The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-12-20

The stores of E. B. Humphreys and tie
factory Of the f. B. Humphreys Panta-
loon Co., will be closed next Wednesday,
Christmas Day.
The crop reports made in response to tie
circular issued by the State Board of
Health, shows that the present year has
been a very poor one for farmers-as nearly
all the crops are short from ten to fifty per
cent, in consequence of the rainy weather.
The Methodist Parsonage has been re-
Gently painted, including also the roof and
fence, and the property thus improved
makes a very handsome appearance. AS
the pastor stated last Sabbath the expenses
for the same have been promptly paid in
full.
This is a good time of the year to sub
scribe for the MONITOR. Send in your
name, or il you already take the paper,
send in the name of a friend who is inter-
ested in the news of the vicinity. 1t will
make a very acceptable and sensible
Christmas present.
The disaster which accompanied the per-
Torrance of Washburn's "Uncle Toms
Cabin" Co., in Johnstown, Pa, last week,
recalls the fact that the burning of the
Salem Opera House several years ago &C.
Cured after the performance of Toms
Cabin under the management of this same
Washburn.
AT the regular communication of Woods
town Lodge, No. 1873, +. and A.. Nj. Oh
Tuesday night, officers to serve the
ensuing year were elected. These. to-
gether with the appointed officers, will be
installed next Friday est. Johns night at
ter which the annual banquet will be par
taken of in the l~odge-room.
Orders have been issued at the New
Brunswick public schools that the pupils
must not give their teachers any Christmas
presents this year. The reason given for
the order is that "there are often dissat-
isfactions and disputes among the classes
as to what present shall be given and to
which of the instructors the presentation
shall be made"
A special temperance prayer meeting
will be held in the w. G. I. [. room next
Sunday night, at six o'clock, to commence
rate the fifteenth anniversary of the Cru
SADIE. On Monday evening the W. G. T. U.
will meet with the Y. w. G. T. U. in their
room and services appropriate to the occa-
sioa will be held. All will be cheerfully
welcome to either meeting.
Unless there is a decided lowering Of the
temperature very soon We shall have what
is known as a green Christmas, the green
est known for years, for the grass in many
places has lost but little of its summer
freshness. A very prevalent impression is
that a green Christmas makes a fat grave
yard, but like many other popular beliefs
this one has been known to fail on more
occasions than one.
The lodge room of the Woodstown
Grange was crowded on Wednesday night,
the occasion being the second of the series
of literary contests between the male and
female members of the lodge. The men
had their inning on Wednesday, and pre-
sented a programme that sent them sew
eral points ahead of the record made by
the women a month ago. But the women
expect to make up for it, when their time
comes round again, and the remaining two
contests of the series will doubtless be very
interesting.
A friend below S~harptown, who has
been soliciting funds to repair the fencing
around the old Pilesgrove burial ground,
from among these who had relatives buri-
ed there, informs us that he found difficulty
in getting the help needed for the work.
Some of those who had the most friends
buried there, and were best prepared fin
ancially to contribute, in some cases gave
nothing while others who were but little
interested responded the most literally.
His conclusion is that the man or woman
who starts out on a mission like this should
fortify themselves up with a good stock of
sustaining grace.
We have on one or two occasions recent
ly spoken of the loafing of several parties
about the telegraph Office at the station,
and from what we hear are inclined to
think that the reference struck home, as
the advocate OF the parties referred to has
come to the front in their defense. We
are glad to say, for the benefit of those
who have occasion to make nse of the tel
egraph in their business or social matters,
that owing to our Efforts the abuse seems
to have been abated, in a measure, and
there is now a reasonable chance of send
ing a message without its contents being
known on the streets before it reaches the
party addressed.