The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-18
LODGES AND SOCIETIES.
LOCAL NEWS.
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Already the leaves are turning.
The coal dealers begin to wear smiling
faces.
1t is time overcoats were taken out of
camphor.
Public school adjourned on Wednesday
noon until this morning.
Charles Foster is lying seriously i'll at
his residence on Marlton street.
The pros pect of a good crop of buck
wheat cakes is most encouraging.
Running a hack has been the most lucra-
tive bushes in own this week.
The western sky after sunset these even
ings is beautiful beyond description.
Salem has had a visiting Statesman" in
the person of an oysterman six feet nine
inches high.
The sun will cross the equator on about
Monday next. Wonder what kind OF an
equinoctial we are to have?
In Massey's Watch club at Woodstown,
on Monday last, Samuel King, of Woods
town, drew the 9th watch, No. "A.
Several new lamps have been put up i'll
the borough and many of the old ones
changed to the pattern in use at the pub
lie pump.
f. S. Fogg on Monday took possession
of his old office on East Ayenne and is ready
for the transaction of any legal business or
insurance.
Trains on the Swedesboro railroad are
now slowing up at the bridge over War
rington pond. near Asbury station, which
is in an unsafe condition.
More fakirs and ~catch-penny frauds at
the fair this year than ever. The fat won-
an. Circassian girl and the big snakes were
conspicuous by their absence.
Austin & Pancoast will make their sec
ond sale of fine cattle next Monday after
noon at the Woodstown House. See adj
vertisement i'll another column.
On Monday a drunken man, a stranger,
visited the shops of Mark Ayares and
rendered himself obnoxious to such an eX-
tent that Mr.. Ayares took him to the lock
up.
Count Collector Harris has received
Salem County quota of the pamphlet laws
of 1885. Those who are entitled to copies
of the laws can now get them OF the Col
lector.
Elsie, the five-year-oId daughter of John
and Annie Wallace, residing across the mill
pond, fell from a fence on Wednesday MORN
ing. breaking both bones of her arm below
the elbow in two places.
Six crowded cars ON the morning train
from Phila. yesterday and two ears on a
special from Bridgeton made things lively
on East avenue. What might be termed
an 'infiux of strangers"
A young man from Pennsgrove, yester-
day afternoon in Woodstown, got run
and was in quarrelsome mood, despite the
warnings of Marshal Duffy, who was
finally obliged orun him in.
BENZ. Abbott is the possessor of a Star"
bicycle which he holds for sale, the first
one of that pattern owned in Woodstown.
f. f. Lewis is about the only one of our
riders who can master the haste.
A bumptious individual, anxious to bet
his money on the dog race, in the grand
stand enclosure on Wednesday, was the
subject of a gentle reminder from Police
man Duffy to make less noise.
The office and residence recently vacated
by Z. S. Fogg was occupied this week by
Mrs. Smith Hewitt for lodging purposes,
being filled with cot beds for the accom-
mediation of Mrs. Hewitt's numerous
guests.
The result of the teachers examination
for certificates, held in Woodstown on Sat
urday week, was that two applicants were
granted first grade certificates, three sec
ond grade and twelve third grade. Nine
applicants for third grade certificates failed
to pass.
We were treated on Wednesday to a
luscious watermelon from the well culti-
waited farm of Samuel NJ. Lippincctt, at
Point Airy station. This melon was of a
new variety, Mr.. Lippineott having OBJ
tanned the seed from the Agricultural De
partment at Washington, and was remark
able for its solidity. Thanks, Mr.. Lippin-
colt.
Michael TIaney came over FROM Auburn
Yesterday to visit the fair, but didn't get to
see it after all. Too much ardent spirits
caused him to do as the brokers do when
caught on Il falling market-lie down.
Policeman Duffy rendered him the hospi-
talities of the Borough, giving him the
best the lookup alforded-which is preci-
Gus little.