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How*! This? We" offer One Hundred Dollar* Resrsrd for «ny case of Catarrh that cannot be cored by Hall's Catarrh Core. T. 3. CHENKT A CO- Toledo. O. ■We. the tinderelciurf. have known F. J. Cheney tor the last JS years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE. O Toledo. O. Hairs Catarrh Core Is taken Internally, actlnr directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials pent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Bold Sr all DrussMta * Take HaO'e Family PlOs for ooastipatlon.

WEST CAPE MAY Another business change occurred last Monday Mr. Max Potasbnickof Woodbine the horse and cattel dealer, a month ago bought the grain, feed and flour stock of Mr. Simpkins, has purchased the busineas and stock of Edmunds store from Mr. Frank A. Williams, and removed the large stock of grain and feed and other goods from the Eldredge corner to his present store, thus merging the tw'o business under one extensive trading establishment. This has been done we understand facilitate the hauling of their goods with greater convenience as well as economy. They intend to increase largely all the ptock. The management of the grain and feed store, Mr. Benjamin Botwinick is in charge of the entire business of the new store. Capable and obliging, the proprietor has great confidence that the store will become popular and sucA family, from Cape May moved into the Broadway house of Mrs. Arnold on Thursday. Mr. Southard Rdredge is still at his country house and we regret to hear has suffered much, from rheumatism but it new recovering Mrs. Stella Johnson has been malgng extensive' repairs' and alterations to her bungalow into which she has moved for the winter. Mr. Shallcross, operator of the wireless station at Cape May moved with bis family into the home of Mrs. Stella Johnson, Broadway. Mrs. Elon Hand is making a visit to her daughter in Qamden. Bcnj. Boawiniek will continue to octupyhlhe dwelling part of the Eldredge One of the best located and arranged sun parlors in the borough is that of Mrs. Chas. Willis on Land is Avenue, where may been seen tropical plants of al climes and a beautiful setting of domestic flower* in full bloom. Mr. si. J Mrs. John Belangy started for a viait of two weeks at Camden and Lansdaln and Morristown, Pa. We are aorry to lose Mr. Frank Williams and interesting family. He commended himself very favorably to our people by his gen:al and obliging course Our best wishes go with him./" Mrs. Walter Peck, of Ca'mdcn, spent Wednesday with her mother. Mrs. "Levi Johnson. Mrs. Edward Little entertained her aunt a few days last week. Mrs. David Hughes spent Tuesday in Millville. "He ladies' Sewing Circle met at the bome of Mrs. Clement Xewkirk's on Thursday afternoon. Mrs. John See was a Philadelphia chopper on Friday. Mrs. Edyrard Morton and daughter. Miss Harriet, spent Tuesday in Philadelphia. Mra. Margaret Oliver spent a few

days last week away. Mra. Eli Rutherford has returned t home after spending sometime in Philal delphia. Mrs. Clarence Newkirk entertained on Thursday .last a number of relatives of i Ulaasborp. * Mils Edith Huber entertained a number of her little friends at a birthday | party on Saturday Afternoon. * GREEN CREEK The new coats of paint on the dwell - f ings of Thomas Loper and Charles toper greatly improve their looks. Capt. Alfred 1. ScuM is still catching t weak fish and croakers with hook and' line off Pierces. Our like fishermen have caught but * few eels thus far. They say the weather is too warm for them Xo come in along the shore. Miss Blanche Conover spent last week " with her sistea^t Cape May. Oscar Bateman 'was at the dental t»ar8 lor of Dr. William O. Hand last week ^ having work done. Some of fill, larger boys who go to school have a way of using smaller ' children that is very dangerous. There 1 have been several injured already. «Yhe practice should be stopped and Prof. 8 Little should see to it that it is not 1 allowed, %nd if he is not able to meet ' the case, the trustees should be consulted. We are sure the evil can be ^ remedied. Captain Joseph James is nursing a sore, hand the result of a horse bite. Mrs. Al'o® Long of North Carolina, who has -been with her daughter, Mrs. William Wilkie, for th- past two months ^ expects to return to her native state , ( this week. , ^ Harry Watson and wife attended' a supper given by the Daughters of . America, in the Goshen Hall* Saturday ( | evening. | Rev. W. Ellis. Pastor Wilmon Bateman, superintendent of the Methodist ^ Sunday-school, and Truman Hickman, ^ who is on the nomidating committee of the State Sunday-school Board, attend- ' ed the State Convention in Millville , ^ this week. Captain M. M. Norbury, wife and Mrs. Susan Hickman, called on Court House friends Saturday. Truman Hickman attended the Men's , meeting in the Baptist Church Sunday , , morning. Pastor Martin preached a fine | The new house of Charles Hollingsead j is about completed. The painters will , finish their work this week. They will I move in as soon as the- paint dries X. , I Capt. Joseph Brown who lost one of his black horses, breaking the team, now has a pair of bays. | J. S. Boyce left Saturday for Wilming ton with a load of oysters. They are in extra -good order this fall all along the shore. Walter Watson is acting as first | Aunt Millie Hand, of Rio Grande, is with friends here for a fall visit. Miss Edna Hollingsead is the assistant postmistress, while Seth Miller :a gathering his crops. Seth the 4th is not old enough -yet to be sworn into office. Earl Hollingsead, who has been assisting in the Mecray store at Cape May, is at home for two weeks. He takes the place of the regular clerks when they i take their vacation. There will be a Thanksgiving service ( held in the Methodist Church Thursday. Rev. Mr. Bugg, of Goshen, will be the I-

Captain Joseph James and wife, was 1 1 doing business at Court House Satur- J - day. The members of Excelsior Castle, No. 1 » 61, K. G. E., that are not present will f miss the time of their lives. Delinquents had better get in line as there is a new ( - movement on foot to increase the interr est. Miss Helen Schellenger, who -if teach- < ing at Glassboro, domestic soitoee, is meeting success every step of the way. 1 She spent Sunday with her three sisters, Ethel, Elisabeth and Mary, who are I At the wood sale of Robert Wilson, on Tuesday, he donated a good lot to 1 attending college at Oarlisle, Pa 1 Steel man Leeds who is upwards of I ' ninety years old, and has a bad cancer I on his foot. The neighbors will cut, saw I and haul it for him. t - SPECIAL FRIDAY AND SATURDAY € #usinese is like rollin a hoop. You £ ' must keep strikin and hitting to keep it I going. Some extra hits from now until I ' December 1st at L. M. Brown's. Call and see circulars. I at ^ < Laura M. Brown's 1 417 Washington Street c i No. 9285. _ 1 Report of the Condition of the MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK i at Cape, May, N. J. 1 in the State of New Jersey, at the close C of business on November 10, 1915. ' RESOURCES. and discounts 6356,080.72 £ Overdrafts unsecured 135.63 C U. S. Bonds deposited to -secure circulation (par value) 50,000.00 a Bonds other than'U. S. t bonds pledged to se- b cure postal savings deposits, 7,000.00 Securities other than O. S- bonds (not in- t eluding stocks) owned unpledged, 65,229.00 Total bonds, securities, etc., 72,229.00 to stock of Federal Reserve bank. 4500.00 amount unpaid 2250.00 2230.00 Value of Banking house 21,000.00 7

and fixture® 1,000.00 Net amount due from Federal Reserve Bank 9,000.00 Net -amount due from approved reserve agents in other reserve cities. 20,408.57 checks on hanks in the same city or town as re porting bank 28555 Outside checks and other cash items, 66.09 Fractional currency nickels and cents 519.40 588.49 of other National banks, 645.00 Federal reserve notes 300.00 Total Coin and certificates 22,42655 Ix-gal tender notes 200.00 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer (not more than 5 per cent, on circulation) due from U. S. Treasurer 1,268.01 Total, $55859752 LIABILITIES. stock paid in $50,000.00 fund, 25,000.00 profits 19,078.05 Reserved for Interest 3200.00 22278.06 Less current expenses and taxes paid 3662.22 1$, 61843 notes' outstanding, 48,400.00 Individual deposits subject to check, - 167,902.99 checks 116.67 Savings deposits 1,336.07 Deposits requiring notice of less than 30 days 246-875.96 Total demand deposits, 416231.69 deposited. 150.00 Total, $55859752 of New Jersey of Cape May, ss. I, E.~ J. Jerrell, cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that -the above statement is true to the of my knowledge and belief. E. J. JERRELL, ' Cashier. , Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 16th day of November, 1915. WILLIAM PORTER Notary Public My commission expires July 19, 1916. Correct Attest: — JOHN T. HEWITT, FRANK B. MECRAY, W. L. STEVENS, Directors. Ll-20-lt = i i )

3»- Bell Story l Number 2 The baker who doubled hit business Two years ago there was a baker who drove his own wagon and trudged through the - days, "just scraping along." 1| Then he began to H [~~/ watch one or two of || is* his successful competitors. Pretty soon he, i| • too, got a Bell Tele- §| phone, forked up a big calling list and now — §| but see for yourself. Lift the drag on || /i your business increase. ^ Call the Business IliLss Office to-day. IS The DeL 4 Ad i=S TeL & TeL Co. JljP C. B. Smith, l|j|, District Manager, . Atlantic City, N.J. 4

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I 1 ANNOUNCEMENT 9 < ; fii " — — — — — — — — — •, |jj MAX POTASHNICK announces that he has purchased the grocery 1 busineas of t J. FRANK WILLIAMS on Broadwav and will move his Feed Store 8 into the same building. Fresh meat* will be > added miking a complete line of £ GOOD EATS FOR MAN AND BEAST f K We are also glad to announce that prices on feed have been reduced. Call and inspect this stock and see what you can save. .4 MAX POTASHNICK i" 4 Successor to la ip J. SIMPKINS and J. FRANK T ILLIAMS I r Broadway and Fifth Ave., West Cape M*y n . [ F

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Auditor's Sale CAPE MAY CO0NTY CIRCUIT COURT Ernest W Kemp, I AtudOT„t Ctrl.."!!. Poage. f l'tl" " U"' By virtue of au order of said Court ! entered in the above stated cause on the thirteenth day of November, A. D. 1915, the subscriber, auditor appointed by the said Court in said cause, will sell at. public vendue, at the City Hall, in the' City of Cape May, in the County of Cape May and State of New Jersey, on TUESDAY, THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF DECEMBER, A. D. 1915, at the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon, all the estate, right, title and interest of the defendant of, in and to all j that certairj lot or piece of ground with the improvements thereon, erected, sit- ^ uate on the South side of Stockton avenue at the distance of one hundred and ( sixty-four feet westward from tne West side of Jefferson Street, in the City and County of Cape May, in the State of New Jersey, containing in front or on said Stockton avenue thirtyfeet, and extending of that width in length or depth southward Between lines parallel with said Jefferson Street, one hundred and twenty feet. Bounded 8 on the North by Stockton Avenue, south i ward bv ground now or late of Diana M. ^ i Kearney, esatward by ground now or 1 late of Anthsnv H- Miller and west- ; ward by ground n°w or late of John C. r j Bullet t. Being the same premises which' : Albert Hubbell conveyed to Jane Pease ! deed dated November 26, 1878, reI corded in the Clerk's Office of said 'County of X'ape May in Deed Book No. 3 44. pages 332, etc. Excepting "thereout ^ | and therefrom the lot which Jane D. Pease conveyed to William Glasgow Powell, trustee, etc.. by indenture dated June 21. 1909, recorded in the Clerk's office pf said County- of Cape May in Deed No. 236, pages 248, etc., which aaid lands were ffttached and .taken by the

Sheriff of the County of Cape May by virtue of a, writ of attachment issued in the above cause on which tba attachment remains a lien, or aq ) much thereof as shall be neceasary to satisfy the debt of the said plaintiff, (there being no applying cred- . itor), agreeably to the director* of the . statute entitled, "An Act for the relief [ of creditors against absent, fraudulent and absconding debtors (Revision of one ' thousand nine hundred 'and one)," and ' the Acta supplementary thereto and 'j amendatory thereof. Dated November 16th, 1915. HARRY S. DOUGLASS, Auditor. Morgan Hand, Attorney of Plaintiff. 8772— ll-20-4t pf— $13.20 PETERSBURGMrs. Elmer Steelmen spent the weekend in Camden and Philadelphia. Harry Adams, wife and daughter, of Ocean City visited B. R. Steelman and wife Saturday and Sunday. E. M. Brown was in Philadelphia, oa Thursday. On Wednesday E. M. Brown .and wife entertained Dr. M. Stannard of Ocean City. Mrs. Ernest Mosley -and little on e spent Saturday in Ocean City, Winfteld Leach of Dias Creek spent Wednesday with his .Bister. Mrs. A. F. Clark. Albert Clark called on friends at Manrieetpwp on Wednesday. Mrs. James Smith and 'Mrs. Leslie Corson were ip Ocean CHty Saturday. Milton Hess of Collingswood spent ■Saturday with Washington Van Gtldrt an-4 family. Mrs. E. M. Brown spent Friday and with her sister in Philadelphia George Hoff <rf Pennsgrove spent several days at his home here last week. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA