The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-05-30

improvements on his place above Daretown
lately. His old barn has been torn down and
rebuilt in convenient form, and the fencing
around his buildings re-arranged SO that the
place is hardly recognizable
A NEAT WOOD AND IRON fence has been
placed around the cemetery of the Baptist
church in Daretown
HE COURTS adjourned last week to Satur-
day, June 18th, when the Stephen Willis will
case will be argued, and the appeal case of
Mowers against Aborn, on appeal from Justice
Goforth, will be tried
THEY WERE EXCITED. The Union Fire
company is supplied with hose cart and a
hose carriage. All the company's hose is
kept on the cart. When the alarm of fire was
sounded on Saturday the frst-comers ran
WITH the hose cart to the fire. Several men,
bers and citizens who arrived at the engine
house later grabbed the hose carriage and
started away with it also. They never no.
ticed that the carriage had not a particle of
dOoO
where a citizen called their attention to the
empty hose carriage. They then left the car
riage and ran for the hose cart Some peo-
pie aoiH get excited at the time of an alarm of
fre.-SouM Jerseyn0n
A CORRESPONDENT of the South Jersey,nan
complains bitterly of the condition of the
roads in Warrington and Alloway Creek
township, and justly SO.
The same complaint might be made of some
of the roads in Pilesgrove as WELL The aver
age road overseer seems to consider his office
more as means of furnishing work for him.
self and team when he has nothing else to do
than as post of duty wherein the benefit of
the travelling community is to be considered
THE MEMBERS of the G. A. R. Post attended
the Baptist church last Sunday morning in a
body, to listen to sermon by Rev. j. E.
Wilson, especially addressed to them.
The AGENT of the Pennsylvania Globe Gas
light company, on Monday night, put up one
of his gasoline lamps at the public pump near
Hunts Hall, and our citizens have had an op-
portunity to learn the merits of that system
of lighting. The light is certainly an i'm
provement on the kerosene lamp.
ISAAC H. H1LLBoRN, of Philadelphia, will
be present at Friends First-Day school in
their meeting house, in Woodstown, at 3
o'clock, First-Day afternoon, 9th mo-, 9Th,
and exhibit model of the Tabernacle" of
the Old Testament, and address the meeting
upon this interesting subject. The public
are cordially invited to attend.
The OFFICIAL temperance committee of the
religious society of Friends, met in Woods
town, on last Tuesday afternoon, to discuss
and arrange plans for temperance work in
this vicinity, and within the limits of Salem
quarterly meeting Similar committees are
at work throughout this state, Pennsylvania,
Delaware and Maryland.
: WEATHER PERMITTING q number of Salem
and Woodstown bicyclers have arranged for a
trip to Dover, Delaware, to-day, distance of
80 miles, returning to Salem in the evening.
WE learn that Dan Sully has written the
management of the Salem lecture hall for a
date early in June ON which he will give his
play, 'The Corner Grocer, or the Bad, For
getful Boy" OF all the comical, rip-roarious
and side-splitting productions put upon the
stage in these days this play perambulates
with the products OF the oven and if it is Of
fered in Salem again we can honestly advise
our readers to go see it. We hope a special
train can be secured for the occasion.
The following sentences were imposed by
the court at Salem last week.
Jacob Trusty, who plead guilty to cutting
Oliver Draper with knife, was sentenced to
state prison for years at hard labor.
Clayton Giles, for escaping Jail before serv-
ing out his 3-years' sentence in state prison,
imposed by this court in 1882 was sentenced
to years in state prison.
Spencer Blake, entering the poultry house
of Howard Bassett, state prison year.
Alfred Biddle, convicted under two indict-
ments for larceny and one for breaking and
entering, was sentenced to state prison one
year at hard labor.
John Miller, convicted of larceny, county
Jail, 3 months.
Chas. Bateman, convicted of illegal voting,
county Jail months and fined $25 and costs.