The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-22

oioa tna1 tuey VIII uaKe tnlS their place of
resort The room and its privileges are free
to all, the only terms of admission BEING
good behavior.
HE STATEMENT is going the rounds of the
papers that the first wife of Fred Douglas
was native of Salem county. The South
,Jerseynaaa denies this, and says she was a
Marylander; notwithstanding which the pa
pers keep the original story going, and the
.. y. gives it another prod this week. One
or the other of these stories is - fiction.
and it will be interesting to notice whether
the true version can keep up with the false.
Go!
HE REYBoLD resumed her regular trips
between Salem and Philadelphia on Monday
last, leaving Salem at AM and Philadel-
phia at PM.
SPEAKING OF THE NOON TRAIN, our esteemed
contemporary the Standard says a train will
leave Philadelphia at 11.30 AN, reaching
Salem little after 3 o'clock That train will
doubtless have the COW catcher on the rear
car to keep stray COWS from wandering in by
the back door and biting the passengers, as
suggested by Artemus Ward Three and one
halt hours from Philadelptia to Salem I
You skeer us!
REAL EsrATE.-The farm of the late Joseph
Peterson will be sold tomorrow by Sheriff
Coles in front of the Woodstown House This
sale is upon amicable proceedings in the
Court of Chancery. The same farm was
offered little more than year ago, and
Withdrawn at bid of BILL per acre.
The HOMESTEAD FARM of the late Jonathan
W. Mattson, 1871 acres, was sold at Auburn
last Saturday by the executors, William S.
and Edward Mattson, for 1913. rs per acre.
Thomas s. Weatherby was the purchaser.
The FARM of the late Abraham Woolman
was offered for sale under order of the Or
phans' Court on Tuesday last by the admins
traitors. 1t was bid up to $40 per acre. but
withdrawn, the price not being satisfactory
Six PERSONS WE'RE BAPTIZED at the Baptist
church last Sunday morning.
Mrs. ANN NULL of South Woodstown, has
an umbrella in good state of preservation
which is fifty-one years old. It bears the
date 1888 The ribs are square, nearly q
quarter of an inch in thickness of whalebone
and it was evidently made to last
! The MACHINE SHOP of E. G. Haines, on Au-
burn street was entered by thieves one night
last week and some of his most valuable tools
were stolen.
S. SH1pLEY FLrTCHAFT, who for several
years past has been running the Vanderbilt
Mill in Gloucester county, has rented house
in our borough and will become one of "we
uns " in the spring.
THE POPULATION of our thriving neighbor
Elmer, has increased one-third in the last
three years, and from the appearance of things
there in the way of building and improve
ments it is likely to double in the next three
years.
MAJOR ScoTT and wife returned to Woods
town where their present headquarters are, on
Monday. They have just closed series of
meetings at Pennsgrove where they have had
their usual good success. Crowded houses
every evening and abundant evidence that
the majors powerful arguments had told eff
fectively. Mrs. Scott organized Woman's
Christian Temperance Union with member
ship of twenty-five. Mrs. Torton is the pres
ident and Mrs. DIR. Croft, secretary. Ar
rangements were made for five additional adj
dresses but the major had to decline on &C.
count of his engagement at Salem, where he
commenced a series of addresses on Wednes-
day evening of this week. And so their good
work goes on. At Salem major and Mrs
Scott are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah
Morris.
THE w. c. T. u of Woodstown, in coun-
Gil assembled, send greetings to the newly
formed Union at Pennsgrove, the second in
Salem county. May we work unitedly 6 for
God and home and native land"
The LICENSE QUESTION is agitating our
neighboring city of Bridgeton. Last week
the action on petitions for license for hotels
was postponed by the council at their regu-
lar meeting, and at special meeting, held on
Saturday evening, during the absence of Mr.
Cox, one of the temperance members, who
was at Mays Landing, and telegraphed that
he had missed the train, the matter was taken
up and licenses granted to Briant, Lightcap
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