The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-07-13
LOCAL NEWS.

County politics are not very active.
Henry Stepler, of Woodstown, has joined
the Fenwick Base Ball club, of Salem.
Brnna's next excursion to Atlantic City
will take place on Thursday, July Goth.
The ladies Of the w. G. 7. U. will meet
at the residence of DR.. p. G. Souder this
friday evening.
Cooper Vanmeter, OF Yorktown, has
secured Z position as assistant telegraph
operator at Wenonah.
Paul Davis has had a neat little sto re
room for his paints, erected at the back of
his dwelling on East Mill street.
GEORGETOWN Belle" the now famous
t%rotter, secured only fourth place in the
1924 race at Pittsburg on Tuesday.
A social dance party will be held in the
new can house of the Farmers Co-opera-
tive Co, on East Mill street, on Thursday
evening, July Goth.
One IF our subscribers who measured
the rainfall of Monday night says that our
and thirteen-sixteenths inches of water
fell during the night.
Mary, wife of DR.. II. NJ. Sheppard, of
Camden. and daughter of Lydia Mcneil,
died in Camden on last Friday and was in
tered in the Baptist cemetery at this place
on Tuesday.
William W. Fox, j. NJ. Hewitt and Sam
uel II. Pancoast were before Mayor Rich
man on Tuesday evening, charged with
fast driving, and were each fined five dol
lars and costs.
Harmony Council, O. u. A. NJ, of this
place, nave lately furnished. their lodge
room in Riley's building with q rev car
pet, and otherwise improved the appear
ance of their quarters.
The Salem and Woodstown base ball
clubs have succeeded in arranging games
on the following dates: At Woodstown.
on July 10Th and August 81; in Salem,
July &c and August 9th.
Mrs. Eliza Best, in passing from one
room to another last week. slipped and
fell, sustaining very painful Injuries, so
much so that she has been confined to her
bed, being unable to walk for over a week.
Miss Henrietta G.. Moore, of Springfield,
Ohio, spoke at the Friends meeting honse
on last Sunday morning, and addressed n
large union temperance meeting held in
the BAPTIST church in the evening, giving
a talk that is most highly praised.
The annual tax of one dollar per share
on the stock of the Pilesgroye Library AS
ISOLATION is now due, and payable to the
treasurer, j. i. Jaquette. If not paid on
or before August list, an additional tax of
twenty-five cents on each share will be
imposed.
Steven Johnson, colored, who was acting
in q d%isordcrlY manner near the bridge, IN
South Woodstown, IN Saturday night, was
arrested, after considerable resistance, by
Marshall Duffy and placed in the lookup.
At a hearing before Mayor Richman on
Sunday he was fined S. and costs.
An English experimenter finds that con-
trary to general opinion, the growth OF ivy
over q house renders the interior entirely
free from moisture. the ivy extracts every
particle of moisture from wood, brick or
stone for its sustenance, by means of tiny
roots, which work .heir way into even the
hardest stone.
An exchange truthfully says that it will
nav for the trouble it costs to file your
home paper. No volume in your library
will afford you more pleasure, more profit,
more lasting benefit FOR the Investment.
1t gives the date of local event which yon
cannot find elsewhere; marriages, obitua-
ries, etc. In short it is n history OF that
norton of The world which you occupy.
All the Jenfreys in New Jersey have a
chapea to ret a slice of a large tract of
valuable land discovered in Texas in the
name Of W. N. JeiIreys. He was a former
resident OF Salem. 1t is said that he has
relatives scattered al over the State. An
attorney is now looking for some heir OF
the owner To take possession and realize