The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-09-05

The annual convention of the w. g. T.,
IT,, of Salem county, will be held at Sharp
town, in the NJ. Z. Church, ON Wednes-
day, September gath. Mrs. J. 7. Ellis,
State Secretary, will be present and give a
lecture In the evening.
1t is worth while mentioning that 30
years ago not house was built In this
country without its ligt thing rod. while
now it is considered an unnecessary ex-
pense to erect rods, except at very exposed
points. And yet, with more storms, there
seem to be fewer cases where buildings
are wrecked by lightning.
An exchange truthfully remarks: Every
column in newspaper contains from
twelve to twenty thousand distinct pieces
of metal, displacement of any one of
which causes blunder or typographical
error. And yet some people lay claim to
phenomenally brilliant minds il they can
discover an error in newspaper.
The Presbyterian deacons of Lambert
vile with view ofbreaking up Longing
in front of the churches, want states hung
up in the vestibule, on which young lady
will write her name as she enters the
church, and her escort can easily tell
whether she is present or not without wait
ing outside until the service is over.
The following were the delegates elected
to represent Woodstown and Pilesgrove
township at the Republican Congressional
convention held yesterday: Piesgrove,
Aaron B. Somers, S. Jackson Morgan, o.
II. virgins, Jos. n. Reeves, Levi S.
Prickett-BoIough Thos. B. Parker, VIM.
b. Foster, Franklin Flitcraft, VIM. S.
Mattson and Charles II. Richman.
The opening of the Opera House last
night drew light audience, owing no
doubt to the many counter attractions.
Frank McNlsh, in his new comedy "Out
of Sight was the attraction, it being the
first production of the play on any stage.
The performance gave general satisfac-
ton. the black face specialities of Mr..
McNish in the third act winning him re-
peated cncores.
Up goes the price of shoes That is the
general opinion of most of the large man
ufacturers. The reason Is that for some
months past there has been steady adj
vance in the price of hides and leather
Hides are now nearly 40 per cent. higher
than they were in the spring, and, in fact,
are higher than they have been since 1870
and yetanother raise of 10 per cent. is
contemplated.
Very often we hear mnrmurings because
certain personal happenings are not pub
lin our columns The fact is, those
who do the fault finding do not take the
trouble to convey to us the knowledge and
consequently we know nothing of it and
are blamed foraD omission OF which we
are really innocent. 70 insure mention
of your friends visit, or any happening of
intprest tn nor raa1arc Won ebonld ho
prompt in giving us the information.
The E. 3. Humphreys Pantaloon Com
pany have had prosperous season thus
far and are now full of orders for the next
thirty days. They had q good supply of
their products which was made during last
winter, to start out III the spring, but
when the summer trade opened it vanished.
The trade in shirts has been unusually
brisk. They have cut, made into shirts,
and sold about sixty five thousand yards
of one quality of Domet flannel, with or
ders now on their books for several hun
bred dozen yet to be made