The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22
LOCAL NEWS.

Next Notwithstanding day.
Rev. L. II. Durell moves to Unionville
to-day.
The track at the Fair Grounds is to be
graded and improved.
We certainly have had a full share of
unpleasant weather this week.
Salem county has t~wenty-eight inmates
in the Trenton insane asylum.
Justices of the Peace elected at the late
election go into Office May LIST.
A new boiler is to be placed in the en-
CINE room at the P%ilesgroye Creamery.
Jos. G. Stretch is making a handsome
and elegant prescription case for Borton
IL Andrews.
The first Delaware herring of the season
was caught in the river near Delaware City
on Tuesday of last week.
George w. Crothers arrived home this
morning with a drove o horses and mules,
ad vertised in another column.
Chas. NJ. Fogg, who holds a responsible
position in the Mercantile Library, Phila-
delphis, was in own or Monday.
George II. Poinsett, of Moorestown, will
shortly remove to Woodstown to go into
the business of armers supplies.
It CDiiQfGl w u al 70 Aio W SCC
Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb at the New Opera
House on Wednesday evening, April Sd.
Fogg s. Richman, real estate and insur-
ance agents, have had a neat bulletin
board erected near the front of the post
office.
If you drop SCOT on the carpet next week,
in moving, COVERT thickly with salt, and
it may be swept up without blackening the
carpet.
The e-yentcen-year locusts are reported
to be due this year. It seem to us that
the se~venteen-year locust has been lost
track of.
DR.. Wiley, of Salem, has entered bail in
the sum of $500 for John Peacock, whose
arrest we mentioned last week, and he is
at liberty.
An Asbnry Park undertaken advertises
ia one of the local papers and uses a large
cut Of q hearsc, with team and driver, to
emphasize the, same.
Wilmer, son Of Isaac II. Turner, has Sc
cured a position as stenographer in the
Office of the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Co., at Pottsville, Pa.
The first shad of the season was caught
on Thursday afternoon in Salem Cove, by
John and Henry J.. Hall. 1t weighed 81
lbs, and was purchased byWm. Morris S.
How strange that the man who thinks to
improve on nature by clipping his horse in
winner, never practices his theory by wear
ing a linen buster in place of an overcoat.
The lettering on many Of the guide
boards throughout the county has become
so obliterated by time that they are almost
useless. They should be replaced by new
ones.
nrArr.cciva o1al,rn M rtU was OIyan at
the residence of Nj. ID. Dickinson, Esq,
by Miss Sallie Dickinson n few evenings
ago. A pleasant time was enjoyed by
those present.
The sale of personal property of Asa
Colson, near Yorktown, was postponed
on Tuesday on account OF the weather, and
will be held next Wednesday, 9th inst,
at the same hour
The following is q list of letters remain
ing in the postotlice at Woodstown for the
week ending March 10th: Mr.. Robt. j..
Barr, (3), Mr.. Gaun Dunlap, Henry Stead
man, Miss Hattie Sholl.
The winter o f1S9S-S9 will stand on record
as having been favored with fewer and
lighter SHOWS than any which have proceed
ed it for a good many years, that is as lar
as this latitude is concerned.
Never skip the advertisements when
reading a newspaper. They show just
what live business men are about, and ev-
cry one who has trading to do will find it
pays to trade with those who advertise.
Farmers are likely to run up against a
corner in binding twine the coming season.
A trust has bought up all the output OF
the factories for this year, and twine which
sold for o cents last year is now worth 20
cents.
Again we urge upon those W no know OF
local items of general interest that happen
in any part of the county during the week
to send them to us. Deaths, marriages.,
personals, accidents, etc, are subjects
that come under this head.
The following road overseers were elect
ed in the different districts at the elections
held on Thursday of last week: "a DIST,
George II. Kirby; 3D. Dist, Thos. l.. Iiorn-
er; 4th dist, Henry Vanmeter; 9th Dist,
Chris. Regner; 9th Dist, William Henry
johnson; 7th Dist, Stephen 9. McCallister;