The Monitor., 1885-09-25
LODGES AND SOCIETIES.
LOCAL NE wS.
Autumn tints are increasing.


Straw hat jokes are now in order
Alloway's tax rate is "a cts. on the 500.
At night and morning a fire feels comfort
able
Preserving and canning is in order at
present.
This is nice time of the year for
travelling.
Parents should visit the public school
occasionally.
The demand forthe MONITOR is constant
ly increasing.
The months of Summer were noted for
their dryness.
Judge Reed is holding court in Cape
May county this week.
Advertising is the philosophers stone
that turns a mans wares into gold.
The barber shop of John w. Goforth
will hereafter remain closed on Sundays.
There are 401 dogs in Pilesgrove town
ship-that is to say the assessor found
owners for that many.
He who starts without money but with
faith in advertising soon outstrips the cap
italist who does not advertise.
Four hundred and fourteen tickets for
the Woodstown Fair were sold at the
depot at Salem on the last day.
Twenty shares of stock of the West Jer-
sey railroad were sold at the Philadelphia
Exchange last week for SAT per share.
The canning houses made good time this
week, but will hardly be able to catch up
with the average seasons work before
frost
Vernon Harwood, living at Alloway,
was painfully injured last week by horse
running away from him while he was I'M
gearing it.
The postal card famine continues.
Postmaster Richman purchased lot at
the Philadelphia office on Monday to sup
ply the retail demand temporarily.
A slight rain OH Tuesday laid the dust,
and next morning the question of stoves
and coal superseded all Others in the con-
sideraton of the American people.
The New Jersey Fireman's Association
hold their annual convention at Atlantic
on next Wednesday. The Reliance Com
pany should be represented by delegates.
Thieves visited the premises of Isaac C..
Dubois, on the ltichmantown road, last
Sunday night and got away with four or
five pairs Of fowls just about fat enough
for market.
There is no general State tax this year,
New Jersey being one of the wealthy
States which has no debt to speak OF, and
whose expenses are paid by taxes on cor
porations
Diament & Son have been obliged to
increase their facilities in their grist mill
at Alloway by replacing their twenty
five horse power engine with one OF seventy
five horse power.
Near the saw mill Of Calvin Dilks, at
Alloway, can be seen the grave of Indian
Tom, the last of the aborigines who lived
in the neiglborhood. A piece of sandstone
marks the resting place of his remains.
Mr.. L. d. Patten, of Bridgeton, formerly
a resident of Woodstown, has disposed OF
his entire stock of horses, carriages &c.
to VIM. Clark and is now employed by Mr..
Clark buying and selling horses in Phila-
delphia.
In Salem county on Monday the follow
ing p. 0. appointments were made in adj
dtion to the one at Woodstown Daretown
VIM. Richman, Jr; Hancock's Bridge,
Jas. Butcher; Elmer, Isaac johnson;
Quinton, Sylvanus Sheppard.
Arrangements had been completed for a
match game of lawn tennis between crack
players of the Salem and Woodstown clubs
on Clawson's grounds at Woodstown on
Tuesday afternoon, but the rain caused
postponement and one of the Woodstown
players being obliged to go away, the match
is off for the present.
Get out the old stove pipe, lay IN the
sweet potatoes take up the summer mat
ting, take down the net doors, get out the
oyercoat. get the tomatoes and peaches
canned before it is everastingly too late
and attend to various other duties suS-
gested by the fact that we are nearly
through the first fall month.
The w. C.. T. L. festival at Mulliea
Hill tonight and tomorrow night promises
to be grand affair. The Friends, Baptists
and Methodists are interested in it, and
hence it must need be success. The OBJ
'ject is to secure funds to paint the new
Reading Room. II will be held IN large
canvass tent in the rearof the NJ. +. Church.
Let every body 90.