The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-03-07
LOCAL NEWS.
Election next Tuesday.

Election next Tuesday.
Come to This office for election tickets.
The Thermometer this morning register
ed 12o.
Mrs. Reeve Flitcraft has over five hun
dred chickens Matched by hens.
Violets, myrtle and blue-bells are in
bloom in the yard of Israel Hewitt.
There were twenty-seven candidates at
the teachers examination on Saturday.
II it is a pertinent question, we would
ask what has become of the Salem County
Temperance Alliance?
The regular monthly meeting of the
County Board of Freeholders will be held
in Salem next Wednesday,.
Frank b. Armstrong, the baseball play
er, of Camden. has started for Dallas, Tex
as, to play with the Dallas club.
The Sc mi-monthly meeting of FIrst-day
school teachers will be held at the resi-
dence of Richman Coles this evening.
Subscribers changing their post office
address will please notify us promptly. In
doing so please give old as well as nec adj
dress.
George w. Crothers disposed of twenty
horses at his sale on Tuesday, prices rang
ing from 500 to s155, the average being
about $3.50.
Robt. B.. MCGOWAN, Pitman Grove; Lewis
Schock, Swedesboro; and Henry NJ. Flani-
gan, P~ennsgrove. have been granted in
crease of pensions.
We understand that a number of young
men around tow are rehearsing for a min
strel performance, W it'll the idea of giving
an entertainment soon.
The West Jersey Railroad announces a
dividend Of 81 per cent. payable March
18th. and the West Jersey 81 Atlantic a
dividend Of q per cent.
The attendance at Friends Quarterly
meeting yesterday, considering the severe
sto rm during the forenoon, was larger than
could have been expected.
Mrs. Joseph Reading will give a talk on
"Africa" to the member of the W. G. 7.
U. in their room on next Thursday after
noon, 18th inst. Everyone interested is
invited to attend.
VIM. p. Lippincott returned last night
from a trip through Western New York,
where he has been buying cattle for this
market. They will be offered at public
sale in about two weeks.
At the pigeon shooting match at Pole
Tavern, on Friday afternoon, between
Woodstown and Elmer parties. the sweep
stakes were won by F. w. Iredell and
Henry Green, of this place.
Philip Y. Keen, of Sharptown, has taken
charge of the stables in the rear of the
Opera House, lately vacated by w. w.
Fox, and will continue the business of
selling and exchanging horses in connec-
ton with his livery.
Rev. S. r. Calthrop, a Syracuse, N. Y.
weather prophet, who goes it on sun-spots,
saws the coolest weather of the winter will
probably occur within the next twelve
days. Most of the prophets have stopped
fooling with weatheraltogether.
Isaac B. Coles killed on Monday last
eight hogs for Michael Allen. weighing as
follows: 597, $50, sol, $50, $50, $40, 4S0,
4l7-total weight A, 200, or an average
weight of 525 pounds. This is by far the
biggest average We have heard of this
season.
III. b. Richman, of Sharptown, made an
assignment on Monday for the benefit of
his creditors, Charles ID. Coles being the
assignee. Mr.. Richman states that his liza
bilities are about 49, 800, while his assets
are estimated at IS, 1000. An appraisement
was made on Wednesday.
There are business men who decline to
advertise in a paper because they think 1t
won't do their business any good, but when
they have made an Improvement Will hasten
to ask the newspaper man to give them
"a notice so the attention OF the public
NAV be called to their way OF doing
business.