The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-10-23
local NEWS.

Sunday was a fine day
Fall overeoats feel good row..
These are glorious October days.
Election day next Tuesday week.
Put away the net doors and windows.
IIallow Fen parties are being arranged.
Chestnuts are selling for 10 and II cents
per quart.
The foliage of the trees fairly glow with
autumn tints.
Buckwheat cakes are beginning to turn
n~neasily on the griddle.
Chal. Shimp, of Quinton, lost ono of his
horses from collie ON Sunday.
Mrs. Joshua Reeves, living in Manning
ton. sold recently n~inety-seven turkeys Tor
which she realized over $3.50.
The Salem county Teachers Institute will
be held in the High School building, Salem,
during the first week in November.
Rev. Willis Reeves, of Bridgeton, lee
tured in Alloway last night, his subject
being "a Ministers Experience at the
Door-bell.'
Mrs. H. A. Lippincott calls attention in
another column to a new stock OF goods
suitable for fall and winter. Read her adj
vertisement.
Rev. Chas. ID. Parker, of Daretown, will
preach in the Baptist church at this place
next Sabbath morning, i'll exchange with
the pastor, Rev. ]. E. Wilson.
We have on exhibition in our office VIM
dow a potato of the Mammoth Pearl va
riety, grown by Joseph Macaltioner, which
weighs two pounds and nine ounces.
The bridge over Alloways creek, at Ham
cocks Bridge. will be taken up next Mon
.day. and travel will be suspended over that
road until the new iron bridge is built.
The ladies Of the Alloway NJ. E. Church
will hold an oyster festival in Durham 5
Hall, at that place, on Friday and Satur-
alay of next week, October Both and 3lst.
The annual meeting OF the Salem county
Historical Society will be held in the new
Library Building, Salem. on next Tuesday,
October 21th. Officers will be elected and
interesting papers read.
Elk Sheriff Henry T. Garrison, of Swedes-
boro, has arrested 240 persons since 1870,
every case being tried i'll the Gloucester
county Court. Thu list embraces every
crime, except counterieiting, Known to the
law.
Jonathan Hughes, the connterleiter who
resided in Elmer and was arrested at Pit
man Grove by Secret Service Officer Bell,
was sentenced on Tuesday to five years IN
the State Prison by United states Judge
Nixon.
Dir. w. b. f. Miller. veterinary sur
geon, of Camden. was in town ON Monday.
The Doctor is treating a valuable horse
belonging to !. Walter Panceast, which
had one of the bones of its leg broken
some time since.
The new iron bridge over the pond con-
tains no date Indicating the year 1t was
erected. The bridge will probably last
for many years and the date Of its con-
struction should be placed on it for the in
formation Of future generations.
Allen Moore, living on the road to Wing
Lane. has purchased the house occupied
by Aaron Cole. in North Woodstown, anu
will move into it as soon as Mr.. toie can
OCCUPY his new residence, which IS now m
course of construction near Cole x Bro 5
lumber yard.
I'm a game of baseball, played last Satur-
day in our borough between the Young
Merits aud Stars, Junior mines, the
Merits were victorious by a score OF Al TO
10. Reeves, pitcher for the stars, struck
out 6 men, and Kelly, for the Young
Merits, struck out -.
l.. l.. Cobb, onr south end merchant,
sent up from his store on Saturday evening
another balloon. The ascension was very
successful and pretty, the balloon rising
rapidly and taking a northerly course az
rectly over the town, and finally losing II
self to sight in the distance.
The thirty-nintli annual meeting OF the
Salem county Biblc Society will be held III
the Broadway NJ. L. Church, Salem, on
next Thursday, Oct. Goth. Business meet
ing, 1.30 p. NJ. Public meeting, $50 r..
NJ, when Rev. Il. w. Gilman, ID, ~, Cor
responding Secretary of the American
Bible Society, will deliver the anniversary
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