ttn l*T STAR AID WAS ssraEsssssfc. HoH h> Star *e4 w»"*. W> REPUBLICAN TfCKE STATE SENATOR Robert E Hand GENERAL ASSEMBLY Christopher 8. Band COUNTY CLERK A. Carlton Hildreth CORONER George H Reeves MAYOR Frederick J. Melvin RECORDER John W. Thompson COUNCIL George S. Douglass F. Sidney Towns«nd Frederick W. Wolff ASSESSOR Irvin H. Eldredge COLLECTOR Gilbert C. Hughes TREASURER Stephen B. Wilson CHOSEN FREEHOLDER John T. Bennett OVERSEER Of POOR Albert G. Bennett Y. M. A. STAR COURSE Tbose^who have lor some rears past enjoyed the very excellent entertainments given in the Y. M. A. Star Coarse of entertainments will be pleased to know that the committee has arranged a course for the present season which 1b , expected to be very leasing. For the first number The Edwin R. Weeks Company has been engaged. Mr. Weeks has a very wide reputation as an impersonator and enterainer of great versatility, having been called an to fill eeveiTretnrn engagements in tbe R. R. Y. M. O. A., of Philadelphia. Mr. Weeks is supported by Miss Lucia Gillespie, pianist, and Miss Lulu Sinclair, ooncert violinist I This will be followed by the following numbers : Tbe Concert Trio, Eveyln Bargelt Company, Lucy Lee Oonoert Company, Dr. Monroe Markley, Phildelah Rice. Through all these numbers there is a mingling of music and good readings that is sure to please. Members of the committee will canvass the town during the next week for persons qrbo have Inot already engaged tickets This committee does a very considerable amount of work in the preparation and carrying through of these courses, and every one should help make it a success. CILD SPRIN6 Mr. and Mrs. Harold Eldredge, also 1 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ccwau. are eorily ; ensconced in their new homes on Town Bank Road. De Witt 0. Eldredge recently visited Philadelphia. Grange Lecturer, Mrs Albert Matthews, Mrs. Ocie Eldredge. Mrs. Alice McKissick, Miss Elizabeth Hitchner, Mrs. M. Swain and Mr. Sheppard Taylor were among those who attended Pomona Grange at Dias Creek last week. This week Cold Spring Grange was invited to vialt^Rio Grande Grange. Messrs. John Elliott and S. Taylor took bos loads and a very enjoyable and profitable evening was spent Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hildreth received third and fourth degrees. Mrs. M. R. Soffe entertained her brother and sister Tuesday. E. Learning acted as one of the pall bearers at the funeral of Caleb Shaw at Tabernacle Saturday. Mrs. C. H. Hand, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. J as. Needles, spent Tuesday of last week with Rio Grande relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Spicer Harris, of Rio Grande, visited her parents the first of the week. The new order . P. O. of S. A. has 1 many members. Emma Connelly spent several days last week with lelatives at Wildwood. ' Mrs. Emily Scbellenger has resumed occupancy of her old home for a season. Mrs. Nathaniel Douglass is recovering fiom her recent fall. Tbe Decimo Clob met last week. Lulu Davis, of High Falls, is attending West Cape May H>gb School. She is making her home with Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Hoffman for the winter. Rev. Joseph Garrison, of Little Silveer, N. J., was the guest of his sister Tuesday. Mrs. George Snyder vis ted Erma, the first of tbejweek. M. Mr. and Mrs. Lowden spentjpart of the week in Phlladeldhia. Rev. Joseph Garrison is visiting his agsd sister, Mrs. Mary Soffee. Henry Shaw and wife spent Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs HanY Snyder. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R_ Swain and Mr. and Mrs. Augustus H. Swain, have retained from their annual vaca- : tico, having taken in while gone Delaware Water Gap, also Mt Pocon0 ; and other places. >e

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F1SBINS CREEK. George Bishop and sister, of Phil-a . delpbis. were here over Sunday, »lso attended the funeral of Caleb Shaw. y ' Claude Yerrick and friend, of Camden, were here on Monday calling on j friends. J mes Shaw, of Wall, has returned borne afler spending several weeks m with his parents. / jf Rev. E. A. Wells an<r-£amily, of Pleasantville. have been s ehdine a week with friends, also helped with ln the revivals si Chapel while here. I- Several from our. place attended the is rceeptioo of Eli Sn>der on Wednesday ,. evening. Mrs Sallie Foster, of Cape May, was an over Sundav visitor with her r- brother, J. Ansel! Woolson. j, Mr. and Mrs James Shaw, of Holly ^ Beach, were called to his brother's funeral on Saturday afternoon. Our esteemed friend and neighbor. Uncle Caleb Shaw, was laid sway on is Saturday afternoon. He was loved end ,B respected by old and young and will be sadly missed. There was a very large funeral Brother Messier preached tne i- sermon and Rev. 45. A. Wells spoke, k Mrs Frank Barnett, Mar ha Snyder and Emma Baraett are shopping in Philadelphia. Israel Woolson is calling on old n friends, stopping with his brother, I, Rell Woolson. j Herbert Shaw finished bis cranberries on Wednesday after several weeks of picking. Leslie Woolson had quite a p -stal ! shower on Wednesday as it was his ' bir> hday. o| e Worthy Master Bate and wile were , s elected to attend the next session of i the State Grange which meets at ' Asbury Park, in December i Samuel Hildreth has equipped him- ; self with a comp'ete clamming outfit j - and is now engaged in that lucrative . e business. < Silas Matthews is baring a new I • corn crib erected. , i Miss Olive Douglass spent Saturday < i with her aunt nere. t Charles Matthews shipped a consign- 1 ment of sweet potatoes this week. i Charles Hemingway has returned to i • Millville. r W. Jackson is building a corn crib' 1 3 Enoch Miller is still serving the ' Cape May markets. c ' Milton Matthews reshingled the roof \ ■ on liism other's house. , Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bate, Mr. and!; r Mrs F. E. Bate, Mrs. Jennie Mc- | ' Pherson, and Mr and Mrs. Herbert : a Shaw, attended Dias Creek Pomona 1 f 1 Grange. r Eddie Woolson's new bouse is in pro- r cess of painting. a t Mrs. H. Woolson visited Cold Spring Saturday. : A number of our citizens have fish i fikes out. Tbe infant child of Mr and Mrs. W. Fredericks, required medical attention last week. ■ Little Edith Schellenger has taken up her abode with Mr and Mrs. Lemi 1 uei Schellenger and finds life pleasant | there. \ I Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Shaw enter1 | tained Rev. and Mrs. Wells during ■ their stay here. I Revival services have begun in the Chapel. Page Matthews' barn is completed. Frederick Kelling was called to • Bridgeton last week to attend the funeral of his i ieoe. . -£• . Place your surplus on time deposit f with the Security Trust Company and get 3 per cent interest. tf E i M .

' ERMA Mrs. Robe't'E. Hand has J been quite ill of ton ilitis. Mr and Mra. David Hawn anj daughter attended Homnna Grange at " Dia» Creek Tuesday week. Wesley Taylor is engaged in business ^ in Camden. Cha les Hand has employed a housekeeper. . Hertha Hand, who recently married a Philadel hia g< ntleman. is domiciled at present in a part of the bouse with Mr. and Mrs Su»ms Mr. and Mrs Hiram Soults spent the dsy Tuesday with their parents at Co d Spri' g. Rev. and Mrs. Edward Wells, of ' Pie santvillee. are making a pleasant s ay among former parishioners T ty , are accompanied by their son Russell. This former past"r and his "gude" wife, were well liked when on this charge, and we gladly welcome them ' to their former charge. I — ! While you are cleaning bouse let us f clean your lace curtains and blankets. ! Keystone Phone. 4uD. TROY LAUNDRY, tf 10 Decatur street. I TEA BERRY PARTY A joyous party of yruog folks made a raid on the inoffensive tea berry j family last Saturday via a straw ride. The merry I unch left town about [ 9 o'clock in the morning and after a ' long'ride through the glorious October woods, located the tea hemes in tbe vicinity "f Hear Swamp, near Kio ; Grande. Though the day was rather : chill and wirdy in the open, a pleasanter da« could not have been asked in the woda where the trees shel1 tered th party from the wind. Tbe berries were plentiful and several lunch boxes were filled with tbem after lunch Jhad been eaten. Alyn Sayre pressed his "gaiin'let" into service as a receptacle for the bright berries About three o'clock tbe journey homeward was commenced and after arriving borne the day was concluded with a ride about town. The party included Mrs. T. Sayre, Miss Flossie Ware. Miss Hazel Taylor, Miss Mabel | Miss Phene McKean, Miss Wilkie. Miss Alice Newkirk I and Miss Edith Hand. Messrs. OlifWare, Alyn Sayre. Samuel Channels, William Nichols, Frank Hughes and Marvin Oliver. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. Tbe Kind You Hate Always Bought PILES If « on have Piles we will cure you. Writ* lo-dtr for FREE BOOKTLET & GUARANTEE. Established in 1885, and have never n case we could not cure OREEN'S SPECIFIC CO., Broadway & Manhattan St, Mew York, It. Y.

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AN ORIGINAL EVENING j A happy bevy of young ladies en- — joyed Tuesday evening in an original manner as guests of Miss Mabel Richardson at her home in West Oape May. The evening went by all too swiftly, the popular games being exhausted. 'S Jenkins, Gossip ana Lobster were Bt "great fun." Miss Richardson's swge8 ing and playing were mueb enjoyed, though the merry-go-round and see- «=- saw rather upset things. Those ^ present were : Misses Mabel Richardjd son, Phene McKean. Emms W heaton, Lb Mabel Newkirk, Alice Newkirk, Hazel Taylor, Mary Eldredge it i — ; 't COUNTY BOARD )f OK AGRICULTURE. ,t A meeting the County Board of Agy riculture will be held in ihe Court j; House, at Cape May Court House, iB Saturday, November 18th, 19>>9 There n will be sessions both morning and afternoon. Reports of delegates, ejection of officers and addresses will'ock cupy the sessions. All are earnestly i. invitrd to attend. t Nature "manes all things beautiful in their time." Every one of life's seasons, when life moves on Nature's e lines, has its own cbarm and beauty. y Many women dread that period when , they must experience change of life. ^ They fear that face and form may suffer by the change, and that they may r fail to please those whom they love. e The value of Doctor Pierce's Favorite 0 Prescription in ti'is crises of woman's r life lies in the fact t'iat it assists Nah tnre. Its use preserves the balance d and buoyancy of tbe mind and sustain l_ the physical powers. Many women e have expressed their gratitude for the j help and comfort given by "Favorite Q Prescription" in this trying period. Q Its benefits are not passing but permHnent. Not a "patent medicine" Decause all its ingredients are printed on P the bottle wrapper. r M. E. CHURCH 1 The pastor will preach next Sunday, " October 81st. on "The Divine Guest." 8 at 10:30 a. m., and on "What is the 1 everlasting Punishm-nt," at 7:80 p. m. ■ : Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S ; PASTOR I A

JOSEPH B. HUGHES, JR.. SELLS HOME Joseph B. Hughes, Jr., has sold his cottage. 915 Queen street, to Mrs. Ella Cart>r McKnight, who will reside in it ELY'S OREAM BALM has been tried and not found wanting iu tbous ands of homes all over the country. It has won a place in tbe family medicine cloret among the reliable household remedies, where it is kept at hand for use in treating cold in the head just as soon as some member of the household begins the preliminary sneezing or snuffling. It gives immediate relief • and a day or two's treatment will put a stop to a cold which might, if not r checked, b- come chronic and run into a bad case of catarrh. TO THE HONORABLE CITY OOUN- ' CIL OF THE CITY OF OAPE MAY Gentlemen : We, the undersigned, being tbe owners of property on Maryland Avenue. in tbe City of Cape May, respectfully petition your honorable body that you cause to be constructed or laid, a suitable sewer or drain for bouse sewage on the said Maryland Avenue, at a point between Madison Avenue and Philadelphia Avenue, as in your judgment shall be necessary for noose drainage in that locality, and take such steps as may be necessary for the accomplishment of tnis object. And your petitioners will evar pray, WM. FLINN. 10-16 8t GEO. H. FLINN. . I Tbe great carnival event of tbe season at tbe Excelsior Skating IRink, November 10th. Special features. /

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