The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29
LOCAL NEWS.

WIZ
The children are anxious for school to
reopen.
Our merchants begin to stock up for the
fall trade.
The Bank will be closed next Monday
Labor Day.
The county is laying in coal for the win
ter at the A~lmshouse.
We will soon begin to talk about the
approaching holiday season.
Vim. lIitchner has an immense heap of
coal at his yard, at the depot.
The canning factories of this county are
preparing for a 'glut'' next week.
We are glad to learn the children at the
Almshouse are improving from the VIII oop-
ing cough.
The ball in Hunts Hall on Wednesday
night was not largely attended and termi-
mated at an early hour.
Bruna landed 267 people at Atlantic
City on Thursday. nearly one-third of
them being from Woodstown.
Rev. w. L. Mayo, pastor of the Allo way
baptist Church, preached at the Salem
county almshouse on Sunday.
Finger-boards along the county road S
should lie looked after. Where their alb
sence is discovered new ones should be
placed.
Venus is now the evening star. We
mention this because nobody knows it but
the editor, the astronomer and the girl
with a beau.
Isaac II. Turner. living at Point Airy
station, has received this year from four
acres of canteloupes $437 and will get
about $50 off of his acre and a half of
W atermelons.
In eighteen out of the twenty-one coun-
ties of the State, Sheriffs are to be elected
at the November election. The excep-
tions are the counties of Bergen, Cape May
and Somerset.
A new law provides that any person who
shall bring any dog or dogs within the
limits of any graveyard or burying ground
shall, upon conviction therefore, forfeit and
pay two dollars.
List of letters remaining uncalled for In
post off ce, Woodstowp, week ending Aug.
23d. Mrs. B. S. Bruce, Mrs. Eliza Young,
Mr.. w. w. Ferguson, Mr.. Frank Thomas,
Ollie W. White.
II. M. Proud, of Glassboro,
that he will buy poultry at the highest
market price at Youker Bros. old stand in
Woodstown evsry Thursday until three
O'Clock, commencing next week.
1t appears that the owners Of some of
the properties ON the south side of Dickin-
son St. neglect to care for their sidewalks
Judging from the appearance of the weeds
that almost meet across the walks.
The election boards under the new law
will earn their money visiting each house
in their district and making out the lists,
and all for 50 per day. They must go in
pairs, one Republican and one Democrat.
Jos. G. Stretch's horse ran from his plan
ing mill up Railroad Avenue, down East
Avenue and out the Salem road on Thurs
day morning, being stopped on the hill
over the creek bridge without any damage
having been done.
A lady on the Orange Mountains has
found a new and novel alarm clock. She
gathers a pan of water lilies, which I'M
fold at $50 in the morning. They send
forth a rich fragrance, the odor of which
is so strong that the sleeper is awakened.
A carriage belonging to Liverynan
Reeves, while taking a load of passengers
to meet the late train at Woodbury. on
Tuesday night, broke down in Swedes-
boro, both wheels on one side giving away.
We learn one of the occupants was severe
ly injured.
The meeting for the election ofdelegates
to the Republican Congressional Conven-
ton to be held in Camden Sept. 4th, will be
held in McAllister's Hall on Monday night.
P~ilesgrove township is entitled to five dele
gates, and the same number from the
Borough of Woodstown.
Since May 6, when he was appointed Re-
c%eivcr, John Hood has been hard at work
Strengthening out the affairs of the Mer-
chants Bank of Atlantic City. which sus-
pended on May 9. 1t is stated that about
$50, 600 due the bank has been collected,
and that in a short time a dividend of so
per cent, will be paid the stockholders.
What tho total dividend will be cannot yet
be determined. The report of the Reeeiv-
er and the Chancellor has not yet been
filed, but it will be shortly.