The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-10-12
FOCAL NEWS.

Dav id D. Fogg and wife have moved TO
Salem.
Dogs gotamong sheep belonging to VIM.
c. Davis recently.
No more entertainments are booked at
the Opera House until after election.
Don't fail to come out and hear st. John
in the Opera House next Wednesday night.
Bear in mind the oyster festival of the
NJ. L. Sunday school to be held November
9th and 10th.
Thomas Green commenced killing hogs
September 2Sth and has been killing near
ly every day since.
The statement of the condition of the
First National Bank of Woodstown, will
be found in this issue.
The regular meeting of the Borough
Council washeld on Monday evening. and
the usual routine business disposed of.
The brick house on the Daretown road,
owned by Israel Morgan, is being rebuilt
by contractor d. T. Broadway, of our
town.
Collector Ballinger has rented Will
liam S. Goforth's building ON East Ave
nue.. in which he will sit for the collection
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of taxes this year.
The regular quarterly meeting or the
Salem County Board of Agriculture will
be held in the Court House at Salem on
Wednesday, October Gath.
The sale of timber and land in Upper
PENIS Neck, by Thomas and David Bor-
ton, executors, and Asahel Borton, agent,
has been adjourned until Thursday, Octo-
Der 18th.
Freebooter c. B. Humphreys put in W
new bridges last week, one near John
Deacon's on the Bushtown road, the other
on the Daretown road near the residence
of Lewis Shimp.
Chapter XX, of the laws passed last
winter, provides for tho payment by the
State of 50 per week for each patient in a
County Insane Asylum, and repeats all
previous laws bearing on the subject.
The polls ON election day, which occurs
on November 9th, will be open from q
O'Clock in the morning until 4.5l in the
evening, under the "sunset' election law
passed by the Legislature last winter.
No moro eloquent speaker is on the
stump discussing the political issues OF to-
dav than Hon. John p. st. John. He will
speak in the Opera House next Wedncs-
day evening. Don't fail to hear him.
Usually the West Jersey Railroad time
table changes about the first of October,
but the understanding now is that this
wear the fall and winter arrangement will
not take effect until the first of November.
A limited number of reserved seats for
the Opera House next Wednesday evening,
on the occasion of the lecture of.llon. John
p. St. John, have been placed on sale at
the store under the Opera House. Price
25 cents.
The ladies of the Haines' Neck NJ. e.
church cleared about $40 by their recent
festival. Theysannounce an oyster supper
for Thursday evening next, the lSth, IN
the old church, the proceeds to aid the new
church, now nearly completed.
"Thrown Upon the World" was pre-
sented in the Opera House on Saturday
night by a splendid company, and the au-
dience were highly pleased with the per-
Torrance. Owing to the weather and po-
litical meetings the audience was not as
large as the play deserved.
A certain way to tell good paper money
from bad is by means of two small blue
silk threads, which run through the good
bill lengthwise and which may be plainly
seen by holding the note to the light.
These are woven into the paper by a patent
process and have never yet been success
fully counterfeited, the usual limitations be-
ing by means of a mark drawn across the
paper.
Housekeepers shoald buy nothing from
the peddlers and fakirs who are constantly
ringing door bells, or sticking circulars
under the door. threatening to call ahother
day. There is nothing needed III the
family which cannot be bought quite as
cheap and much more reliable from the
regular delears, who are our fellow citi-
sens, and who pay taxes to help support
the town.