The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-04-10
LODGES 81 SOCIETIES.
LOCAL NEWS.

Now for April showers.
Trailing arbutus is s~centing the woods.
Don't camphor your overcoat yet; it isn't
safe.
Easter, as usual, was bright and beau
tiful day.
Shad and arbutus come around about the
same time.
Seed are being put under ground now at
a lively rate.
The doctors throughout the county are
busy these days.
4 mud-digger has deepened the water
at the wharf at Auburn.
Theodore Holton has been elected trustee
of the Sharptown school.
Some friend recently donated $50 to the
Daretown Baptist Church.
Abbott & Coles killed their first beef in
their new slaughter house yesterday.
Last week Michael Allen killed two hogs
eighteen months old, which weighed 661
and G22 pounds.
Auburn School District has voted to
raise SO, 900 with which to repair its school
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The goth of April falling on Sunday, ser
mons, instead of parades. will be the order
of the day with the Odd Fellowship, it
being its birthday.
The Leroy Variety Combination, who
We're advertised to appear in Hunt's Hall
last Monday night, cancelled their date
here on account of sickness.
George Reeves, orr bright young ex-
pressman, sports a blue cap with West
Jersey Express on it. George o looks
like a professional baggage-smasher.
The county paper, to a man who has
moved out of the county. is worth more
than a letter from home. The letter will
tell him about the home folks and a few
new %neighbors, but the paper will tell him
about everybody he knows.
We would publish a list Of the changes
in this vicinity. but the people of the neigh
borhood know as much about them as We
do, and our readers in Colorado do not care
whether Mr.. - moved across the street
or remained where he lived last year.
We wrote last week that John G.. Rich
man had returned to Pittsgrove after a two
years residence at Kirkwood, Delaware.
but the compositor printed it ten years. II
Mr.. Richman saw the item in print he
must nave been surprised at the rapid flight
of time.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Pilesgrove Prohibition club will not be
held next Monday, as stated last week. on
account of the district school meeting TAX
ing place thai evening, but will be held on
the following Monday night april 20th),
when Rev. A. II. Sembower, Of Salem,
will deliver an address. Further partieu-
lars next week.
A District Meeting of the |. O. 0. F. was
held at the lodge room in Turner's Hall,
last Friday evening. Grand Master Brew
err, Deputy Grand Master Hammel, Grand
Rep. Kiger, and other Grand Lodge officers
were present, as were also delegations
from the various lodges throughout the
county. The unwritten work was exem-
pliied and an enjoyable evening was spent
by all present. After adjournment the
brethren were RECALLED with ice cream and
cake.
Wanamaker & Brown, from their head
quarters at Oak Hall, Sixth and Market
streets, Phila.. have something to say to
our rea Iers this week. Anything we could
say in favor of this establishment would
seem like an attempt to
paint the rose
Or deck the lily fair"
For their own works praise them in the
gates. Oak Hall takes the lead III the
ready-made clothing trade of Philadelphia,
as the Grand Depot at Thirteenth and Mar
ket does in nearly every other branch of
merchandising.