The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-07-31
LOCAL NEWS.

Full moon next Sunday.
The sun sets to-day at 7.15.
One month more of Summer.
Dog days began last Sunday.
Look out for heavy taxes next Fall.
Go with Bruna to Cape May next Thurs
day.
Elmer has had several cases of scarlet
fever
A Knights of Pythas lodge is talked of
in Alloway
A comet will be visible in this country
next month.
A building to be used for Il printing
Office and band room is being erected in
Elmer.
Horace S. Vanleer has received notice
that he has been appointed Postmaster at
Alloway.
Isaac Shoemaker, near Pcdricktown,
raised the earliest cantaloupes this year in
this section.
National banks whose charters are ex-
tended are supplied with notes having
brown backs.
In Massey's Watch Club on Monday
last. Wilson Taylor, of Pittsgrove, drew
the Goth watch, No 16.
Aloway's Baptist Sunday School held
their picnic on "Wednesday. of last week, i'll
the woods near the station.
Next Thursday Bruna's Annual Excur
sion to Cape May will take place. Train
leaves Woodstown at 30 A. Nj.
Mr.. William Wood, of Wing Lane, in
draining his pond caught some carp. They
were put in wash tub containing other
fish which they soon killed.
Summer complaints are making them
selves painfully manifest to some of our
citizens. Careful habits of diet and clean
illness are preferable to sickness and doc
tors bills.
James Stratton, living above Eldridge's
Hill, picked this year from one tree over
eighteen three-peck baskets of cherries,
for which he received about $500. A
pretty good record for one tree.
On Thursday morning of last week
about "a couples from the vicinity of
Woodstown and Harrisonville drove to
Pennsgrove and took the steamer Republic
for trip to Cape May, returning in the
evening.
The freight train on our road is now due
here at twenty minutes of six in the morn
ing This change was made to clear the
heavy summer travel that is done ON the
upper part of the road, and which some
times delayed the freight
Now isn't it strange that SO many people
do not know how to cook corn They
cook it too long. 1t should be popped in
pot of boiling water-no salt-and left
there for ten minutes-be sure the water is
in great rage--then taken out and wrapped
in a large napkin until you are ready to
cat it.
A Jolly party of five ladies. accompanied
by as many little ones, under care of Geo.
w. Crothers, started in one of Crothers
hacks OH Wednesday morning for Penns-
grove whence by boat they proceeded to
Wilmington for days picnic along the
Brandywine. They reported high old
time.
The following postmasters were APP
pointed to offices in Gloucester county last
week: Thomas p Darlington, Wenonah,
vice P. Coles; Thomas w. Hurff. Jr.,
Hurffville. vice r. G. Clark; J. J. David
son, Swedesboro vice IT, G. Garrison, re-
moved; Joseph Higgins, Glassboro, vice
G. S. Moffett.
A glorious rain on Sunday afternoon
flooded the streets and soaked the thirsty
soil. The temperature since has been
more endurable and the spirits of the far
mers, whose minds were full of visions of
corn burned up, pasture destroyed, COWS
gone dry, and sundry other ills attending
dry weather, began to revive.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Swedesboro Glass Manu-
featuring Co., held last week, the follow
ing officers were elected for the ensuing
year; Pres. Geo. Meley; Sec'y. j. q.
Rulon; Treas, |. Fl. Vanneman; Manager,
John Moore; Directors Jas. L. Plummer,
w. II. Mccullough, Sam'l Ashcraft, Geo.
Meey, j. c. Rulon and l. II. Weatherby
A. Cole II Bro, at their saw mill i'll
North WoodstOwn are always busy. They
have the contract to supply the lumber to
be used in the Hunter street bridge, now
in course of erection over the railroad III
Woodbury. and all the lumber used in the
substructure of the iron bridge to be built
over our mill-pond will be furnished by
this firm Some very heavy lumber will
be used in our bridge and it is thought
that over 10, 600 feet will be required in