The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-08-30
LOCAL NEWS.

School will open next Monday week.
Monday will be legal holiday-Labor
day.
The coating of gravel ON Salem street
was badly worn during the Far.
The heaviest thander shower of the sea-
son passed over last Friday afternoon.
Why is it that Woodstown cannot have
a train to the Bridgeton Fair next week?
Each of the three can houses in town
worked halliday on Tuesday. They will
start again tomorrow.
Some of those that were appointed dog
killers don't take it as any compliment
Though it might have been so intended.
The street parade with the Uncle Hiram
show, that plays in the Opera House Tues
day evening, is said to be worth seeing.
Don't miss it.
The W. C. r. U. will hold an evangel-
istic meeting at the County Almshouse
this afternoon, to which all who are inter-
ested are invited.
The township committee have appointed
seventy-six persons in the township with
power to enforce the provisions of the dog
law. The list may be seen on application
10 lOWuSulp NicIk oster'
The annual meeting of the Salem Coun-
ty Protective Association, No. l. was held
in McAllister's Hall, on Monday last. The
old officers and board of directors were re-
elected, and usual routine business trans
acted.
There are twenty-one people in the Uncle
Hiram Company, that perform at the
Opera House on Tuesday evening next.
The show is the largest we have ever had
in Woodstown. Don't forget their street
parade at noon.
Bruna's last excursion took 314 pas
sengers to Atlantic City. The number of
passengers carried in all his excursions this
season fell two hundred below the average
of past years, this loss of patronage being
attributed to the failure of crops and con-
sequent scarcity of funds among the farm
erS.
The Great Wilmington Fair will open
on Monday next At this date, August
2Sth, the entries are far ahead of expec-
tances in all classes. All the large breed
crs that exhibited last year, have herds en-
tered this year. The entries of horses in
dictate that this is going to be the greatest
horse show ever given in the Eastern
States.
The many friends of Samuel H. Wealth
crby, who has satisfactorily filled the Office
of President of the First National Bank of
Woodstown for the last ten years, will re-
greet to hear that on account of continued
iIl-health he has been compelled to insist
upon the acceptance by the Bank OF his
resignation. Mr.. Weatherby is in his sew
enty- seventh year.
According to the statistics collected by
State Bureau of Labor and Statistics, Co.
600, 900 passengers were carried on tho New
Jersey Railroads last year. Only III per-
sons met with accidents, 81 of which were
fatal. The total number of accidents was
1407, the largest number yet reported. OF
this number $40 were employees, the rest
track walkers trespassers and Others
crossing tracks; number of fatal accidents,
1876; train and track hands killed, 2lS.
j. 3. Fox, of Camden, has discovered a
material for street paving which he has had
patented and will introduce. The plant
for the manufacture of the material will be
established at Elsinboro, this county. 1t
has been pronounced by experts to be pos
lively indestructible, and Is expected to
last for generations. The only danger
likely to arise from its general use will DO
its unlimited demand upon the wheat mark
ct, as the principal ingredient of the mix
ture is -four. 1t is made in the form OF
bricks.
Very few people know how many differ
ent WAYS there are of changing quarter
ola dollar. According to Philadelphia
man who had more leisure than business
on his hands, there are 3l5 ways of chang
ing that piece of money. The pieces used
are the 2o.cent piece, 10-cent piece, 5,cent
piece. 8 scent piece, 2-cent piece and the
i-cent piece. To make all the changes
without using the Same coin twice wonld
require /, 233 1-cent pieces, Gl4 twos, o'o
threes. 1si fives, 80 tens and twenties,
making 1854 pieces worth s5S.'9.