The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-06-01
LOCAL NEWS.

The Bank was closed on Wednesday.
To-day is the first day of summer, ac-
eording to the calendar.
.Bruna will run his first excursion TO At
laniic City on July 10Th.
The Woodstown correspondent of the Ell
mer 7imss, mast be possessed of a very
imaginative sort of mind.
The personal property Of Hannah G..
Coles. deceased, was sold at public sale on
Saturday, by Job S. Haines, executor.
w. Harry Smith has improved his prop
erty on Dickinson street by crawling the
sidewalks and driveway around his house.
The frame for the new building of f. 3.
Humphreys on East avenue is up, and
work on the house will now progress rapid
ly.
Decoration Day was not observed by
any fixed programme on Wednesday, and
the streets presented much their usual ap-
pearance.
The Sharptown grammar school will
hold commencement exercises in the X. of
p. hall at that place on Saturday evening,
10th inst.
VIM. Watson, who tried the position of
brakeman on the freight train a few days
this week, has returned to his position in
the section gang,
We hear rumors of drunkenness and
outrageous conduct on the part of q crowd
of half-grown boys. who were on our
streets Sunday night.
The E. 3. Humphreys Pantaloon Com
pany shut down their factory on Wednes-
day, giving their employees a chance to OBJ
serve Memorial Day.
Mrs. II. A. Lippincott, invites the atten-
tion of our readers to her fine stock of
spring millinery, notions, white goods, etc,
in her new ad vertisemcnt in another col
umn.
The Rogers base ball club, of Philadel.
phia, won the game Of base ball played at
this place on Wednesday, by a score of 0
to 2. and only seven innings were played
at that.
The following pupils of the Silarptown
school rank No. l in their classes
for the month of May: A 1st. Anna Oil
phant: A I'd, Clara Royal; b., Lizzie Pate
c, Maria Corson.
The regular monthly gospel temperance
prayer meeting under the auspices OF the
w. C. T. L. will be held next Sunday
evening in the W. G.. T. I. room. Services
commence at half past six o'clock. All will
be welcome.
The sale of stock held on the Fair
Grounds last Saturday. under the auspices
of the County Board of Agriculture, at
tracted about as many sellers as buyers.
some of the stock offered was sold and fair
prices secured.
A tortoise which had eut OIL it the date,
1912, and the name of Israel Kirby, was
found a short time ago by Jos. l.. Haincs.
IL. co,oo 10 hO,nht Gf L Nj Alien.
Israel Kirby was the father of Richard
Kirby. of this borough.
A suit brought by Empson Atkinson
against Ernst Becker. to recover 800 for
felt money paid by Atkinson to Becker,
which, was to have been tried before Nj. ID.
Dickinson, Justice, yesterday, was al
iourned until next Thursday.
The lightning rod agents are said to be
operating in his county, the advance agent
offering, in some instances, TO put up lOo
feet of rod for pay for five feet. Such oilers
have a flavor Of suspicion abou them. ana
since there has been SO much swindling on
this line. our farmers will do we'll to go
slow.
The recent Legislature passed a number
Of hills in its last days, Of which few people
know the purport. One of these bills pro-
vides that Clerks of Boards OF Frceholders
and Solicitors Of such Boards shali DC
elected for two years instead OF one. CLERK
Smith and j. f. Sinnickson, Esq. VIII
therefore hold Office for two years.
OF all the months in the year june is the
one when you are most likely to find some
strange and beautiful wild Hover WHO'S
name you would like to learn. ~ sucn
case fold the plant snngly ma sou neN-
paper and mail it to MT. u i. S''ani
Hatanist' % Uuion Square, New York, ana
he will send Won. without charge, its pop
Mar and scientific names, and other details
of interest concerning 1t.