The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-11-13
LOCAL NEWS.
Rabbits are plenty.
The celery crops large.

Rabbits are plenty.
The celery crop is large.
Sleie lis Will soon be running.
Farmers say corn is slow in drying this
fall.
Some Of Elmer's citizens are talking of a
Library.
Sweet potatoes are only bringing about
$3.50 per barrel.
Farmers find air-slacked lime the best
preventive Of potato rot.
ii was decided last Friday evening to or
ganize a lodge of Masons in Elmer.
The latest thing in the eggg business is to
place the date it was laid OH each egg with
a rubber stamp.
john 3. Mitchell, a farmer living near
Swedesboro, has made an assignment to
Samuel Longacre.
A series of extra meetings will be COM
meneed at the Methodist Episcopal Church
at Alloway next week.
The Salem papers this week contain no
tees Of the deaths OF eleven children, all
under eight years OF age.
David WentzclI, living near Watson's
Corner, had two of his fingers cut oil by
a circular saw last Saturday.
The Board of Trade, of Salem, has de
cided to ask Congress for an appropriation
for the dredging of Salem creek.
We were shown OH Wednesday a bunch
Off rcd clover heads, that had just been
pIueked from a yard in our Borough.
The Salem Railroad has declared the
semi-anuual dividend Of three per cent,
payable to stockholders after Dee. LIST.
A meeting of the Mantna Township sun
dly School Association will be held in the
Chapel at Pitnian Grove, next Tuesday
the 18th inst.
Eight members Of the Woodstown ".
c. +. L. were in attendance at the Ma
tional Convention Of the Union recently
held in Philadelphia.
The beautiful autumnal weather pre-
vailing at this writing makes it hard Tor US
to believe that we arc SO near the time oil
ice and snow rs WI actually arc.
Wilbert Riehman, Of Yorktown, raised
this season ninety-two bushels OF corn to
the acre. and that. too, on ground on which
no fertilizer or manure had been put
Rev. Mr.. Bancroft, graduate of Prince
ton Theological Seminary, Will occupy the
pulpit OF the Presbyterian Church, III tAls
place. next Sabbath morning and evening.
AS will be seen 10y our report Of the
Freeholders meeting Il sign VIII be ptacea
ON orr iron bridge %cantiohllg persons
against driving over it al q faster galt thah
II walk.
DR.. l.. A. y. Allen informs us that so
far as his observation goes there IS not q
single ease Of diphtheria in this vicinity, ne
saot having among his patients even a case
of sore threat.
Revival meeting have commenced IN the
st. Paul's NJ. L. Church at PennSgfove'
Tn nastor. Rev. Gildon Elviu, is very zeai-
Gus in his calling, and is much Thought OF
by his congregation.
A station has been established on our
railroad at Battentown, just south OF
Swedesboro. and trains now stop there Just
the same as at the other one hundred and
some odd platforms above Swetlesboro,
The semi-annual convention OF the
Woolwich township Sunday school Asso-
citation will be held in the Swedesbofo M.
T.. church on Thursday afternoon ana even
mo November lDLti- All thNNfN"f'fN ~
0ramme has been prepared for the oc-
.caSion.
William w. Banks, living near Harrison
vile. left at our office on Saturday some
punches Of ripe grapes which we're the
second crop OF the season. picked from on
his vines. They were full punches, OF Il
good flavor and are altogether quite a
freak of nature. Mr.. Banks tells us that
Ais ie moi the first wear this vine has
produced tive crops.
The passenger steamboat John :. Idle,
owned by the Philadelphia aud B~ridgeton
Steamboat Company, but formerly run
ming between Salem and philadelphia, was
seized at Port Penn, Dsl., by the United
States Marshal, on Saturday, on a iloet
issued by Samuel B. Cleaver. Ihe ,lle
was on her way from Bridgetonto Phladei-
phia. The claim Is based on 2 wharfage
demand.