The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-05-22
LOCAL NEWS.
The potato bug is on hand.

The potato bug is on hand.
School closes two weeks from to-day.
Major Scott speaks at Vineland next
Sunday.
The indications are that this will be a
great huckleberry season.
Rev. G. Bridgman preached in the Dare
town Presbyterian church last Sunday.
The Pilesgrove Protective Association
meet at McAllister's Hall next Monday
:. afternoon.
Foster Post No. 81. G. a. r., will attend
services in a body at the NJ. E. church on
Sunday morning.
Decoration Day, coming on Saturday,
will not be observed so extensively by the
business houses as in previous years.
The Comptroller of the Treasury last
week extended the charter of the Salem
National Banking Company for twenty
years.
The Loyal Ladies League of this place,
connected with our Grand Army Post, will
give a strawberry festival soon. The date
will be announced next week.
Another forest fire occurred near Fen
wick last Saturday night. The timber
burned belonged to Chas. Richman of
Sharptown and Jos. X. Riley.
The Society of Friends (Hicksite), is to
make an effort to build up its mem bership.
and will erect meeting houses i'll several
South Jersey towns, it is said.
The commissions of the newly elected
Justices of the Peace have been mailed
from the Secretary of States office. There
are about 425 of them in the State.
At the meeting of the Board of Trustees
of our a~lmshouse, on Monday, Jas. ID.
Torton was appointed undertaken for that
institution, to succeed John H.. Turner.
Ewalt Richman has at work on his mead
ow this spring a pair of oxen that he uses
in narrowing, pulling out stumps and IN
most any work that Il horse can be used
for.
The census for our school district, taken
by the District clerk, Geo. NJ. Andrews,
has been completed and shows $50 children
between the ages of and 1S in the dis
trict. This is an increase OF % over last
years number.
Mark Ayares. at his carriage shops on
Salem street, desires more space in his
ware-room and has four two-seated Jump
carriages, two Brewster side-bar buSgles
and three Express wagons which he will
sell cheap. Call and look at them.
On account of the Illness of assessor
Hews Crispin, Township Collector Joseph
Ballinger, who has the power to appoint III
such cases, has directed Postmaster itch
man to take the census in our township.
Mr.. Richman commenced work last Satur-
day.
The officers and teachers of the NJ. h.
Sunday School at ~Sharptown will hold a
Strawberry Festival in the *. ofP. Hall i'll
that place on Thursday, June 4th. Straw
berries and refreshments in abundance will
be provided. Proceeds will go for benefit
of the Sunday School.
At a meeting held last week in the NJ. +.
church for the purpose of electing Sunday
School officers, Charles IL. hickman was re-
elected Superintendent for the coming year.
Mr.. Richman makes a faithful and most
efficient officer and fills the position, which
requires much study and preparation, very
creditably.
If Swedesboro thinks that a borough gov
eminent. such as Woodstown has, Will
light her streets on dark nights she should
have seen our streets on Sunday evening.
The only lamps burning after the churches
were out were the two that are lit every
dark night, on Inc coTner VI NAM Sticot
and East avenue, and the one in front OF the
Post Office. This is not our officials fault,
however. 1t should be blamed ON the moon.
One of the minor trials in railway travel
arises from the eiuders in the eye. A SIM
pie and effective cure may be found i'll one
or two grains of llaxseed, which can be
placed in the eye without pain or INJURY.
As they dissolve a glutinous substance Is
formed, which envelopes amy foreign body
that may be under the lid and the whole Is
washed out. dozen ofthese seeds should
constitute u part of every travellers out
fit.
The telephone line to Sharptown is not
as many suppose, a part OF the trunk Inc
that is being put up between here and
Salem. 1t is only a branch from Woods
town and persons in Sliarptown wishing to
communicate with Salem must call up our
Office and be connected with the Salem
wire. Many of the takers of stock III
~Sharptown subscribed with the idea that
direct communication with Salem was TO
be furnished and there is considerable ieel-