The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-08-17
LOCAL NEWS.
The days are growing shorter.
Sweet potatoes are in market.

Sweet potatoes are in market.
The Woedstown Grange held their an
nual picnic at the River Shore yesterday.
David NJ. Baker and Ward Humphreys,
of S%harptown. have been visited by chicken
thieves lately.
Quite a number from this vic Unity at
tended tho Farmers picnic at the River
Shore yesterday.
In the great $50 race at Rochester on
Tuesday, purse $4,000 GEORGETOWN Belle"
took fourth money.
Daring the storm on Sunday a tree near
the barn of Frank Clark, near Pole Tavern,
was struck by lightning.
\ horse belonging to George w. Croth-
ers, liveryman, died after being dirty en- to
the River Shore yesterday.
The next examination of candidates for
teachers certificates will be held in salem
On Saturday OF next week.
The average young lad around town is
kept pretty busy practising the "lassoing"
act on small boys and dogs.
John virgins has a sunilower growing
i'll his yard the stock of which is II feet and
4 inches high and bears Al flowers.
John II. Peterson sustained a severe cut
over the eye on Monday by having a piece
Of ice slip while putting it in a refrigerator.
The River aud Harbor bill, which has
become a law, contains an appropriation
for the survey of Alloway and Little Salem
creeks.
The Sunday-schools of the Baptist and
Methodist churches of this place will pic
ME in Coles woods, near Yorktown, next
Wednesday.
Miss Missouri Iiinchman who lived on
East avenue, died yesterday after 4 short
Illness. The funeral will take place on
Monday afternoon.
Charles S. Armstrong, of Camden, a for
mer resident of %Sharptown, died from the
effects of n cancer on Sunday and was
buried in the Sharptown cemetery on Tues
day.
w. p. Lippincott, of the firm of w. /.
Lippincott & Co., is in Pennsylvania pur-
chasing another drove of mich cows,
which will be offered at pablo sale the
latter part of this month.
A carload of bulls and heifers from
C%hautauqua county, York state. Will ar
rive tomorrow morning for w. L. Lippin-
colt y Go, aud will be disposed oil at pri-
yate sale by that firm.
Five hens of nine that had been stolen
from the roost of Preston Steward about
TWO weeks ago, were louHu " u ~
ed, or been returned, to their rightiul OWN
or one morning this week.
The regular meeting of Salem county
Pomona Grange was held IN the room OF
the Woodstown Grange on Wednesday.
The order of exercises published last week
was successfully carried out. Attendance
was good.
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ID. r. Cruise, the paper hanger, who has
been spending part of the summer at ms
home in Dorchester, Cumberland county,
has returned to Woodstown, and is now
papering the rooms in Humphreys new
building on East avenue.
The annual meeting Of the Young Wo.
mans Christian Temperance Union, Oh
this place, for the election Of officers, VIII
be held in their room in Turner's building,
on Monday, August 9th. A full attend
ance of all the members Is desired.
The Directors of the Second Union Loan
and Building Associate ion have authorized
the Secretary to have a speedy settlement
with all members who have stock ana are
in arrears of the Sd series, which Will run
out soon; also all persons whose interest Is
one year and over due must cash mp TO the
Secretary at an early date.
The rainfall last Sunday was the heaviest
known here ina single shower for severa,
years, the amount being four inches anu
one o~ne-hundredth. 1t was the heaviest,
too, in any month since March, even 'aa'
stormy month only a~ggregatins DIV
Dat. - - -. -. III and thls storm I'M
questionably did a vast amount of good.