The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-07-11
LOCAL NEWS.
Have you excurted yet?
Lawn parties everywhere.

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Lawn parties everywhere.
The days will soon begin to shorten.
The girl.in white is now an object of
alteration.
The streets of our borolgh We're filled
on Friday evening last.
Some mems straw hats are large enough
to serve as sun umbrellas.
W. Harrison %Snelbaker, of Woodstown.
has been granted an increase of pension.
The Sunday.schools have plenty of
scholars during the picnic season, as well
as about Christmas time.
The regular meeting of.the county Board
of Agriculture will be held in McAlli ster's
Hall, July %, at 1.30 2. Nj.
Bruna's second excursion of the season
to Atlantic City-Thursday, July Gath. See
timetable in another column.
Miller Davenport says all the new wheat
which he has ground SO far is of exec llent
quality and runs overweight.
Black ice cream is the latest fad of the
coniectioner. 1t is colored by the use of
charcoal and the use of Turkish prunes.
The following letters emain uncalled
for in the Woodstown post office: Oliver
Hillman. Michael Mangiu, b. l.. Shapero.
A number of our citizens went on the
st. Paul's NJ. E. excursion from Penns-
grove to Port Deposit, Md. on Wednesday.
The large sign in front of Pancoast g.
Lippincott's store fell to the pavement with
"a loud crash during the blow Wednesday
night.
Thomas W.. Davis, a native and former
resident of Woodstown, died at his home
in Philadelphia on Tuesday, in the SD year
OF his age.
Owing to the large amount OF travel on
the Pennsylvania Railroad to the different
seaside resorts on the Fourth, the regular
trains arrived over half an hour behind
time.
A party of young men from Woodstown
drove to Lincoln Park last Sunday. This
resort, which is about fifteen miles distant,
is frequently visited by persons from this
vicinity.
The game of ball at Woodstown on the
afternoon of the Fourth, between Wood
stow and North Woodbury., was all one
sided, therefore of very little interest.
Score 90 to 9.
The NJ. Z. Sunday school, which ha S in
the past been commencing at two ca
O'Clock will commence next Sunday at
half-past two, and continue doing so
during the summer.
Some people are afraid to eat fruit,
thinking that fruit and diarrhea are al
ways associated, when, if they understood
the true cause of the diarrhea, they would
know it was caused by eating meat.
Sixty-eight tickets were sold at Woods
town station for Bruna's excursion to At
lantic City yesterday. About twenty per-
sons bought tickets at Harrisonvilie. This
is a large number for the first excursion Of
the season.
A convey Of young quails have been feed
ing regularly with the young turkeys at
Jos. X. Lippincott's Prospect Hill' farm,
until the ducks on the farm became COM
bativc, attackin & the quail and driving
them away.
The arrivals a t the East Avenue" for
the past week are VIM. Lewis, Mrs. Nj.
Wilhelm, Mrs. w. Tidd, Philadelphia;
Mrs. A. V. Eldridge and child, Mrs. VIM.
Deininger, Miss Mollie II. Abbott, Cam
den; A. II. Cornwall, Omaha; Mrs. M.
Jess, Springfield, Mo.
The State Geological Board held a meet
ing on Tuesda y at the Executive Chamb-
ers, at the State House, Trenton. and
elected John G.. Smock State Geologist,
in the place of Prof. George ii. Cook, de-
ceased. Prof. Smock acted as Assistant
Geologist from 1864, the beginning of the
survey, to 1885.
The residents on Dickinson street were
aroused at a late hour one night last week
by cries and screams for help which pro-
ceeded from one of the houses. An officer
was secured, but on knocking at the doorhe
was told by the husband that it was only
a case of sickness. The residents have a
different opinion about it.
Pure Paris Green, 20cts. at Humphreys
Wire screens, will fit any window, 25cts