The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-10-05
LOCAL NEWS.

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Eight cents per quart is the retail price
of milk now in Philadelphia.
Henry w. Austin has raised his barn
and is having a brick basement built un-
der it.
The regular meeting Of the Board Of
Freeholders will be held in Salem next
Wednesday.
Thirty-fye tickets were sold at our sta
tion for the special train to Camden on
Tuesday night.
The illustrated lecture given in The NJ.
e. Church, on Saturday evening, was
lightly attended.
The Bridgeton Pioneer says: "VIckery,
the Burlington pitcher, has signified his
desire to Manager Miller Of I.laying ball in
this city all next season.
It will be lawful to shoot woodcock the
last fifteen days in this month, and from
the fifteenth day of November TO the
twenty-ffth day of December.
The recent wet weather has damaged
the late potato crop, having produced the
rot. Some farmers say their crop will fall
off from twenty-five to fifty per cent.
Tho regular monthly meeting of the
Pilesgroye Prohibition Society will be held
next Monday evening, at the residence of
l.. b. Wright, at half past seven o'clock.
The Salem County Temperance Alliance
have made arrangements for forming law
and order committees in every township
to see that the local option law is enforced.
During the Wilmington Fair, IN Oct.
0, 10, IL and 12, n steamboat will leave
Penasgrove at 10 A. NJ, and returning
leave Wilmington at 5 p. M. The boat
will land passengers at the fair grounds
wharf.
Frank Paneoast purchased the five five
mOnths-old calves which were exhibited Mt
the Woodstown fair and drew first pre-
MUM. For the mothers Of these calves
Mr.. Carpenter paid threc hundred dollars
u head.
The Pleasant Valley Stock Farm has
sold the stallion Mandarin, No. l42O, and
four valuable young mares to a gentleman
IN kentucky for good, round prices.
"Bentoneer" is now at the head of the
stud at this farm.
Lewis Starr, u rising young attorney OF
Gloucester county, has been designated Dy
the Governor to tabulate and publish III
book folm the salaries and fees OF every
State, county, city or township officer,
under an act passed at the last session Oh
the Legislature.
IlHV. u. Ii. DuIcll, HOW otutiNhSu " =
Woodstown, has had three sons graduated
at Princeton College, and at present has
two more boys in that Institution. But he
saws he never could have INDUCED his fam
ily to such an extent ill the "higher edu-
cation if he had depended entirely upon
his salary as a minister.-Liderdt Press.
When is a young man entitled TO his first
vote? is a question that is frequently
mooted. The law says, or intends to say,
that the full age of twenty-onc years is
completed on the day before the twenty
first birthday. Thus n person born on No
vember 18th twenty-one years ago VIII be
entitled to vote on November 9th OF this
year.
Judge Reed has given all county clerks
in the circuit instructions that the Jury
Commissioners shall meet the Clerk at the
court house on the second Tuesday before
court conyenes TO draw %juries. Heretofore
the date has been the fourth Tuesday
The iurics will then be drawn without no.
tice from the Judge as was necessary TINS
term.
George Horner has just purchased ten
head of valuable coWs of a farmer residing
about twenty miles west of Philadelphia.
Mr.. %IIorner, during his visit in Pennsyi-
yania, went to MIR. Singerly's farm ami
was SHOWN MI. pinbSiiJ . SuoOh cioN"
cattle numbering nearly two hundred head.
The COWS on that farm are never turned
ont into the field, but are fed and watered
in their stalls.
The members of the G. l.. S. G. having
finished their course of reading and desir-
inc TO to still further improve their minds
and continue their meetings together, VIII
meet this (Friday)evening at the residence
of Jacob f. Clark for the purpose OF form
ing an Agassiz Chapter to study botany,
o%rnithology, entomology, mineralogy, or
other scientific subjects. All Interested are
invited to De present.
Optician McCord VIII be in Woodstow.n
next week. Leave orders at Mrs. smith
as before. o-~t