The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-11-20
South Jersey Notes.

South Jersey Notes.
II is reported that a Union or Company
store Is 10 he started at Glassboro.
The stage in the Town Hail ut Clayton has
been enlarged and a new set Of scenery is
being added.
Deer shooting in the forests of south Jersey
during the present season has been coed. and
it Is stated that upwards of hfiy have been
killed.
\ mammoth fiat turnip measuring thirty
ore and a half inches in circumference, and
weighing eight pounds, is on exhibition al
Mtllyille
Horace Clark, eight years old, fell from a
scaffold ut the Cumberland Nail and iron
Works, Bridgeton, on saturday, and fractured
his skull.
Asa Haines, of Hartford. Burlington county,,
raised this year on one and one-fifth acres,
/ .5si baskets of tomatoes, which brought him
35 cents net per basket, a total Of s552,lo.
Isaac Covert, a saloon keeper OF Atlantic
City, has resigned his membership in the
Liquor Dealers Association because OF its
having taken IL political parti in The late Mayor
atty election in that city.
The stockholders OF the new ocean pier ut
Cape May are dissatisfied with the result Of
the seasons business. The receipts were re
ported at s7I0o, yet the expenditures amount
ed TO $500 in excess of the income.
EX-sheriff Enoch Hawthorne. of ~Iridgeton,
lately picked several quarts OF Strawberries on
his farm near that place, The berries were of
good havor and grew ont in the patch, expos
ed to the weather, just as in the spring
Anysterieus couple. consisting of a morose
old man and Il fearful young woman, were
married At Il parsonage near Woodbury. last
week. 1t is supposed that they had eloped.
After the wedding they took 8 train for salem.
The returns made on Monday to the state
Board of Health by the City Clerk Of Camden
show that ofthe Dos marriages reported during
the fiscal month 1I5 couples came from Penn
sylyania, and a very large majority Of these
were P~hiladelphians.
James +. Buck. OF Cedarville, Cumberland
county. was convicted on Monday in the Cam
den Court OF the theft OF a horse and wagon
from John Is. Duffield, a tavern-keeper OF
that place. Buck eloped With a married
woman, and sold The team in Camden.
The barn, blacksmith and wheelwright shop,
etc, of John Yanlear, of Friesburg, Cumber-
land county, We're burned ON sunday, causing
an estimated loss of $500, with but little insur-
ance. The cause of the fire is unknown. but it
is supposed to have started from the hre-boX
OF an engine in one of the buildings.
The work ON the new court house at Wood
bury is progressing very favolably. The
watershed is in position, the beams dronl are
being laid for the first flooring. The first
scaffolding is erected completely around the
building. The tower is constructed so that il
may settle without pulling the building with
it. rs they are not tied.
\ considerable number of The liquor dealers
of Camden are still holding off from making
application for a renewal of their licenses,
hoping that at the meeting of Council next
week they can muster enough votes to reduce
the municipal tax from s2otosl0a. This would
require a vote of thirteen in full Council, and
the Prohibitionists claim that their opponents
can muster but twelve votes at the highest
calculation.
At Il meeting of the stockholders of the
Atlantic City Park Association ON saturday
night directors were elected, bylaws were
adopted and Il site for the proposed driving
park selected. \ meadow tract on the East
eriy side of Indiana avenue was decided TO be
the most faVorably located and available. The
new park Is expected TO cost 100000. stock
books are open, ana it j. proposed to push it to
completion by June next.
The tweuty-eighth annual convention OF the
cumberland County Musical Association
began in Moore's Opera House at %Bridgeton
on Tuesday. II continues until to-day and VIII
close with a grand concert. Professor Theo.
f.. Perkins, of New York, is conductor, Miss
Abbie whinnery, of Philadelphia, soprano
soloist, and Rev. l.. L. Coyle. of Bridgeton. ae-
companist. This convention is annually a
leading society event in Bridgeton.
~, a., tNa,no.b 49, s;,nal
a contract with r.. u. Wood Il Co.. of Philadel-
phia, TO construct their water works and be
ready TO turn on water by January Is, iss6,
The extent OF the street piping TO be laid to
begin with will be about 6WD feet, The water
supply viii he a pure spring near the town,
and the system will be wooden tank with sufi-
Client elevation 10 give pressure for ordinary
purposes and direct pumping for fire pres
sure.
The West Jersey Game Protective Society
has paid in the last nine months n bounty of
- cents each for 1922 hawks killed in Cape May
county. This amber is in excess of those re
ported to the society in all the other counties
over which its jurisdiction extends. Tn so
ciety's Director fer Cape May has neglected 10
retain the heads OF the hawks for which he has
paid, ana il is surnised that he has been inn
posed upon by unprineipled hunters. who
have used the same hawks over again.
The Governor, Attorney General and secre-
tars OF state on deciding The matter Of the
County Cierkship of Camden county, have
concluded 10 reject both returns made by The
canvaSsers and Issue no commission at all.
The matter viii undoubtedly have 10 lie set
lied in the supreme Court. The way 10 bring
itnp is 70 apply fora writ OF mandamlus com
pelling The officials to issue a commission.