The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-09-14
LOCAL NEWS.

The Presbytery of West Jersey will meet
at Daretown, Tuesday Sept. 25, at 10 A.
M.
Only five out of thirteen candidates were
given certificates at the recent Teachers
examination.
A serious throat trouble is prevalent
among the children in Sharptown, and sew
eral deaths nave resulted from it lately
A bowling crowd of drunken young men
kept the residents of the central portion of
the town awake long after midnight this
morning.
N. d. Avis, principal of the public school,
has returned from his vacation, and is in
readiness for the opening of school which
occurs next Monday.
The next attraction at the Opera House,
so far as booked, is the melo-drama
Thrown on the World" which is to be
performed on October 9TH.
The art classes, under the instruction of
Miss A. M. Archambault, of Philadelphia,
will be resumed for the fall term next
month. See advertisement for particulars.
Efforts are being made by the Republi-
cans of this vicinity to secure James &.
Blaine to address a mass meeting which
it is talked of holding on the Fair
Grounds.
Efforts are being made to secure Mrs.
W. II. Boole, of New York, the noted
speaker, to deliver a lecture here under
the auspices of the w. G. T. U. some time
next month.
Priscilla Goforth, wife of Charles Go
forth, living in South Woodstown, died
very suddenly on Wednesday evening with
heart trouble. The funeral will take place
on Saturday.
The private school at the residence of
Mrs. Reading, will this year be under the
care of Miss Cadmus, a first-class teacher
from Philadelphia. The school opens next
Monday, the 18th inst.
Owing to the storm and the light attend
ance at the meeting of the Woodstown W..
G. r. U. last Friday night, the election OF
officers was postponed, and will take place
thise evening. A fall attendance OF men,
bers is asked for.
The annual convention of the Salem
County Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will be held in the Broadway NJ. r..
Church, Salem, on Wednesday next, the
10Th inst. Mrs. Hammer, of Newark, it is
expected, will be the speaker for the even
ing.
Ill dTOGd flu -lLlOlSOulC lag BOhO W. y
place the one struck by lightning in front
of Humphreys new building on East ave-
nue. was raised on Monday by Jos. G.
Stretch and a force of men. 1t stands con-
siderably higher than the other one, being
about 81 feet out of the ground.
The officials of the Delaware City, Salem
aud Philadelphia Steamboat Company,
which corporation owns the steamers "Rey-
bold,'' ''Thomas Clyde" and delaware"
have ordered the bars on these boats to be
closed. Hereafter no beer or liquors OF any
kind will be sold on these steamers.
Chapter 140 of the avs Of New Jersey,
passed last winter, provides that all build
ings three or more stories in height, In
which thirty-five or more persons OCCASION
ally c~ongregate, shall have fire escapes on
the outside of the building. The penalty
is $500 for failing to erect fire escapes.
Twenty-Five Italian women in charge OF
an overseer arrived in Woodstown ON Mon
day and are quartercd in a building at the
canning factory of Dickinson " Lippin-
colt, by whom they are employed. They
are a very respectable looking crowd, and
are said to get along nicely with their
work.
Optician McCord, of Bridgeton, will re-
main in Woodstown for a lumber of days
after the Fair, as he intends to canvass the
county. Parties desiring to see him or
have him call on them, will place leave or
ders with Mrs. Hannah b. Smith, opposite
Grant street. Mr.. McCord sells handsome
gold spectacles and all other kinds at OK
tremely low prices.
We understand that Mrs. Virginia White
Hitchcock, daughter of Judge Henry
White, of Pennsylvania, together with
Mrs. Ada M. Fredericksen, a prominent
Danish lady, now a resident of Chicago,
Mrs. Laura M. Lippincott Pancoast and
others, are organizing a society. Tor the
elevation of domestic science and service
and for the relief of chronic invalids. Inc
society will be national in its work win
international auxilliaries.