The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-10-16
LOCAL NEWS.

Apples are cheap,
Store. keepers are busy.
Pretty as a pink-tlie new bridge.
Oar friends can all us by sending in the
news.
Several Of our citizens took in the Mt.
Holly fair this week.
William Ridgway, Of Sharptown, moved
to Salem On Wednesday.
The work of putting in steam heating
apparatus at the Almshouse is progress
ing.
From private advices we learn that the
prospect for a theatre train" overon road
is not favorable.
Now we look at it, it seems a pity Broad
street was not continued out to the FL
bridges Hill turnpike.
The ladies' of the NJ. L. church at Penns-
Vile have started y W. G.. I. |. there with
about fifty charter members.
Rebecca Prickett at Eldridge's Hill will
sell tomorrow afternoon a variety OF arti-
Giles of household use all in good order and
condition. Sale will commence at ] o clock
sharp.
The gorgeous tints which nature has
painted on the leaves of the trees, are fast
fading ont. Only a few days more and the
foliage will have entirely disappeared from
the trees.
To-day Joseph w. Cooper will make a
sale of timber standing ON about ten acres
al land. situated on the road from Ped
ricktown to Auburn. Sale will
at one o'clock. p. NJ.
The rains descended and the wind blew
on Monday night, a gale i'll miniature leaV-
ing our streets i'll q muddy condition.
COMMISSIONS Hewitt put the scraper al
work on Wednesday morning.
Golden rod, which is so much admired
by ladies' and grows in protuslon in this
vicinity. is a nuisance to farmers. amt the
pollen which it s~ecretes largely is said to
he an aggrayatiug cause OF hay. fever.
Overseer of Streets Israel A. Hewitt has
torn out the trunk across the sidewalk
near Smith Hewitt's residence and placed
a much larger one there, and also lowered
the channel under the bridge crossing the
street at that point.
Freebolder Humphreys on Tuesday af-
ternoonm made a sale of the remains of the
old frame bridge over the mill pond, re-
placed by the present handsome IRON
structure. The stuff was sold in small lots
and realized a little over S23.
The machine works at Daretown, owned
by DIR. Judge Cook, are busy making steam
pumps, which did their work thoroughly,
pumping for man and beast, at our fairlast
ssnonth These pumps are said to be SUI
pcrior and cost much less than the wind
mill pump.
The time is near at hand for the opening
of the new streets across lands OF Mrs:
Hires and Smith Bowen which were laid
bv surveyors of the highways last SUM
mer. They will make a short cut to the
station for residents of the borough be-
tween the Bank and Moore : store.
Richard S. Mcdowell, a much-esteemed
Young farmer living near Cloverdale, dled
on Friday last of consumption n was
buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery mere
on Monday morning. lie was a member
of the Swedesboro Lodge Of Odd Fellows,
who attended the funeral iii a body.
Surprise parties are now in season, TO
those who are not familiar with the nature
of such gatherings we will say they are
those parties where people take possession
of your house, carry the stove II carpet
out on the back porch, eat up everything
they bring with them and render Your own
pantry destitute.
The West Jersey Presbytery is to eele-
brate its semi-eentennial in 1859. The
Presbytery now includes forty-thfee
churches with $40 members, who con-
tributed $50, 900 for religious purposes last
wear. The only surviving member OF the
Presbytery of 1899 is Rev. Alexander
Heberton, of Philadelphia. at that TIME
pastor of the church in Salem.
The following is the game now in season
in this state: Woodeoek, October ! to
Decemh,r 1G; upland plover, August to
January /; reed-birds, August p to De
cember /: summer duck, September ] to
January /; rail, September to December
/: GRAY and fox squirrels, September to
January 1; black squirrels, september TO
June 1: black bass. June To November |;
.;Ina,,l uiol.araI Nav ia March l..