POUTICAl COMMENT.

M liter* of >AUr*o» In C><M M«y

Coanty and in U*o SUM

The doUy tu appotnUns a posuaw tor at Ocean City to urcood OJ»a«l M. Sutton, arhoae taro e«»dr«l aome time a«o. U cttar<ed up by »un»e of ttuae »-bo are piaytnd polilh* to <\v«r\«aman John J Oardner. There are throe candtdatea for the office the preoent Incumbent. Dane* - Maybe* , formerly of Cape May City

Superintendent HlWroth. of the

Ocean City Water Company, a otmaln of A Carlton lUWreth. chalrtnau of the Cape May County KepuMlcai

cummtuee k la Intimated

maat and ahow a fiuin* racard for public optnloo. k would IncidootiaJly make the dlnnor a memorable aue--

The roalciWiac AUanUc County of-

ficial. who Intimated that taerd wef*

< irrAftera In office -tUnre, excitement. It woutd take aJfu.U'i In the way of InalnuuUooa Ujjt

tract attoutloo In that part at .th*

“t' . -

uppofntm«'nt *

1 after

. i-omln* September prlmariea. a* Senator Hand. »£k> la aald to be R e»ndldaie for renommatloo. need* the vote* of the friend* of each at the three candtdatea Owln* to the do#--[Itvauclal and pollUral relation* be I wren Senator Hand and Oon«Tea* e*er the former aak» him to da At a (pedal mee<U« of the Bonnl nr Trade of Ocean (Tty on Saturday nlphi on motloo of CtouncUtnan Head ley. rreeholder John I’ Cat waa ap pointed a committee to aee Senator Hand for the purpose of hadn* Ocean City repreaentod on the Cape May County Board at Taxation The term of alia H Marshall. & member, ex ptred this year, k I* daimed by pron Incut realdents of Ocean City thai aa It pay* one-fourth of the county taxaa, h should have recognition a

the County Tax Board

AaaetnUyman OorarUI© S. Btm waa at Cape May Cky on Saturday cakli^g upon his friend*, who dealt him to be a oandldate for Senator a: the September prunartea. Aaaembly man stllle met wtth conalderabie er couragement a-hlle here, it la *aW The Ueglalattve record of Mr Stlh. the past year hhs been a moat ex ceilent one He voted against

May

abolish

Word come* from Five Mile Beadthat Kraus G Slaughter, who has twice been a candidate for the Aa sembty or. the Democratic ticket.wll. again seek the Democratic nomlna Uon in the September primaries Friends of exf^berlff VVUIlam H Bright are singing his praises, ant saying that ha wiii make an cicelies riepubUcan candidate for Senator They claim that 1U» record as Sherlf. and his succeus as a private citlxei show him to be made of material or of which good Senators are moqtde* Be is of the Rooeeveltian type, an has a hoot of fru-nds wherever know and like most men of character, ha

well.

The Newark News says that It 1» regular smothering explanation the Senator Hand boa given for kllUru the Belleville annexation bill at the recent session of the Loglalature.The Mil would allow Belie>iile to become part of Newark. On this same mst-

.r the Newark Star sayw:

"dual why the Belleville amiexa on MU was suppreaeed In Sonaltcommittee by Senator Hand, the chair

not dearly explained In th<

Oape May Senator - * letter to Dr George Y. Yarrow, of Belleville, who was one of the promoters of the billDr Yarrow deensi the explanation en It rely unsatisfactory, tn view of the The question at Belk-vlUc was practically between a whole community and a single Individual. Senator Hand tied up to the single Individual iud would not permit the LegiMaturc to say whether it would permit BeH-

say whether It wanted annex

at Ion. Senator Hand puts his action.

ground of

sclentlous statesmanship and alleged indifference of the EMsex members of the Loglalature to the MH.” •BtO HUNT CLUB MEET. my Prixs* to Bs Awarded For the Coming Racaa. The VVhippany River Club expect* have a lively race meet at urwe, near Morristown, . N. J.. Saturday afternoon. May Slid, meet win be held under the recogvdtlou at the Hunt* Orunmlttee of the National Steoplechaae and Hoot i SDciatioo, and wW probably prove be a Mg society event, as wtb aa fur uishing a p 3at exhibition of thorough

OLD SOLDIERS ATTENTION

Any Old Soldier who made a homestead entry of 40. 80 or.tao i-res in any «tite in the onion before the year of 1874. has a claim inning to him from the government, provided he has never sold this

right or taken up another homestead-

It does not make any difference whether be proved up ot

original homestead entry or simply left it.

*4 Soldier who never made a homestead tmtry or on who entered land after June 22, 1874, has nothing^) sell. IVE BUY THESE CLAIMS. The vddow or heirs of a soldier can also sell these rights.

"Party regularity"

waa the keynot r of the Mere* Republican Club at day evening. The ktynot^ was former Governor Stokes, o being Introduced, said: “Mr. Free :. guest* and feUow-regida/v. - sr.he said that * • Grsc.tud<-. v was/ still pokttesi virtue ■ With John J Gan'

There srs to be six races, three the fiat and three across country, a* foliows: First Race. Farmers' Race .Horae* regMarly worked on farms In Morris Somerset Ommly First I »lfi; second prlxe, |10. third prise. 16. Catch weight*. Fowl entries. DM lance, yiwww one-half mile. Second race, for haK-bred bena-Odv nnters—iPurSe or piste of 1200, of which tOO goes to second, and t* to Ukrd. Entrance fee. >16. Tn < i65 pounds. Distance about three miles over a fair hunting country. Third race, tor Galloways, flftoec

trict. 00 one side of him. and Otx ressman Wood of the FOeath. near! s>. well as Ckmgrcasman Kahn. Cwlifornla. under the eye of the toat cry of "Regularity” w. echoed all over the room. It. wbn were dining. 250 members of the mo powerful pjktlca! arganilstioc la New

Jeiwey

Amuig the many politicians -New Jersey gathered at the hot : e State Treasurer Daniel S. Vor bees. Comptroller Henry J. Wes ariernmatrr Genejpl S. Edwai Murray. A/ijotan^General Wilt Sadler Jr.. State Seualors I* Mercer; Wi'soo. Atlantf* Robb!Burl'ngtorr, 'Bradley. Camden, Harv Cape May, and others. gresstnan Jubia K. Kahn, o (Mltforcia contioued the hnmsgs ti the RepoM Feans by a brUMsTk speech oo "Btal wsrtlsm." He aald be bell end in stalwart Republicanism, and had tn hH hrart « tolerance of C>eiDOcra<y."bvit did not ai

“malcontents.”

Governor Ftort has declined the b vltatioo to attend the complfmeotar. luncheon to be given by MoCarter, president of the Pubilr 8< vice CorporsUoc. la honor at Btatt Assessor David Baird, at the MdCar ue. .Rumsou Road, near Newt t Batorday. The Oovsraor decMae

>100. at which ?>30 goes to third horse to fee/ >ip. To carry 160 pounds. DM tace,*Vboag two-third* ot a mile. Fourth race. Whlppany Ost f<* bona-fide humors, regularly huntoc with the Essex hounds—To be three Unea V Mnie osraer. nojri aasarily with stake, of >16. to be divided 1 to winner, thirty per second, ton per cent, to third, carry 165 pounds. Thoroughbreds pounds extra Distance about three fair bunting Fifth race. Hacks and Howterj, tour years aid or ovar—Purse or {we of >100, cf which ISO to second, thljd stake. Entrance fse, >10

IC

mile on Sixth race, for thoroughbred bona de hunters—Purse or plate at >300. of which >60 to second. >30 to third. Bn trance fee, >16. To carry 1*6 Distance about three mHea over iwvtiwf country. The ooumattee in charge Dr. Leslie D. Ward. F. H. Humph; K. B. Bchelcy, ConrUandt NTcok, 1 H. WIBlams. JrSaturday. May Kh, except for tamers a post entry. Ail entries made to E. C. Smith, room 333. Fifth Avenue New York. ear tor bones win be of charge from Hoboken

R. H. Peal & Co., Brawer C., ' Salt Lake City, Utah

Nearly 100,000 Claims were paid by The Prudential in 1908. Just think! Life Insurance money going into nearly a tenth of a million homes in one year! Its help in thousands of erses was almost incalculable.

The Prudential

OF INTKREBT TO OLD SOLDIERS OR THEIR HEIR* Certain Old Soldiers Hava Land Claima Coming to Them Fro the Government. Any old Union Soldier or SeMor who served 90 days or longer in the lete War ot the Rebellion, and ' <nt west after the srmr nod made homestead entry In any stats In the Union for either 40, 80 or 12< acres before June 33nd. 1874, has i claim coming to him from the Oov-

U does not make l whether he proved up on his home steed entry or simply left k. There were thousands cf oh. solera who week to Kansas and Nebraska after the war and took up y acre homestead* and when U hoppers and hot wtods can along simply left their entries ai went back ease Bacb of these men ive claima. s' Under a Supreme Court decision thee Malms are saalj Beale. Judge BtkhUng. Salt Lake City. Utah, pprteot* tbs title to these Malms and wfll pay the high set merit price tor same. If the soldier k dead the widow or Mrs can sell this right. If a soldier never mad he has nothing to ssll.

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