The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-08-10
LOCAL NEWS.

The privileges for the coming fair will
be sold next Thursday.
Canning will be commenced at the fac
tories here about the Goth inst.
Fifty-six tickets for Bruna's Cape May
excursion were sold from our depot OF
Wednesday.
The next meeting Of District Lodge, /,
O. G.. r., will be held at Mullica Hill or
the 2Sth inst.
Prohibition mass meeting in the Opera
House next Wednesday night. Every.
body welcome.
The official notice of the Local Option
election in this county on Sept. 4th is print
ed in another column.
There are now twenty-five canning fac
tories in Salem county, three new ones hav-
ing been built within the past year.
Blackberries are said to be more plenti-
full thar they have been for many years.
They have become a dug on the market.
Joseph G. Stretch has been awarded the
contract for the residence to be erected by
Mrs. Thos. r. Coles, on her lot on Bower
avenue.
At the sale of COWS of w. p. Lippincott
81 Co. on the Fair Grounds on Tuesday
twenty-one head were sold, the prices aver
aging fair.
The weather for the past week has been
torrid enough to suit the most cold-blood-
ed. A cool wave is promised by the wealth
or bureau to-day.
Benz. Weatherby, ST., has broken ground
for a new house on Wall street, Pedrick-
town. Joseph G. Stretch, of our borough,
will be the builder.
Israel Conover, who recently moved to
Pennsgrove, has rented Charles Gruffs
house and will move there the twenty
fifth of the present month.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Pilesgrove Prohibition Society will meet
on Monday evening next at the residence
Of Joseph Macaltioner at eight o'clock.
Sheriff Butcher commenced on Tuesday
to post his proclamation at every election
precinct in the county, announcing the
local option election on Tuesday, Septem-
Der 4th.
A meeting for the election of delegates
to attend the Prohibition Congressional
Convention at Woodbury. will be held at
the residence Of Joseph Macaltioner next
Monday night.
Rev. Samuel Webber, of Easton, Pa,
preached at the Sharptown M. E.. church
on Sunday evening. Rev. G. IL. Tnllis, of
Elmer, will preach in the same church next
Sunday morning.
jury commissioners Patrick and Wallace
rave completed their lists of the persons
liable for jury duty in the county and VIII
next month draw the panel OF Jurors for
the October term of court.
Tho NJ. f. pulpit at New Gretna. Bur
lington county, becoming vacant, kev. j.
O.. II. Corliss, for two years pastor OF the
NJ. T.. church at Auburn, has been trans
ferred by the Bishop to that charge.
A meeting called on Saturday evening
for the purpose of organizing q Democratic
campaign club was so SHINY attended that
no organization was effected, and the mat
ter win probably rest until cooler weather
arrives.
Cortlandt L. Parker. Esq, Chairman of
the State Prohibition Executive Commit
the State Committee, will deliver addresses
in the Opera House at this place next We'd
nesday evening. All are invited.
Thomas Shull brought to- our Office yes
terday a curiosity in tho shape of perfect
formed egg, about the size of n grape,
which had been found inside Of another
egg. But that the she'll was soft, it was
IN every respect en- egg in miniature.
The late train down on Tuesday evening
was DELAYED over two hours above Clarks-
boro on account of the heavy freight which
was stuck at that place. and the same train
"Wednesday evening was delayed at Wood
bury about an hour, q broken truck on q
freight ear being the cause.
The Prohibitionists of Woodstow are
the first in the campaign in the county
tliis year and will set the ball rolling next
Wednesday evening, when Cortiandt Il;
Parker, ESQ. and Geo. G.. Ely, Esq, OF
Newark. will speak in the Opera House at
this place. Turn out and hear them.