The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-06-27

The MONITOR will go to press on Thurs
day evening of next week instead Of Fri
day morning. to enable our force to OBJ
serve the Fourth. Correspondents will
please send their letters in a little earlier
on this ccount.
During the months of June and July
Postmaster Hewitt will accommodate the
farmers who are unable to get i'll town
early by keeping the postoffice open until
$50 o'clock, and until 9 O'Clock on We'd
nesday and Saturday evenings.
The following letters remain uncalled
for in the post-ofice at Woodstown: Chas.
f. Adams, Geo. M. j. Adams, Mrs. Hes
ter Bowles, Clarence Chairman, Mrs.
GUIDE, Mrs. Samuel w. Smith, Miss ].
Smith, VIM. Thomas, Phoebe Thomas.
A dog belonging to the circus people
was overcome by the heat IN Salem street
on Wednesday and was thought by some
to BIO mad. He was tied to the fence of
one of the residences and after cooling off
was taken charge of by the circus folks.
Postmaster Hewitt received official noti-
f~ication this week that the pay of the
Woodstown office for the coming year,
commencing July LIST, would be increased
S1G0. This advance is made owing to an
increase In the business during the past
year. This makes the salary $1100.
The Fourth of July coming this year on
Friday, merchants in many cities are
agreeing to close their stores on Thursday
night not to open them again until Monday
morning, giving their employees a three
days rest. Not a bad idea, either, as the
Saturday following the Fourth will be a
poor day for business.
A useful attribute of paper not general
ly known is for preserving ice in a pitcher
Of water. Fill the pitcher with ice and
water and set it on the centre of a piece of
paper; than gather the paper up together
at the top and place the ends tightly to-
gether, placing a strong rubber band
around the coil to hold it close, so az to ex-
clude the air.
The sugar combination put up prices
about two dollars a barrel two weeks ago,
giving as a reason that preserving time
was coming Oh and that there would be an
increased demand. AS there are no fruits
to preserve they should have thought of
some better reason. The consequence is
that the price has dropped back again to
within seventy-five cents a barrel of what it
was when it was started on its upward
journey.
The weather is again on the sweltering
order, though the nights are pleasantly
cool. We are now nearing the Fourth of
July, the week preceding which Is usually
one Of the hottest of the year, but weather
prophets tell us that this year we shall
need our o%verooats about Independence
day, which forecasts have given some peo-
pie considerable Inconvenience and may
cost them some money because of the des-
~truction of their winter wraps by the
busy moth.
One of the most attractive (?I features a
tradesman can have about his place of
business is a lot of hangers-on sitting or
standing about the steps or entrance. If
they are smoking or chewing all the better.
There is no place so inviting to a lady that
is out shopping as one that forces her to
scatter a score or more of loafeIs when she
has occasion to enter it. 1t is evident that
some healers hereabout share this opinion
with us if We may judge of the crowd
they entertain on their steps.