The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-04
LOCAL NEWS.

Pears are becoming abundant.
September entered most charmingly.
Overcoats were in demand last week.
Chestnut gathering will soon be here.
Do you realize that summer is ended?
September and oysters arrived on Tues
day.
States last week.
Grapes are ripening fast, and an excel
lent crop is reported.
Pears and plums are said to be plentiful
this year, but apples scarce.
Gathering autumn leaves and nuts will
be the next pleasant feature.
Next week the small boy will abandon
the street for the school house.
Asahel Borton was painfully injured on
Monday morning by the kick of a horse.
The northern portion of Mullica Hill is
being built up rapidly with handsome resi-
dences.
New subscribers are being added to our
list every week. The MONITOR is steadily
gaining.
In Massey's Watch Club at Woodstown,
on Monday last, Peter ~Lippineott, OF Pitts
grove, drew the twenty-fifth watch, Nol5.
If YOU have a damp cellar under your
house. and wish to dry it off, place therein
a bushel of unslacked stone lime. This
substance absorbs moisture greedily.
Edwin Kahn & Sons, manufacturers of
Kain's Perfect Washing Machine, have
moved from Mullica Hill to Bordentown
where they will have better facilities for
their work.
We were in error in stating last week
that Albert G.. Oliphant, of Sharptown,
died of consumption, the cause OF his
death being typhoid fever, after a sickness
of about two weeks.
Sweet potatoes are being dug and
shipped from Swedesboro at a lively rate.
The freights are so large now that two
trains nave to be made, an extra locomotive
being sent down daily.
The Womep's Christian Temperance
Unions of Salem county will erect a tent
on the Fair grounds and during the pro-
gress of the Fair will distribute temperance
literature. The Woodstown Union have
decided not to meet again until alter the
Fair.
The weather for the month just ended,
as noticed by Mr.. VIM. Patterson, OF Salem,
who has been an accurate observer Tor
many years, sums up as follows: Warmest
day, Aug. 18th $40, coolest 2Sth 56o,
average temperature 1877, rainy days
II, rain fall 1000 inches.
The members of tie Chautauqua Liter
ary and Scientific Circle will meet this eve
Al. uy,an IF omar Rnrtort m
make arrangements for organizing a class
for the coming winter. All DESTROYS of
Joining or wishing to inquire into the OBJ
iect Of the circle are cordially invited to
attend.
Harrison Snellbaker was cutting wood
for L. B. Wright one day last week and,
aiming a blow at a refractory stick, 1t flew
M and stuck him on the left side of the
head. knocking him down and rendering
him senseless for a moment or two. The
injury extended to his eye and caused con-
siderable trouble for some days but is now
doing well.
The crop of walnuts, chestnuts and
hickory nuts it is said will be very prolific
this fail in all parts of the State, and we
believe there is no exception to the rule in
this county. An old legend has it that a
prolific nut crop is a sure indication OF a
severe winter, nature thus providing for
the animals that use the nuts for their
winter food.
The hearing of Edward Cove, ofPhiladel-
phia, before Judge Yerkes on proceedings
for fraud instituted by the Pilesgrove
Dairy Association and William NJ. Coles,
was not finished on Monday last, on
account of the absence of the counsel for
the prosecution and it will be continued on
Monday next. Gove's many creditors are
taking deep interest in these proceedings
and some interesting developments are
looked for.
The new postal cards, which are intend
ed to take the place of chose now IN use,
have been put on sale at the different Post
offices. The card is made of a delicate
pink paper, with the wording and stamp
in brown letters. The stamp is the head
of Thomas Jefferson, ~rrounde by a
wreath of vines, with the words One Cent
underneath. The card has the words
Omitted States in white letters on a
brown ground, with thirteen stars under
meath. Under this are the words Postal
Gard The card is neater and more attrac-