The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21
LODGES AND SOCIETIES.
LOCAL NEWS.

Keep your premises clean from filth and
ward off disease.
The tax levy for our county this year is
1000 greater than that of last year.
In Massey's watch club, on Monday last,
Isaac b. Hoffman, of Eldridge's Hill, drew
the 23d watch, No. II.
On his Sd and last excursion for the
season to Atlantic City yesterday, Bruno
took 81 from Woodstown.
Farmers predict that hay will bring $40
per ton before the first of February. Old
hay is now worth $50 per ton
The sales Of Swedesboro's popular shoe
manufacturers, L. G. Talman Il Son, i'll
one day last week aggregated over 2,000.
Elmer claims to be the only place in
this end of the State that has temperance
society owning 50, 500 worth of real estate.
A careful farmer states that the average
yield of wheat per acre this year in this
county will be five bushels less than conf
mon.
A young man in attempting to jump on
a moving train at Swedesboro station one
day last week fell and had one of his toes
cut off.
From hill near Swedesboro the engine
house on the tower of the new Public
Buildings, Philadelphia, may be seen on a
clear day.
VIM. Gassner of Salem, and Dory
Fish, of Pennsgrove, who were severely
injured in the 'sReybold'' disaster, are re-
covering rapidly under proper care.
A new postal card is about to be issued.
The paper is to be pink and the printing
done in brown ink The postal department
have not issued any of the old cards for
some time and the delay in preparing the
new ones has caused great scarcity ofthis
useful article.
The Twelfth Annual Reunion of the
Twelfth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers
will be held in Brdgeton, September 4th.
Members of the regiment who intend to be
present should at once notify the cores
bonding secretary, Arthur Stanley, 42S
Line street, Camden.
The hill between Salem creek and the
exhibition ground, on the Salem road, and
the hill on the shore of the pond in front
of John Wallace's property, have both
been plowed and ridged and will be put in
good order. East avenue east of the rail
road has also been newly ridged.
The Salem Sunbeam aflirmS that the
finest patch of sweet potatoes in South Jer-
sey is on the farm of Walter 5. Bassett, at
Harrisonville station. Not field in the
neighborhood can be compared with it.
Mr.. Bassett last week sent 100 water
melons to market and received $500 for
them,
One of our citizens had a dog which from
old age and feebleness was in a sad plight
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grave was dug but the owners heart
failed him and the hole was left tenantless.
In a day or two, however, the "purp'
went dead of its own accord and was duly
and regretfully buried.
The communication i'll another column
from Newtown, concerning tie travel over
the pond is timely and demands attention.
Some provision for foot passengers should
undoubtedly be made. as the people across
the pond are subjected to serious ncon-
venience, to say nothing of the danger, in
the present condition of things. Perhaps
the proper parties intend to look after this.
If So they can't do it too soon.
Chief Engineer Abercrombe, of the
West Jersey railroad, has just received
from the patent office at Washington the
papers on a recent invention which will
circles and realize a fortune to the inventor.
1t is an interlocking switch and signal
lever for a railroad track, setting the
signal at danger and keeping it there until
the switch is again clear for the main
track. 1t works with a single lever, and
by it's use no such accidents as recently
happened at Franklinville, ON the West
Jersey railroad, can possibly be repeated.
One of the switches is being made for
trial on the West Jerseyroad.
In report on tide marshes from an ag-
ricultural standpoint just issued by the
Agricultural Department at Washington.
much reference is made to the marshes OF
New Jersey The following is said in re-
gard to Salem and Cumberland counties:
In Cumberland County the diked marshes
yield from sixty to 100 bushels of shelled
corn per acre, without manure Maurice
River and Cohansey Creek, the principal
streams of the county, are skirted by tide
marshes far into the interior. Salem
County has 90, 602 acres of tide marshes,
and Gloucester County only 9,95S. In
Salem County the best of the marshes are
diked and are valued in some cases as
high as 5000 per acre. The marshes in
Gloucester County are all fresh.