The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-10-17
LOCAL NEWS.
Colds are all the rage.
Frost is holding off well.

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Frost is holding off well.
Now for bnckwheat cakes and sausage.
Pumpkin pies are the proper thing at
present.
Thousands of blackbirds swarm the
fields near town.
The early varieties of chrysanthemums
are now beginning to bloom.
Ralph, son of Jos. B. Cobb, is the latest
addition to the MoNIToRHforce.
The woman who wants to save her out
door plants is now taking them up.
The regular October term OF the Salem
County Courts will be held next week.
The pack of tomatoes in Salem County
this year will aggregate 1900, 900 cans.
The Woodstown creamery is now receiv-
ing a daily average of 1000 pounds of
milk.
The timber sale of VIM. II. Boiling
house, stands adjourned until Thursday,
Oct. Both.
Chas. 2. Reeves has commenced his
canvass for Talmage's book, From Man.
ger to Throne"
The Board of Registration have regis
tered 445 voters in the South precinct and
40S in the North.
Our subscription list is constantly on the
increase, and we are kept rushing these
days with job work.
The trotting horse ''7T0" has again
passed into other hands. This time a
Salem party gets him.
The pond was drawn off on Tuesday, to
permit of repairs to the flood gates.
Plenty of fish are being caught.
Fisk Jubilee Singers in the Opera House
next Wednesday night, seats now on sale
at Borton & Andrews drug store.
"Casey's Troubles, a lively comedy,
Interpreted by well-known artists, in the
Opera House next Thursday night.
The Prohibition county convention, for
the nomination of a full ticket. has been
called for Oct. 21st., in the w. G. L. t..
room at Salem.
AT the oyster supper and festival held
by the ladies Of the M. E. Church last
week, about $50 was taken, which will go
to swell the church fund.
All business men should remember that
a newspaper is the only instrument that
can drop the same thought into q thousand
minds at the same moment.
1t is said hat farmers in some parts of
the country where the canning factories
hofe onuI uONH, HdFe udu INC iluit ielI III
their fields appraised and will sue the
packers tor its value.
"Bellman," the well-known trotter own
ed by Clark Petit, got a record of 2299 at
Pimlico track, near Baltimore, on Friday.
IL is reported that Mr.. Petit has refused an
offer of SO, 900 for this horse.
Every watch is a compass. Point the
hour hand towards the sun and south is
exactly half way between the hour hand
and the figure xii on the watch. If it is
four O'Clock ii is exactly south.
The following letters remain u~ncalled
for in the post-ofice at Woodstown, week
ending Oct. 18th: Miss Hester Thomas,
Mis-. Bessie ID. Sked, Mr.. Saml. Reed,
Alex Conover, Joseph Lavithan, A. A. r.
Contrey.
The public school teachers of Camden,
Salem, Gloucester and Atlantic counties
will hold a Joint institute at Atlantic City
on October 30, 30 and 81. The institute
will be in charge of the County Superin-
tendents.
'If you want to go to sleep quickly"
said a Chicago physician the other day,
drink a half pint of hot water or hot milk.
/ don't say it will act in every case, but |
will venture my opinion that it will act in
eight cases out of ten."
1t is stated that the cabbage crop in
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and
other states is exceedingly large this year.
Thus does kindly Nature compensate
smokers for the enormous increase in the
cost Of Sumatra tobacco.
We have received from G. Fred'k
Brown, ofthe National Soldiers Home.
Milwaukee, Wis, a copy of the Chicago
Neaos containing an account of the cele-
bration of "German-A american day" in
Milwaukee, Oct. 0. Mr.. Brown, who will
be remembered by many of our readers, is
a member of the Soldiers Home band,
which tool part in the parade.