The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-12-13
LOCAL NEWS.

The Legislature will convene on January
18th, 1890.
1t is said that the details of the failure
of next seasons ice crop are be ing arrang-
ed.
W. A. Clark will move his restaurant
business into a store in Massey's block
next week.
Freebooter Humphreys has had the iron
bridge in South Woodstown painted at a
cost of about $50.
The members of the w. c. T.. U. devo t.
cd the meeting yesterday afternoon in sew
ing for the poor of the neighborhood.
Twenty-one applicants were present at
the recent teachers examination in Salem,
but few of them receiving certificates.
Thos. Green has killed this week for j..
II. Peterson a hog weighing 419 pounds
and one for VIM. Filler which weighed 800
pounds.
Stiles & Freas, dry goods merchants,
Salem, make their announcement OF
goods suitable for Christmas in another
column.
Benz. Abbott has moved his family from
Sharptown and now occupies part of the
house belonging to his father, James Alb
bott, on East avenue.
Az lHt oNIC u III NOOPOA II
Pedricktown yesterday, the farm was bid
up to $751; so per acre. The sale was adj
iourned for two weeks.
The statistics gathered by the National
Bureau of Labor show that there has been
one divorce to every forty-nine marriages
in New Jersey since 1879.
We understand that the visit of the milk
inspectors to one of the creameries in the
.:.;.ftxy oanSal np1 nf fhP natrOnS TO
stay home with their milk.
Israel Renner has the contract for drain.
ing the pond at Alloway, instead OF
Whalen & Co., as stated in our Alloway
correspondents letter last week.
List of letters remaining uncalled for in
the postofiice at Woodstown, week ending
Dec. 7th: Miss Annie f. Dilks, Mr.. Gott-
lieb Krieger, DIR. Wm. III. Cooper.
Announcement of the annual meeting OF
stockholders of the First National Bank OF
Woodstown, for the election of Directors,
to be held Jan. IA, 1890, is made in another
column.
A number of young people from FITS
grove, slowed away on a hay-shelVings iuii
of straw drove over from Daretown to at
tend the PRESBYTERIAN festival here last
Saturday night.
-. w. Y. Hue, Mult ou ouO -
from Philadelphia yesterday afternoon,
narrowly escaped being struck by a shot
or stone which broke the car-window
alongside his head.
Petitions, asking the Legislature to pass
Il law providing for the teaching OF the ell
fects of alcohol on the human system IN the
public schools, are now being circulated
throughout the county.
The bundle of MONITORS addressed to
Daretown met with rough treatment some
where up the road last Friday. and were
returned to us fos repairs ON Saturday
night. We regret the delay caused our
Daretown subscribers.
The cunning season closes tomorrow.
After this week persons who shoot quail,
pheasant, woodcock, rabbits, English snipe
upland or grass plover, reed birds, rail-
birds or marsh hens, will be liable to PEN
alties of from 50 TO $50.
Henry Datz, living at Harrisonville, while
in Philadelphia with a load OF produce one
day last week, was robbed of his pocket
book, containing SIS. A young man
named McLees, whom he had asked to d.
rect him to Poplar street, took the money,
and he was arrested and held in bail to
answer.
We we're shown this week by Postmas-
ter Hewitt Il copy Of a Bombay, India, pa
per, sent to Mrs. Hewitt by her brother,
VIM. Stevens. who is stationed as mission
airy at that place. With the paper was a
hands omely embroidered handkerchief of
India silk, sent by Mr.. Stevens to his sis
ter.