The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-09
LOCAL NEWS.
This is growing weather.

Southern straw berries are in town sell
ing at Is cents per box.
The polls next Tuesday will open at G
o'clock A. M. and close at z p. nj.
Cole 81 Bro. have put in a circular saw,
five feet in diameter, at their saw mill.
The quarterly meeting of the County
Medical Society was held in Woodstown
on Wednesday.
The w. C. T. U. of Woodstown nave
decided to hold a Fourth of July celebra-
ton here this year.
John Nelson has rented the restaurant
of Geo. w. Crothers, formerly occupied
by James Vannamen.
Thomas Green sold his Attorney cow,
with two weeks old calf to Barclay Ed
wards on Wednesday for $50.
VIM. II. Van Lier is booming his leash
store in South Woodstown by extensively
advertising the same with circulars.
Lippincott, Weatherby s. CO., have
built an addition to their lumber sheds,
and had a large sign painted on the end.
J.. N. Curry and VIM. Goforth are hav-
ing their properties on Dickinson street
fenced, Clement Flitcraft doing the work.
In view of the approaching election tenn
peranee sermons will be preached in the
Baptist and M. +. Churches next Sunday
night.
The board of Almshouse trustees met at
the A%lmshouse on Monday and settled up
their affairs, it being the last meeting of
that body.
At the meeting of Borough council on
Monday night, the streets in the borough
were ordered graveled in places we re holes
have been worn.
Isaac A. Kandell has removed to the
Samuel Ballinger farm at Eldridge's Hill.
Mr.. KandeIl's house on Mill street which
he vacated is to rent.
Adam s. Graf, agent for Htuling's milk
arator, has sold one of the machines each
to the Pilesgrove Dairy Association, VIM.
Cooper, Chas. Starn, and S. A. Ridgway.
The stone bridge near L. Wallace s.
Bros can house, which was partly washed
out by the recent storms, was replaced
Yesterday by Freebooter Humphreys with
a wooden structure.
The Young Mems Alliance connected
with the NJ. e. church will hold a straw
berry festival in McAllister's Hall on Fri
day and Saturday of next week, May 10th
and 17th. Admission free.
Governor Albeit has filed, without
approval, the law providing that in town.
ships where any voter lives four miles
from the polling place, an additional poll
ing place shall be created.
All members of The Young Woman's
Christian Temperance Union VIII are in
terestcd in the coming Milkmaid's Con-
yention will meet this evening in their
room at y o'clock promptly.
Work on removing Smiths and Wind
mill Islands from the Delaware opposite
Philadelphia will commence on June LIST.
The work is expected to occupy seven
years and will cost Sc, SOC, 900.
The high price of ice has already forced
ND the rates for milk and fresh meats, veg
etables, etc. 1t is curious to note how
many commodities are affected by the
high price OF concealed water.
All boys who wish to celebrate the fourth
of jury in the good old way should begin
to lay in supplies of explosives at once.
The crop of fire-crackers is said to be
short and a stiff advance IN prices is pre-
dicted.
lie hTTlVdiS III tIie IsdSb AfeHut IOf
the past week were S. W. Holland, ii. M.
Ii. c. Wheaton, i. II. Coward, John j.
Cope, Philadelphia; Edwin Price Grand
Rapids.
1t is said that prescriptions for liquor in
quantities can he purchased of some
Woodstown physicians for % cents, and
that numbers of them are being used, in
some cases by boys, to secure intoxicating
liquors.
Adam S. Graf, agent fol- Heuling's milk
cooler, who was in town on Tuesday,
states that he is unable to fill all the orders
for the machine on account of the great
demand for them and limited facilities of
the factory.
Some of the enumcrators appointed by
Supervisor Starr will be knocked out by
an order from headquarters prohibiting
the employment of any one why may have
been an Assessor within the preceding
twelve months.
Pastor II. Il. Albin will deliver his lee
tnre on 1.-The Great City of London" at
the Pittsgroye Baptist clnrch on Tuesday
evening next at 7.45. Admission free-at
close a collection W i'll be taken for the ben
Gift of the church funds.
Don't forget the festival next Friday
and Saturday night. The Young Men of
the M. f. Church will have charge of it,
and a novel feature in shape of a voting
contest for several prominent members of
the church will be introduced.
A number of South J ersey farmers, as
ISOLATED as a syndicate, are trying to Sc
cure a tract of land nearly a mile square
on the Hackensack meadows, near East
Newark. The object is to convert the
land into a vast celery plantation.
This is tho sixteenth week of the Legis-
lative session. Only four times before in
the history of New Jersey has the session
lasted fifteen weeks-in 1876, 1884, 1886
and 1889. The shortest sessions ever held
were eight weeks in length, in 1S47 and
1S40.
Freebooter G.. b. Humphreys, whose
term expired this week, has faithfully
served Pilesgrove township in that capacity
for nine years, and during that time has
attended 11S meetings of the board, miss
ing but one meeting, that during the biz
card Of 1888.
Warrants for the arrest of Louis Il.
Pfeiffer, President OF the Bank Of America,
and Tncnal, D,rn.oe .arbfar ror xra