The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-07-20
g.0CAL NEWS.

4 number of orr residents started IN
their annual excursion to Firms Point to-
day.
Miss Aellsah Grier will. it is said, have
charge Of 4 school in Elsinbofo the coming
year.
The Oakland Sunday-school will picnic
in fle| grove at Oakland station on Au-
gust lst.
Jury Commissioners Patrick and Wal
lace, Of this county, have about completed
the compilation of the jury list.
Some Of the growers of early tomatoes
say their yield OF fruit will be small, there
not being many sets on the vines.
Last Sunday was a good day for our
liyerymen. All their teams were out and
then the demand was not supplied.
Watermelon patches hardly ever were SO
poor at this time of the year. Cantaloupes
look rather better, but still are late.
Remember Bruna's next excursion to
Atlantic City, on next Thursday, July
Goth. Patronlzc Salem county enterprises.
John Seagrayes, whohas been carrying on
the livery business in Camden, has disposed
of the same and returned to Woodstown'
The regular meeting of the Borough
council was held on Monday evening. No
new business Of Importance was trans
acted.
A number of the members of the Penns-
Grove lodoe of Masons attended the COM
munication Of the Woodstown lodge on
Tuesday night.
The regular meeting of the Salem county
Board of Agriculture will be held in Pole
Tavern next Wednesday, 25th inst, at half
past one o'clock p. NJ.
The Opera House in this place will prob
ably open Sept. 9th with Peck and Furs-
mans Mammoth Double Uncle Tom Cab
in Co.. as tho attraction.
The pump in the well in front OF the
Academy in North Woodstown has been
taken out, by order of the Borough Coun-
ell, and replaced by a new one.
On investigation the story concerning
the colorcd man who was said to have been
beaten to death by two brothers in Quaker
Neck proves to be utterly false.
d. r. Cruise, paper hanger, is spending
his summer in Dorchester, Cumberland
county. lie will return to Woodstown IN
the fall when the season for his work
opens.
A parasol. found on the grounds on
which the Fourth of July Temperance eel
chration was held, remains at the residence
of VIM. u. Fiitcraft, whore the owner may
call for it.
We are under obligations to Gates ~
Borton. proprietors of the Harrisonville
creamery, for a pound Of splendid cream
ery butter, of excellent quality and neatly
printed with the initials &c. u IL"
The Supreme Court has fixed the sala-
ries of the Jury Commissioners. In coun.
ties of the first class, such as Hudson ana
Essex, their pay will be $500 each per year,
and in counties of the second class S4OO.
The commissioners of this county Will
probably receive $3.50 each ior theirs services.
Conductor Samuel G. Hankinson, for
merly baggage master on our road, ana
one OF the most genial men on the line,
ran Bruna's excursion to Atlantic City last
week. Mr.. Hankinson's regular run is the
$50 train from Philadelphia to Atlantic
City. on the Camden and Atlantic branch.
The happy thought has occurred to a
Yankee Of putting the mucilage on the
lower part of the envelope, so that the user
need only dampen the clean flap with his
toneue and press it upon the gum, instead
of licking the adhesive substance. This IS
one of those simple improvements which
everybody when attention is called to them
wonders were not made long since.
The member of the Mt. Zion A. NJ. Il.
church, at Bushtown, will hold a camp
meeting in the grove opposite the church,
commencing on Sunday, July 20th, and
continuing over Sunday, August 5th;
Preaching every weekday at ) and 8
o'clock T.. NJ, and on Sundays at l0.5o A
n. also. The grove is conveniently s'tua-
ted. about Gse minutes walk from Fen"ieK
station.