The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27
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upper part Of Mays Landing a few days
ago.
The West Jersey Game Protective So
eiety destroyed 900 game snoods last
year.
\ canal boat which was sunk in Old
mans creek last fall is being dug out by a
dredge.
1t is estimated that 1000 nets viii be
fished this Spring in the Delaware river
and bay.
The annual inspection of the Sixth Regi-
ment will take place at Nineland about the
1st Of May.
1t is said that there will be a recount of
the votes east for Freebooter in Lower Al
loways Creek.
Mrs. Mary A. Rogers. of Melville. has
just finished a bed quilt, in which there
are 300 pieces.
The half of an oyster shell weighing q
pounds was found in the mari pits at
Marlboro recently.
J. Hildreth Fogg. of L. \. Creek, has
fifteen two years old steers, which average
1904 pounds in weight.
Last week William Robbins. of Yorke-
town, shipped twenty-one hogs, which
weighed II, 1866 pognds.
The Young Mems Christian Association
of Bridgeton cleared about 300 at their
recent supper and festival.
The people of Atlantic City are moving
to have a law passed to hold their NUM-
cipal elections in the spring.
Hon. John Kelly. the New York Tam
many chieftain. is at Atlantic CITY under
the advice of his physicians.
a great many buildings in course of
erection are noticeable on the east side of
the railroad track at Pitman Grove.
a large white oak tree, near Alloway.
was recently felled, and according to the
rings of its growth was tS3 years old.
The crews of the life saving stations say
that the weather of last month was the
s~everest ever experienced along our coast.
Edward HARRIET, of Mays Landing. is
building a large incubator, and proposes to
GO into the business of raising ducks this
season.
Thirteen pickerel, one weighing five and
three-quarter pounds. were caught by sew
eral sportsmen through the ice at Lake
wood, last week.
Out of a total of 4S7 ballots cast in one
precinct at the recent local election in
bridgeton, there were only twenty-seven
straight tickets.
The real estate agency of Jessup &Moore
of Woodbury., have sold the Kerns farm
near Thoroughfare to Maria X. Fogg of
Elmer for Sc, 100.
Mr., j. Winchester, of South Vineland.
says that from accounts kept for two years
in succession, his white Leghorn fowls
averaged 50 each.
One of the notable improvements at Ap-
plegate's Atlantic City ocean pier next
summer will be a very large skating rink
on the pavilion at the ocean end.
The West Jersey Game Society has paid
out since the first of the year 500 for the
killing of hawks. nearly eight hundred
having been killed in South Jersey.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Salem, have moved into a room in
the Mansion building. which has been fitted
up i'll a neat and attractive manner
New York parties contemplate building
a roller skating rink at Cape May, at a
cost Of 10000. If a suitable site can be
secured the work will begin at once.
The Singer Sewing Machine Company,
whose works are located at Elizabeth. is
corresponding with the Millville City Coun-
ell, with the view of removing to that city.
Edward Pierce. of Bridgeton. who was
sent to States Prison last Fall. for assault
upon the person of Victoria Regina Pierce,
of Jehokaville, is said to be dying Of CON
sumption.
At the sale of personal property of the
late William Beckett, Daretown, last We'd
nesday week, a crayon portrait of the de-
ceased brought SO and one of Mrs. L. was
sold for s..
The steamer J~uniata, which had com
menced her trips between Bridgeton and
Philadelphia, has been forced to discon-
tinue them on account of the ice in the
Delaware river and bay.
\. thrifty wife in one of the South Jer-
sey counties, whose husband had been bed
ridden for years, improved the situation by
placing eggs in his bed and Matching a
brood of chickens.-W. j. Press.
The ice in the creek and river prevented
the Major Reybold from starting on her
regular trips from Salem on Monday, as
was announced last week. She will begin
running as soon as the weather permits.
Joseph Boon. living near Daretown, but
formerly a barber at Elmer. attempted to
commit suicide one day last week by draw
ing a razor across his throat. A physician
was summoned, who said the wound was
not a fatal one.
John p. Whitney and Thomas w. Synott,
of GlasSboro, have brought suit against
the Hop Bitters Company. OF Rochester,
n. y, for s24, 551.4l for glass bottles
made at the Whitney Glass Works for the
Rochester company.
\ story is told of Daniel Soul. who kept
the Absecon lighthouse sixteen years ago,
while dining at the county almShouse with
the freeholderS one day, .iokingly selected
his room. Two years later he went blind
and occupied the same room.
A party from Elizabeth are constructing
a mammoth refrigerator, 40xs0 feet in size,
on the wharf at Bayside. Cumberland Co,
for the purpose of freezing sturgeon and
other fish so as to keep them fresh until
sent away to the city markets.
The project to bond the county of Cum
berland for SEQ. 600, with which to build
a bridge across Maurice river. at Point
Norris, has failed, The recent election
produced nine Freeholdcrs who are OPP
posed to the scheme to seven who are in
favor it.
Palmer Earle, of Gibbsboro. was thrown
from a wagon he was driving on Thursday
night of last week, about a mile from
G~ibbsboro. His foot catching in the
shaft, he was dragged a considerable dis.
lance, and received such injuries that he
will probably die.
The sentence of Rockwell Cor the Vain