The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07

ing items of historical interest, in addition to
the usual matter of a directory.
WE TAKE THE CAKE from the South Jersey
man on the umbrella question.
WE MET ON THE STREET few days since
Rev. E. l. McKeever, former pastor of the
Baptist church here, who was in town on
short visit
THE YOUNG PEOPLES MEETINGS conducted
by Miss Amanda Abbott in the Methodist
Episcopal church on Sunday evenings for the
last five years, and popularity known as the
six O'Clock meetings, have been discontinued
at the request of the official board of the
church
f. G. Mourn, the baker, now makes his
daily rounds with horse and wagon, in place
lar sight on our streets.
JOHN G. NEUsTEAL has in course of con-
struction the largest carriage factory and
wheelwright shop in Woodstown on his lot
opposite Lippincott, Weatherby & Co. IS lum-
Der yard.
BENJAMIN LIPPNCoTT and Hiram Shoe
belonging to Charles Bennett, deceased, in
front of the court house, on Saturday: No.
Ia farm of "a acres near Sharptown, to
James G. Pancoast, for $115.5O per acre.
No. 2-184 acres in Warrington, to Henry B.
Richman, for 1856 per acre. No. 3-11s acres,
adjoining No. 2, to HI. B. Richman for S47
per acre. No. 4 was divided into two lots
10a acres to E. H. Bassett, for 1877 per acre,
and 81 acres to James c. Pancoast, for 1874
per acre. No 5-2a acres of timber land in
Plesgrove, to Christian Regner, for $61 per
acre. No 6-house and lot in Sharptown, to
Richman and Smith for 1910. No. house
and lot in Sharptown, to Frank C. Rock, for
$3.50. No. 8-house and lot to Jas. McAllister,
5000. No. 9-house and lot in Sharptown
to John Moore for $500 No. 1O-house and
lot to Charles Brown for $40 No. Il
house and lot to Charles Robinson for $3.50.
No. 12-house and lot to Thomas S. Hewitt
for 1926. No. 13-5 acres in Sharptown to
Hewes Crispin for $3.50 per acre. The whole
sale amounted to S14, 302
The New JERSEY ANNUAL CONFERENCE of
the Methodist Episcopal church will meet in
the Broadway church, Camden, ON Wednes-
day next, the 18th. Bishop Harris will pre-
side. The Lay Conference will meet on
Friday, the 18th day of March, in the same
church. The business of the Lay Conference
is to elect delegates to the General Conference,
which is to meet in Philadelphia i'll May next.
Upon CALL signed by the borough clerk,
McAllister's hall was well filled on Wednes-
day evening with the voters of the borough,
the object of the meeting being to make out
ticket for mayor and two councilmen and
to name an appropriation to be voted for at
| the election next week. Omar Borton was
called to the chair, and Isaiah c. Shinn
elected secretary, after reading the statement
of borough finances William Ell. Reed was
named as the candidate for mayor, Edward
S. Davis and Joseph E. Balinger for council,
and $3.50 as the appropriation for the year.
Whether any other ticket will be put in the
field, we are not at present informed.
The PURCHASE OF THE FIRE ENGINE by our
borough council has made things lively among
our citizens There being two fire companies
already organized, the Perseverance and the
Old Discipline, the council feared to awaken
feelings of jealousy by entrusting the new ap-
paratus to either of Them and call was
made for meeting to form a new company
which has been started, and we learn has
already nearly fifty members We strongly
suspect that the remittance of S. tax to the
members of fire companies has somewhat to
do with this enthusiasm Meanwhile the old
companies, at least the Perseverance, is about
to disband and the question is what shall be
done with their engine? 1t has been sug-
eested that it be turned over to the council,
but some of those who contributed to its pur-
chase, and who have stood by without re-
monstrance and seen the ''masheen" rotting
in the weather for the last six years, object to
this disposition of it, and an adjourned meet
ing of the company is to be held tomorrow
night, at which those who helped purchase
the Perseverance engine are invited to attend
and give their views as to what shall be done
with it. Meanwhile the new engine reposes
quietly at Salem.
| A. L. HATES, son of the late William G.
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