The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23
HE M ONITOR.
LOCAL NEWS.
Bees are ~swarming.

A large window glass was broken out
of Harris drug store window this week.
There will be a Decoration day sermon
preached at the M. E. Church next Sunday
night.
VIM. N. Nixon is painting the roofs of
tbe buildings at Disston's Pleasant Valley
Stock farm.
los. G.. Stretch is turning out a large
order of heavy house brackets for a builder
in Trenton.
Letters for Thomas J. Young, Jr., and
Mrs. Sarah Donald remain unealled for in
the post-o1iice.
The Young Mems Alliance took in about
ao3 0O AFT their festival last week, and will
clear about $S2.0 10.
Next Friday will be Memorial Day.
No public observance of the occasion will
be made in Woodstown.
The post.ofice will be closed next Friday
Decoration Day-from 10 A. Nj. to 5 p.
NJ. and at Z o'clock p. NJ.
Walter s. Bassett and Allen Morgan
have been receiving the congratulations OF
their friends since Sunday morning.
Harry C. Citizens, who has been occupy
inc a p~osition as conductor on the Camden
street railway, has gone into the laundry
business.
VIM. p. Lippineott & CO., at their sale
of COWS yesterday, sold % head at Prices
ranging from 1913 to SGT, an average OF SAT
per head.
We hoped to be able to print a list of
signers to the application for license at
Woodstown this week, but will have them
in time for our next issue.
School Census Supervisor G. M. An
drews has entered upon his duties and is
now canyassiug the town to ascertain the
number of school children.
Cole & Bro. placed q large circular saw,
sixty inches in diameter, in their saw-mill
on Wednesday. A successful trial of the
saw was made that afternoon.
Kizzie r.. wife of J. Nelson Currie,
passed away about five O'Clock this morn
ing, after a long illness, of consumption.
Notice of the funeral is given in another
column.
On Friday. June eth, the stockholders
of the First National Bank will vote on
the acceptance or rejection of the lot for
building a new bank offered them by E.
b. Humphreys.
We are kept busy these days turning
out q large quantity of commercial job
printing and posters. Circulars, envel-
opes, bill heads, letter heads, cards, etc,
promptly supplied at lowest prices.
A meeting OF the voters and taxpayers
of the borough has been called for Monday
night next in McAllister's Hall by Bor-
ough Council to hear propositions and con-
slider the practicability of a water supply
for our town.
Tho arrivals at the east Avenue" for
the past week are Mrs. J. May, r. e.
Ashenfelter, Geo. II. Poplar, II. G.
Wheaton, Harry Hauff, j. Williams, Phila-
delphia; N. r. Tatem, Wilmington; Il. S.
Fogg, Borough.
The oaths and commissions have been
forwarded from the Supervisors office, in
Salem, to all the census enumeratOrs in
the Third District of New Jersey. The
oath they take binds them to reveal moth
ing, except to their superior officers.
A farmers wife over toward Auburn
owned ninety. five young turkeys and her
husband and she jointly owned a yearling
calf. The calf concluded he would eat up
forty of the turkeys, and as q consequence
the lady's stock at present aggregates only
fifty-fve.
Have you yet met with any Of this years
ten.eent plates of ice cream? Some ac-
quaintanees of ours Eve never eat cream)
went into one of our saloons one evening
early this week and each called for their
~favorite ~layors, but could not get sutii-
cient in one plate to catch on and were
Obliged to buy the second order of each to
be sure that they were getting the desired
flavor.
The reduction on tin-plate which the
Ways and Means Committee has agreed
on in it's bill is so trifiing that the ln-plate
men will not accept it. An estimate has
been made which shows that 1t will not
amount to more than about one cent on a
dozen of tin cans. This Will not be of any
material help to the canning industry of
South Jersey, which is practically demand
ing free tin.
Woodstown Lodge, No. los, /. o. G. T.,
recently installed the following officers
Chief Templar, Joseph Labree; Vice Tenn
plar, Miss Lula Wright; Recording Sec
rotary, john Sibley; Assistant Secretary,
Miss Hannah Taylor; Financial Secretary,
L. S. Fogg; Treasurer, Miss Prudie Bor-
ton; Chaplain, Nathan lilies; Marshal.
Richard Flitcraft; Deputy Marshal, Mamie
Fogg; Guard, Harry Riley; Sentinel,
Ralph Flitcraft, Past Chief Templar,
William Cunard; Supt. Juvenile Templars,
Miss Tay White.
A man who is head and shoulders above
all others in knowledge is about as much
to be pitied as one who knows less than
any of his associates. The first serves to
make all he meets and talks sec their
own littleness and Ignorance, while the
other shows to them his " unimportance.
One of the former sit down" or a crowd
in the centre of the town a few evenings
since and began to get OFF a portion of his
wisdom, knowledge and exploits, and dis
persed the entire asscmblage of eight or
ten-with one single exception-in less
than ten minutes after his arrival.
improvements at Pitman Grove.