The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-08-06
g.s,s&E. NEWS.

Are you going 10 ann meeting
Boating, bathing, fishing and fua are in
order this month.
We understand thai i few lots will be
offered for sale on the Hires property, on
Grant avenue.
John II. Turner has sold io Mrs. Mary
Austin a lot 40 feet front on Main street,
adjoining the public school property,
Bruna will conduct his annual excursion
to Cane Nav and sea Isle City next Thurs
day. The train will leave Noodstowh
station at 40.
Tomatoes have taken a sudden drop, the
ripening of the Jersey crop having knocked
spots out of the ten cents a quart racket
heretofore prevailing.
Bruna landed over 1900 ex~earsionists at
Atlantic City on Thursday last. He viii
make his third excursion to Cape May on
Thursday, August 18th
The .Scieafifc 1@eyicaa ,ays if a bottle
of oil of pennyroyal is left uicorke'i in a
room at night, not a mosquito or any other
blood-sucker viii he found there in the
morning.
There was a large attendance at the sale
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Huffman on Tuesday and the bidding was
at times quite lively, the goods generally
bringing fair prices.
A young man visited town yesterday and
falling in with John Barlcycorn, with the
usual results, soon began So make a nut
sance of himself and was accommodated
with quarters in The lock-np.
Richard Mailack the eldest resident of
Elhridge's Hill, and who has lived there
in one house for nearly fifty years, will
break up housekeeping this month and
make his home with his daughter, Mrs.
Rueben Woolman, near Elmer.
The BOYS are finding lots of amusement
in identifying local celebrities among the
crowds depicted ON the Fair posters
scattered around town. some Of the like
nesses are strikingly accurate, and shouts
of laughter greet the discovery OF each
new resemblance.
The Glassboro correspondent of the ton-
stitutioa intimates that the next Grand
Jury will be called upon to make inquiry
into the circumstances surrounding the
killing of young Walter Cline on the rail-
road at that place. If there be any truth
in the rumors atloat, somebody is RESPONSE
BILE.
Tuesday morning was cool, but Benz.
Abbott thought he would make it cooler
for the MONITOR force, so he took them up
a couple of quarts of peach cream. The
boys gathered around a cold" stove and
tried to do their best in cleaning out the
can, and Judging from the looks of the can
they did their work well. especially the
devil" Thanks, Bon.
Camden Division, No. 10, Order of
Railway Conductors, will run an excursion
to Atlantic City ON Thursday. August 10Th.
This division, which comprises nearly
every conductor employed on the West ler-
sey, Camden and Atlantic and Amboy
branches OF the Pennsylvania railroad, is 4
mutual benefit organization, andthis means
of raising funds IS taken to carry out its
objects. paying sick and death benefits. etc.
The most office is not responsible for
money sent IN a registered letter. II the
money is lost the department will endeav-
or to find and punish the tllicf, and II pos
sible, restore the money to it's owner, ana
the process Of registry makes 1t much
easier and more certain to keep trace OF The
letter. Registered letters or packages also
go in special pouches under the special
safeguards, and are safer than II III the or
binary mail.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is testing Il
new light for It's passenger trains which 1t
is believed will prove superior to any light
now in use. Ii is intended to take the
place OF coal gas, oil lamps and the electric
light. An ordinary passenger coach fitted
up with the necessary apparatus has been
in use ON the road for about a year, part
of the time on The New York and Chicago
limited. The cost is one-cightl that OF
coal gas, and the original arrangement OF
machinery about the same as for the