The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-06-07
LOCAL NEWS.

Strawberries are selling six-for-a-quarter.
Dealers at the depot are paying twenty
cents per bushel for potatoes.
The cuckoo's cry is frequently heard
among the trees that line our streets.
1t is thought the change in the railroad
timetable will not be made until July.
June Quarterly meeting among our col
ored population will occur next Sunday.
A dance party will be given in the barn
of Howard Bassett next Tuesday night.
holders will be held at Salem next Wednes-
day.
VIM. Aborn, living near Oakland sta
ton, had his leg broken yesterday by the
kick of a horse.
M. Myers, our hardware dealer, has con-
tributed q cook stove and fixtures to the
Johnstown sufferers.
The bridge at Rlchman's Mills is not yet
down for travel, but it is thought will be
finished early next week.
Gideon Layton, living on the Sharptown
road, has one of the finest fields of corn we
have noticed in this vicinity.
The Agassiz Chapter will picnic to-mor-
row in the grove on the farm OF Jos. Hill
man, on the old Salem road.
Geo. w. Crothers adyertises in another
column a sale of "a cows. to be held at his
stables en- Wednesday, June 10th.
Edward Humphreys will sell the grass
on fourteen acres of land, near Sharptown,
on Thursday afternoon, June 18th.
The West Jersey Railroad Company has
consented to carry all goods that may be
donated to the Johnstown sufferers free of
charge.
At the third sale of COWS held by w. Il.
Lippincott & Co., on Monday, twenty-four
head were sold at fair prices, ranging from
$31 to $66.
Rose bugs and slugs are bothering our
flower loving residents. Some of our
farmers are losing young ducks that feed
on the bugs.
Joseph X. Riley has sold to Henry A..
Richman about twelve acres of land at the
junction of the YORKTOWN and DaretOwn
roads, for 500 per acre.
For the girls this is to be a gingham
Summer. The boys will endeavor to keep
cool in flannel shirts, russell shoes and
broad -brimmed straw hats.
Judge Reed, at the recent term of court,
announced that ex-Jury Commissioner
Patrick and Wallace were entitled to $3.50
each for drawing juries last year.
The w. G. r. L. of Woodstown, duiing
the summer. will change their meeting
time to Friday evenings, and meet only
every other week, commencing next Friday
night.
Charles G.. Dickinson, the Camden COM
mission merchant, was in tow last week
buying up white potatoes. lie secured
about 500 bushels, giving twenty five cents
per bushel for them.
The pretty schoolgirl is in eager antici-
patton OF her,commencement trinmpss; the
pretty school-marm of her vacation, and
the school-house of its annual cleaning. 30
June brings joy close to all.
Robert S. Woodside, executor of Firman
Woodside, deceased, will sell in front OF the
Court House, at Salem, tomorrow after
noon, the valuable blacksmithing and
wrighting stands, and several houses,
situated in Claysville.
From an economical point Of view the
season has arrived when the parents of the
small boy permit him to roam in fancy
free about the streets without shoes, and
the expenses OF the household are mater
tally decreased in consequences.
List of letters remaining in the post. Office
at Woodstown, for tho week ending June
1st. 1889, George 7. Shorters. Mr.. Thomas
johnson, Mrs. Virginia ID. Keen, MIR. $.
Horn. Mr.. Thomas o. Ford, Mr.. Thomas
DUR, Samuel Cormmer, Mr.. Alfred Car
man, Mrs. Sarah Coo, Mr.. Charles Acco,
Mary +. johnson, Anna w. Batten.
The statistician of the agricultural de
partment at Washington makes the fol
lowing estimates showing the condition OF
winter grain and progress OF spring plant
ing in the State. Wheat, 81; rye, DO;
meadows aud moving lands, 90; spring
pasture, 90. Proportion Of p%loughing work
already done, rs; proportion usually done
n an average year, 70.