The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-11-29
LOCAL NEWS.

No freight train was run over our road
yesterday.
Nice Thanksgiving turkeys were said to
have been scarce in this vicinity.
Josiah NJ. Brick had a hog killed this
week which weighed 436 pounds.
The residence of DR.. P. G. Souder has
received a bright new coat of paint.
The Post-ofice was closed yeste rday
from 10 o'clock A. NJ. to 5 P. M. and at 7
P. NJ.
A. Cole s. Bro. have taken a contract to
build a house for Thomas While on Spring
Garden street.
The bridge on Bowen Avenue has been
piled by Contractor Stretch, to prevent
further washouts.
a shooting match on the Fair Grounds
yesterday afternoon occupied the atten-
ton of those who like such sport.
Steward Dickinson, of the Almshouse,
sold to stock dealer Moore this week a
G-months-old calfthat weighed TIA pounds.
The ladies Of the Woodstown P~resbyter-
ian church will hold a festival and oyster
supper in McAllister's Hall on Dec. 6& Z.
Rev. A. II. Eberhardt, while splitting
wood one day last week, had a stick fly up
and strike him in the eye, severely brulslng
that member.
A public meeting of the W. G. T. u.
will be held in their room next thursday
afternoon, to be addressed by Mrs. Char
lotte Pancoast.
Tho Board of State Canvassers on Tues
day announced the vote for Albeit to be
1888, 245; Grub, 1873, 992;; Lamonte, 6So3;
Abbett's plurality, 1888.
nv, - thu dnnnf cfllI
continues to be a favorite loafng place
for certain ones. Perhaps an application TO
headquarters would serve to remedy this
abuse.
The department of .'Scraps," in another
column, will be read with interest. Jos
iah,' knows how to serve up his pickings
in readable shape, and we hope to hear
from him weekly.
The Commissioners of Appeal sat IN Mo-
Allister's Hall on Tuesday to adjust the
claims for tax offsets. But little business
was before them owing to the c%arefulness
exercised by Assessor c.. IL. Richman.
Woodstown Lodge, No. 10s, l. 0. G. T.,
will celebrate their fourth anniversary,
December 80, by an open meeting, to
which all old members of the Order will
be invited. A programme, musical and
literary, will be presented.
The green postage stamp which has
caused so much dissatisfaction will soon
be gone. In it's place will be smaller
stamp, bright carmine in color and OF new
design. The contract for printing the new
ones has already been given out.
List Of letters remaining uncalled for In
the post Office at Woodstown, week ending
Nov. 23rd. Mrs. Eliza Mitchell, Mr.. Alex
ander Justice, Miss Clara Dunham(2)
Saml. Crispin, Mrs. Richard Harris, Lewis
Zanes, Mr.. Danl. Weatherby, Turner "
Austin.
All County Boards of Agriculture are
invited to SEND delegates to a convention
to be held at the State Street House, Iren-
ton, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1889, at 1890
a. M, to form a State Poultry Association.
All poultry raisers are also invited to be
present.
The store next to the MONITOR office is
vet without an occupant and we under stand
it is the intention of the owner, MIR. Il. Is.
Humphreys. to stock it up and open 1t as a
store about the first of January unless an
acceptable tenant should apply for it in the
meantime.
Some thief with a sweet tooth broke
open six of the bee hives in the yard OF Z.
d. Humphreys one night this week, in
search of honey. He secured only one
frame. which he carried off. lie is invited
to repeat the experiment some warm day
when the occupants of the hives are IN \
condition TO defend their property.