theae ere for

the judgea.”

Seymour W. Tnlloch, whoae charge* agalnat the poat office department hare occasioned a grove acandal. was laid up laat winter with a cold that a bad cough accompanied. Ill* phyaielan nailed him one morning and found him worae. "You acem to cough with more difficulty to-day than yeaterday.” the physician aaid. “That ia strange.” Mr. Tulloch murmured, "for 1 waa practic-

ing all laat night."

Cleveland newspaper* aay that noviaitor to that city waa ever under each close guard a* was thrown around Prealdent Roosevelt during hi* *tay there while attending the McCorrolckHanna wedding. From the moment of

Cleveland until

utokt or rsx oonmu or TheFirstNationalBank

■t C*pe May,

in the Slate of New Jersey, at the close of buaineat. Sept. 9. 1903.

RRSOUKCRS

Loans and Discounts .%$i 565 91 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 569 *6 U. & Bond* to accvre circulation... 6 yon on Premium* on IT. ft Honda........ 4«»t *3

Bankinc house, furniture and fixDne from Natiunal Banks (not re-

Due from approved reserve *«cnU xo 481 ja den and 7—.t —. .. Check* and other cash item* s su 9» Cake and running by the last named, north No!^ of“to« NatW"SSL."» 5 5?5 2 8H degree, wert. "ne

Specie,. 8 9*3 80 —'

Legal-tender notes....... - - Redemption fund with D- S. TTreaa-

KRIFF‘6 SALE. By virttw of a writ to me directed, iaaned out of the Citcuit Court of Cape May County, New Jersey, 1 will expose to sale at public

vendue, on

Monday. October 19th. 1903, between the hours of twelve and five o’clock p. m., to wit. at I JP o’clock In the afternoon of aaid day. at the Sheriff's office, in Cape May Court House, Cap* May County, New ^AU^thoae tract* of land described as fol“To. 1. Beginning in the middle of the Can* Road, in the line of landof Alexander Wbilden and southeast corner'Of hmds of l- 0

Tojal ... *97751x6

LIABILITIES.

Capital stock paid in - 9*5 000 no

Undivided profits, lea* expenses

and taxes paid 1 741 W National Bank note* outstanding- 6 yoo oo

Individual deposits subject JM *4 yjt) 58

Time certificates of deposit joo 00 Certified checks too 00

Public Sale at Cold Spring.

A public sale of personal property will be held at the farm of J. P. MaeKlaale -• Cold Spring 00 Saturday, October 8d.

The following will be sold to the high- his arrival ....

Ml bidder:—About 60 head ol choice bogs I itepped on hi* special train for the re•boat* and amall pigs, 4 fine brood sow* , urjj to Washington he was conwith fine htt :ru of pig*. 7 bead good daltr | tinMllj uod€> t j, e eye Q , « dolrn picked

secret service men under the direction

_ _ statement is true to the beat of my knowledge and belief. PRANK S. LLOYD. Cashier Correct—Attest: WBSTLEY R WALES, • A. U HAYNKS. LEWIS T. STEVENS. .

Director*

Suhscribed and aw-orn to before me this 16th day of Sept. 1903. Jostm H. HfCHKX, Notary Public.

if pigs, 7 head good cow*, mostly fr. -h, highly recommended 8 head of good horse*; 00 1, chestnut aorrel mare coming 10 yra. ob* kind -and gentle in all harness, aafe for a lady to drive, splendid road mare; no. 9, sorrel colt coming 3 yra. old, harness broke no. 3«.grey horae 11 yra. old, a good heavy draught horse, hard to equal. 8 acre* of standing corn by the row. White and sweat polatoM. 1 mowina machine, O.— borne make, nearly new. Alto at the same time and place the following horses will be add, the property of Sheppard B. Taylor: No 1. Roan mare. 10 yra. old, an extra good one. No. 2. Bay hoi at, 6 yra.

old. good worker or driver.

Term*—Credit of ton month* 00 all , an ms of #5 sod upwards by giving note - wtih approved aecurlty, payable at Firat

. S National Batik of Crpe May.

of Detective Tyree, who wa* cofiatont ly at hia aide during the recent tonr of the country. The Hanna residence waa carefully-*>icketed on every aide day and night, and all available city detecwere maned at and near tha church when the wedding was being solemnized. Forty uniformed men

were also on duty there. RAILWAYJ^OMBLES.

ERMA. Mias flattie Mathews ia the recipient of a fine new organ. Miaa Sarah Graham of Philadelphia spent Sunday with her cousin*. Mr. Mrs. William Biddle. Mrs. M. Swam and daughter Raabel spent Saturday at Court House. Mr. and Mrs. D. Hawn entertained Sunday Mr. and Mr*. Thompson and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. T. P. McKein and nephew Percy Blake, all of Holly Beach. R.T. Johnson has engaged Bertram Snyder of Flail lug Creek-to clerk in ■tore. V * Mrs. Sarah Biddle and danghtor-ln-liw Mrs. Edward Biddle of Camden are passing a few days with Mf. sod' Mrs. R. M. Biddle. D. Hewn is taking up the oysters In Cape Island Sounds to make way for the Cape May Real Estate Co. Mrs. Sarah Tabari of Cold Spring spent Thursday with her a.ater-lu-law Mrs. W. Pritchard. ' ,

'Well Papers.

Just received a large invoice from which you can select. The prices range from 54 cents to 30 cento s piece.

A. C. Gil*.

41C Washington street.

t

PERSONAL GOSSIP.

In Hollond, Belgium. Italy, and Switzerland a passenger can carry no luggage free. For the comfort of its employe* Hi the outlying districts one of the Ruaaian railways is instituting traveling

baths.

The London county council now makes £69,000 a year from tramways. Leeds corporation aecure* from a similar source an Income of £21.000. The record for speed in railway construction has been achieved ob the Baluchistan railway, which pushed across • treeless plain at 3% mile* a day. Heretofore fourth-claaa cars v carried only on the, railway* northern Germany; now tome south German llnee have adopted them. The far* ia half a cent per kilometer, or nearly a cent per mile. * Preliminary returns for the railays of the United Kingdom for tha ear 1902 show that on the 22.14T miles of line* opened the gross receipt* were £109.834.000. and tha working expenditures £ 67,907.000. leaving net receipt* of £41.627,000. Compared with 1901 thU ahpwe a* increase of £2.918.247 In gross receipts. of only £360.323 in expenditursa. and of *2557,924 in net receipt*. The previou* year the expenditure* amounted to £2,746,498 mors than in 1900. while .the net receipts were nearly £1.000,000 leas than in the ysar before.

r (5 per cent of circulstion)

„„ __,.K rod* toaouth side line of the Cape Island Turnpike: thence, along 89*180 the same, S. 6814 degreeseaat, johi perches to the land-of H. H. Steven*; thence, along the same, ft IK degree* east. *8 perchc* 14 links to the middle of aaid Cape Road. thence along the middle of the aamc aouth 81 degree* and 45 minute* W. *» rod* *3 link* to place

beginning, within which hound*

ined SH

$97 751 *6

t the

mtKunc ctmrro In accordance with the rule* governing the Democratic party in Cape May county, and in conformity with the law* of this State concerning such matter*, the undersigned hereby give* «>ticc to the Democratic voter* of the several municipalities; ward* and election district* of Cape Mar county to. attend at the legally designated polling place* in their respective di»trict* between the hour* of one o'clock in the afternoon and nine o'clock in the evening, on TUCSDaV. SCPTEMBCR •rx. 1903. to elect delegate* to represent them In the ocralic County Conreutbin, which will in the ct>urt-house at Cfpc May Court House, on THURSDAY OCTOBER Stm 1003 one o'clock p. m., for the' purpose of _ minating candidates for State Senator and Member of Assembly. Under the law passed at the laat session of the legislature the several District* will be entitled to the following cumber of dele-

gates:

Ocean City, tsl Ward. I delegate. » *’ ” ad ” 1 delegate.

Upper township, 1 delegate. Denni* township, 1st Dirt-, a ... • m ad-DiaL.ide Sea Die Citw delegate.

Avalon 1 delegate casting one-quarter vot Middle township, 1st Dirt, a delegates.

a delegate*,

delegate.

taince _

No. a.

,p to «i __ _ > the Steamboat Landing on the Delaware Bay the same being the corner of Alexander Whtlden't land, and near hi* bare; thence along said line «nd in the middle pf aaid Cate Road 70 rods to the Cape Island Tarntike; thence along aaid Turnpike eaat to ruda to James Steven*'line; thence, south along said Steven* 46 rod* to aforesaid old "ape Road; thence. S. W. aloim aaid road to lace of beginning; containing 88 acres,

aorc or 1cm.

No. x. Beginning In the middle of the Cape Oosd m the line of lands of Alexander Whllden and southeast corner of land* of L- P Cake and running by the laat named north ' degree* west 4> h «xD to the sontli side of the Cape Island Turnpike; thence, along the same south 66 S degrees eaat 30 K perches to the land of A. H. Steven*; thence along the aamc south 1 H degree, cast ah perchc* and 14 links to the* middle of the aforesaid Cape Road; thence along the middle of the same sooth 81 degrees 43 minute* west 33 rod* and 33 link* to the place of beginning, within which bound* sr* contained 5H sere* of land be the same more or less, and also that piece or parcel of land described a* follows: Beginning at a red cedar post standing in the old Cape Road formerly leading to the Steamboat banding on the Delaware Bay the same being the comer of Alexander Wbiidrn's tend and near hi* bare (hence along said line and in the middle of aaid Cape Road 70 rods to the Cape Island Turnpike; thence along said Turnpike east 60 rods to James Stevens' line; thence south sli-og said Stevens 46 rod* to aforesaid old Cape RoadOhcnee southwest along said road to place of beginning, containing ;8 — more or less. .... No. 4. Also all that certain parcel of land situated in the County of Cape May and State of New Jersey, about one mile and one

half from the City of Cape M May Road and bounded on 01

said road, on another by the roau ui me lighthouse; on the third by the Turnpike and on the fourth •><!« by a tract of land owned by and being the same conveyed to said Letltia P. Cake hr two separate deeds one from Mathias Whildevi and the other from James H. Stevens which arc of record in the land records of said county and reference D made to the same for fuller

“The Home Folks” are more closely united when Life Insurance forms a part of the tie that binds them tojjcthcr. The protec* tion afforded by I’t-u- ” dential policies should encircle every member of the family.

The Prudential insurance Co. of America.

JOHN F. DRYDEN, President LESLIE D. WARD. Vice President EDGAR B. WARD. ad Vice Prc*. FORREST F DRYDEN. S Vice President GRAY.

H. B. RtCHABDSON. Asst Sopt. Cape May Court Huuat.N. J

t

ad Dirt, 1 delegate.

Holly Beach City. I Lower township. 1 delegate. Wert Cape May. 1 delegate. Cape May Tity. a delegates. South Cape May. 1 delegate casting X Woodbine. 1 delegate. SAMUEL F.. EWING, Chairman County Executive Committtee. Dated. August zad. 1903,

wired as the property of L. Pauline Cake, fendant, taken in execution at the suit of lliam H. Week*, complainant and to be *° ld ^ SAMUEL B. BWINfc. Sheriff. —ted Sept 8th, 199J. LeweByn Hildreth, Attorney. p f $15 35

Eight aurvivora of "“tbs fortyminer*” who went from Baltimore to California In the early day a of the rush for gold held a reunion. The youngest of them is 79 years old. Dr. Le Baron R. Briggs, dean of the faculty of arts and aeienoea of Harvard university, has been chosen president of Radcliffe college for women. 1 oeeding Mrs. Loots Agassiz, who signed recently. Dr. Briggs is tLe 'man recently characterized by President Eliot, of Harvard, aa “patient, ,tander. discerning, candid. Just and 'cheering, because convinced of overwhelming preponderance of good in the student world." Phineas T. Loundsbury, an ex-gov-ernor of Connecticut, and now presi'dent of a New York bank, makes hlslo--gal residence in Ridgefield, e small' town of bis native state, where he remsin* during the summer months. A 'year or ao ago he was elected mayor Jand atm holds the place. Tbif *iplng -a let of hia young friends aa a Joke put hia name on the ticket aa one of the 'town constable*. He was elected, sc lee fried the office and was sworn In. "I ‘get my fun out of It" be says. "I spend my leisure time in watching the ■mra who run me for office and in making them keep off the sidewalks with their wheels and Uve up to the town 'lama in other ways.”

TOLD OF WOMEN. One of the busiest lawyer* In Zuaieh U Anna Mackenrolh. a young woman ■Ull in her twenties, who opened the legal profession to women In.Switzerland. Harvest hands on the farm of CoL Charles L. Daugherty, near Bowling Green, Ky„ went on atrike a few daya ago. demanding an increase In pay. The colons] waa away from home, but Mrs. Daugherty, a club and society woman, refused to rwi»e wages. Nearly arf of the farm hand* left, whereupon Mrs. Daugherty mounted the binder. and. aided by a few men who remained. ent 80 acre* of wheat before a new force conld be secured, Pew member* of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are as energetic and faithful to the e aa Mrs. Florence C. Bethone. a society woman and wife of the well-known New York lawyer'. Mr*. Bet hunt has within a few months caused the arrest of eight men for cruelty to horses, and in each case appeared in court to 1 ratify against the aecnaed. After securing the conviction of a driver recently Mr*. Bethuae announced that ahe will now direct her energies against mall delivery contractor* for Inhuman treatment of horae*. Ia the last year Mrs. Bethune hat turned over 36 sick and homeless dog* to tha society.

FACTS BRIEFLY STATED.

AH the gold cola at present to nee tn the world weighs leas than America now stands second among continents in Jewtah population. ~ has 1.100500, while Asia ha* hut

•8ft

Having decided to raise the price of ■milk, the milkmen‘of Bienne, Switzerland. hate been b-g rolled by the to’habltanta The largrm living thing oa earth la the new-found redwood tree In QaBfornl*. whk^l* 340 fret high and m An exhibition wijl be held at Unrat.

with the object. reviving an in ia the ancient

RIO GRANDE. Mr*. Goa Btroog Is entertaining t pauy fiotn Philadelphia. Her. B F. Buck passed two days this csrk with bis family at Millville. Mr*. Prise.11a Broughton gave an toe cream party to a few of her I fiend* on Saturday evening. Captain tillaa Shaw la at home foe a abort 4ime. He is vady busy building a new wood shed. It la reported that ths power house for the electric railway will be located in front of Hand’s store. The can house baa had tw o'fall weeks r work with good prospects for another. Wilson dbiuu made a business trip to Philadelphia this week. Mr*. John Mopou entertained her mother frotr. Fishing Creek. Mrs. John 11a*n la In pour health.

DIAS CREEK.

NOTICE OF REQISTRATTON.

Notice is hereby riven that the Board* of Registry and Election in and for each and every election district or voting precinct in

Cape May county, will meet on

Tuesday. September 8th. 1903. at the place where the next election in their district wfll be held, at one o'clock in the afternoon, and remain in session until nine o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of making up from the canvassing boobs two lists oTregisters of the name*, residence* and street number*, if any. of all the person* in their respective election districts entitled to the right of suffrage therein at the next election, or who shall personally appear before them for that purpose, or who shall be shown to the satisfaction ot such Board of Registry and Election to hare legally voted in that election district at the last preceding election therein for member of the General Assembly or who shall be shown by the affidavit in writing of some voter in that election district

to be a legal voter therein.

And on the same day and between the hour* the said Boards of Registry and Elec tion will bold a primary election of delegate. to conventions of political ~ ,r ~

making nomination*, or for

to the provision* of "A further 1 act entitled 'An act to 1 .

” which said supplement

-by farther given, that the aaid Boards of ftegistry and Election

wiB have their final meeting on

Tuesday. October 27th, 1903, the place of their former meeting, at tk mr of one o'clock In the afternoon, and ..main in session until nine o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of revising sad correcting the original register*.of adding thereto the name* of all person* entitled to the rigbt of suffrage in that election district at the next election, who shall appear in person before them or who shall be shown by the written affidavit of some voter in anch elec-

therein, and

of any person

„ to he acara,

shall be shown not to be entitled * '

MATTINGS REDUCED at SWAIN’S From notv until October 5tli. You have the chance to purchase First-Class Mattings at prices never before quoted on mattings in this city. You will

£>AVfc£ MONEYS^ Now by buying your-f

^SPRING MATTINGS Come Early Before the BEST PATTERNS are Sone We arc making room for fall goods and tour benefit by this re- ► dnetion. VB BGAIES IS REMNANTS'.' NO Full Rolls CUT at Special Prices This cash sale will close October 5th.

Done in accordance with an act of legiststore of the State of New Jersey, entitled "A further supplement to an set to regn late election*.*' Approved April4.1898,

and the amendments thereto.

The funeral of Mr*. Susan Tomlin look plan- on Saturday, wrvtce at the hen* cot ducted hY Rev. T. K. tiimpsoti. cd by Rev. W. A. Mainer. InU

waa made at Ooaoen. - • ------ Mayor Thomas Ludlaa of Sen Isle City of erasing thcrefromSe: was vWtlng blsalaier In-law Mf*. I'ltmah who, jtiter a fair opportni Sayre am Wednesday. ^ .... "

Charles Wood I In, Joel Fmber, Tow\ send Gallahcr. David Ojtdm. Dr J. H. Baud, and Reeves Duu^lsee have Inst homes by disease * Ithln a few days E. 8 Howell ^sud ra.uily .<t Coart House W*TJ vMtlog relative* to the village

Friday.

The hall of tin- Independent Mechanic* la beidg painted this week The M. E. Sunday School clecled de’egatoe to the county convention at " ** Beach October 6. Aaron Smith, who has U«n living at Holly Beach for <hn past th ee month*, moved hia family back tore laat week for the winter. Virgil Irvin* of Bayone la rlsttin* rieods to the village. A Iritis baby

INDUSTRIAL ECHOES. Tha process of rapid tanning by elee-

trolysia has failed.

Negotiations arc la progress for ftp ng a certain number of light vessels round the const of the Briitnh Island* with Wireless telegraphy. Every action of human free will ia a atiraele to physical and chemicwJ^nd mathemstleaf •vcieare. aaya Lord Kelvin, in the London Time*. ' A speed of 40.000 word# aadttmr waa reached ia a neat tern of the Poliak

Sunday morning. Fiank E, Howell, who la employed on the uyatnr boot James Mulvey of Port Norris spent Sunday at home. Coleman Norton moved hi* family to Court House last wts-k.

CHAS. A. SWAIN,

30S-Z JAG^SON ST.,

cape tvfAY.

P. O. Box S41 Local ’Phone 65.

DENTISTRY, Ocean and Hughes Bt. ' Every branch of dentistry at this office is done by au experienced operator who has had long experience with the most I difficult cases. * NARCOTIZED AJR for the painless extraction of teeth alisolutely without pain and the horriable after eflects of cocaine. We solidte difficult artificial dentures. ’"Crown and Bridge m&c second to none. We Guarantee to give satisfaction. Our charges moderate.

Narcotized Air Free Wm. B. SICKLES. D- D. S. Manager.

Doausanueix

Drs. Lorence and Scholl, who purchased Dr. Walter Learning’s practice, are graduates of Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery and have been established since 1590 in Philadelphia, hfiive one of the largest and most complete offices in the United States.

. | COURT HOUSE. Tbomss LtxHsm of the Light Ship Zistnls spent the fltat of tho week wtth hi*

He here. <

W. Scot' Hand Slid faintly 01 Ocean Ctiy are this week with Mrs. Hand's un-

itor on Mein etreet.

Parker Burk and wife of Woodbnri

rare Suodsy vle’tor* fiere.

James Tassel, who is employed In Camden, spent Sanday with hi* family here. Mis* B -rta Hall spent Suodsy with her

parents at Stone Harbor.

Mr*. Helen Edmund*, w] visiting here re tarred to her Gape Vay

City - *

Mrs. Alfred Creeae of Oroeu Creek epeut Sunday with friend* hen

family ** Wildwood. Mies Mt*. Della Wa of PbllaiWphia l* visiting at the butt* of John Robmwm.

Beth Smith. Sr, aged ntoety-ihra* yrara died of dronay at hi* home Friday night. The funorafoeoBrTjd Snuday afternoon

fr-l—°T.“

ikling let* tn da-

FEW ALIENS IN SCOTLAND.

Mute e( tha Land

Scotland, according-to the latest returns, Is not a dumping ground for aliens, say* tha London Chronicle. Only 1.083 per cent, out of a population of 4,478.1463 are alien*. The number of English-born persona north of the Tweed. If transferred to London, would be hardly noticed. They number only, 13L350,'or 2.937 per cent. Irish people, on the other hand, aggregate 206.064. or AMS per cento and patriotic Scots, becked np by police statistics, charge

nt and their conneeili

crimes annually recorded on the far

side of the Cheviot*.

Welshmen seem to shun Scotland, ee only *.673 were found there when the ring* lo popular to the extenfwf 46.777 per conL of males over If yeon of age. and fair womankind Is appreciated!o the extentof 44.277 percent .of like apt*. While the wide wars number 7ftT4l. the widow* total no fewer than Ift 406. which bears out the truth there He* now neglected be Had of -Three

1 INTER-STATE FAIR AT TRENTON. September 28. 29 and go. October I

and 2.

The ereat Inti r-8lale*Fair will lie h»M on September, 2S. 89, and 80. October 1 sod 2, 00 the fair ground*, three miles vast of Trenton. N. J on the New York Division of the Penoeylvairta Railroad. The Pennsylnsul* Railroad Company will sail excursion tickets to the fair

Mrs. Lydia Wiley Is tnterulnli.g Cspe with committing 6b percent, of the

May company this week.

Mr*. Bertha Hackney sad son Oscar

at creally reduced rate* fro within a wide radius, and special trains over tha New York, Beivldereand Amboy . — - through to tha

A* to previous yrara, rrary department will twroplet* with superior and instructivr display*. The Wooded stock cxbibft will be particularly fine, and the daffy programme of ram* contains lb# spacdk art class obtainable. The* management of the Fair has pt»t . forth extraordinary

exhibition rvwt record-breaking

il iTmrtimln the GsrxHsv Haul* b» sas* they got the bewtrraWt* and pay

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