The Monitor., 1885-04-24
Lodges AND SOCIETIES.
g.OCAL NEWS.
Arbor Dav. Plant a tree.

AFDOf LAY. idit d tlSe.
Have you commenced your garden?
There was quite heavy frost on Monday
morning.
Friends yearly meeting at Philadelphia
this week.
Mosquitoes have already put i'll an ap-
pearance in Cape May county.
The agricultural implement men are
commencing the seasons campaign.
The new time table ON the West Jersey
railroad does not affect our local trains.
You may pawn your overcoat and redeem
your duster now, and get new ribbon for
your last summers mackinaw.
John Wallace is shipping tomatoes and
laying in stock of tin for the manufac-
ture of cans for this seasons pack.
No institute of our county teachers will
be held this spring, as necessary arrange
ments for such could not be made.
Spring fever is prevalent. Several bad
cases in town. Hickory oil applied ex-
ternally used to be a sovereign remedy.
The MONITOR generally gets there. We
told you last week it would be hot enough
for you. How about these last few days?
The flour mill of d Parker Lippincott, of
Harrisonyille was entered by thieves on
Friday night and $40 in cash was stolen
from a drawer.
Mrs. Rebecca S. Fravel addressed tenn
peranee meeting of the colored people at
Salem last Sunday afternoon, and her re-
marks We're well received.
And now the odor of the savory shad in
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We passer by as he wendeth his way along
the street about the supper hour.
Fears are expressed that the 17-year
locusts which are expected the coming
summer will cause much destruction
among newly set gratis and small fruit
trees.
Abbott, our ice cream manufacturer,
started in on Tuesday afternoon with the
manufacture of ice cream by horse power.
Mr.. Abbott makes good quality of cream
and we W ish him large sales.
The second regular meeting of the Sa-
lem County Historical Society will be held
in the room of the Library at Salem next
Tuesday, April 28, at 3 P. NJ, at which
meeting several interesting papers will be
read.
The coming season promises to be a
grand one for the excursion business. AL
ready the best dates have been secured on
all the railroads leading to the popular re-
sorts, and the applications are still being
handed in thick and fast.
Major Scott gave a temperance lecture in
the new ST. Paul's NJ. E. Church, Penns-
grove, this county, last Wednesday, to a
large audience. Those who have had the
pleasure of hearing the Major since his re-
turn need not be told that his address was
mastery one.
Next Sunday, Goth inst, is the Goth an
niversary of Odd Fellowship in America,
and the Grand Sire of the Sovereign Grand
Lodge has issued proclamation call upon
the Lodges of the order to observe the day
Cor the day preceding or following, as they
prefer by appropriate exercises The
members of Woodbine Lodge, Of Woods
town, will not hold any special services.
Pancoast & Lippincott, the enterprising
hardware men, call attention to their stock
of goods for the spring trade. They are
closing out their stock of stoves at reduced
prices, and are selling oil stoves of approx
ed patterns very cheap They have sew
eral specialties in paints, oils, wire fencing
and agricultural implements generally, and
the usual large assortment of house-keep-
ing and building hardware.
We have received the Seventh Annual
Report of the New Jersey Bureau of Statis-
tics of Labor and Industries for the year
ending October 3lst, 1884, which is filll of
interesting and instructive statistics con-
corning workers and their wages. Consid-
cradle space is given to the statistics of
building associations in the State, and
long and interesting article describes the
city of Pullman, Illinois, the model home
of the worbingman.
taxpayer asks if we don't think it
would be economy for the Borough officials
to buy their oil for the street lamps by the
barrel, at wholesale prices, rather than get
it by the gallon at retail price, and that
retail price high one. OF course it is
chea per to buy at 8 cents than at 10; but
don't Taxpayer know-if he don't it is
about time he did--that our Borough af-
fairs are run for what there is in them, and
not in the interest of, or for the good of, the
people? The Boss must live, and we hope
neither this or any other taxpayer would
wish TO deprive him of these little crumbs
of profit and comfort.