The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-12-10
LOCAL NE wS.
Apples are scarce.

Apples are scarce.
Streets are getting sloppy.
Persons owning empty ice houses would
like to see the cold snap continue.
Owing to the dry summer there is a
scarcity of shellbarks in tue market
AIIoway is at the front with big hogs,
having killed one weighing 900 pounds.
What to give for Christmas present is
exercising many persons minds at present
LA Chocolatare" of the W. c. T. L.
last week resulted in about $50 net pro-
ceeds.
Isaac b. Coles slaughtered hog for
Thomas Lippincott last week that weighed
6l5 pounds.
Marlton street is almost impossible with
snow frem Stacy Pcterson's house to the
mari beds.
The can-makers are at work getting
ready the supply Of cans for next sea-
sens pack of tomatoes.
Jos. l.. Coles, living near the Borough,
has rented his farm and will sell Off his
stock and farming utensils.
|. Z. Nanaman contemplates start
ing a bakery at his residence. the old
Waterman bakery stand.
There was prospect of fine skating on the
millpond last week but the fall of snow
unset all calculations in that direction.
Work ON several buildings under way in
the Borough has been brought to close
for the present by the Sudden cold snap.
N Charles Green, who carts coal from
Hitchner's yard near the depot, has earted
nearly five hundred tons within three
months.
Joseph Coles has rented his farm to
George Lawrence, and Patrick Canaan VIII
run Eli Kirby's property, where Lawrence
now lives.
Upsets from sleighs i'll snowbanks are
freauent and make lots of fun-forevery-
body but the blushing damsels whose equl-
librium is thus rudely disturbed.
Forts Opera Company, comprising
thirty people, will present the comic opera
..Erminie.'' at the New Opera House,
Woodstown, on Thursday evening, Dec.
Esd.
Mr.. Samuel Bowen and his brother,
two of the executors of the estate OF smith
Bowen. deceased, were in Woodstown last
week. on business connected with the cs-
tate.
Telephone communication was put out
censjderably on Tuesday. The wires were
down between here and Salem, and com
munication with points north was also
difficult.
Sheriff Kelly has sold the Cox farm Oh
Lower Alloways Creek Neck, containing
4SO acres. to John shrimp, of the same
township, for sG,025 subject to the
widows dover.
G.. f. Mount is lettering large sign
across the front OF Z. b. Humphreys
pantaloon Factory. ''rhe f. Il. Hum
nhrevs PantaloOn Company" is the
legend inscribed thereon.
Two lots of land containing : 70-loo
acres. situated in Woodstcwn, late the
property of Samuel Borton, deceased. was
sold on Saturday of last week. for s9'o So
Edwin Colson being the purchaser
The Christmas week attraction at the
New Opera House will be Forts Opera
Company, who will present the comic
opera "Erminie. f" the latest New ofS sue
cess, on Thursday evening, Dec. aoa'
crothers and Pancoast will sell at the
Woodstown House, next MONDAY AFTER
noon at two OclOck, hlteen heau Vi ySai-
limo bulls and number of heifers. The
sale will be positive, regardless OF the
weather, and at two o'clock sharp.
The u. S. Commissioner at Washington
recently sent to WILDER f. Springer oil
Salem. a lot of German carp which the
latter has placed in tank until Spring,
when he will remove them to tine fsh-pohd
on his farm in l.. p. Neck township.
The Court rendered decision IN the
Bnzby will case which was tried at the last
term. setting the will aside. The VIII gave
the bulk of the estate to the wife oil George
Waddington. a granddaughter lhe
property will now go to the next OF KIN.
Notwithstanding the recent decision OF
the Supreme Court. it now appears that the
hremen are to get their s. tax exemption
any way. under the original act OF 1881,
which has not been repealed. The decision
of the Supreme Court, it is SAID, only al
fects the amendments to this act.
Mrs. Hannah A. Cawley. administratof
of the late Jonathan p. cawley, dec d.
will sell on Feb. 12 next, the IS acre farm
an the road from Point Airy to Eldridge 5
Uill This is good farm and well worth
waiting for by those desiring eomi"itanie
home and profitable investment.