The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-05-04

VIM. II. Huffman, IL former Woodstown
boy, is in the band with the Forepaugh
circus.
The new board of Freeholders for the
county will organize in Salem next We'd
nesday.
The days length yesterday was just
fourteen hours, the sun rising at 4.57 ard
setting at 6.51.
Wheeler & Son, the well-known jewel
ers, of Salem, have an advertisement in
another column.
Eli Bond, of Warrington, lost a COW on
Saturday by having it choked to death by
a rope to which it was tethered.
A stock sale under tho auspices of the
Salem County Board of Agriculture will
be held in Woodstown on the Goth inst.
The band Of gypsies who rave been en-
camped near Fenwick station pulled up
stakes on Tuesday and started for a new
camping site.
Now is the time to remove accumula-
ions of filth and rubbish from about your
premises. Prompt attention to this may
save a doctors bill.
Haines & Son, of Yorktown, have con-
tracted to furnish the 40, 900 bricks to be
used in the foundation of the new hotel
building on East avenue.
The commencement exercises of Miss
Allie Woods class in music will be held in
the Opera House at this place some time
next month.
We publish on our second page this
week a letter from Walter Nj. Avis, lately
of Jacksonville, describing his trip 3From
the Atlantic to the Pacific
The Republican voters of P~ilesgrove
township will meet in MeAllister's Hall on
Monday evening at s o'clock, to elect dele
gates to the State Convention to be held in
Trenton next Wednesday.
The NJ. E. Sunday School will hold a
Strawberry and lee Cream festival in Me
Allister's Hall on Thursday evening, May
10Th. Ten cts. admission will be charged,
which will secure an apron.
The Amity Social club have moved from
their old location in Peterson's building to
the handsome and roomy second story room
in Massey's new building. which they have
fitted mp ina first class style.
On our first page this week will be
found the interesting address of Franklin
Dye, of Trenton, given before the last
meeting of the county Board of Agricul-
ture, on 'sThe Profitable Limit in Agricul-
tnral Pursuits"
In a few days corn planting will be in
order. Farmers are busilv engaged in
blowing their fields to be set apart for the
growing of maize. The wheat, notw it'll
standing the prolonged severe Winter,
1aaIp uall aud aipac nrnpuicn 6f an aIIn-
liant harvest.
A peddler of chairs and ladders who
stopped over night at Fox's livery recently
left his dog tied ON the wagon to watch
his goods. In tbs morning the dog was
discovered dead, he having jumped from
the wagon, and the rope being too short
choked him to death.
Duncan Clark's Female Minstrels will
play at the New Opera House next Tues
day night, and Pat Muldoon's Company
are booked for Thursday, May 18th. This
will close the amusement season at this
house. Some big attractions are already
being booked tor next season.
Those who have paid any attention to
runaway accidents know that the most of
them occur in the spring of the year. A
veteran horse owner VINO was speaking on
this subject recently, said that it was not
safe to leave u horse, however good its
temper, unattended at this season of the
year. He explained that the animals are
now shedding, and are in an intensely ner-
vous and irritable condition, their skins
itching and smarting from the changes
they have undergone.
Before Esquire Dickinson y~estesday a
ease was tried between Frank l.. Dickin-
| son, an Elmer carpenter, plaintiff, and Mrs.
Annie Studemund. of the same place. l..
A. Armstrong. of Camden, represented the
plaintiff, and L. s. Fogg, of our Borough,
! the defendant. The suit was for a balance
due Oh contract price for building a house
at Elmer, and IN additional sun for extra
work on same. Defense was a tender OF
balance due OF contract, and that the Tex
tras" were included in the contract price.
The Justice reserved his decision until to-
morrow.
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