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m POWDER Absolutely Pure Mpb only baking powdar ^■mmIs w Mb Royal Grape Dream of Tartar ^HAha, Nt Liae Phosphate ^ 7 ^^Hn. Hairy and Barton Corson ^^^^^bmday with the-r mother at the ^^^^^^■amie Sayre is spending sevwith her parents here, Mr. G. Van Artadalen. ^ a Blizzard, of Cape May, waa a Hp^day visitor here returning home on ^■tp* Sunday evening train. B. gTSvery member of the "Bads of Hpomise" are wearing their merry W Widows. Prof. Charles Tomlin has been elected supervising principal of the Dennis tpwnship schools. Miss Mary Meerwald has been reelected principal of the school here and Miss Lena Corson assistant. Joseph Meerwald was also reelected principal of the Ladlam school and Miss Sallie Holmes primary teacher. The first championship game between this town aod Xuckaboe resulted in a victory for thel visitors with the score of seven to eleven. Frank Lee and familv," of Trenton, * has been visiting the Misses Townsehd this week. Claude H. "lay lor, who is employed : by the Anglesea Fishing Company, ' was home over Sunday. Mrs. James Stiler**ifc» spending the week visiting friend -in Camden and 1 Collingswood. 1 Edward L. Rice was transacting bos- 1 iness at the county seat the first of the 1 week. Miss Beulah Stiles was entertainned t byl Miss -Mamie Gandy who is teach- > ing at Peter-burg. Miss Gandy has J been employed for another year. j Miss Clara Douglass was at Court ( House Tuesday of this week. '

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City, spe t last week here with bar paren.s. Mrs. William Eldredge came , from Stone Harbort las' week. Sne will spend several- weeks here with her rrsndmotber. M r. Eldredge will be off in a f-w daj>. Sa^wberries and eregm and drum steak are now on the bill of }are.Captain M. " M. Nor bury has a fine field of crimson dov- r which is much fdmired. Henry Daugherty, who closed his school last week, moved his family to his farm in Dennisviile. Mr. and Mrs. James Daugherty, of | Camden, are with her parents. Mr. and i Mrs. Edwin Chance for two wdeks. j Joseph Robinson and Ed. Chanoe, , who keep bees, seen to have hard luck. ] They have both lost t«o swarms this 1 year. ' i George Swain, of Cold Spring, spent j P Sunday here with his brother James. ] I After being some time with her hus- , | band in. ^e« York on board of the j "Lotta Russell." Mrs. Joseph James, ^ | J returned horfie this week | Ralph Sci ellenger. A. M. Robinson "" and Truman Hickman were at Tucks h"be on Fr day between trains, helping arrange the program for-^tb'e Sunday n School Convention which will be held * at Holly Beach in the fall. -t On Thursday nf last week the Sunr_ Inst

. day schools from Tabernacle and Fishing Creek came to the public landiitg on their annual picnic. In the aftern noon Frank Schelfenuer Visited the picnic and soon after his arrival had j the misfortune to be hit by a foul ball and had his none badly broken. He was taken to Court House where the j injury war treated. He is getting e slong all right 1 Frank Redgraves has the finest rhu- j barb in the place haying several acres j 8 under cultivation. The Methodist Sunday Bchool will ] j render a program "Among the flowers" j for Children's Day. Rev. Elijah Tozer has been suffer , ing with a severe cold for two weeks i j and was not able to preach on Sunday. 1 s Rev. Garner Hand filled the pulpit here in the morning and at Rio Grande ' " in the afternoon and Rev. Jerry Fos- i j ter in tfte evening here. I About twenty-five of the members I and friends of Cape May G ranee went I to Dias Creek on Tuesday evening of last week to attend the seventh anni- I , versary and they had a fine entertain-' I ment. Mrs. Jane Schellinger gave a 1 ■ recitation, •'Come Unto Me," after i the entertainment. A nice banquet i was served. Knowing tflat some wsople say too much we will close with the following remark: "Rydsle's Cough Elixir is ' guaranteed underj the U. S. Pure Food and Drug Law, Serial number 2119 \ to contain neither Morphine, Opium' , Chloroform n"r opiates of any kind' and to be absolutely harmless. 8 V. M. D. Marcy & Co. may v. ja. u. marcy cc un. may

OABTOniA. 1 Bw, tks »TM tod Yw Has Atop BoucM } 7 t FISHING CREEK. Mr. and Mrs. Angus Morris wen* I • men driving through, our village Sun- | day. , Mr.*%nd Mrs. fHoward Otter. Miss | • Hazel Otter and Mrs. Borns, of Cape • May were calling ton Mr. and Mrs. I ; Enoch Miller. Sunday. Miss Sarah Woolson was visiting 1 friends at Holly Beach Tuesday. Walter McNeill, o£Erma, spent Saturlay and Sunday with his friend. En ch Miller, Jr. Robert Woolson is on the sick list r t lis week ^and is threatened with a fever. > Mrs. Annie Woolson isTspending sev- ■ ersl days with Mr. and Mrs. Israel - Woolson at Holly Beach. Boyd McPheraon spent Sunday at the r home of his parents, s The friends of Enoch Miller, Jr., gathered at the home of his parents - Wednesday evening and gave him a l "surprise" in honor of his .birthday. A very pleasant'and Jolly evening was i spent by the young people and it was s near the wee hours of the morning when the guests departed to their l homes well pleased with the occasion. IFrankfWoolsori was a visitor to Cape i May Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. George Cummings and 1 son spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. John Bates. George Matthew aad brother Will, of Petersburg, visited Cape May on Saturday evening. ' Mr. and Mrs. Willets Johnson Bpent j the day at Green Creek on Sunday I lata. Mrs. Sallie Simons passed through oir village on Sunday last enroute-for j Dias Creek to her daughters. James Brown, of Camden, is . visit- j ing his friend, John Snyder, for a few 1 days. Mrs. Albert Pierson and sister, Eila Johnson, spent the day with their S'S- i ter, Mrs. John Snyder, on Wednesday, j Mr. and Mrs. William Mathew and , daughter Cornelia, of Petersburg, were over Sunday visitors with his mother, Mrs. Cyhthia Mathews. Miss Emily Thompson, of Cape May, and friend. Dr. Decker, from Pittsburg. were calling on friends here on Monday last. Miss Mary Snyder 'spent the day at |

r Sea Store Cottage with Kiaa Mantel Yearrick «ie day this week, i Claude Yearrick, of Camden, jsf I spending a few daya^vitb fcrfi brothers • and aistera at their Ben Shore Cottage, j If a person conJd always know just what Hie trouble was when they began | ! to fee 1 sick and "out of aorta" arid also know what to do to get well qui . k , there would be lots le s sickness. There are thousands of people who suffer from Catarrh of toe Bile Pacts I who don't know that tlmy possess sev- ] i ersl little ducts that lead from the , Liver and Gall Bladder and carry bile and other fluids into the intemtines. . When these ducts get clogged with the owner will begin to get bilan"! have all kinds of mean feeli' gs. Ordinary livtr pills and powders fail to relieve this condition. There is remedy, however, made especially . for the trouble. Ry dale's Liver Tabrets— a prescription of a specialist. One dose convinces. Write for tree 1 sample. Rydsle Remedy Co.. Newport ( News, Virginia. Guaranteed by M. V. i Marcy & Co. # may /^3sA.BTOHIA. I B"<w' COLD SPRING. Mr. and Mrs. David McPheraon drove ' to Court House, Sunday.

Mrs. Tryphena Baton, of Philadel- - phia, attended services at the Old I Brick | Presbyterian church. Sabbath - morning. s Some of our villagers attended the i ball game at.Wildwood Saturday. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Creutbers are under i the home roof for a season. • Mrs. Samuel Day is at home from r Trenton. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Richardson, of j Court House, were Sabbath visitors, s Miss L. Eldredge returned to her j home Tuesday. I j J. C. Eldredge is clo^fig out his 1 grocery store after thirty-two years of business. The annual Presbyterian Sunday i school picnic was held Thursday at Coxe's Hall. A festival 'at Cold Spring Chapel and Friday evenings resulted a swelling of the treasure fund to the amount of $23. Ms. M. Chad wick is on the sick Mildred Miller is spending her vacation in Philadelphia. ' Miss Ella Hoffman is now Mrs. ! The wedding was solemnized at Bridgeton, May 11, 1908. Our best wishes are extended. Miss Emily Davis,re turned to her home at High Falls. N. Y.. Friday. Academy school closed Tuesday and Cold Spring district Wednesday. ' In honor of Miss Mary Phillips, of Grove, Mrs" A. Matthews enter- . tained the lady teachers of the town- ' ship, Thursday evening. Miss Mas McNeill, accompanied the ' Tabernacle Sunday school on their an-

nual picnic to Norbury'x Landing Thursday. Miss Alice Brewton, of West Cape May, spent Monday evening with her - friend. Miss Emily Davis. , j That the roots of many native plants, j Browing wild in our American lorests, possess remarkable properties for the | • ure of human maladies is well proven. 3 Even che untutored Indian had learned ■ | the curative value of some of these ' nd taught the early Bettlers their ■ i uses. The Indian nover liked to work i so he wanted his squaw to get well as ' : soon as possible that she might do the work and let him Jiunt. Therefore, he dug "papoose root" for her. for that was their great remedy for female . weakness. Di. Pierce uses the same root— called Blue CoHosh— in his "Ftvt orite Prescription," skillfully combined with other agents that make it more effective than any other medicine in caring all the various weaknesses - and plainful derangements peculiar to I women. Many afflicted women have been ' saved from the operating table and the | '■ surgeon's knife by the timely use of ; Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Tenderness over the lower re- ' gioo, with backache, spells of dizzi- 1 neas, faintness, bearing down pains or ' distress should not go unheeded. A , , course of "Favorite Prescription" will ( , work marvelous benefit in all such cases, and generally effect a permanent cure if persisted in for a reasonanble t '■ length of rime. r For constipation, the true, scientific cure is Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. ( Mild, harmless, yet sure. 1 RIO GRANDE. I' Mr. and Mrs. Silas Sbaw are this , • week entertaining her sister and 1 nephew from Oatskill Mountains, f i Mrs. Mary R. Cresse, of Atlsntic , ■ j City, spent a few days with her son . j William at this place. t : Miss Mary Goff Neal, has had a piano ' ' J placed in her home, j Mrs. Seth Hand entertained her sisi j ter-in-law, of Millville, on Sunday. ■ i Warren Neal made a business trip j to Philadelphia on Tuesday. Warner Harris has treated his house i ' | with a new coat of paint. < Rev. Borden smiles broadly now for 1 > ( a little girl baby came to his home on ] - 1 Tuesday to stay. ] ; Were you at Neal Brother's ice i i cream parlor on Saturday eyening? t : j With every plate of cream you get ' , cake free. Its to be opened every Sat- i urday evening. Come and hear -<he 1 , comic pieces on the phonograph. t i The Baptist church is fortunate in ! securing Miss Ola Bidwell for a return i i ' date next Monday* night.

CMH BSE bank building The Baptist parsonage is rapidly being completed diy contractor H. W. House cleaning is in order. The ledfaa are now having cleaned toetr booses where the vacuum cleaner did notga Mies Joanna Hearon was shopping in the Quaker City the first of the week. Bnrton'Corson visited fait home at Dennisviile last Sunday. ■ The pablic grounds are in fine condk, , tion. Mias Alice Corson is 'spending the weak with her sister in Philadelphia. The Misses Springer and V&sra. Ed. and Profs Gill and McCready, were out sailing in the Quito Monday evening. Sailing paries «|e becoming very . frequent. Last Week Miss Anna Holmes gave a sailing Partyfto a number of her friends. Lawyer John B. Huffman was transacting business at Cape May- City one day last week. Mr. and Mrs> John Douglass were visiting Mrs. J. Douglass, ot* South last Saturday and Sunday. Leslie S. Lodlem, Esq.. and son, T

I. were a South Dennis last Sunday at d the old bomest-ad. h Hon. George H. White, the founder of Whiteeboro, was in town yeiently e tranacting business. William Powell was at Goshen visitr ing his father during the first of the week. B Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. "Coombs were in town last Saturday calling on f friends. Mr. 'and Mrs. James G. Stiles, of r Dennisviile, were entertained by Miss Joanna Hearon last Friday afternoon^ 5 Mead Tomlin,was recently shopping f in Philadelphia. Curtis T. Baker, of Wildwood, was r transacting business here daring the t tfeek. Last week Alfred Cooper was transI acting businessjin the city of Millville. , The Rev W. W. Bullock has returned after spending a few days with friends in Cumberland county. William Christian, of the Reading Railroad, is very popular with the young ladies of this town. The school boys are happy. It is about time for swimming and school has closed. Master Dorsey Foster is spending the week with relatives at Coatesville, Pennsylvania. The farmers are planting their cam. There is a fine , prospect for the early truck. Tbe.peaches are falling olff the trpes in many of the orchards. Tfie stock of the new glass factory is about subscribed and it is expected that t,he buildings will -be erected at au early date.

J. Frank Broderick was shopping in Philadelphia last .week. E. R. Stiles and family were visitors } at the homestead at Dennisviile last ; Saturday and Sunday. Arlington B. Corson' spent Sunday at South Seaville with friends. Charles Stewart and family, of Cami den, were visitors at Miss J. Hearon 's ! last week. , Manufactured at Newport, Va.. sold . from Maine to Florida, ready and am- . ply able to help all in need at any time I or place, irrespective of nationality, , creed or color. Such is the record of Rydale's Liver Tablets, made only for I liver and bowel troubles and the best , remedy known for Catarrh of the Bile , Ducts. Write Rydale Remedy Co., for , free sample Guaranteed|by M. V. D. ' . Marcy & Co. may ERMA Mrs. A. Hawn spent a* couple of days at Cold Spring las tj week. : | Mrs. Seymore is still at the home of Daniel Schellenger. Rev. _ Borden has [accepted a pastorate in Pennaylvania. Miss TO live Douglass spent several days of last week with her aunt, Mrs. Wm. Schellenger. ■ Mr. W. Schellenger visited Ocean i City recently. Mrs. Mary McNeil with her children Albert and Adeline is visiting her moth re at hei home at Manahawkin. A HARROW ESCAPE G- W. Cloyd, a merchant, of Plunk, s i Mo., had a narrow escape four years' i ago, when he ran a jimson bur into hid thumb. He says: "The doctor wanted 1 to amputate it but I would not con- : sent. I bought a box of Bucklen's j Arnica Salve and that cured the dangerous wound." 25 cents at all drug- , t gists. may ^COMMUNICATION. Editor of Star ard Wave : i The seventh anniversary oi Cape May Grange, No. 128, P. of H., was : duly celebrated in their hall at Dias Creek on Tuesday evening. May 12th. ' before the hour, of opening, i patrons from all the surrounding \il- ] began to arrive and by eight < i o'clock the ball was well filled. When ( ' the Worthy Master, Brother JE. H. . Tuttle sounded the gavel and requested - all who were not fdurth degree memi to retire, there was a rush for the doors. When thosefnot members retired many others "from the [lower entered and took their places. A i short session was held and routine has- 1 iness gone through with, the name of

j poe person being proposed fcr>iembership. Tbe business session closed and the lecturer's hour was on when all Visitnra were invited to be present and OJ" than one hundred filled the room to listen to a well arranged program. The exerc«>.M were opened by singing, followed 'b. a recitation, "Failure," by Mrs. C. P. fcVaiytman • song, by Mrs. A. T. D. Howell and Mrs. A. H. Schellenger; recitation by Mrs. Jane Schellenger; solo, by Mrs. Ida Page; reading, Mrs. Maggie Kilm; recitation, Holmes Douglass ; "Tbe Grange," a hbme made Idnet, by Dra. Dix and Douglass of Court House brought down the house. There was some speech making by -visiting friends and four of

il the five Granges of t^ county were represented. ,r After the rendering of tbe program, . Y all were invited to the lower ^all where ajbountiful collation waa served, I- the tables fairly groaning beneath e their burden of good things for the • inner man. Rev. Frank Bemensdefer ' s Invoked the| blessings. Among the < n prominent ones we noticed Sheriff Cor- i

son and wife of Palermo Grange, Dr. ■'{ John 8- Douglass, of ttxkaUttW Grange ; Frank E. Bats sod wife, af 3a Cold Spring Grange, and metaben of our own Grange from Court House," Goshen. Green Creek and Dias Creek. ; Both the supper and entertainment ' 2 committee deserve special mention and « credit for making this one of tbe moot successful anniversaries of the Graive Vj history. There are more than one hundred members of this one Grange and M if the people knew the advantages toe '£ grange offers to their members both of a business and social relation, we are srure the membership of iur county would be doubled in a very ahoifc time.

' H youwiah pleasutts, profit Tahd gainr - join the Grange, attend the "meetings, takes part and enjoy life aa never before, and the end accomplished will satisfaction and helpfulness. AtOTAH CURE FOR ACSDK FEET i Shake into your Bhoes Allen's FootEase. a powder. It cures tired, aching, callous, sweating, swollen feet. • S At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample Free. Address. Allen S. Olmated, Le Roy. N. Y. 5-9 4t

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I PIGS choice of forty choice Chester j county White and Black and Whit« Berkshire pigs.rix weeks old May 23rd. These are choice stock of our own raiding. [Price $3. 00 each. CALICO And the lot of pounce calico 5c per yard, or 5 pounds for $1.00, good quality, making it cost you ' about 3 ■ centa per yard.

I WEEDERS • Gloeing oat our weeders. One bone, — - , 14 foot wide weeders for $5.00. Usual price $10.00. PAINTS Don't fail to try some of N. Z. : \ I Graves' paints and varnishes when in I need. Nothing better for the money.

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