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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
school Notes.

The teachers were all on duty, and the
children reported to the number of 12S.
1t was a pleasant sight on Monday to
see the scholars on their way to the open
ing of the public schools, with their states,
books, satchels and other student fixtures to
which the school children in our grand
fathers times We're strangers.
The Trustees of the Woodstown public
school, on Saturday last, sold off a lot of
old desks and benches which were in use
in the school house before the modern i'm
provements were introduced. Israel f.
Nanneman officiated as a~uctioneer, and
the sale amounted to s5.27. The bric-a-
brac collectors were evidently out of town.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Patrick Manning, living near Fenwick,
has two horses seriously i'll with distemper.
Work will be commenced to-day on the
new Gloucester County Court House at
Woodbury..
Swcdesboro is becoming one of the most
important freighting stations on the West
Jersey Railroad.
Literature of various kinds will be given
away at the tent Of the W. c. T. L. on the
Fair grounds next week.
In Massey's Watch Club at Woodstown
on Monday last, George Ambacher, of
~Pilesgrove, drew the Goth Watch, No IS.
Isaac S. Stratton, lumber merchant at
Swedsboro, has the contract for erecting a
new school building at ~Battentown, price,
81, $50.
1t is stat cd that VIM. Ladow, the well
known carriage builder, of Harrisonville,
contemplates moving his works to the
shops vacated by Edwin Kahn & Son, at
AIullica Hill.
Through the efforts of the West Jersey
Game Protective Society, nearly all the
hawks which have destroyed game in
this locality have been exterminated. The
Society has paid over $1,000 in premiums
for hawks heads.
Mrs. Smith Hewitt has secured the Din
ner privilege at the Fair next week, which
which will insure to all in attendance a
first class meal at a reasonable price. Her
reputation as a provider for hungry folks,
is widespread. See her card in another
column.
.Jeppe Knudson, whe formerly carried on
the dyeing business at Salem, and later at
Bridgeton, has been to his native country
~(Sweden) on a visit, and returned on Tues
day of last week. He will resume business
at Bridgeton. The Nems says he is
$1,000 better off than when he went away,
upon which fact we congratulate him.
At a meeting of the executive committee
of the Prohibition party of this first Con-
gressional district, held in Camden, Bridge
ton was decided upon as the place of meet
lag, and Friday Sept. % as the date. Ex-
Governor John p. st. John, the champion
of prohibition, will be present and make
an address on the occasion and a special
train will be run.
The September moon fulls on Thursday,
the oath, at "A minutes after | o'clock in
in the morning, when our fair satellite
crowns the month with the beautiful har-
vest moon. For several successive days
after fulling, the moon will rise in the east
ern sky as soon as the sun disappears in
the western, flooding the earth with silver
light, and making it beautiful as a dream
of the land where there is no night.
Grand Chancellor Joseph Miller, District
Deputy DR.. Charles Newton, and others
legally appointed of the Order of Knights
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
Spread them Around.

Mr.. Amos Ebert has successfully trans
planted the famous S%harptown waterlilies
to his carp ponds and produced some beauti-
full specimens, as we can truthfully attest.
We understand that Mr.. Joseph Hinchman
has also succeeded in transplanting this
beautiful flower from Mr.. Ebert's ponds to
his own in Taunton. Burlington county.
These experiments etfectually disprove the
assertion previously made that the Sharp
town lilies could not be made to grow
except in their native pond.-W. j. Press.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

At the lastmonthly meeting ofthe Gam
den Wheelmen' a committee was appoint
ed to examine and report as to the adyisa.
bility of paying toll; and also to look up
the subject of road improvement as well
as to see the charters of the turnpike com-
panies of West Jersey and see how nearly
the said companies comply with the provis-
ions of their charters, and the best methods
of obtaining better roads from the com
panies.
There are many poor roads throughout
this section, and if the cyclers are successful
in their decided move for better roads they
will deserve the thanks of the travelling
community.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
A sad Case.

~IIaddonfield has been greatly excited
over the death of Miss Julia Wilmot, a
young girl. d~aughtero of a respectable labor
ing man of that borough. She had been
on a visit to Philadelphia, and was taken
sick and brought home, where she shortly
died in great agony, having previously con-
fessed that her sickness was the result of
malpractice, and accusing Frank Hendrick-
son, a young man who had boarded in her
fathers family and had been paying her
marked attention, as the authoro of her ruin.
Hendrickson is a married man, having a
wife living at Gloucester with whom he
has not lived for some time. He is a
native of Swedesboro, and has been living
at Gloucester City. He has absconded.
A coroner's inquest was held over the un-
fortunate girl, and the jury found that she
came to her death by the result of a crilni-
nal operation, and that Henderson was
accessory to the fact. The girl was buried
on Tuesday morning.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

The oyster season opened last week
and bids fair to be the most profitable OF
recent years. The Maurice River Cove
oysters are said to be unusually fine in
quality. The oyster business of Delaware
Bay has grown to mammoth proportions
within the last few years. Four hundred
and forty vessels and five thousand men
are required to handle it. 200, DOC, 600
oysters are landed on the wharves at
Philadelphia between September and
April and 50, 900, 600 will no more than
cover the value of them.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

A special meeting was held at Woodbury.
on Tuesday to decide for or against the
building of water works by the city. 379
votes were polled out of a voting popula-
ton of 800, and the result of the election
was a majority of SO in favor of building
the works. The estimated cost is s67, 900,
and the source of supply is Mantua creek,
about A miles from the city. The reservoir
system is the one that will probably be
adopted. With a new court house and
water works at the same time. Woodbury.
will have a boom.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
ADecislon Against a MIX Dealer.

The hearing in the warrant of arrest pro-
ceeding against Edward Cove, the proprie-
tor of the Lester Milk Company, which
failed on August 18th, was resumed on
Monday before Judge Yerkes in Court of
Common Pleas, Philadelphia. Mr.. Cove was
cross-questioned at great length by the
counsel for the prosecutors in the case,
William NJ. Coles and the P~ilesgrove
Dairy Association. The defendant was
sold out by the Sheriff under an execution
issued on August 18th by Mrs. Henrietta
Cove. the defendants wife, to whom lie
gave a Judgment note for $4,000 on August
1st. 1t appeared in the evidence that Mr..
Cove, on August Sth, sold out five of his
milk routes, including the horses and
wagons, -four of them to his drivers, and
one of them to his son. Three OF the
drivers gave their notes, aggregating $500
for the routes, and were to pay at the rate
of SO a week. One paid partly in cash
and partly in a note. and the defendants
son paid in cash and a note. The notes the
defendant endorsed over to his wife, and
he explained that she had agreed when
these notes were paid to turn over the pro-
ceeds to her husbands creditors as she
wanted to see them paid. Her husband
owed her between $4,000 and $40, 900. money
which she had loaned to him, and which
she got from her fathers estate. All of
the purchasers of the five milk routes tes-
titled that the sales were bona tide trans
actions, and no cover by which the owner
ship of the routes was to remain in the de-
PENDANT. 1t was further explained by Mr..
Cove that by selling the routes along with
the horses and wagons to the men who
knew the customers, larger prices were
realized than if they had been allowed to
be sold by the Sheriff or at private sale.
Judge Yerkes said that there was not 4
particle of doubt of the bona tides of the
debt due by the defendant to his wife, that
there was abundant evidence or that point
but he could 20 understand the transaction
with the drivers. To him this part of the
transaction looked suspicious. Had the
defendant turned over the horses and
wagons to his wife there could have been
no objection; but here was a sale of $4,000
worth of property to people of no means,
no credit. and without a particle of Sc
curity. The Judge thought that the e
PLANTATION of the defendant in a letter
which the latter had written and which
was in evidence was not satisfactory. Its
meaning, the Judge thought, was that the
transactions with the drivers was an at
tempt to hinder and delay creditors. He
therefore held the defendant in $4,000 bail
to either pay the debt or take the benefit
of the insolyent laws.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
Prohibition Convention.

The Salem county Prohibition Conven-
ton will be held at Woodstown, on Wed
nesday, Sept. 23d, at 2 o'clock P. NJ, in
the room of the Woman's Christian Tenn
peranee Union, for the purpose of nomi-
mating a ticket to be voted for at the COM
ing election. All townships, wards and
voting precincts in the county are request
ed to send delegates to represent them in
said convention.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
Another Cactus.

We have in our office window a specimen
of cactus, grown by John K. Deacon. 1t
is about the size and shape of a small can't
elope, growing from a foot by a thick
stem, and having f3 spiny ridges. From
the edge of one of the ridges a beautiful
flower on q stem about six inches long
extends, and while in bloom, was a beauti-
full sight. Tie flower has now withered,
but there are two or three other buds on it
which will probably bloom after a while.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

The following is the tax rate for Piles
grove township and Woodstown Borough
for this year.
Borough.-State &c, county "a, roads
.12, incidentals .06, borough tax 10, total, SS
cents per 800, and the special school tax
will be about 10cents, making the Borough
tax rate .9S per 500.
Township.-State .26, county "a, Incl
dentals .06, roads IA, total 80 cents per
500, besides special school tax, which
varies in the different districts.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
SIR. Major ReyboId in Service Again.

The steamer Major Reybold, which was
so badly shattered in the recent hurricane,
after being rebuilt from her main deck up,
resumed her trips Oh the Delaware on Sat
urday, making the afternoon trip to Salem
and morning trips up.
Thomas Coyle, of Chester, prominently
known as a swimmer and diver, after
much search located the smoke-stack of
the steamer, lost in the hurricane. 1t was
found in 80 feet of water and ropes were
placed under it last week and it was
raised within a foot of the surface when
the lines parted and the mass of iron sunk
20 the bottom again. Another effort will
be made to raise it. The tiller and other
parts of the steamer were also found. The
owners of the Major Reybold are particu-
larry anxious to recover the bell, but so far
Mr.. Coyle's efforts to locate it have been
fruitless. On Friday he thought he step
ped on it, but did not investigate it further
at the time.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

We are informed by farmers that the
tomato crop is very nearly a failure this
year. The dry weather retarded the
growth of the vines early in the season,
and after the fruit had set, the rains started
the vines to growing so luxuriantly that
they shade the fruit so that it will not
ripen, but rots on the vines. The canning
houses are not having enough to keep them
at work,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

The Board of Freeholders of Gloucester
county at their special meeting last week
made an additional appropriation of
$25. 900 for their new court house, making
$65, 900 in all. The contract for the struct-
ture has been awarded to Arthur +.
Williams of Camden. The money will be
raised by the issue of 81 bonds for $500
each and 33 for $1,000, each payable in
yearly sums of $4,000.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
Friends Quarterly.

Yesterday brought out the Friends to
EQuarterly meeting in large numbers.
There seems to be little falling off in the
attendance on these occasions, and the
houses Of Woodstown friends are thrown
open as Hospitality as of old, to the yisi-
tors in attendance from q distance.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
Twelfth Regiment Re.Union.

The surviving veterans of the gallant
18th Regiment n. j. Vol. held their an
nual reunion last Friday at B~ridgeton.
The date Of these meetings, Sept. 4th, is
the anniversary of the mastering i'll of the
regiment at Woodbury. in 1862. The vet
Grams arrived in the city on the morning
train and were met at the depot by a com
mittee of citizens of Bridgeton and the
members of the Robson Post G. A. r.,
headed by the City Cornet band, and vert
escorted through the principal streets to the
Opera House, the stage OF which was hand
somely decorated and set with a camp
scene.
President Troutman, of Washington,
called the meeting to order and Rev. D.
B.. Harris offered prayer, after which
Mayor Dubois gave an address of welcome,
responded to by the President.
Addresses were made by Col. Pagan of
the 10Th Penna. Cavalary, Comrades Har-
ris and W. p. Haines. The Bridgeton
Choral Union rendered excellent music,
and Mr.. Col. w. Z. Potter, of the Union,
sang ''Tenting on the old Camp Ground"
in a manner that brought tears to many
eyes.
The committee on Gettysburg monu-
ment reported that 1886 had been collected
" biiC pun pOoC+ alio biiot tiC
had been contracted for and would proba-
bly, be ready for unwilling some time in
October. The report was accepted and it
was ordered that the following inscription
written by Col. Potter should be placed on
the monument.
SIN memory of the men of the 18th Reg
iment, New Jersey Volunteers, who fell in
the field, July I'd and Sd, 1868, and who
elsewhere died under the flag, this mon
ument is dedicated by their surviving COM
rades as an example to coming gem
erations."
The sum of s72 was raised for the mon
ument fund. The following were elected
officers for the ensuing year. President
Capt. M. Riley, Bridgeton; Vice-Presidents
VIM. Dickson. Capt. Geo. W. Swing,
Samuel Harrington, James Ludwig; Rec.
Sec, F. Bleyler; Cor. Sec, Arthur Stanley;
Treas. Chas. A. Weideman; Executive
Com. Col. f. II. Chew, Col. Z. NJ. Dubois.
Sergt. E. Danenhower, Sergt. W. Fl.
Brooks, Lieut.. H. Gaskill.
Mayor Dubois, of Bridgeton, was elected
an honorary member of the Regiment.
1t was decided to hold the next meeting
at Clayton, on Sept. 4th, 1886.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

The Dairymen's Protective Milk Associa-
ton, which held its semi-annual meeting
in Philadelphia, on Saturday, was attended
by over $50 delegates from different dis
tricts in the states of Pennsylvania, this
state, Maryland and Delaware. The time
of the meeting was consumed largely in
organizing and in reports by the various
delegates. A state of general dissatisfac-
ton exists among the milk producers in re-
gard to the adjustment of the profits be-
tween themselves and the retail dealers.
For years the latter have had things all
their own way. They have fixed the sell
ing price of milk, and they have likewise
fixed the price they shall pay to the pro-
ducers, who have been compelled to sell at
four cents a quart milk which was retailed
at eight cents, or even more. The ex-
penses of the retailers are merely those in
Cured in transporting the milk from the
depot to the consumers. The dairymen
furnish the stock and labor. buy the cans,
prepay the freight, and are then forced to
wait for their money a month or more, ac-
counts being settled monthly. "Under
such a system,' as one ofthem''said, there
was no money in milk, and last June the
association was organized with he pur-
pose of lettering the state of things.
To this end it was voted Saturday that
the wholesale price of milk shall be fixed
at four cents per quart until the first of
November. This has been the price since
last spring, although it has been retailed
at eight cents. After that date there will
probably be "a rise. H~ouseholders, knowing
the wholesale figure, may observe the
prices of their particular milk dispenser
and calculate his profits.
Appointment delegate said that a majority
of the dairymen in the states above named
were represented, and that the association
would be successful in its object if the
members held together. The members
seemed very determined that the middle
mems monopoly of the profits should be
broken and the producers should receive
fairer treatment.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
9irertnry.
WEST

Trains going north.-70i and BIB A. ~, 1874
and 40l P. NJ. Sundays, 1923 A. NJ. and SOC p M.
Trains going south.-929 A. M, 2.47, Adj and
G.55 p. NJ. Sundays, S.59 A. NJ. and S.Oi p. NJ.
Trains leave Phil~adelphia.-S.l0 A. NJ, l.30, $40
and $40 p. NJ. sundays, 1.5 A. NJ. and 6.45 p. NJ.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
For Sale.
Notice.

nEUREN WOOLMAN, Executor of Abigail
II W6oAnaan, deceased, by direction of the
surrogate Of t~feseounty of Salem, hereby gives
notice TO the credftOEsa0i the said Abigail
Woolman, deceased, to bring in their debts,
demands and claims against the esfatss-af said
decedenf, under 0dth or affirmation, within
nine monthSffom the date hereof. or he for
ever barred of any action thereof against the
said executor. REUBEN WOOLMAN,
Dated It'll mo, 25th, 1885. Executor.
July3l I'm
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Office hours, 700 A. NJ. to $50 p. ~.
Oflice hours for money order business, 7 a. IN.
to Z p. m.
MAus-Close at6.5j and 500 A. NJ, 3.45P.M NJ. Ar
rive at 9.37 a. NJ, 800 and 40 p. NJ.
SALEM MAus-Close at 9.15 A. NJ. and 40 p. NJ.
Arrive TIT II. Is and Ills z. NJ.
SHARPTowN M~AILs-Closea at $50 A. NJ. Arrive
at = M A NJ
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
LODGES M SOCIETIES.

WoopsTowN LODGE, No. l3s, +. & a. M -.
Meets Tuesday evening, on or before tnii
moon and two weeks thereafter, in Horizons
Hall.
WoopBINE LODGE, No. l5s, ]. @. {. F.
Meets in j. ii. Turner's building every FIJI
day evening.
MosAcsA TRIBE. No. AZ, INF. O. X. NJ
Meetsin J. II. Turner's building every Mon
day evening.
WoopsTowN GRANGE, No. 8, p. of H.
Meets every Wednesday evening in Turn
er's building.
Meets on the first ana third Thursdays IN the
month in Riley's building.
HARMONY CouNcIL, No. IS, o U. \. Nj
Meets every Tuesday evening in Riley's
building
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Bridge Up.

TINE bridge over the millpond at W oodstown
Will he up until further notice
CHARLES u. HUMPHREYS,
August Eth, 1855. Freeholder.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-28

games of chance; and yet shall we fol-
this reason condemn the purchase of
the barrel of flour for present use, or of
a half dozen barrels bought in antici-
patton of rising market? When
person plays game of chance for the
mere pleasure of the playing and the
winning, the only possible danger is in
such excessive indulgence as to waste
valuable time which belongs to more
useful and necessary duties, and this is
proper subject for the exercise of the
individual opinion and conscience; but
when game is played for valuable
stake, it becomes gambling, and though
the stake may be small, the line of
danger for young or old is passed. In
some things there seems to be no such
well-defined line between the innocent
and the dangerous, or possibly pernici-
Gus, as, for instance, in the matter of
speculation. But let us use common
sense in all these things, as far as we
are blessed with that very general, but
nevertheless valuable, endowment, and
not substitute for it some tradition
or impression that has come down
from another generation, when condi-
tons were so different.-GOod House
EeeDinq,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-28
American Women.

The frankuess of the American young
woman has in it, on the threshold, a
certain bewilderment and even en-
barrassment for the British male per-
son, especially if his collars be stifily
starched, writes Archibald Forbes. She
has so utter an apparent absence of
self-consciousness; her mental equi-
poise is so serenely stable; her good
fellowship, if one may use the term, is
so natural, that he cannot see his way
easily to the solution of the problem. |
assume him to be gentleman, so that
his intuition deters him from mis-
conception of the phenomena that con-
front him. She firts, he finds; she is
an adept in Irritation, but it is hirta-
ton " from the teeth outwards," to use
Carlyle's phrase; and he is fain to own
himself, like the foX-hunting farmer
who tried unsuccessfully to get drunk
on the claret, that he seems to g get
not forrarder." But although the cita-
del of the fortress seems to him
strangely impregnable, because of the
cool, alert self-possession of the garri-
son, l have been told by heroic persons
who have ventured on the escalade that
if the beleagurer be he whom fortune
favOrs it will terminate an honorable
siege by a graceful capitulation. HUI
man nature is human nature all the
world over. And there is no greater
error than the prevalent one among us
that domesticity is not a leading virtue
of American married couples. That
there is too much of hotel life for
American families l concede, and am
fully conscious of the faults and evils
of the system; but that it entails any
impairment of the higher domestic vir-
tues l have failed to discover 1t is
not easy to see how a woman is de-
Perforated as the companion and friend
of man-as the participator in his as
pirations, his troubles, his studies, his
higher life-because her conditions re-
lease her from the duty of devising the
details of a dinner, from the irritation
of demoniacal domestics, from the
drudgery of checking the grocer's pass
book, and the sad realization that all
bakers are liars, and mostly robbers as
we'll