The Monitor., 1885-07-24

Tomatoes in market for 30 cents peck.
Pltman Grove Camp next week Are
you going?
Green Street don't get its sidewalks put
in order yet.
New dwellings, under way are fast APP
preaching completion.
l.. l.. Cobb sold over 800 worth Of track
from his store last week.
Bruna took SO from our station to At
lantic yesterday and 80 from Fenwiek.
Work not commenced yet on the Iron
Bridge. Help yourself to the lilies while
they're going.
1t takes thirty years growth of cedar to
to produce rail, and fifty years to grow
cedar large enough for siding.
Frank Rulon's large barn near Swedes-
boro was struck by lightning on Tuesday
evening, about dusk. and burned.
Foundation walls up for Humphreys
new building. Elisha Reed and the Bee
brothers. of Alloway, are pushing things.
c. Edwin Bassett, of Warrington, has
sold his Lancewood colt "Clara," to Mr..
Curner, of New York. the owner of the
colt $ sire, for 5000.
Every one is cordially invited to be pre-
sent at Pitman Grove ON next Wednesday,
Temperance Day Members of the w.
c. T. t., are requested to wear the white
ribbon.
A four-y -year-old colt belonging to Wm.
w. Pancoast made a quarter of a mile last
Friday in 80 seconds. The horse was
driven by Nicholas Justice on the Swedes-
boro track
Joshua w. While has sold to Priscilla
Brick lot from the Null property adjoining
Thomas Lippincott's on Main street. 60feet
front by 206 in depth. A residence will
shortly be erected on the lot
Chas w, Elkinton, of Mullica Hill, will
have charge of the Grove House at Pitman
Grove this season. The house has been
beautified on the exterior by a portico.
painted and put in first-class condition
Large quantities of mari are being un-
loaded along Timber creek below West
vile. This mari is taken from the exten-
siye pits of the West Jersey Railroad on
the MaeFarland farm near Bansboro.
Smith Ridgway & Son, dealers i'll agri-
cultural implements and machinery at
Sharptown, report an active business for
the season, and sales of $500 worth of
threshing machines during the past week.
We would cali the attention of our
readers to very interesting article on our
first page, descriptive of the ascent of Ben
Lomond, i'll Scotland 1t is from the pen
of an able writer and will doubly repay
perusal.
Dr. L. A. ID. A Hen, who has the reputa-
tion of driving very stylish outfits, now
rides ont in very comfortable looking
and finely tini shed phaeton, made in Will
mington and purchased of the agent, John
Nensteal, of our town.
An 19 year old lad named Theodore
Bouethinger, in the employ of William
Raddle, a farmer, was drowned in Allc-
way creek on Friday, while bathing. He
was formerly of the Northern Home for
Friendless Children, of Philadelphia.
1t will not do turn up your nose at the
little value of South Jersey real estate
when two and a half acres of cedar swamp
sells for sixteen hundred dollars. Such
sale was made in Cumberland county re-
cently.-|K j. Press
The public well in front of Peterson's
Block has been cleaned out and put in
good condition through the efforts of John
W. Goforth. Mr. Goforth secured enough
cash subscriptions to have the well cleaned,
but, as the Borough Council decided to
pay the bill, the money was returned to
the subscribers and the Borough bears the
expense.
The engine on the 927 train ON Wednes-
day morning was disabled by a flue burst
ing and putting out the fire just below
Riddleton junction, and was delayed about
an hour when the train from Elmer, on
the old road, came along and the disabled
train was pushed into Salem. Another
engine was telegraphed for to take the
place of the invalid until its injuries could