The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-12-28
LOCAL NEWS.

we Wish all our reaueFS ilappy NE"
Year.
Spring politics will soon be receiving
attention.
The last leaf of the calender will soon
be torn off.
The Bank will be closed next Tuesday
New Years day.
The stock sold at the sale of Geo. w.
Crothers yesterday brought fair prices.
j. NJ. Tow nsend, of Salem, is now fore
man at Dickinson & Lippincott's canning
factory.
Thomas Green killed last week for Ber-
nard McCloskey a hog weighing 43O
pounds.
Dairymen Flitcraft and Riley presented
their patrons with their Christmas supply
of milk on Tuesday morning.
The operatives OF the f. B, Humphrey s
Pantaloon Co. observed Christmas, the
factory being closed on that day.
The post Office will be closed next Tues
day, New Years Day. from 10 A. III. to
5 P. NJ, and after o'clock p. NJ.
William Henry Middleton, who formerly
drove stage from Woodstown, died at his
residence in Port Norris on Monday.
The Woodstown aud Mullca Hill Turn
pike company have declared dividend of
three per cent. payable after January 1st.
The unreasonable spell of warm weather
was brought to 2 sudden close yesterday
afternoon, by rain storm accompanied by
heavy wind.
The season for rabbits. pheasants and
squirrel closed in New Jersey on Tuesday,
and until November 18th, 1889, sportsmen
will bag these species Of game at their
peril.
4 number of should-be respectable Young
men of our place spent their Christmas
eve and day in a condition that was alike
discreditable TO themselves and to our
town. They were drunk.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the First National Bank, of this place,
will be held at the banking house on Tues
day, January Sch, when Board of Direc-
tors for the ensuing year will be elected.
Miss Lille, daughter of Lydia MacNel
of Camden, formerly of Woodstown, died
very suddenly Of typhoid fever on Wednes-
day. She will be buried in the Baptist
cemetery tomorrow Saturday. morning,
on arrival of the morning train.
The annual meeting OF the stockholders
of the Second Union Building and Loan
Association will be held in McAlister's
Hall tomorrow Saturday. evening at Z
o'clock. Directors will be elected, and
books of stock for q new series will be
opened.
Bows who are allowed to run at large on
the streets at night are certain to cause
trouble aud sorrow to their parents. There
is entirely too much OF this street running
in WoodstowE. It exhibits laxity OF
parental restraint which, when too late,
the parents will realize.
Clinton Robinson, who was fined $500
and costs at the recent term of court Tor
keeping a disorderly house in Woodstown,
and who has been confined in Salem jan
in default of payment of the same, was re-
leased on Saturday, the amount having
been raised by relatives and Others
One hundred years ago apples were not
much larger than plums, tomatoes were
entirely unknown, and many OF the most
valuable fruits and vegetables grew IN the
woods in the wild state in which nature
created them. Horticulture has made long
strides, and is advancing every day.
In consequence of the fact that the
day appointed by Judge Reed for the draw
inc of Jurors falls on the 1st of January, a
legal holiday, the jurors for the January
term of court will be drawn at the court
house at Salem on Wednesday morning
next, January Cd, at 10 o'clock, by Jury
Commissioners Patrick and Wallace
The denominational newspapers gener-
ally are advocating a change of the Ma
tional Thanksgiving Day from bleak
November to golden October 1t is
claimed that November was chosen by the
Puritans to bring the day nearer Christ
mas, that it might take the place of that
festival, to which they were strongly OPP
posed. But now that all Christians OBJ
serve Christmas there is no reason for APP
pointing Thanksgiving so late in the year.
The special committee of the State Board
of Agriculture held another meeting in
Trenton last Friday in reference to consol-
idating the numerous road laws OF the
State, which are now in a very mixed MP
condition They ahont completed their
labor, and will now proceed to draft the
bill that they have outlined. The com
mittee consists OF Joseph B Ward, OF New,
ark; w. d. Coombs Of Freehold; Elwood
Evans, of Marion; Charles Collins, OF
Fellowship and Secretary Franklin Dye
The other members Of the committee are
Henry c. Kelsey. of Mercer; Augustus w
Cutler, of Morristown, aud Abram W.
Duryea, of New Durham.