The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-06-15
All over the county

Alloway contains 1911 children of school
age, a decrease of three from last year.
Salem's Fourth of July celebration will
consist of a horse race at Thunderbolt
track.
Joseph G. Kerlin, of Alloway, has lost
several hogs by what is believed 20 be the
cholera.
The army worm has made its appear
ance in Warrington and l.. A, Greek
townships.
Miss Lille Devereux Blake, of Brooklyn,
will lecture in the Court House, Salem,
next Tuesday evening.
Rev. Mr.. Webb, of New York State, has
accepted the call to the passionate of the
Alloway Baptist Church.
Name, the eleven year old daughter of
Willim IL. Wright, Of Alloway, died very
suddenly week before last.
The River Shore will be formally opened
by a clambakc, etc, on Wednesday even
ing Of next week, June goth.
Robert F. Campbell, of Ailoway, who
has of late resided in Texas, has been
granted a pension of SIG per month.
The members of the Alloway Cornet
Band will hold 4 strawberry festival in
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10th.
The mail routcs from Aldine to Dare
town and from Shirley to Darctown have
been discontinued by order of the Post
master General.
Union Grove Division, Sons of Temper
ance, together with the Elmer w. G. T.
L. and Band of Hope, picnickcd in Cooks
woods yesterday.
In the last eight months there have been
twenty-seycn severe eases of diphtheria,
and seventeen deaths from that disease in
and around Elmer.
Samuel D. White, of P~ittsgrove, has
been making extensive repairs to his house
and out buildings. He is to bniId another
bent to his barn. Richard Gosling will do
the work.
William Davis, of Alloway, whose "
little daughters died last winter, has a dog
that was q great favorite with the children,
and the animal can he seen almost any day
living on the ground between the W little
graves.
The arrest OF Charles II. Bowen, of
Pennsgrove, in Philadelphia last week,
on a charge of assaulting little girls, was
not legally made, and as a rcqu isition for
his transfer to this state cannot be issued,
it is probable that he will be released.
C. II. Sinnlckson, Esq, Master, sold the
following real estate, situate III Quinton
township, the estate of the late Samuel
Pcdrick, in froat of the Court House at
Salem on Saturday, 81 and $500 acres to
Mary A. Wiley, $3.50 per acre; ID and
73-100 acres to heirs of Samuel Pedrick,
for ST. per acre; 36 and 19-100 acres to
Mary A. Wiley for s55. so per acre,
Two professional burglars gained en-
trance to the post office at Salem some
time Saturday night or Sunday morning,
and forced open the safe, securing s52S.2O
in stamps, and St63.5 so in money. They
bored into the building in rear of the
office and secured entrance in that way.
The robbery was not discovered until sun
day afternoon. Tie officials have charge
Of the case, but have made no arrests as
yet.
At a meeting of the citizens OF Elmer,
held last week, the question of forming
Elmer into a borough was freely discussed.
A motion to appoint a committee to secure
one-tenth of the real estate owners in the
proposed borough limits, and to locate the
borough boundaries and report to a subse-
aucnt meeting was carried by a vote OF "a
to II. The following committee was elect
ed DR.. Woodruff, A. Cochran, j. f.
Langley, W. II. Kirby, Rufus w. Smith.