The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-06-28

a brilliant meteor, tue llght from WHICH
lasted about half a minute, was observed
in the heavens on Wednesday evening.
The revised summer timetable, which
goes into effect tomorrow, viii be found
at the head of this page. The changes are
slight, except in the Sunday trains.
The house of Samuel Headley, near Ed
ridges Hill. was entered on Tuesday
night, and $25 stolen. Entrance was eff
fected through the kitchen window.
A black cat in the drug store of Borton
~ Andrews, after walking through some
chloride of lime that was sprinkled about
the cellar, had its feet and the tip of its
tail to turn white.
Levi Prickest had his hen-roost visited
by thieves on Wednesday evening, entrance
being effected through a window, and
twelve chickens stolen. The dog gave the
alarm. but the thieves escaped.
Articles of incorporation for the "Woods-
town Electric Light, Heat and Power Co."
have been drawn up, and application for a
charter made. The first meeting of the
stockholders in the same will be held in
McAlister's Hall on Monday night when
bylaws for the governing OF the organiza-
ton will be adopted.
A New York physician names these
among other evils to be guarded against at
summer resorts: Over fatigue and undue
exposure to the sun, irregular eating. over
feeding on food to which one is unaccns-
toned, sitting or lying IN the ground, and
unnecessary exposure to the dew and damp
ness after nightfall."
According to the landlord and tenant act,
it is claimed, q tenant can remove from the
premises any fixtures or structures put up
for his own use in trade at any time be-
fore the expiration of the lease, but not
afterward. II he leaves them unremoved
after termination of his lease they become
his landlords aud he cannot go back and
take them.
Next Monday evening, July LIST. there will
be a parlor meeting at the residence of
Mrs. DIR. Souder to which all members of
the w. G. T. u. and Y. w. G. I. L. to-
gether with all who are interested, are
pected the County Superintendent of Par
lor Meetings will be present. A pleasant
evening is anticipated.
The Y. w. C. T. [. will entertain all
who will attend their social at their
over Urions' ice cream paflor, on Monday
evening, July Sth. A committee of young
ladies' have been appointed to arrange the
programme for the evenings entertain
ment, and a general good time is expected.
Remember you are invited whether you re-
ceive personal invitation or not. The COM
mittee cannot think of every body.
The annual commencement exercises of
the Woodstown Public School were held in
the Opera House last Friday afternoon.
The programme as given in our issue of
last week was carried out, except that the
address of Rev. L. Myers was omitted on
account of his non-appearanee (the storm
having detained him) and the diplomats and
certificates were presented by Principal
Avis in the absence of Sapt. Gwynne.
II. w. Hancock, of Philadelphia, exhib-
tied at the Ledqer office, a few days ago, a
potato from the heart of which three others
have ~grown-one entirely out of the parent
tuber the other about half out Of it, and
the third not quite to the surface. All
three are in q row side by side and are a
little larger Thar ordinary marbles. Mr..
Hancock stated that it was grown on the
farm of Howard Bassett, at Woodstown.
A crowd of drunken, disorderly young
men, all of whom should have been arrest
ed, kept the residents of the central part
of the town awake last night. The affair
wound up in a fight in Fox's livery yard.
Clement Biggs, of Bridgeten, one of the
combatants, was arrested carly this morn
ing by Constable Coles, at the instance OF
Squire Holmes, and will be given a hear
ing before Holmes this morning. Other
arrests may follow.
Had local option prevail ed it is safe to
conclude that Woodstown would have been
permitted to get along without any Fourth
of July celebration this year.. The horse
racing, baseball games, fireworks, and all
the other means conceived of and devised
to attract people tt the town are all for
the same purpose, namely: to help the sale
of rum. There's no good in it to any one
bnt the saloon keeper. 1t fills our town
with drunken men and boys, demoralizes
the farmer and his help, and no one is BEN
Gifted but the rnmseller.
The small boy who is now looking for
ward to a vacation of W months or more
from school, can make up his mind that
when school opens again he must attend
regular. State Inspector Fell intends to
appoint an officer in zach school district,
whose GuJy IL Shall De 10 see undb every
child between the ages of seven and fifteen
does not play truant. All children between
these ages W no absent themselves habituallv
from school and habitually wander about
the streets and public places during school
hours, having no business or lawful oeeu-
patton, shall be deemed Juvenile disorderly
persons, and liable TO arrest.
A riverside Burlington county paper
says one of the needs of that town is a res
ident undertaken, and remarks that a few
first-class funerals would benefit the place.
Woodstown has a good undertaken, and
needs all her first. class citizens to help
build up the town, but several well-to-do
residents, with means and meanuess be-
yond computation, could easily be spared
and the own would be the better for their
absence. They discourage every enter
prise, both public and private, that looks
to the improvement of the borough, and
may generally be found any pleasant after
noon sitting around the corners on empty
boxes, finding fault with their go-ahead
neighbors. Woodstown has no use for
such.
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