The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-27
LOCAL NEWS.

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Read the MONITOR and keep posted on
local affairs.
E. S. Fogg offers for rent a house on the
Yorktown road.
The sun rises at 6.35 to-day and sets at
ten minutes of six
Friends Quarterly Meeting viii be held
at Woodstown next Thursday.
The Friends Meeting House in Woods
town will be 100 years old i'll September
next.
virgins Bros. give formal notice of the
dissolution of their partnership in another
column.
A barge loaded with oyster shells has
swung across the creek at Auburn and has
completely damned it off.
Rev. O. b. McCurdy lectured before the
Auburn Public school last Friday after
noon ON Egypt and the Holy Land
Thomas Hope, of Sharptown, has rented
the farm of John Holmes, On the road to
Alloway, now occupied by Clinton Rob-
inson.
The February moon fulls tomorrow
night at eleven o'clock, so that we come
within an our of having no full moon in
February.
r. Henry Holme, County Superinten-
dent. will hold an examination of appli-
cants for teachers certificates next to-mor-
row at the public schoolroom.
The Salvation Army has apparently be
come a fixture in Bridgeton. 1t is said
tina when warm weather arrives they will
hold regular meetings in a grove.
DR.. l.. A. D. Allen, who has been Treas
urer of the W. J.. A. & II. Association
since 1874 tendered his resignation on Mon
day night last, which was accepted.
A well-written article on our first pal &c,
from the pen of j. Walter Pancoast, on
the subject of the corruption of the cleo
tive franchise is worthy of careful perusal.
A. B. Flitcraft will probably issue a re-
vised edition of his handy little Woods
town Directory this Spring after the an
nual change of residences has taken place.
Figures don't often lie but last week
they made us say that Wilbert Richman
had purchased a farm in Alloway own
ship for 81, $50, when they should have
said 81, $50.
DR.. Banning, of Philadelphia, has con-
tinued his lectures in Woodstown another
week. This afternoon, in McAllister's
Hall, the last lecture will be delivered.
Admission free.
The semi-annual meeting and Spring
convention of the w. c. 7. L. of n. j.
will be held in Salem on Wednesday and
Thursday, April 8th and 9th. We are
glad to have our county honored.
J. W. While, assignee of Samuel Smith,
will sell next Tuesday, March 3D., all the
horses, cattle, farming implements, etc,
the property of Mr.. Smith. Purchasers
will find some good stock at this sale.
The Harmony Council, No. So, O. L. A..
NJ, at their meeting on Tuesday night ex-
tended a vote of hanks to Rev. j. /. VIII
son, for the admirable sermon delivered to
them by Mr.. Wilson last Sunday morning.
Look out for sharpers who are now trav-
cling about the country selling sewing ma
chine needles and attachments at about
one-third the usual price. They have Wis
tied some of our ~neighboring counties and
our exchanges pronounce them frauds.
The man who says he would not have a
newspaper about the house, under any cir
c~umstances, but who rides twelve miles
through a heavy snow storm to get a copy
of the paper when his name is mentioned
in it, is not the kind of a man he represents
himself to be.
Excursion tickets will be sold on March
I'd. Sd, and 4th, to Washington, good to
return until the M from all stations on
the Pennsylvania, West Jersey, and Cam
den and Atlantic Railroads, at greatly re-
duced rates. For full and detailed infor-
nation apply to local agents of the Penn
sylvania Railroad andits branches.
The special services in the Presbyterian
Church this week are well attended.
Rev. w. V. Louderbough, of the First
Presbyterian Church at Salem, preached a
fine sermon on Tuesday evening. The
pastor, Rev. O. B. McCurdy, officiated on
Wednesday evening, and last night Rev.
Edward Dillon, of Woodbury., occupied the
pulpit.
Farmers beware. A recent swindle on
farmers is conducted ostansibly in the in
terest of a Chicago firm, who are said to be
collecting statistics for some sort of report
on agricultural products, and who ask
farmers to sign their names to a statement
of their crop products, merely for the pur-
pose If verifying the report. AS usual,
the signature comes back at the bottom