The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-01

The regular monthly gospel temperance
prayer meeting will be held in the w. q.
T. u. room next Sunday evening, to COM
mence at 6 o'clock. All welcome.
Rev. James w. Putnam, manager of
the Cyclorama Jerusalem N the day of
Cruciixion," and pastor Of Temple Baptist
church, Pnila., will interest his hearers at
the Baptist church next Tuesday evening
in his famous lecture "Rambles among the
Holy Hills" Don't miss this rare oppor-
tunity.
The increase in business in the MONITOR
Office during the past three months has
been very gratifying. A large amount
and variety of job and poster work has
been turned out, and in a style which chal-
lenges competition. Our subscription list
is also beng swelled to very comfortable
proportions.
The Y. W. C. T. U. will hold a festival
in their room on Wednesday evening,
March 18th. Each visitor will receive an
apron. An admission fee of ten cents will
be charged at the door. Ice cream, cakes,
confectionery and other refreshments will
be for sale. Go and help the young ladies
in their good work.
Frank G.. Mount will retire from the
bakery business on April 18Th, when Fred
erick Stingel, of Philadelphia, to whom
he recently sold out, will take charge. Dur
ing the coming summer Mr.. Mount will
manufacture ice cream at his new residence
on East Mill street. which he proposes to
sell wholesale and retail.
Harmony Council, No. Sc, Order of
United American Mechanics, of Woods
town, celebrated W%ashington's Birthday
in an appropriate manner in their lodge
room last Friday evening. A number of
invited guests, friends of the members,
were present, and after a programme of
addresses, readings, music, ETC., had been
given refreshments were served.
Professor Green, of the Minnesota State
Agricultural College, has completed his
experiments to ascertain the value of frost
ed grain for seed. His report shows that
from 40 to 80 per cent. of the total amount
planted will sprout and grow. He says
that the experiments may be relied upon,
and hereafter farmers may plant frosted
grain with the assurance that it will grow
rather than run in debt for other seed.
The New Jersey experiment station in
bulletin 40 reports one fertilizer examined
as having a value of $16.6 while the price
is given at $32, or almost twice its real
worth. The noticeable feature is that the
fertilizer was equal to the guarantee furn-
ished by the manufacturer. Users of CON-
mercial fertilizers must learn to find and
figure up the value of a fertilizer by the
analysis given, or run the chance of being
cheated.
w. W. Case, Of Baptisttown, read a pa
per on "Money-making by Honey-mak-
ing at the recent meeting of the State
Board Of Agriculture at Trenton a short
time since. He described his method of
managing bees. and thought it could be
made a profitable industry to ladies as well
as men. He suggested that it would be
better for women to have a swarm of bees
than to learn a trade. 1t would prove a
profitable occupation as well as a pleasant
one.
The young people in some towns have
tried the Rainbow Social and pronounce
it a success. Each one of the girls wears
a gay colored apron without any hem at
the bottom. The apron is numbered. 9th
er corresponding numbers are placed in a
box. Each gentleman draws a number
from the box and searches for the young
lady wearing the apron thus numbered, to
whom he must pay attention that evening.
His duty is to hem the apron, all of which
he must do unaided by his lady friend.
The one who hens the neatest get a prize.
If he declines to hem he pays a forfeit.