The Monitor., 1888-06-08
LOCAL NEWS.

Only three weeks next Wednesday until
the Fourth of July.
Assessor Charles II. Riehman commenc-
ed his rounds on Tuesday.
A Law and Order Society is one of
Woodstown's growing needs.
Potato bugs are destroying the young
tomato plants in this vicinity.
Tho June meeting of the board of Free
holders will be held at Salem next w ednes-
day.
The Children's Day exercises in the
churches next Sunday will be very in
teresting
Strawberries are becoming very plenti-
fnl, and range in'pricc from ur-for-a-quar-
ter ON down
We will publish next week the statement
of the receipts and expenditures of the
county for the past year.
There is said to be considerable gam
bling going on among the young men of
this vicinity, and even among boys.
Sunday will be the big day among the
colored residents of Fenwck and vicinity,
it being their 'June Quarterly" meeting.
III. d. Flanagan, of Salem, has closed
his class in vocal music here for the term.
The Fall term will commence in Septcm-
Der.
DR.. Sarah Taylor will start this week
for Park Station suburb OF Philadelphia,
where she will take charge of summer
resort boarding house.
1t has been noticed that the gray cater
pillar has made an unusually carly appear
ance. and if you would save your fruit and
foliage trees, destroy the nests at once.
The regular meeting of the Borough
Council was held in the Mayors Office on
Monday night. Reports of the street com
mittees and other routine business was
transacted.
Hog ch olera is again prevalent in the
vicinity OF Yorktown. Lewis Sayres has
several down with the disease, two having
died. and David Lewis also has some ami
mails which are afflicted.
During recent thunder storm, three
large trees near the farm occupied by Bor-
ton Somers, standing some distance apart
but within two hundred yards OF each
other were ali struck by lightning anG at
different times.
The next regular meeting of the Piles
grove Prohibition Society will be held at
the residence of VIM. y. Flitcraft, on next
Monday evening. nth inst, at 8 o'cl ock
sharp. A full attendance is requested, as
important business will be presented.
Tho house of Isaac Sickler, near Yorke-
town. was struck by lightning during re-
cent thunder shower. The fluid entered
one of the upstairs rooms, tearing off the
master and doing other slight damage,
which was not discovered until several
days after the shower, as the room had been
kept closed.
Miss Allie Wood of Salem, teacher of
nusio will hold musicale III connect ION
with the commencement exercises oil her
class here. in the Now Opera House at this
place on Wednesday evening" june 2'th.
Invitations will be issued to the friends OF
the members of the class and others, ana
the programme will consist OF mnsicai Sc
lectlons rendered by the pupils, togeiher
with that of foreign talent which VIII DC
secured for the occasion.
At the meeting Of the State Pharma-
cuetcal Association, at Morristown, COM
mittee was appointed to procure ieGal
opinion upon the High License law and Its
effects upon the drug trade. President
Cook was of the opinion that under the
new law no druggist could sell liquor, ex-
cept exclusively by prescription, without
conflicting with said law, and strongly re-
commended that no druggist sell an ounce
of liauor hereafter except under regular
physicians prescription
There are those among the good Metho-
dist preachers who sccm inclined to doubt
the wisdom of the five-ycar limit which
was agreed upon by the General Confer
euce. Under the old, old dispensation the
preacher who had fiity-two fair sermons
and as many lectures could get through
his work with considerable credit to him
SELF and usually ith spiritual proht To- his
flock. The three year limit increased tiicir
work Just threciold, and now tue ieiethon- '
inr ofthe term by the addition of one hun
dred and four more Sundays makes just
that many more sermons necessary.