The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-02-15
LOCAL NEWS.

All the ice-houses in Sharptown were
filled last week.
Several new houses will be erected in
Woodstown i'll the spring.
Skating the past few days has been good,
and largely INDUCED in by the young folks.
Three minstrel shows have applied for
dates at the Opera House during next
month.
The township committee will hold their
annual meeting in McAllister's Hall on
Tuesday next.
Thomas Green killed for George Smith
on Monday, a one-year-old pig that weigh
ed 512 pounds.
Samuel M. Lippincott wishes us to deny
the report that he is a candidate for the
position of Collector.
A number of the smaller ice-houses in
this vicinity were filled last week with ice
about three inches thick
Joseph Urion, who moved to Connecti-
cut some years ago, is contemplating re-
turning here in the spring.
We are indebted to Brother Gwynne. of
the Sunbeam, for our report of the Free
holders meeting in this issue.
An examination of candidates for third
grade teachers certificates will be held at
Woodstown, on Saturday, 23d inst.
Wilbert Richman has rented a stall in
the Twelfth Street Market, Philadelphia,
and will sell his produce there at retail.
The morning train down last Friday
was delayed nearly two hours above
Swedesboro, by the breaking down of the
engine.
No Freeholders will be elected at the
town meetings this year, unless to I'LL va
~cancies, the term being two years under
the law of 1887.
Senator Newell introduced into the Leg
islature on Monday a bill transferring a
portion of Quinton township to the "
ship of E%lsinboro.
The regular meeting of Borough Coun-
Gil was held on Monday night, and the re-
port of receipts and expenditures for the
year was prepared.
VIM. w. Fox has received a carload of
horses from Indiana which he offers for
sale or exchange at his stables in the rear
of the Opera House.
The ice house at the Salem County Aims
house was filled on Wednesday with sew
enty-fye tons of fine ice, measuring five
inches and over in thickness.
If YOU need a horse, IA cow, a hog, a
sheep, poultry, household goods, or any
article of farm machinery, read over the
sales published in this paper.
Twenty-Five cents will hereafter be col
lected for dogs conveyed in either the
smoking or baggage cars on lines OF the
West Jersey Railroad system.
J. H. Peterson & Son, with a force Of
twenty-five men. commenced filling their
ice houses at East Lake this morning.
They want to house 900 tons.
E. C. Haines has been offered $4,000 BY a
Baltimore firm for the patent right of his
new can-fller, a description of which APP
peared in our columns last fall.
Numerous rabbits are to be seen through
out the country, and if dogs are kept from
running them, the chances for fine hunting
a year hence are clearly depicted.
The dance or ball given in Hunts Hall,
ON Wednesday night, attracted a rather
noisy crowd of young men who kept the
residents in the centre of the own awake
until a late hour.
William VanLeer has purchased the
Store fixtures of William Coleman in South
Woodstown, and will take charge In the
Spring. Mr.. Coleman will remove to ms
farm near Daretown.
CLAYTON virgins, living near WOODS
town. was visited on Friday night by
chicken thieves, and twenty of his choicest
fowls taken. Mr.. virgins says he IS WIS
tied regularly every year by thieves.
The State Court of Errors has decided
that where a landlord accepts a surrehuoi
of the lease by his tenant before the exp
ration of the term, he cannot thefeaiter sue
the tenant for a breach OF covenant as "
the repair inc condition OF the demisen
premises, because the tenant cannon law
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