The Monitor., 1890-04-25
LOCAL NEWS.
Next Thursday will be May 1st.


The Woodstown base ball club has been
organized for the season.
District Lodge, No. Z, |. o. G.. T., will
be held in Woodstown May 18th.
The sunsets the past week or SO have
been gorgeous in their brilliant tints.
The Dayton Hedge Fence Company is
setting out the hedges for which they took
orders last summer.
A neat portico addition to the front of
Charles p. Reeves residence is noticed
among the late improvements.
Adam S. Graf, of Elmer, agent for
Heuling's milk cooler, has taken orders in
this vicinity for four of the machines.
The wholesale price of ice cream will be
higher this year. The manufacturers of
Salem intend advancing the price the first
of May.
Ice froze to the thickness of window
glass in this vicinity last Friday night. A
heavy frost was also noticeable on Sunday
morning.
JOS G.. Stretch is turning out large or
der of wood-w ork for the mill machines,
manufactured by Geo. w. Ayres & Son,
Alloway
Frank Foster while hewng posts one
day last week, cut deep and severe cash
in his ankle by the adze glancing and
striking his leg
The Presbyterian parsonage on Bowen
avenue has been enclosed with neat fence,
much improving the appearance of this
handsome property.
Warren Flitcraft, while riding on his
new Special Columbia bicycle on Sunday,
met with mishap, near the railroad
bridge, in which the wheel was badly dam
aged.
Howard Bassett set out this week 700
peach trees on his farm. These, together
with an orchard set out three years ago,
make 5 acres which Mr.. Bassett cnow has
in peaches.
This is Quaker Yearly Meeting week,
and according to old-time belief we should
have had almost continuous rain, but up
to yesterday there was only bright, beau
tiful weather.
A dance party under the management of
Harry Lippincott and Charles b: Grier
will be given in Hunts Hall next Wednes-
day evening, 30th inst. Two hundred in
vitations have been issued.
The East avenue marble man, w. B.
Snelbaker, has just received carload of
flag and curb stone. Mr.. s. is now pre-
pared to wall graves and furnish curb as
cheap as can be done elsewhere.
The different classes of the Baptist Sun
day school are adding to the appearance of
their chapel by putting new curtains to
the windows. The new curtains are of
light color and make the room look more
cheerful.
Twelve hens were stolen from Isaac Bal
lingers roost on Wednesday night. Thos.
Green frightened thief ont of his chicken
yard last Friday night, and John Adams
reports hearing one at his place one night
this week
Beni Friant, who forged the name of
Geo. w. Crothers ON a note which he pass
ed on Diver & Summerill, Pennsgrove, was
arrested and given a hearing before Squire
DeGrofft on Saturday. He was committed
to Salem Jail.
Nelson, the bright little son of our towns
man, John Smith and wife, died of men,
branous Group yesterday morning after a
few days illness, aged seven years. He
was their only child and the pet of the
household. The afflicted family have the
sympathies of all in their sad bereavement.
Complaint is made of the damage caused
by boys breaking window lights and doing
other mischief, and Mayor Richman desires
it understood that there is a standing re-
ward of five dollars offered for information
LUtl w Ill itdu " lllt liItSb duu COufICtiUH
of these parties. Dan Ware has also offered
a reward of $40 for information concerning
the parties who committed depredations on
his property lately.
Mayor G.. II. Richman has received from
his son, Walter Richman, of Philadelphia,
some grains of corn grown from seed that
was found in an Egyptian mummy over
1000 years old. This corn is of the variety
grown in Egypt ia Bible times, and is diff
ferent from our Indian corn in that each
grain is enclosed in separate husk, and
all are fastened together without cob
Mr.. Richman will plant the grains and en-
deayor to grow it.
The petitions from New Jersey that
were presented in the House at Washing
ton last week were one by Mr.. Fowle from
the farmers of the northern part of the
State praying for an increase of the tariff
on hay from So to "a per ton. By Mr.. Ber-
gen. the petition of the Swedesboro Grange
for the passage of the Pure Food and anti
Trust bills, and from residents of Cape
May and other southern counties, asking
for the construction of breakwater at
Cape May.
The lecture to be given by Pastor X. r.
Albin, of the Baptist ChuIch this evening
in the Baptist Chapel will be well worth
hearing. Mr.. Albin, having lived in Lon
don for twenty five years, is able to enter
tain his audience on the subject he has
chosen, 'The Great City of London" No
admission will be charged, but silver Of
fering will be taken at the close. This
subject being so vast Mr.. Albin will deliver
it in two separate lectures, the next one to
be delivered next Friday evening, May I'd.
1t has been the custom heretofore in
Philadelphia to sell milk at six cents in
spring and summer and eight cents in fall
and winter, but the milk dealers have had
a meeting this week, and concluded to keep
the price up to eight cents during the
present season ON account of the scarcity
and increased cost of ice. AS ice Is scarcer
here than in the city and much higher in
price, and 1t requires more of it to cool
down the milk so that the farmer can ship
it with safety. it would seem that he should
be accorded by far the largest share of the
difference in the increased price.
the Weather Crop Report.
The weather crop bulletin for last week
is summarized as follows: "The weather
conditions of the past week have been char