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WEST CAPE MAY'S. WEEKLY HAPPENINGS LOCAL NOTES AND glllENT Social Occurrence# and Movements, Together with References to Public Matters and the news of the week. Miss Clara Springer, a teacher in our public school, was an over Sunday visitor with heijparenta at Goshen. Leslie Ewing, a student at Jefferson . College, is enjoying the J Easter vacation here at the home of his brother. Dr. S. Eldredge. Rev. J. L. Landis has been quite ill and for several days was threatened , with pneumonia, but he is improving now. Mm ' SouthardfEldredge was an over Sunday visitor with]relatives in Phila- ( delphia. Miss Emily Davis, a teacher in the , public school at Cold Spring, spent , Monday evening with Miss Alice Brew ( ton. > | Miss ElizabetlLLong, of (Millville, is | making an extended visit with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Channels. , j ■ Mrs. Charles Corsqa. returned to At- , lantic City Saturday after spending , two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Edward ] Hughes. , Walter Peck spent several days here , with his family. « 1 The properties of Charles Corson , and E. G. Doughty, adjoining on Emerald avenue, are being improved , wilh cement walks and curbs. _ ] Mrs. Ellen Gallaher, of Goshen, has , bean spending several days with Mr. ] and Mrs. Frank Gallaher, on .Third 1 Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Fenderson have , been entertaining Mrs. William Fen- ( derson and aon Rex. of Philadelphia. { Joseph Hess and family have moved ( from York avenue to Elmira street, ( ' Cape May City. , Misses Neva and Clara Baker, of . Cold Spring, were among the visitors . In the borough this week. ~ Mr. and Mrs. James Clark have returned from a short visit with relatives i in Woodstown, N. J. Everett Brown was a Philadelphia visitor for several days this week. "PNEUMONIA'S DEADLY WORE had so seriously affected my right lung," writes Mr. Fannie Connor, of 1 Rural Route I, Georgetown, Tenn., "that I coughed continuously night and ; day and the neighbors' prediction— < consumption— seemed inevitable, until < my husband brought home a bottle of i Dr. King's New Discovery, which in my case prove to- be the only Real cough cure and restorer of weak, sore , longs." When all other remedies utterly fail, you may still win in the battle against luug and throat troubles - , with New Discovery, the Real cure. Gurarnteed by All Druggists. 50c and I $1.00. Trial bottle free. apr 1 CAPE MAY WINS OPENINd QAME. ■ 1 The first base ball game of the season here resulted in a fine victory for Cape May over the University] of Pennsylvania Freshmen. The Cape . May team fielded in midsummer form. The one-hand catch of Bennett, near third base, cut off two runs. The 1 * fielding of Rutherford, Shields. Cassedy and Sehellenger wa< the best se?n here in many years. Stites, the exPemasylvania star, pitched wonderful ball. The score : Cape May, 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—3 : U. P.. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—0 i For Thin, Poor Blood You can trust a medicine tested 60 years-! Sixty years of experience, think of that! Experience w'ith Ayer's Sarsaparilla; " the original Sarsaparili*; the Sarsaparilla the doctors endorse for thin blood, weak nerves, general debility. Bet «m this KT»n6 old mdlelao cannot do tt. hi.-, work If U,. llT.r I. loacUTO and U.. rtO. » hIA« tahlat tb. SaCTaeariHa. x—atiisaOT-— i\ tjer'ss^L^ ZZZZTTL-mZZ

COUIT HOUSE The West Jersey and Seashore Rail- f road Company will lay a double track , from the junction with the Reading j railroad at Woodbine to Sea lak June- j tion, before the summer schedule is put into operation. Representative* of j the oompany have been buving the necessary 'strip of land f>om the adjoining owners. Agents of the company are making searches on the projferty to be purchased. Next year a , double track will be laid to Cape May • City, terminating at the Cape 'May Real Estate Company's tract ' The j majority of the tjgjaya last year on the , West Jersey were caused between Sea i Isle Junction and Woodbine. , * The certificate from the Secretary of t State changing the corporate name of the Five Mile? Beach Land Company to the Wildwood Land Company has been , filed in the offiefc of the County Cleric. The First Baptist church of Court House has Tgirchased of Dr. J. Morgan Dix a tract of land adjoining the ; Baptist cemetery and extending from Church street to Crooked Creek Run. for tbef purpose of enlarging the burial ground- " "Judge Endicott made the necessary orders for conducting tbe special elec- 1 tion at Avalon Tuesday, to decide ' whether tbe people [would have a ays- - tem of sewers or not. 1 Doctor D. King Webster has left for Jackson, - Ill_ and Dr. G. W. Geyer 1 will continue his practice, at Mauch Chunk, Pa., leaving the entire field to * Dr. J. Morgan Dix.,* Tne Junior Order of American Mechanics throughout the county are ( elated over the defeat £of the Avis bill ' whichjwould take $500,000 away from ' the public schools. Hundreds of letters were sent by the Mechanics from ' all parts of the State to their Senators f and Representatves, which [proved to a great factor in defeating the bill. 1 Mr. Leander S._ Taylor has sold his ' in the Taylor-Stitea glass factory' to George Jonas, who controls the , v working interest in the plant. It is I c rumored that Taylor has organized ! another company and that a factory , ' will be erected on the farm of John j c near the West Jersey and I S-ashore Railroad. The Independents won their second I ' victory from the Cape May Court - High School ".last "Saturday by v their hard hitting and fast base run- | c ning. The High School boys made ■ many changes during the game but the | c day was unlucky for them. The manager called the game off at the ending ' * of the eighth. Douglass and Twadell ^ did great work with the hickory. The i first inning was a winner for the In- ! ^ dependents and Campbell was up 1 1 against it. The score : High School. 1 0 0 0 5 0 0 0-6 ' c Independents, 6 0 3-0 2 0 5 1 — 17 Every woman desires a good com ! < plexion, but oft-times either ruins the ( one she has or fails to gain one by the 1 . paint and powder method she employes. J A good complexion is from within and can't be painted or powdered on. Two ! things are necessary in order to oe'the ' possessor of a good complexion. A 1 healthy action of the liver and good ' rich blood. Rydale's Liver Tablets 1 taken occasionally and followed for a c week or ten days by Rydale Tonic and ' plenty of fresh air and out of doors ex- i * ercise will beat all the paint and pow- ; der in the world. Try it just once and \ see. V M. D. Marcy & Co. apr J ERMA Mrs. David Hawn has been quite ill. 1 Miss Gretta and Lizzie have been . victims of the measles. ' , | Mrs. Annie Seymore visited Cape 1 May City Thursday, j Miss Clara Pierce came home trom i j I Cold Spring ill last week. I . Litde Lewis Crease has the measles, j < Our new minister is very well liked. ' Mrs. Wm. Sehellenger, accompanied ' by Miss Fannie Taylor visited Cape * Thursday. Mrs. Levi Dickinson is with her mother at Cold Spring. ( Quantity and Quality rarely ever go ' together. Here's the exception. El- j liott's Emulsion Oil Liniment contains j , half a pint of an emulsion of Spirits | ( Turpentine, Origanum. Kerosene Oil. Ether aijd Ammonia, and sells for only 25c a bottle. Guaranteed or money ' 1 back. V. M. D. Marcy & Cc. apr 1 F1SHIN6 CREEK. Mrs. Jennie McPherson visited her 1 sis'er at Holly Beach for several days , the latter part of the week. ] Mr. and Mrs. D. Morrell Woolson and two daughters were Monday visi- . j tors with Mrs. S. A. Foster at Cape j ' May. Miss Rietta Shaw received a post ' card shower Wednesday in honor of 1 ber birth day. Enoch Miller. Jr.. took supper with j his friend Ernest Reeves Sunday ■ 1 evening. : 1 Mrs. Hannah Woolson was given a ; . surprise party by a number of her 1 : friends and neighorajsaturday evening, it being ber/ birthday. A very pleaa^i ant and enjoyable evening was spent. ' She also received quite a number of post cards. ~ Mr*. Enoch Miller spent the Easter holiday# .with Mrs. David Kay in. Oam, den, and also visited relatives in 1 Aramore. Mr. and Mr*. F. T. Bate spent Tuesday evening with Cold Spring friends, j

W. Hemingway is not improving as his.frienda could wish. We regret to obliged to chronicle a leas favorable hi his condition- His relatives the simpathy of the entire community. Mrs. Jennie McPherson and daughter Ruth 'spent Tuesday evening at Mrs.1 Albert Matthews', Cold Spring. / Gordon Ysartcka, now boasts of a^ "cottage;by the sea.** Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Shaw attended the rehearsal at Cold. Spring, , evening. ' Mrs. Minnie Bate called1 on Mrs. . Vabaman at ^DiastCreek last j week. i Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Corson, of Rio i Grande, took tea with friends here re- ( oently. _ CASTOR 1 A for Tnfsnts and Children. TDi Kind You Hsn Always Bought \ n » \ S • 4 Mrs. Ella Conover called on her : aunt, Mrs. John Snyder, on Wednesday last. Israel Woolson, of Holly Beach, is cartii^ cedar posts. George Stites, of Holly Beach, passed through here Friday last. Mrs. Ella Johnson called on her sister, Mrs: L. Foster, at Green Creek, Thursday. i LeslieJWoolson is improving in his duck shooting, as he 'now gets as high seven in the morning. Perhaps he | will explain how he did it. Several ffom our village went to May to see • the automobile race and b8ll game. Edgar Woolson and Frank Woolson proud owners of a new coaster bicycle. » Mrs. Charles Foster, of Green Creek, ' calling on her brother, John Sny- 1 ' j der, on Monday last. ! 1 ! Miss Clara Bavis, of Green Creek, was calling on relatives in our village j ■ on Monday last. | Should Sunday prove a nice day, I j | Mrs. John Snyder hopes to ge£ out for ^ | the first time in ten weeks. S Charles Hemingway, of Millville. is j ' | visiting George Matthews for a few i ( j days. i Professor Frank Barnett, also wears , j duck feathers in his crown. j i Mr. and Mrs. Albert Johnson and son '• : Curtis,Jof Erma, called on his Uncle j j Soyder on Thursday evening. , Mrs. Sallie Simons and Mrs. Charles. ' I have gone to spend their Easter j ' i at Woodbury and Clemonton. Black- | 1 wood. Trenton, Greenlock and several j , | other interesting places. ) i j Last week's paper wanted to know j • "What did Sarah do when Johnnie^ ] i came home with out daughter'?" She did nothing. Now here's another, i "What will brother do without sister, j I Our grandmothers used to get a lot ! I of old nails place them in a vessel con- , taining vinegar and allow them to re- j main until the acetic acid_ in the vine- | produced an iron solution. This I concoction was taken by nearly every 1 1 member of the family during the spring j ' .and fall and it rarely ever failed to ] . strengthen and benefit the person tak- j 1 ing it. The old way wqs good but there 1 ' is a new way that is far better, i ' . Science has discovered a way to man- | 1 ufacture Iron fo that it can be dis- • solved in syrups and elixirs and given ! ' in definite doses. t>ne of the best and 1 surest ways to take Iron is in Rydale's • This remedy is a combination ; ! of Iron, Q-iinine and Strychnine in an' ! Orarg Elixir and combined with other i ingredients that make it very vaiuab e | 1 as a blood and nerve tonic. It is with- i • j out an equal for old people needing a 1 stimulant and for weak and puny chil- j dren and a sure cure for chills and malaria. j V. M. D. Marcy & Co. apr ' CREEN CREEK. Mrs. Sallie Cummings came down | the firet of the week and opened her | cottage here. | Levy Foster and Isaac Linderraan | . caught 30 fine shad in a gill net one j i i day last week. i ^Mrs. Laura Holmes spent part of j , I the week with her daughters at Ava- j ' and Swainton. | She leaves a husband and five children. < Mrs. Ella Conover was called to the j ' bedside of her father at Fishing Creek j week as he had been taken worse. ! Edward Chance was called to Mill- 1 ville last week to attend the funeral of j , his niece. ■ | , Rev,. Garner Tullis Hand, of Burfilled the pulpit of the Methodist j , church on Sunday evening. He was ac- , ' companied by Charles Strickler. Mrs. Jennie Erricson. ' of Court, House, spent Sunday with Mrs. Alfred Crease. , HTTEN BY A SPIDER ~ I i Through blood poisoning caused by a j spider bite, John Washington, of Bosi queville, Tex. , would have lost his leg, ' which became a mass of running sores, j had he not been persuaded to try Bccklen's Arnica Salve. • He writes: "The ■ ^first application relieved, and four 3 poxes healed all the softea. " Heals every sore. 25 cents at All Drug . Stores. apr

who were sorry to hear of her death. \ Mr. and Mra. Edward Armstrong, of • Ocean City, came home on Sunday for . a day. Mrs. Armstrong stayed over far a week. \ Mr. and Hxs. James Swain tlii^C tb Wildwood on Monday. ^ ' ' Miss Lillian Conorer is spending* wedk. with her aisten at Eldredge. Mrs. Eliza Selover entertained her daughter Lucy and two other ladiee . from Philadelphia last week. Rev. T. T. Rush preached in the . chunks Sunday morning ' but on account of the illness of hia son h3 returned hotoe in the afternoon, . there was no service in the evening. Mrs. Bertha Crease wiU take charge of the Junior League. They will meet* at ber boms at two o'clock ner* g.lutGladding ami Charles Palmer, of Rio Grande, were in town on business on Monday,. - j" TH PDCE* Of HEALTB "The price of health in a malarious diatzict is just 25 cents; the coat of a box of Dr. King's New Life PHla." writes Ella Slay ton, of Noland, Ark' New Life Pills cleanse gently and impart new life and vigor to the system. -5c. Satisfaction guaranteed by All Druggists. apr A.M.EXONFERENCE MEET HERE 154 PREACHERS ATTEND IT Interesting and Busy Sessions Presided Over by Bishop W. J. Gaines. The 36th annual session of the A. M. E. Conference opened in Ailen Chapel j A. M. E. church of this city, of which j Rev. Russell Sturges is pastor, on Wed- | The Conference was presided over , Bishop W. J, Gaines. D D., L. L. | D., of Atlanta, Ga., who is now the I I presiding Bishop of the North Carolina, Virginia. ? Baltimore, Philadelphia and j New Jersey Conferences. The Con- ■ was organized by the election ! of Rev. J. H. Morgan, chief secretary. I , I and Revs. W. W. Johnson and F. W. 1 | Thompson, assistants. After the usual - i devotional exercises and the adminis- ! tering of the Sacrament of the Lord's i i Suppef, the Bishop made a short and appropriate address to the Conference. In this address the Bishop took oc- ' casion to admonish the preachers to i , "Apply themselve® diligently to the - study of the Gospel and so conduct I themselves as to hold their rightful , I place as leaderg among the people. As 1 . to the conditions confronting us as a , people, the Bishop advis»d that the 1 • Negroes be not hastv m condemning j i the Republican party because of one • mistake in the Brownsville affair. He said, there is. very little indue-"- 1 ment for the Negro to go over to the | 1 Democratic party since its policy has t ■ been rather against than in favor of j , fair playjfor the Negroes cf the South. | The Republican party has been our friend and I think it best to stick : to it" I I The reports of the ministers were all ; I goixl and showed that the men had all I doing a good year'sjwork. i ] The first n ght's session whs a very . , 1 interesting on . The annual sermon I was preached by Dr. H. P. Anderson. ! j of Newark. N. J.. and was one of the |( . ever preached before the New (Jersey Conference. So pleased were 1 i ! the ministers that it was ordered to be i j ' printed as a part of the Conference j ! | Welcome addresses were made by I l Rev. Mr. Burns, pastor of the First 1 ■ M. E. church. JRev J. E. Cook, pastor , i of the Second M. E. Chur-h, Miss • . j Annie Borican on behalf of the women , of Cape May and Prof. J. R. Furge- . son. on behalf of the local church. I Th-se were happiiy responded to by Dr R. F. Hurley, of Camden. The Conference was attended by ai-out one hundred ministers, among whom are several very able and representative men. Among the general officers present were Rev. H. T. Johnson. D. i j D., editor of the Christian Recorder ; ■ Rev. W. H. Heard, D. D.. secretary | and treasurer of the Connectional I Preachers' Aid Association, and Prof. 1 J. R. Hawkins, A. M.. Commissioner! : of Education. All of these will make | j reports of their respective departments i • i before the close of the Conference on I Sunday night. Bishop Gaines is regarded as one of i the ablest preachers of the Conference and will preach a special ordination | Suudav morning at 11 o'clock, j Throng o' Buyers Contiinue. I The people of Cape May and vicinity I appreciate the great advantage which was obtained for them, in getting the) Dr. Howard Co to allow regular 50 cent , ■ | size of Dr. Howard's spe ific, for tbe | , cure of constipation and dyspepsia, to . 1 be sold a half pricp. 25 cents, and have j : | bought hundreds of bottles. 1 Many orders have come by mail at | | this popular price, for it is veiy un- j ' i usual to be able to buy Sixty doses of a standard medicine for half price, i Every bottle of the specific sold by | Mecray had a personal guarantee lo j , refund the money if it was not satis- , factory, but none has come back, show- ( ■ ing the wonderful curative power of i | this remedy. 1 r Unlike ordinary medicines for con- i s stipation #nd dyspepsia, the doae of : Dr. Hojrerd's specific is reduced after [ a few rayV use, and the cure is toon complete and lasting.

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^ ^ I ' BUlst-STIN 'y'M BAGSAG • AND PASSENSE1 TRANSFER At CAPE tl (. With Uie beginning of the Bridge train service between Broad Street Station and Gape May on Saturday, April nth, and continuing through the Easter Season all tbe trains will ehter and de> '* part from the "Summer Station", at the beach end of Grant Street This station affords better facilities than the smaller station in use during the winter season. Tbe Union Transfer Company will be prepared to transfer baggage promptly between the station, the Hotel Cape May. the Windsor, the Virginia and other open hotels. A prompt and comfortable tiansfer of passengers, by coaches has also b^en arranged for between the station and the JBoteT Cape May • f On and after April nth trains will leave for Cape May and Wildwood as follows — leave Broad Street Station 4.02 P. M. Weekdays, 8 29 A. M. Sundaysfreturning Idavc Cape May 8.05 4 A.M. Weekdays, 530 P. ,M. Sundays. Leave Market Street Wharf 8.04 A. M. 4.28^ P. M. Weekdays. 9 00 A. M. Sundays, returning leave Cape May 7.30 A. M. 4.0c P. M. Weekdays, 4.05 P. M. Sundays Parlor Car seats may be engaged noqj. - , . .

| ERMA BULLETIN 2. - Erroa, N. J.. April. 18 1908. 5 # ^ Items of Interest at R. T. Johnson's

•Jeven yqars ago we started a branch j f , store in Holly Beach in connection t with Samuel Roberts, toho was head ' clerk for seven years in the mother 1 a | store at Erma. Some of our friends advised us f against the move, because of large ^ j established business hjuses alreadv in ? the place with large means to i' jure I j ■ We are glad to announce tn our , 8 friends that our "one price." "good , goods" at "moderate profit" has been a success from .the start. We now I have four separate stores "in Holly 0 ' Beach and Wildwood. a fancy grocery R and shoe store in our large building we 11 ' built last winter, one of the finest along the coast, an up-to-date shoe * I store at Wildwood we open on Satur- >' I day, the 18th inst., and a well estab- C lished feed and harness store at Holly Beach. We mention these matters to 1 convince you that we buy right and sell 1 right. We buy in such large quantities t that w" cap buy the best goods and ,i sell at bottom prices. No matter a whether at Erma, Wildwood or Holly * Beach, stop in and buy and you will ! v

| get same 'treatment and same prices that are in all the stores. At Erma we have just received ' another shipment of Japan mattings, j Don't fail to visit our harness deI partment. We positively are down to bed rock bottom prices on carriage or I work harness. Our spring and summer styles of shoes and Oxford ties are now in stock: -4 WALL PAPER It has been our banner year for sales 1 of wall paper. Note thfe prices we give which is 20 per cent, of the list price and we pay the freight. The last call for seed potatoes. We have left a few barrels of American Giants, Houlton Early Rose and Mountain. All Maine grown. The la«t matter to bring before you this week is our bargain table. A larger discount off the regular price than any ordinary house -ifcre to offer, namely. 50 per cent. You will find promiscuous lot some weeks. This week it has shoes, dry goods and

REUBEN T. JOHNSON E R M A., N J. SAMUEL T. FREEMAN & COMPANY AUCTIONEERS Freeman Building S. W. Cor. 12th & Walnut Sts. Philadelphia 2 STORY FRAME COTTAGE (Lot 30x100 ft.) 9TH ABOVE I BEACH AVENUE 6 rooms, Cape May, To be sold Wednesday May 6, 1908, at 12 in. ' At the Real| Estate Rooms, Freeman Bldg. S. W .Cor. 12 th arfcrW^lI nut sts. Philadelphia. Full particulars in hand bills. ' j- Wra. C. Stoever, Esq., Atty. 727 Walnut St, Philadelphia

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