The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-06-14
local NEWS.

lee is in general demand these hot days.
4 dog belonging to Samuel Carney was
shot by some one last week.
Charles Kramer has invented a simpli-
fled clothes-horse which he is going to place
on the market.
The pay train in charge of Conductor
Sam'l. G. Hankinson, passed over the road
on Wednesday.
The w. C. T. L. will hold their meeting
next Friday evening, not tonight, as was
reported last week.
A delegation Of the Woodstown Lodge
of Masons paid a fraternal visit to Salem
lodge on Monday night.
James Nanneman, of our borough, had a
relative living in Johnstown whose name
is among the list of dead.
Dogs attacked the sheep of Edw. Hum
phreys, near Sharptown, one night last
week, killing three lambs and one eve.
DIR. J. i. Jaquette threw the first spade
full of dirt from the cellar of the new Pres
byterian parsonage, commenced on Bowen
avenlIc.
The M all routes from P%ittsgrove to Wing
Lane and from H~ardingville to Unionville
have been discontinued by the Postmaster
General.
Jonathan Bee and his force of masons
laid last week the foundation for a new
house for Benz. Hughes, in Rutherford
Neck woods, near Eldridge's Hill.
Tho dance party given in the large barn
of Howard Bassett, near Woodstown, on
Tuesday night, was a very pleasant affair,
and greatly enjoyed by the large number
present.
Edward Jones, Il colored man who es-
capped from, Jamestown during the Hood,
arrived in town on Tuesday evening, and
is stopping with Edward Richardson, in
Baileytown.
d. w. Lippincott will sell on Monday,
June 24th tho grass on sixteen acres of
ground, OF the premises lately occupied by
Aaron Lippincott, deceased, ON the road
leading from Woodstown to Salem.
The cellar for the new Presbyterian par
sonage on Bowen avenue has been staked
out, and work Oh the same has been COM
menced. The contract for the house has
been give II to Thos. b. Parker, to BE- fin
ished by September.
William ID. Buck. who for several years
kept restaurant in WoClstown, died at his
residence, 311 kaiglin's avenue, Camden, on
Sunday, of typhoid pnuemoiia. The iune-
raj took place on Tuesday, the intermcnt
being made at Fairton.
The Y. W. C. T. L. hereafter will meet
every other week during the Sum mer
months. The next meeting will be held
Monday eve. June oath. All the young
people of our borough are invited to attend
all meetings whether members or not.
The horse Of John X. Deacon, while
standing in front OF Stingel's bakery on
Tuesday night, was frightened by a dog
and started up the street on a smart trot.
The team was stopped in front of the
MONITOR Office before any damage was
done.
at tie meeting of Borough Council on
Monday night, the Street Committee were
instructed 10 notify Charles Boone to raise
the sidewalk on the property owned by
him on the Yorktown road, and property
owners on the north side of Dickinson
street to fill in their sidewalks to the
street grade.
List of letters in the p. o. at Woods.
tow, for week ending June Stli: Mr.. Ben
ME Friant, Charles T.. Marshall, Lizzie
Layton, Miss Els. Ilowey, lydia Harris. Mrs.
Frances Henson, Thomas Emory, William
Davis. Mr.. Peterson, Jennie Bennington,
Miss Annie Styles, Benz. Owen, Mrs.
Charles Wilson, William Simpson, Mrs.
f. Zanes.
Last Sunday was a great day among our
colored population, it being "June Quar-
tcrly.p There were no disturbances report
ed. and but one arrest for fast driving, a
colored youth named Clarence Green, of
Finn's Point, being taken in custody on
Sunday evening by Marshall Duffy. He
was giyon a hearing before Mayor Rich
man, and fined 100, but having
no money OF friends, was released on
promise 20 pay the same. Liyeryman
Crothers had several teams used pretty
roughly. One man who smashed mp a
buggy for him was arrested, but paid the
damage and was released.