The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-06-06
LOCAL NEWS.
Hay harvest next week.

Hay harvest next week.
We have enjoyed some brilliant MOON
light nights this week.
The fragrant white water lilies in our
pond are now in bloom.
The air out of town is laden with the
perfume of clover blossoms.
A number of Friends attended Quarterly
Meeting in Salem yesterday.
Charles Smith has sold his restaurant
business to Thos. Keen, son of P. Y. Keen.
B. Frank Holme, formerly of Salem, has
estab lisled a coal and wood yard in Cam
den.
Prof. Morris Equine and Canine Para
dox in the Opera House next Wednesday
night.
When is Woodstown's public school to
have the .'stars and stripes float over the
building?
The June meeting of the County Board
of Freeholders will be held in Salem next
Wednesday.
The trustees will on Monday night elect
teachers for the public school to serve the
coming year.
VIM. G. Davis reports some straw berries
in his garden, one Of which measures 50
inches around.
Harry Robbins shot a young otter
weighing about 12 pounds in Oldman's
Creek Yesterday.
1t looks strange to see and hear a board
of election officers or any part of them So
liciti votes while ON duty.
We have received a premium list OF the
Interstate Fair, to be held at Trenton
Sept. 30, 80, Oct. l, 2 and 3rd.
The Thermometer has ranged among the
nineties nearly every day this week-the
weather being exceeding warm.
Tho E. b. Humphreys Pantaloon CO.,
resumed operations on Tuesday, after a
two weeks shut down for repairs.
Some of our residents report having seen
a ball Don travelling in Il northeasterly d.
rection over town one day last week.
Census enumerators Peterson and Coles
are progressing slowly with their work,
having commenced out in the country.
w. p. Lippincott & Co. expect a car
load of new mich cows soon, which they
will offer at public sale in about ten days.
A correspondent in a Salem paper says:
Isaac Turner, at Woodstown, has 23 acres
of the best timothy and clover that | have
SEEM
Letters remain uncalled for in the post
office, addressed to Mrs. Maggie Bowers,
Mrs. Lottic Prathcr, B.. f. Thorn, Mr.. Jos.
I'll. Weatherby.
The regular quarterly meeting of the
Salem County Historical Society will DO
held in the Library building, Salem, on
Tuesday next, June 10.
We print the financial report of the
Almshouse this week. The statement of
the receipts and expenditures of the county
will appear in our next issue.
Strawberries are selling three boxes for
twenty-five cents, with some OF the choicer
varieties at ten cents per box. They are
said not to be very plentiful this year.
District Clerk Geo. Nj. Andrews has
completed his census Of school children be-
tween the ages 3 and IS years, there being
sos in the district, or two less than last
year.
There has been more than one poker
game in progress in town lately, if lights
shining through transoms and from third
story windows are any indication-and we
think they are.
Vim. b. Snelbaker has in his yard on
East avenue two fine sets OF stone to be
placed at tho graves of Isaac J. Richman
and VIM. G. Hates, in the Presbyterian
yard at Daretown.
It has been decided to hold the w. c. T.
u. Fourth of July celebration in the spaci-
GUS grounds ofthe WoodstOwn Academy,a