The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-05-28

Juno meetlng draws nigh.

June meeting draws nlgh.
Sc at 8 A. NJ. will do very well for the
mercury on May 9Gth.
The public schools viii close Tor the
summer vacation june 18Th
The public schools Mill hold no session
on Monday Decoration day.
Another forge has been put in at Van
seor's blacksmith Shop on Salem street.
Strawberries two -for-a- quarter are on
aland Two boxes fora quarter, we mean
Allen r. Lewis is employing his vacation
IN introducing "Aetina, with good sue
cess.
Mrs. Mary Ann Wallace has been quite
i'll for several days, but is now nn the
mend.
Cole & Bro. are building for William
Watson, on East Mill street, good sized
dwelling house.
The sweet potato plants are rottmg in
some sections of South Jersey owing to the
protracicd rains.
The monthly temperance prayer meeting
of the w. G. T. |. will be held next Mon
day evening At their rooms.
Read Wheeler q SONS announcement Of
watch club on u new system, and call at
thcir store when in Salem and take stock
The Sunday schools are making arrange
ments for the proper celebration Of Chill
drcn 5 Day, the second Sunday in June.
Builder Stretch, of Alloway, will com
mencc work on the interior fittings Of the
new store III the Opera House building next
week
Joseph s Broadway has received nteili-
gance Of the serious illness of his mother,
Who has been for some time past at New
Brunswick.
The Mite Society, Of Che Alloway NJ, +.
church. hold strawberry festival in Dun
hams Hall, at that place, tonight and to
morrow night.
"a cold, wet May fills the barn with
grain and hay, is the old saying. If thai
is the case the prospects are good for
abundant crops this season.
Sheriff Packer of Gloucester county,
will sell Mt the IEarriSonyilc mill next
Tuesday, lot Of mill fixtures and ma
.chnery under chattcl mortgage held by
Ayarcs & Son, the AlIoway millwrights.
Farmers who wish copies of the annual
report of the State Board of Agriculture
should apply to w. :. Taylor, Burlington.
As the report contains many matters 81 IN
tcrcst all farmers should avail themselves
of the opportunity to get copies
Israel Il. Vanaman opens his ice cream
parlor ut his residence, next door below
Presbyterian church, this week 1t IS cosy
and centrally located. lie keeps the old
reliable '.Bruna s." which is as good as
ice cream can possibly be made.
The w. C. T. L. festival at Mullica llili
was quite a success netting about sou.
They could have done much better had
there been more room as the hail was iiled
on the second night, many being eompeil-
etl 10 90 away without being waited upon
The West Jersey Railroad will pat a
special fruit train on the road mex! Monday
tn take fruit through from BridSetoh to
New York without change, leaving Bridge
ton at ten minutes past three IN the after
noon and reaching Jersey city at one
o'clock in the morning.
Oar Universal Job press, as we pen these
lines. is running off a job for our Bank OF
$4,000 noiaral certificates for which we
competed in price with Philadelphia lirni
and secured the contract, turning out as
good Job as pfcflVnS ONES ll"h the ivy
of the same kind. People are gradually
learning that the MONITOR office turns out
good work in the printing line.
An old resident tells us Of the lannon's
cold summer Of 1916, which she can just
remember. There was frost every month
Of the year, and the corn crop was almost
a failure. Here and there farmer sue,
ceeded in bringing his crop through ana
realized big money from it. We hope our
present cool snap is not p'emoaitory OF
another visitation of Tie kind The man
who wants to know if it's ''hot enough Tor
Won. f" Will want chance ~ get IN ms
work before summer is over
The shad season is about over, th"asii
there are few still in the market and
after this week sllad viii cease to be an ~
ticIe Of merchandise Cor tiie year. nnt"ltti.
standing tho Legislature yeal of Two
since extended The linn for catching them
from the 10Th 60 She 10Th of .lune. The
habits Of shad can't be regulated by law
The season has not been pioiilahle "lie
altogether Ia he fishermen. theagh tiie r.
tail price OF Shad IN fhis city did mol Mte
as low as in former seasons. --Stahddfa'