The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-07-10
LOCAL. NEWS.

Salems street lights are hereafter to be
allowed to burn until II o'clock Saturday
nights.
Another balloon will be sent up from
Cobbs store, in South WoodStown, to-
morrow.
Farmers throughout Gloucester county
complain of dry weather, short crops and
low prices.
Twenty-sx persons from our town ac
companied Bruna on his first excursion to
Atlantic City yesterday.
The annual picnic of the Friends First
day school will be held in Deacon's Grove,
near Harrisonvile, on Tuesday, August
4th
In Massey's Watch Club, on Monday
last. James II. Hewes, of Bridgeport,
Glouce ster county, drew the eth watch,
No. 81.
Mrs. f. B. Humphreys has stalk of
hollyhock growing in the yard ON East
Ave, which measures over nine feet in
height.
John II. Holdcraft young man and
son of William Holdcraft. a wealthy far
mer near Elmer, was drowned few days
ago while bathing in a pond at Paulsboro.
Nine members of the Enterprise Circle,
of Woodstown, made all excursion to the
Brandywine, at Wilmington Del, on
Wedn esday. They report very pleasant
time.
our town was blessed with five loud
mouthed ''fakirs," on the Fourth This
class of individuals are nothing less than
nuisances and should not be allowed in
town.
The old saw mill at AlIoway, so long
known as Jessup's Mill, and for several
wears owned and run by the late Sheriff
Miller, has at last yielded to age and fell
down.
Eighteen empty beer casks were shipped
to Philadelphia from our station on last
Monday. and yet we see it stated that there
were 8 few drunken people here on Sat
urday' Indeed.
The annual conference Of the w. {. i.
L. of New Jersey, in session this week at
Ocean Grove, met with great disappoint-
ment in the failure of Mrs. Woodbridge, of
Ohio. to meet her engagement.
The lowest taxed corporation in the State
is the National Jersey Red Swine Breeders
Association, of Salem, whose bill is ~
cents Last year the company was taxed
IL cents and the Treasurer sent check
for the amount.
But for the disgracetul and shameful
drunkenness and carousing that ran riot
in our Borough on Saturday. the many
visitors that our village entertained on the
Fourth might have gone home with Il bet
ter opinion of the place.
Bridgeton, with over 10000 inhabitants.
e.. .1-a,, and
disorder on the Fourth, while Woodstown,
with 141O population had arrests and
several other brawling men who would
have been arrested in any other town.
The Woodstown Base Ball Club will
play return game with the lioga $, OF
Philadelphia, on Thursday of next week
at the latter club $ grounds IN Philadelpnia
A game will also be arranged soon be-
tween our bows and the Nationals, of
Salem.
The trustees of the Battentown school,
at Swedesboro, will sell the present school
building on Saturday of next week and
have advertised for proposals for the cree,
ton of a new building 1t is not decided
whether the new structure will be frame
or brick.
The sparrows are enemies of the seven
catch the cicadse on the wing and disable
them by plucking off their wings. When
the locusts fall to the ground the sparrow
eat them with apparent relish, leaving only
the hard shell untouched.
Many persons thoughtlessly draw up
their wagons and hitch their horses IN sncn
manner as to leave the vehicle stahd
directly over the crossings iii many places
between the street corners. This necessl-
tates pedestrians walking around the team
in the mud or dust, or going to the next
crossing. The habit is a bad one and OF
almost daily occurrence. 1t ought to De
stopped.
The days of the cicada, or seventeen
year locust, are past and the death OF the
twigs of young timber give evidence OF
their departure, the female dying soon after
depositing her eggs, which are left in an
incision in the tender growth of timber;
An examination of the branches will reveal
several cuts as though made with the point
of knife Probing these cuts the wood
appears at first woolly and then the eggs
are found They are white, about the SIZE
of tobacco seed, and elongated.