The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-05-17
E.asGAE NEWS.

Court commences next Tuesday.
Young sparrows chirp about the doors.
The track ON the Fair Grounds is being
graded.
Magnolias will begin to blossom in about
two weeks.
The woods are getting green and cattle
seek the shade.
The fields are yellow with the dandelion
and butterenp.
The perfume of liiacs mingIes with tie
scent of sweet %yiolcts.
Roses are beginning to bud, and the
;syringa Will soon blossom.
Peaches are forming and ground is being
prepared tor watermelons. ,
Miliman Riley now delivers his milk
from a handsome new wagon.
District Clerk George M. Andrews is en-
gagged in taking the school census.
1t is said that shad sold as low as Sc per
hundred last Saturday at Pennsville.
Squash seed can now be planted with
safety, and tomatoes are being set out.
The small boy now trots about with his
shirt inside out. The water is warm.
The swallows CHATTER is heard in the
chimney and house cleaning is in vogue.
The sparrows and other birds make life
miserable for light sleepers during the
early morning hours.
Freebooter Humphreys has been making
q few slight repairs to the bridge on Salem
street, over the creek.
The house on Salem street lately occu-
pied by Phoebe Lloyd, deceased, is occu-
pied by John Nelson, of Sharptown.
l.. o. G. T. Festival and Number socia-
bile in McAllister's Hall on Friday and Sat
nrday afternoons and evenings of next
week.
Harry Richman has leased part of the
Fair Grounds for the use of the base ball
club this summer, and the same has been
fenced.
The chicken roost of Amos Peterson was
visited by thieves on Saturday night, and
,one hundred and fifteen spring chickens
were stolen.
Over forty thousand people will be occu-
pied in taking the eleventh census. 1t will
undoubtedly be the greatest work of the
kind ever attempted.
Mrs. S. j. c. Downs, State President of
the w. G. II. IT,, is expected to deliver an
address in the Sharptown M. +. church on
Sunday morning next. All are invited to
attend.
The farmer's detestable pest, the potato
bug, has already commenced its work OF
devastation upon the earlier crops. They
are thought to be more numerous than oil
late seasons.
A number of Friends from this vicinity
attended Friends yearly meeting in Phil
.adelphia on Sunday. Allen Flitcraft was
one of the speakers at the Westinghouse
at Fifteenth and Race streets.
The L. b. Humphreys Pantsloon Com
pany received an order one day this week
from u prominent retail clothing house on
Market street, Philadelphia, for fifty dozen
600 pairs) OF their pantaloons.
The commencement exercises of the
Woodstown public school will be held on
Friday, June 2tst. Four graduates will
receive certificates. The examinations
will not be concluded until next week.
The licenses Of the Woodstowl, PENIS
Vile aud Pole Tavern hotels expired on
Tuesday, and the bars in these hotels are
supposed to be closed until next Tuesday,
when the Court Will consider their applica-
tions for another year.
VIM. Patrick, of Canton was in townon
Tuesday, in consultation with several OF
our citizens, in reference to the location OF
his son, who is u recent graduate OF 4 Phil
lucii'illi fItcultii cotltSt, anu 'htSihi'''N'
opening practice in Woodstown.
A chattel mortgage sale OF personal prop
erty of Benz. Abbott, consisting of a BaX-
ter steam engine, ice cream manufacturing
articles, tables, chairs, and bedroom snits
will be made tomorrow afternoon, ut =
O'Clock on the premises lately vacated by
him.
1t is stated by some observing persons
that there are more robins here this Spring
than there has been for a number of years,
but is said that the absence of tho blue
bird is very noticeable. The sparrows are
credited with having driven the latter from
our midst.
Jonathan Webster has greatly improved
the appearance of the property surround
ing the East Lake Mills, by clearing out
the underground Of briars and bushes,
leaving only the larger trees. The grove
beside the mill now presents a beautiful
appearance.
The commission Of Postmaster JOSIAH
NJ. Hewitt arrived last Friday, and the
newly appointed p. M. will take charge on
June list. In the meantime Harry Hewitt,
who will have charge of the office, is tamil
i~arizing himself with its duties nndef
Postmaster French.