The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-06-05
LOCAL NEWS.

lCllltS VIII oooi ~ III oo'pi
This is the first week of Summer.
Now get ready Cor the 4th o fJuly.
Water lilies and magnolias are in bloom .
The demand for mosquito netting will
soon be great.
July this wear?
A number of strangers were in town on
Decoration Day.
Sunday-school pic-nics will soon be the
order of the day.
The school children can now enjoy their
summer vacation.
Work at the new glass factory at Swe-
,desboro is going on satisfactorily.
The cut worms are doing a good deal of
damage in this vicinity at present.
Loyal Ladies League Festival Friday
and Saturday of next week, i'll McAllister's
Hall.
The Reliance Fire Company held their
monthly business meeting last Wednesday
might.
Friends Quarterly Meeting at Salem
yesterday. A large number were in at
tendance from Woodstown.
Don't forget the festival to be given in
McAllister' S Hall on Friday and Saturday
.of next week, by the Loyal Ladies League.
An act passed by the late Legislature di-
uects overseers of roads to remove briars,
tthistles and weeds growing on the high
ways during the months of August and
September.
The State Board of Education has
changed the date for teachers examine
lions from the last Saturday in May, which
this year fell on Decoration Day, to the
first Saturday in June.
Our county has another Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union, that at Canton,
organized by Mrs. Benz. Patterson, county
vice-president. Officers Mrs. j. Ander-
son, president Mrs. II. Stretch, CORE
spending secretary.
Mr.. Chas. A. Oliver, a student of Prince
ton Seminary, will preach every Sunday
morning and evening during the Summer
in the Presbyterian Church at Elmer. The
ladies have raised by general subscription
money sufficient to pay for a 1,O00-pound
bell, which has been ordered from Balti-
more for this church.
On complaint of a number of citizens of
Pennsgrove Justice Detroit issued a pro-
.clamation ordering all saloons, stores and
shops to close at midnight ON Saturday
and keep closed until after twelve o'clock
,on Sunday night. The rowdyism that has
prevailed there on Sundays for some
months past led to the proclamation.
Last Sunday was tolerably quiet.
The New Jersey editorial excursion this
I'LL L.. xoaJa a.. Ol1 paint Enrpfnrt
Richmond, an other interesting points in
Virginia. The excursion will start from
the Broad street station of the Pennsyl-
wanna Railroad, Philadelphia, at 10 O'Clock,
.an the morning Of JUNE s3d and will return
THE following Saturday. Woodstown Will
probably send several representatives.
James Guardian, while heading his boat
up Salem creek early ON Saturday morn
ing discovered a box embedded in the mud.
He took it ashore and on opening it found
four glass Jars, each containing the nude
body of an infant. He Immediately sum-
a coroner who carefully examined the
bodies and decided that two Of the four
had been alive and murdered. No clue to
the perpetrators of the crime has been dis
covered.
List of letters remaining in the Post Of
nee dt w UOuStOWH NAY oiHt- ip"'.
Armstrong, Emma b. Coles, Fannie Dixon,
Miss Mother Howell, John Haunce, Mrs.
II. Harrison, Master Franklin johnson,
Ida II. johnson, J. B. Lippincott, Abra-
ham Magee. Joseph Newborn, Mrs. Lydia
Swain, c. F. Smith, Mr.. Millborn Tell,
Joseph II. Williama, Merle u. Whaley.
Persons asking for any OF the above letters,
please say advertised.
J.. M. c. RIcHMAN, p. NJ.
In these days when nearly every third
person one meets wears spectacles 1t is
important that they should be properly
adjusted to the needs of the wearer. A
mistake ON this point may work irredeem-
able mischief. II. w. Patterson, jeweler
and optician, of Salem, whose advertise
ment appears in another column, makes a
speciality OF the spectacle business and
having spent several years in the employ
of Queen d Co., of Chestnut street. Ph'la-
delphia, has gained a large practical ex-
perience in adjusting glasses. not only as
regards their adaptation to the eye but al
so the fit OF the frame. Persons who are
d. compelled to wear spectacles of any Kind
shouid rive him a call.