The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-08-09
LOCAL NEWS.

Church goers appreciate short sermons
at this season.
The public schools will open Monday,
September 9th.
The days have began to shorten and the
nights to lengthen.
The next holiday is Labor Day, falling
on Monday, Sept. 2.
You cannot be too careful about your
diet dur ing the warm season.
Tomatoes were sold in our town last
week for five cents pc basket
The specimens of peaches now in our
markets are not much to brag of.
How much sooner it gets too dark to saw
wood than it does to play lawn tennis.
There is one crop that has never been
known to fail and that is the crop of flies.
Two Woodbury. sportsmen who visited
our county one day last week shot forty
one plover.
John Powell has been appointed and has
taken the oath of off ce as Deputy Sheriff
of this county.
Wm P. Lippincott started on Monday
on trip to western New York, to buy
cattle for this market.
Bruna's third excursion to Atlantic City,
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Thursday, August ED.
The game of base ball yesterday between
the WOodstown and Salem clubs was won
by the latter, score to l.
Over fifty persons went from our station
on Bruna' s Cape May, Sea Isle and Ocean
City excursion on Wednesday.
The regular monthly meeting of the Sa-
lem county Board of Freeholders will be
held at Salem next Wednesday.
The stock and fixtures of the store late
ly occupied by j. P. Crispin. deceased, are
advertised at private sale by the executors.
There was a special session of the Salem
County Orphans Court held in the Court
House at Salem on Saturday. Only routine
business was transacted.
The Lotus Club appears to be drying up.
There was less than half a score of foreign
visitors in attendance this year and the
offices went begging for takers.
There is every promise of a large chest
nut crop this year. There was an abund-
ance of blossoms, and now that the burrs
have set they are not likely to drop off.
The Woodbury. and Wenonah baseball
clubs seem to be going through an exper-
fence similar to that Of the Woodstown and
Salem teams last summer. The games are
holly contested.
Commencing with Monday night, the
post-office will be closed in the evening at
eight o'clock, except on Wednesday and
Saturday evenings, when half past eight
will be the hour.
Isaac johnson, colored, was arrested on
Saturday evening while acting in dis
orderly manner on the street and at hear
ing before Mayor Richman on Sunday
was fined $500 and costs.
Moses B. Handley, living at Yorketown,
had twenty one chickens stolen from him
ON Wednesday Of last week. The chick
ems were taken while Handley was away
on the G. A. II. excursion.
Chicken thieving is becoming very fire.
quent around Richmantown. The roost OF
day night, for the second time, and several
pairs Of fine chickens taken.
The regular quarterly meeting of the
Salem County Medical Society was held in
Woodstown on Wednesday afternoon, with
good attendance present. The usual
routine business was transacted.
List of letters remaining uncalled for in
the post Office at Woodstown, week ending
Aug. Sd, 1889. Mrs. s. f. Jones, Miss
Kate Xaner, Mr.. w. f. Sellers, Miss Hat
tie May Hours, Mrs. Henry Justice.
The latest reports from tomato growers
indicate that the crop will be unusually
light. One farmer informs us that hun
dreds of plants in his field have no tomatoes
at all on them, and his crop is likely to be
failure.
DIR. Thomas ID. Westcott, who practiced
medicine in Sharptown about twenty EIGHT
years ago, died in Camden on Monday, aged
fifty-one years. Deceased was born in
Tuckahoe, Cape May county, and was a
graduate Of the Jefferson Medical College.
He had not practised for fifteen years. His
remains were taken to Bridgeton for inter-
ment on Wednesday.