The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-29
LOCAL NEWS.

Bah.
Cooler.
Moonlight.
Sweet potatoes.
The tramp must go.
Keep bull dog and gun.
Only two days more of summer
The woods are full of candidates.
Come children, get ready for school.
Are YOU mean enough to borrow this
paper, when it costs but dollar year?
That fertilizer stored near the center OF
the town has most unsanctified smell.
Friends quarterly meeting in Woods
town next Thursday.
In DIV. Whites club No. g. on We'd
nesday, George Wentzell, Woodstown,
No drew 9th watch.
Benz. L. Tyler has been in poor health
for some days past, but is now able to be
about and at work again.
The Wing Lane Sunday School held a
picnic at Wing Lane on Wednesday, Our
informant tells us they had good time.
Peaches We're never more plentiful than
this season. They We're selling the early
part of this week as low as twenty-five
cents per basket and from that up to eighty
cents.
Two gentleman whose names we did not
learn, probably from Philadelphia, We're in
town on Wednesday, sketchng our pond
| lies and carried away number OF speci-
mems.
Thirty-one tickets We're sold at our
station yesterday morning for Bruna' S ex-
cursion to Cape May. This train also took
the delegates to the Republican Congress
ional Convention.
We were called on last Sunday to sam
Die the melons raised in the patches OF
Wilbert Richman and John S. johnson at
Yorktown The trouble was to tell which
was best, and both were as good as any we
ever saw.
By the temperature early this week we
Judge that somebody has been fooling
with the cold wave signals somewhere and
got them mixed up. Hey, You! Confound
you; pull down that flag, doyou want to
freeze us all to death?
Miss Mollie Abbott assistant in Mrs.
Lippincott's store on East Avenue was at
tackled with malaral fever last week and
went to her uncle, Mr.. Theodore HOlton' s,
near Sharptown. Mrs. Lppincott not yet
being able to go out. the store has been
closed for several days, but we hope to see
them both restored to health and able to
attend to business soon. 1921
Rev. J. +. Wilson writes to Joseph Turn
or from Taunton, Mass, that he is enjoying
his vacation visit, and finds the people very
cordial and social. Speaking of fruits he
says that in Tauton peaches are y cents pei
quart; pears, 8 cents per quart; plums, q
cents apiece; tomatoes, cents pound,
and melons go cents each. Jersey for us
in ''watermillion time.
Coming down East Avenue the Other
evening we stopped at the partly finished
house of Charles Boon which he has built
so far, with the exception OF the mason
work. almost entirely himself at such
times as he was not employed elsewhere
The house is very nicely planned and sub
stantially built, and when finished will
be credit to the Avenue.
Marshal Reeves and his assistants have
an interesting time on Saturday evenings,
keeping the sidewalks between the post
Office and Commits clear, so that ped
estrians may pass. The effort is to Keep
the crowd to the outside of the pavement So
as not to block up the entrances to the
stores and the plan should be enforced
without respect To persons.
A surprise party of about twenty OF
the friends Of Mrs. Joseph X. Lippincott,
visited her on Monday night last to cele'
brate her birth day anniversary. surprise
parties don't always surprise but IN TINS
case it was complete success in tins re-
spect aud in every other The table was
spread and bountifully furnished and all
present thoroughly enjoyed the occasion.
The South Jerseyman advocates the abol
ton of turnpikes, and says that the people
ought to keep up free roads, instancme
the turnpikes from Woodstown to Swedes
boro and Mullica Hill among others There
is hardly "a public road III Salem county n
worse condition than that same woods
town and Swedesboro turnpike has peei
this season, yet the one and one half cent?
mile is extorted all the same from trav'
elers This company seems to be trying u
see how near they can come to not having
turnpike and at the same time reap tiit
profit of one. Some of these days they
will find out.