The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05
LOCAL NEWS.

The days are now longer than the nights.
One -four fish peddlers brought up an
eight pound shad yesterday.
VIM. w. Fox has taken a drove of horses
and mules to Bridgeton to sell there.
This is about the time OF year to cart off
your winters accumulation Of ashes.
The annual examinations in the public
schools of this county are about finished.
Salem county has fifteen men and thir-
seen women in the State lunatic asylum.
A number Of quiet practical jokes were
perpetrated on Monday, it being the first of
April.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Board of F%reeholders will be held in Salem
next Wednesday.
IF "Apfil showers bring May flowers, -
April is evidently determined to begin to
get her work in early.
The next legal holiday will be April Both
the centennial anniversary of the inaug-
nration of Washington.
d. r. Cruise. the paper hanger, is again
at his old stand next to the MONITOR Of
flee, second floor, ready for orders.
An exceedingly heavy shower, accom-
panied by considerable nail and some
lightning, visited us Tuesday afternoon.
James Yanneman has purchased the
stock and fixtures of the restaurant under
Crother's building. of Harry Robbins.
Sheriff Butcher sold in Salem ON Satur-
day, the Porter property in Warrington,
containing six acres, to VIM. White for
S425.
The next regular quarterly meeting of
the Salem County Board Of Agriculture
III l. Nh =. Il.,,, -, tNaI,ac1oy
April gath.
Charles Boone. who lately moved to
Bridgeton. will erect a double house in
that city. Ground FOR the same was bro
ken on Tuesday.
The new advertisement of Wheeler u
Son, jewellers, Salem, in this issue, is OF
personal interest to every one OF our read
ers. Don't fail to read it.
The Count and Countess Magri (Mrs.
Gen'i Tom Thumbl and Manager w. j..
Maxwell and wife, were the first guests to
be entertained at the East Avenue
The %semi-annual convention of the
Salem County w. G. Il. U, will be held at
Pennsville on Tuesday, April 9th. Mrs.
5. j. G. Downs, State President, will be
present.
The programme for the w. G. Il. U. an
niversary next Thursday, will consist of a
tea, which will be partaken of by the
members Of the Union and the "I's" in
their room.
A recent law passed by the Legislature
gives the township committees OF the yari-
Gus townships power to appropriate money
to be used for decorating purposes on Dec
Grafton Day.
The students at Swarthmore college are
taking an enforced vacation of two weeks,
it having become necessary to close the
school owing to the prevalence of the
humps among the scholars.
Oysters do not lose their flavor lin early
April. but the succulent shad crowds them
out of the estimation of epicures, who pre-
fer the fish to the bivalves. On the first
day of May The oyster gets into the soup.
According to the meteorological record
the weather of March, which ended sum
day, was the mildest since 1876. The
highest temperature was 20 degrees, the
lowest Is degrees, the mean 4i.1 degrees.
oDandy," the little pony driven by Miss
Maggie Peterson, became frightened while
near Harrisonville last Saturday, and ran
away. throwing Miss Peterson and Miss
Della Davis out, but without serious injury.
It is proven by agricultural statistics
Slltt 81 WOIbu VI wy ~ 49, 49,
worth of sheep. besides having five or six
days and nights left to the dog to keep the
whole neighborhood awake with q chorus
of barking.
List of letters remaining in the post
Office at Woodstown for the week ending
March 30tll: Thomas Birch, Y. r. Diling,
Miss Clara Dent, Mr.. William Matlack,
Mrs. Lille Miller, Mrs. G. w. Smith, Miss
Julia Young.
Geo. Poinsett. whom we stated a few
weeks ago would move from Moorcstown
20 Woodstown to engage in tho sale OF
farmers implements, has located in Mulllca
Hill. where he has opened a warehouse Tor
tho sale of goods in that line.
I. Lewis Davenport, formerly manager
Of Clark's flour mills, who moved away
from Woodstown in March, 1855, has rent
ed Oiiphant's Mills, near Harrisonviile
station, lately run by VIM. ELEPHANT, ana
took charge OF the same this week.
George w. Crothers has purchased Of
William s. Goforth the shop oN East ave-
nuc, now occupied by ClintofS Robinson,
aud willmove the same to his lotNopposite
his residence, where it will be fitttNi up by
Harry Robbins as an ice cream salo,n.