The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-02-08
LOCAL NEWS.

Some of the ice houses are being filled
to-day.
The Thermometer registered re this
morning.
The next legal holiday will be Washing
toms Birthd ay, Feb. ED.
The mud hole on East avenue is frozen
up at present, and will not need any gravel
just now.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Board of FIeeholders will be held in Sa-
lem next Wednesday.
A progressive euchre party was given by
a number of young ladies in one of Massey's
store buildings last night.
The ground hog saw his shadow on Sat-
urday and so the prediction is for six
weeks of winter. 1t looks now as though
VIC would have it.
Edward Prickett, executor of the Ridg-
way estate, has sold the farm near Sharp
town to Il Mr.. Simms, of Burlington
county, for $50 per acre.
The Woodstown lodge, f. & A. NJ, at
tended the funeral of Capt. Chas. Pedrick,
of Pedricktown, a member of that lodge,
on Monday of last week.
The regular meeting of the Pilesgrove
Prohibition Society will be held at the res
idence of Chas. 7. Reeves on Monday even
ing, 18th inst, at y o'clock.
Thomas Green killed on Monday for
Isaac Richman a hog weighing 446 pounds,
and two killed for himself on Tuesday
weighed 464 aud 436 pounds.
County Superintendent Brace, of Cam,
den, has been appointed to supervise the
work of the New Jersey Reading Circle in
the counties Of Camden, Gloucester and Sa-
lem.
Hereafter pension agents and attorneys
will only be allowed by law to take a fee
of five dollars for securing an increase OF
pension for a pensioner already on the
rolls.
Josiah Humphreys, living near Sharp
town.. had a chicken Matched last week
with four legs, perfectly developed. The
.broiler'' is as lively as the rest of the
brood.
Trailing arbutus has been found at
Swedesboro in bloom. The plants in this
vicinity are full of buds, but a party who
were ont on Tuesday could find none IN
bloom.
A young lady living near Pedricktown,
while playing with a pet colt recently, was
kicked in the face and had four teeth
knocked ont. The young lady,s lace was
not bruised or cut in the least by the KICK.
According to the sporting editor OF the
Philadelphia Ledger, the Camden, Glouces-
ter. Bridgeton, Millville, Woodstowp and
Salem base ball clubs are to organize a
league. to be known as the West Jersey
Base Ball League.
DIR. Ezra NJ. Hunt, Secretary Of the State
Board, reports the total number OF persons
in the county Almshouses throughout the
State to be 1925. The total number OF IN
mates in the asylums, 1862. Ia the State
Prison. the various county jails, reform
school. 1859. 45 inmates are reported IN
the Salem County Insane Asylum, and III
in the Salem Jail.
The mean temperature of January Just
ended was 37.3 as against 2o.0 IN 1850.
This was the highest mean temperature
since 1880. when the figures were 4o.9.
The total snowfall was 10 inches, all on
the Goth. There were IA cloudless days, .
were partly cloudy, and IL were CLOUDY.
The warmest days were the 9th ana ,he
18th, when the temperature reached o9 Z,
and the lowest fall of mercury was on the
Goth, when it went to IS.
The undertakers from the counties OF
Salem, Cumberland, Cape May, Atlantic
and Gloucester, met in Woodbury. lately.
The object OF the meeting was TO periect
an organization for the purpose OF bring
ing themselves in closer acquaintanceship;
TO assist each other in business; and to
consider the best means of disinfectlng
houses in cases of contagious diseases, en-
balming the bodies, ard such other infor-
nation as they might be able to impart to
each other.
We are acquainted, says an exchange,
with quite a number of persons who get
more papers than they can read now, ana
do not want a county p~aper-as long as
they can borrow it from a neighbor. lheSe
fellows always take "iamiiy Journai
published in New York or somewhere,
containing thrilling and blood curdilng ro-
mances, and such as make young despise
home and ycarn for the day when they
can break away from home restraint, anu,
60 in the far west and become bad men
aud die with their boots on.