The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-11
LOCAL NEWS.

The ounce crop is said to be a failure.
Thomas Green commenced his annual
slaughter of .sporkers" last Friday.
The use Of paper in the public schools
has almost supplanted the traditional slate.
w. p. Lippincott started yesterday on
a trip through York State, to purchase
11olstein stock.
VIM. b. Teal, whose serious illness we
noted last week, died on Friday and was
buried ON Wednesday.
See that the chimneys are in proper con-
dition before putting up the stoves. Neg
lect may prove serious.
The man who stayed from church be-
cause it was too warm will now remaina at
home because it is too cold.
The Mt. Holly Fair this week does not
seem to attract as many from this vicinity
as did the Trenton fair last week.
The winter schedule of trains on our
railroad went into effect on Tuesday. A
revised time table will be found at the top
of this page.
1t is estimated that this years pack of
tomatoes in Woodstown, though only half
of the usual pack, would fill a train of
forty-eight cars.
A meeting will be held in McAllister's
Hall tomorrow night at half past seven
o'clock, for the purpose of organizing a
Republican campaign club.
A number of the members of the w. c.
T. L. spent the evening at the residence OF
Mrs. II. A. Cawley on Monday. Mrs.
Cawley will spend the winter in Haddon-
field.
The Christian Endeavor Society connect
ed with the Baptist church will hold an
oyster festival in their new parsonage next
Friday and Saturday evening, Oct. 18th
and 10Th.
At the Democratic county convention
held at Elmer yesterday, Clinton Kelly,
of Salem, was nominated for County
Clerk, and Hiram Strang, of Pittsgrove,
for Assembly.
Salem merchants can give II Woods
town store-keepers a lesson in advertising,
as a look at our columns this week will
show. Printers ink never fails of its OBJ
ject if judiciously used.
In our report of the w. c. T. U. conven-
ton last week, VIZ unintentionally omitted
referring to the remarks made by Major E.
T. Scott, and Rev. A. H. Eberhardt, both
of whom spoke in the afternoon.
Autumn is asserting itself in an unmis-
taxable manner. The forests have assum-
GU IHt DGlutltQl - v oh0
the temperature indicates the need of heat
cd stoves and warmer underclothing,
Ii is thought that the death of Fanny
H., the trotting mare owned by Clark
Petit, was caused by poisoning, and a
analysis of the contents of the stomach of
the animal is being mace to determine
whether or not such is the case.
List of letters remaining uncalled for in
the post-of1ice at Woodstown, week end
ing Oct. 9th, 1889: Mary Ringle, Wm.
Aborn, Nina IL. Richey, Harrison John
son, Miss Anna Ninson, Mrs. Josephine
Thomas, Mr.. Charles {. Garrison.
DR.. Thomas II. Clement, a former res
ident of Pittsgrove, who will be remember
ed by many of our older readers, died at
his residence in Philadelphia on Sunday,
and was buried in the Presbyterian GEN.
etery at Daretown OH Wednesday.
An old resident who has travelled the
road between here and %Sharptown for forty
years, tells us he never in ALI that time
saw the roads so bad between here and
there in dry weather as they are now, and
all for the need Of a timely scrapiDg.
The Atlantic Refining Company have
built a reservoir i'll Salem and are solicit
lug sale for their oil, delivered out of their
tank wagons in the neighboring towns at
8 cts a gallon wholesale for 100 fire test.
If our councilmen are still paying one of
their number 12cts per gallon for oil for
street lamps here's a nance to save 80 per
cent. for the taxpayers.
The following were the delegates from
Pilesgrove township and the borough, OF
Woodstown, to the Republican County
Convention at Salem on Wednesday:
Township. Asa Pcdrick, Saml. Buzby.
Chas. Robinson, Jr.. Chas. Coles, Moses
Handley; Borough, John G. Borton, Lip
pincott Coles. Thos. 3. Parker, Nm. ,.
Goforth and VIM. Henry Green.