The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-02-19

There is talk Of starting cooperative
store at Swedesboro.
The price paid for tie Davis House, at
Bridgeton, was 333, 900.
On Thursday of last week. Frank G..
Featherer, of Auburn, was appointed post
master at that place.
Mr. Samuel Nixon and Mrs. Anna
Ogden, were both buried in the Presbyter-
ian cemetery last Wednesday.
Mrs. Adelaide Carter, of Gassboro, was
buried in the Friends bulying ground at
this place on Thursday Of last week.
A meeting to form a County Board Of
Agriculture for the county, will be held in
McAllis Hall, on Monday next at .
u NJ.
Z w. b. Hitcllner has accepted a position
as salesman i'll the store shortly to be
opened by Reading & Co.. in Hunts ]
Building n
The Pomona Grange No. 8. of Glouces-
ter county, will hold 4 special meeting to-
morrow, the 20th at Mnllica Hill, to the
fifth degree.
VIM Ladow. of Harrisonville, was APP
pointed postmaster of that place on Fri
day. 1t is said that Alfred Madara will
take charge Of the office.
About st10 of the $500 needed to com
plete the pastors salary, was raised at the
Quarterly Meeting of the NJ. f. Church,
at this place, last Sunday.
The Englc Clock drew fair audiences at
Hunts Hall on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday Of this week. II is now on
exhibition 1T Pennsgrove.
The quarterly meeting ofthc Gloucester
County Temperance Alliance was held at
Barnsboro yesterday. Matters of impor-
lance were before the meeting
The Trustees of the Presbyterian Church
have sold their parsonage property, on the
corner of South Main and Mill streets, to
Richard F. S. Gilman, for $500.
William W. Banks, living near Avis
mill, near Iiarrisonville, has sold 81 acres
of the farm ON which he now lives, to Chas.
Cole, Of Avis mill, for s11S per acre.
Thomas Green killed on Tuesday two
good-sized hogs. one for James Fitzpatrick
which weighed 466 pounds, and another
for Robert McCoubrie, weighing 40 lbs.
Rev. j. Y. Burke, of Clarksboro, did not
lecture in Woodstown last Friday as an
made ii impossible for him to reach here.
The members of Woodstown Lodge of
Good Templars have arranged to pay a
visit to IIarrisonville Lodge tomorrow
evening. and u pleasant time is anticipated.
County Superintendent Iiolme will hold
an examination OF candidates for teachers
certificates on Saturday Feb. eth 1886,
at the Pdblic School binding, in Woods
town.
Preston virgins has purchased the
building lot Of Thomas Lppincott, on
south Main street, nearly opposite the NJ.
+. Church. and will bnild thereon this
season.
Charles r.. Burt has rented his farm in
Upper Pittsgrove, and will move into
Woodstown in the spring, having leased
the house Of Mrs. Mary Ann Wallace on
Auburn street.
The scholars of the Swedesboro public
school give an entertainment in Meley's
Hall tonight and tomorrow evening. \
change of programme will be presented on
Saturday night.
new firm of butchers will commence
business at Mullica Hill this week. Hen
ry Grinslaw, of that place, and Zebulon
I)HIItll, bl NWcttSDoIb, dft HltklDS
ments for that purpose.
The Yorktown Comedy Co., composed
of local talent. gave an enterta inment in
Richman's Hall, at Yorktown, ON Satur-
day evening. The audience was large and
the entertainment much enjoyed
The engine Of the $40 tram from Phila-
delphia on Monday had the oil in her head
light to catch fire while this side OF Woliert'6
station, and lad to stop while the engineer
put ont the flames and repaired damages.
L. G. Peterson has lot OF nice clover
and timothy seed for sale at his warehouse
next to the harness shop, i'll Petcrson's
block. He has Just received twelve tons
Of good clover and timothy hay, which he
is selling by the ton or bale.
Robert Parvin, of Mt Holly, who is
about to move his wagon factory to Pens-
grove, paid a visit to his new location last
week, renting five houses and making ar
rangementS for the erection of his factory,
which will be commenced about March list.
Augusta Cooper Bristol, of Vineland,
will deliver an address on Temperance, in
Town Hall, Mullica Hill, on Sunday even
ing, 2lst inst, at 7 o'clock. This lecture
will be under the auspices Of the Womans
Christian Temperance Union, and it is
hoped that large audience will be present.
Y The trustees of the Baptist Church here
have about concluded the sale OF their par
sonage in South Woodstown to Daniel G.
Cobb, who now occupies the residence.
They have purchased the property owned
by Frank G. Mount, next to the Baptist
church. now occupied by Israel +. Vana-
man.
1t is proposed to erect temperance no.
tel on the site of the old Davis House, in
the city of l}ridgeton. Mr.. Nixon, who
bought the hotel property, offers to sell the
ground on which to build the structure,
and to furnish the money to construct the
same, taking mortgage on the finished
bedding.
The bridge over the millpomd at Sharp
town, ON the road leading from that village
to the Almshonse, was entirely washed
away by the rains and freshet of last
Thursday. Freebooter Chas. Humphreys
at once made arrangements to rebuild the
structure, and work has been commenced
ON the new bridge, which will be span
bridge, 40 feet in length.
u Martin Anderson, of Brdgeton com
mencod work yesterday on the steam heat
ing apparatus which is to be placed in the
Nav Opera House building on Salem street |