The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-05-08
LOCAL NEWS.
Clean your cellars.

Clean your cellars.
Open the windows and let in the fresh
air.
Farm hands are commanding from SO
to S2j per month.
The next holiday will be Decoration Day,
Saturday, May 30.
may cause q runaway.
O'Brien's circus will visit Salem next
Wednesday week, the goth.
The yearly meeting OF the Society OF
Friends will be held next week.
There wilt be little rest for the farmers
from now until after corn planting.
Mayor Acton has refused to allow the
Salvation Army to parade in Salem.
The two-inch small boy with a four-ineh
willow whistle has made his appearance.
Four OF Salem's citizens have circulated
petitions with a view to securing the Post
Office.
Court days in the good old times Were
used as a time to settle up the years ae-
counts.
The conductors and brakemen on our
railroad donned their white summer caps
on Monday.
y Injecting To lplii Il ,ilttli't OiSoiiiNhblp
of the Reform Association will be held in
Salem on Monday.
1t is proposed TO place Il bell ON the Pres
iyterian church at Elmer. Subscription
papers are ont for that purpose.
William w. Gentry, of Eldridge's Hill,
claims to know the location of 50, 600 that
is buried somewhere in this vicinity.
The ladies Of the Salem W. G. 7. t.
gave a reception to the Reform -Associa-
ton of that place on Wednesday evening.
Rumor has it that a member of the Sal
walton Army, a new conner i'll town. holds
meetings i'll q private house i'll South Woods
town.
The street running across the Folwell
lots in North Woodstown, leading into the
saw mill of Cole x Bro, has been plowed
and ridged.
The names Of the signers of license for
the Salem hotels have been obtained, not
withstanding the city councils refusal to
make them public.
Gideon s. Layton, living III the road to
Sharptowi, has a pair OF mules % years
old, that have always worked together and
have never been sllod.
Chas. Boone had a valuable horse to
die on Tuesday. Mr.. Boone is unfortunate
with his stock, having also lost his best
cow during the winter.
The white-wash brush has been ruth
lessly rooted from out its winter quarters
and is being used to good effect on fences,
,o~utbuildings and cellars.
The LAWYERS are taking deep interest in
the geological and legal formation of
Woodstown streets just at present. Pros
peeting for gold, may be.
The barn of Charles w. Fries at Al
loway was consumed by fire about II
o'clock on Monday night. 1t is thought to
have been fired by an incendiary.
The ladies of the Presbyterian church at
Daretown. will hold an Apron Bazaar and
Festival on the afternoons and evenings OF
May eth and 2Sth, in the old church.
Decoration Day will be observed by
service in the Baptist church and at the
different cemeteries. c. Fl. Sinnickson,
of Salem. will be the orator OF the day.
Mackerel have been unusually abundant.
especially in the New York markets Shad
are also plentiful, and fish food has been
cheap-a good thing for the poor IN these
hard times.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Pilesgrove Prohibition Club will be held
in the Hall of the w. G.. T. I. next Mon
day evening, the 18th inst, ut half past
seven O'Clock.
DR.. l.. A. d. Allen now goes his profess
sional rounds in a natty little road cart, in
natural wood finish. Ike who accom-
panies the Doctor on his travels, seems
proper proud of the new gig
The rates for messages by telephone vary
according to the distance. The prices are
ten cents for ten miles and under, fifteen
cents for fifteen miles and twenty-five
cents for twenty miles and over.
A citizen of our Borough, while IN Al
loway last Monday evening, was assaulted
by having eggs of different degrees OF
~ripencss thrown at him. Alloway is sus-
tanning her old reputation for rowdyism,
Excursion trains will be run from all
the surrounding country to Barnum's CIR
Gus. which shows in Bridgeton next Mon
day week. Fifty four ears have been char
tered by the show people for that purpose
East avenue and the vicinity OF the eel
lar-way was surveyed again on Wednesday.
This makes the fifth or sixth survey that
has been made and court is nearly two
weeks off. les a cold day when the cellar
way is neglected