The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-05
LOCAL NEWS.

Squirrels are very plenty this season.
Scarcely two months before Christmas.
A ball was given in Hunts Hall on
Tuesday night.
Thanksgiving will next engage the at
tention of our people.
The young ladies connected with the
Woodstown Baptist church cleared about
$40 at their recent festival.
T. p. Harris on Wednesday moved into
the residence on South Main street recently
vacated by Rev. J. f Wilson.
The cunning season has commenced and
on Monday a large number of sportsmen
went out with more or less success.
The breaking of the coupling connecting
the tender to the engine delayed the 12.43
train five minutes at our station on We'd
nesday.
Ewalt w. Richman. of our borough,
has made an assignment for the benefit OF
his creditors. John IL. virgins and John
Holmes are the ~assignecs.
+. Wallace & Bro. are about TO erect q
a new building 30x1G feet, i'll which to
make cans at their canning factory in
South Woodstown.
The season for rabbits, quails and pleas
ants commenced on Monday. Rabbits are
reported plentiful but it is said quails are
scarce in most Of the counties.
Nearly all the Prohibition tickets voted
in the township on Tuesday were open
tickets, voted in full sight Of the hangers
on around the polls.
A large and substantial bill board for
- lAnra Ie.,rS nnrltrph-
ances has been erected on East avenue on
the lot in the rear of E. L. Humphreys
store.
Jehu L. Allen has commenced work on
the new street to DO opened by INN IN
South Woodstown by changing the fences,
etc. There will be on this street some very
desirable building lots.
A visit to the woods at this season OF
the year will crafty any one having an
eve for the beautiful. The varicgated col
ors of the leaves present a pretty picture
and must be seen to be appreciated.
It is said That the issue Of the new one
dollar silver certificate is the most artistic
paper money ever put out by the treasury.
The extra work was probably put on to
make up, in a measure, the other "a cents.
Thos. Green has commenced his annual
slaughter OF p%orkers. He killed last week
for Jos. Engles a hog weighing 4S0 pounds
and two for Chas. ]. King weighing
404 and $50 pounds.
The regular monthly ''soeial' of the
Young Woman's Christian Temperance
Union was held in the rooms on Monday
evening. An interesting programme was
presented for the entertainment OF the mem
hers and their friends.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
experimenting i'll the direction OF a ccssa-
tion of Sunday traffic, with a determine,
ton to abandon all Sunday freight ana
passenger trains that are not run from
actual necessity.
After an exhaustive series of experiments
and calculations on the feeding OF cattle
and selling of milk, Professors Cook n
Neal. of the New Jersey State Agrlcul-
ture Experiment Station, stated that the
balance sheet of the wholesale and retail
sales of milk produced at the State farm,
amounting to nearly!50, 600 quarts, shows
that retailing milk is from four to hve
times as profitable as the wholesalihg OF 1t.
Swindlers are said to be working a new
game on the farmers of neighboring coun-
ties. They drive up to a farm house ana
give the farmer a big game talk about the
nigh prices paid for groceries. A barrel
or two of sugar is taken from the wagon
and offered for abont one third the regular
price. The farmer bites, buys u barrel
and in two or more days discovers he has
purchased ordinary salt. A few pounds
of sugar cover the deception.
The West Jersey Railroad and branches
report their gross earnings for September
as $133, 725, an increase Of $500 compared
with the corresponding month Of 1889.
The operating expenses were s77,373, a de-
crease of s9733, and the net earnings so6,-
$40, an increase of siS, 335. For the nine
months ending September Soth the net
receipts were s1,077, 1870, an increase OF
$40, O7S as compared with the correspond
ing period of last year; operating expenses,
1858, 292. an increase of $34, 124; and net
earnings s41s. S47, an increase of SPA, 9o4.
The total expenses and obligations for the
nine months wcro s909, 107, an increase OF
S44, 4s0. and the net profit of the west
Jersey Railroad, after payment OF al ex-
penses and obligations, was sl69,o3', an