The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-11-06

Thomas Hackett, of Warrington, is
seriously i'll with typhoid fever.
The special delivery system has been
changed SO as to include sealed parcels and
postal cards.
Isaac BalIinger, who came to Woodstown
to reside last spring, will return to his farm
in Gloucester county to-day.
These are the days when the gunner
with his dogs visits our neighborliood and
tramps around all day with more or less
luck.
Telephone communication will soon be
established between Quinton and other
South jersey towns already reached by the
wires.
Bartholomew Coles, the centennarian,
now in his 101st year, came to the polls
in the North ward on Tuesday and cast his
ballot.
Joseph Macaltioner is meeting with
ready sale for his lime which he burns at
his kiln on Chestnut run He is now get
ting ont the stone for another burning.
AS we 60 to press, 8 o'clock \. NJ, the
cellarway is in the same location as hereto
fore, and SO far as appearances indicate, ap-
pears to be i'll the enjoyment of good health.
Chalkley Coles, of South Harrison
township, Gloucester county, has purchased
the dwelling house of Charles Boon, on
East avenue. now occupied by Preston
virgins.
We publish this week another very in
teresting letter from the pen of Major f.
L. Scott. The Major, with his good wife,
iG ROW ~ Ia nlnctnwn Guantanamo county
n. Y, hard at work. as usual.
The Prohibition vote in the list District
of Cumberland County for Assemblyman
was 1888, only 40 less than the Demo-
cratic candidate received and 312 less than
the Republican and successful one. The
Prohibition vote Of the county was nearly
1900.
The festival held by the ladies OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church, Alloway, last
week. was quite a success, notwithstand-
ing the weather was SO WnfaVorable on
Friday evening. It netted them about $50
which will be used to pay off the last OF
the church debt.
The trustees of the Almsholse held their
regular quarterly meeting on Monday, Be
sides the transaction of tine usual business,
the new steam heating apparatus recently
put in by Martin Anderson. of Bridgeton,
was accepted, and it is said to give good
satisfaction SO far. 1t is guaranteed for
three years. .
William Hewitt, on Jacob Clark's Pleas
ant Valley farm, just outside the Borough,
on the Auburn read. has as fine a crop of
potatoes as can be found this season.
About 200 bushels to the acre and OF large
size and fine quality. MIR, Clark has
greatly improved the farm Since it came
into his possession.
State Superintendent Chapman reports
that the questions sent out to the principals
of the various school buildings iii the State
regarding sanitary arrangements are bring
ing in rapid responses. Not only that, but
the questions have suggested in many cases
precautions that ought to be taken and the
teachers have acted on these suggestions
of their own accord.
There is no better guidebook for a
country town than its local newspaper.
A glance at it almost any week is sure to
reveal whether the town is a dead-and-
alive place. or a bustling. enterprising
community. The local business men use
it to communicate with the people, and
the PAPERS minute accounts of local hap
penings keeps alive M interest in divers
matters of home growth and improve
ment, which could not otherwise be fos-
tered. The country weekly should be
well sustained wherever it is established
II is a public benefit as certainly as any
business enterprise in the place. There
NAV be weeks in the year when the reader
thinks his paper dull, but that is not
ALWAYS the oditor's fault. There may be
weeks in the year when a single copy may
be worth a whole years subscription.