The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-12-04
Christmas three weeks from to-day.


pairs to the mill machinery.
i. 5. Reeve will sell at public sale,
shortly, his fine farm in Woodstown.
Joseph II. Webber, of Courses Landing,
lost a valuable horse last week from infam-
nation Of the lungs.
Rev. Dr. Barnard, formerly of Salem.
will occupy the pulpit Of the Presbyter-
ian church next Sunday.
The Good Templars of Gloucester
county are arranging for lectures i'll that
county by Col. Hickman.
DR.. Winslow Jackson, . respected citi-
zen of Bridgeport, has been admitted to
the Insane Asylum at Trenton.
Branch of the Iron Hall, the secret
society for insuring the lives of its mem
bers, is to be organized at Harrisonville.
The bugle call of Foster Post G. 4. r.,
furnishes inspiring music on Thursday
nights as it calls the veterans together.
A ball given in Meley's Hall, Swedes-
boro, on Wednesday night, attracted many
of the young society folks from this vicin-
ity.
Wilbert F. Turner, of French Lodge,
/. o. %. F., at Mullica Hill, has been
appointed District Deputy Of this dis
trict.
Capt. Strobrdge, of Auburn, has gone
South for the Winter, and is running his
boat between Norfolk, Va, and Roanoke
River, N. c.
DR.. n. b. Foster offers her residence on
Marton street at private sale A good
opportunity to secure a quiet and com
Portable home.
Arrangements are being made to organ
ize Masonic lodge in Swedesboro. A
meeting of parties interested is to be held
tomorrow evening.
The Postmaster General has issued an
order establishing mail passenger route
from the w. J. Railroad to Daretown, for
all service required.
The congregation of the Sharptown NJ.
E. Church are DESTROYS OF securing Rev. c.
II. Elder. of Alloway, as their pastor for
the next conference year.
a county convention of the Woman
Christian Temperance Unions of Salem
county will be held in Woodstown on
Thursday, January 18th, 1886.
Work has been commenced on Green
street sidewalks and the residents on that
thoroughfare can now felicitate themselves
on the prospect of passing dryshod in damp
weather.
The man who refused to subscribe for
the MONITOR last year, under the plea that
the darn thing would bust up in three
months anyhow, is respectfully informed
that we're all here.
Charles B. Clark, of the old established
Woodstown Mills is replacing the old
water wheels by new ones of the turbine
pattern, which will enable him to run his
mill with less expenditure of water.
few choice building lots remain for
sale on Dickinson street. Plan of lots may
be seen at Lippincott, Weatherby & Co. S
store or at office of E. 5. Fogg. These lots
are desirable for situation and moderate in
price.
There is an old adage that on whatever
day of the month the first snow falls that
many SHOWS Will occur during the winter.
The first snowfall this year was on Novem-
Der 81, so according to that we are to have
twenty-one SHOWS this winter
Easter next year will come very late-not
until the 25th of April, the latest possible
date. It's occurrence at so late date has
not happened since 1886, nor will occur
again until 1913, when the youngest that
will remember it in 1886 will be pretty old
people.
Miss Martha Humphreys. of Auburn
had leg broken few days since by jump
ing from carriage The horse attached
to the vehicle commenced kicking and
alarmed Miss Humphreys, causing her to
Jump from the wagon with the unpleas
ant result above stated.
The members of the Band of Hope,
which is flourishing under the leadership
of Miss Helen A. Wilson, have each re-
ceived a neat certificate OF membership,
printed in colors, with appropriate designs
and notices, and the little ones are very
much pleased with them.
East avenue beyond the railroad has
received heavy coat of gravel taken from
the road bed on Broad street, where Street
Commissioner Hewitt has been altering
the grade Travelling on the avenue is
mighty bad Just now, but when the gravel
packs the road will be first class.
We owe our readers an explanation re-
garding the thinness of the paper ON which
this week issue is printed. In making it
at the mill the paper firm calendared it too
much and the result is a paper thinner than |
we care to use, but while a new lot is being
made we are compelled to do so.
On Thursday of last week, little five
year-old son of Stratton Mattson, of Au- |
burn, while running behind colt which
was being led by an Older brother, struck |
the colt on the legs with SWITCH which
frightened the animal, causing it to kick,
striking the youngster on the head, crush
ing his skull.
The commencement exercises OF the
Woodstown branch of the Pennsgroye
Musical Academy, Prof. Pemberton Pierce
Directos, will be held in Humphreys New
Opera House on Tuesday evening, Decem-
Der Goth. 1885. The famous West Quar-
tette, of Philadelphia, has been engaged
for the occasion and it promises to be an
enjoyable affair."
The Morristown Jerseyman remarks:
''Parties who are so greatly pleased at the
prospect of having carp will wonder, after
fuller acquaintance with this fish, why the
State Fish Commissioner ever distributed
them. They are of the very poorest quality
for food. will not take a fly and baited
hook but seldom, and make mud hole OF
every pond they occupy, roofing around on
the bottom as they always do. 1t IS mis-
cradle fish.
PersOnaI.
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