The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-06-20
LOCAL EWS.
Cherries are very scarce.
Are you going to the circ us?

Are you going to the circ us?
Our population will soon be known.
Look out for fakirs and conf dence men
at the circus next week.
Very few if any mosquitoes have been
noticed SO far this umner.
Msrshals Duffy and Hew tit appeared in
new police caps on Saturday night.
Grass sales average about S. per ton,
standing, and the crop generally is fair.
Wonder when an s'original package"
saloon will be opened up in Woodstown?
W. P. Lippincott It Co. hold a sale of
COWS at the Fair Grounds this afternoon.
Camden and Philadelphia dealers are
charging IS. 90 per ton for ice in carload
lols.
The Woodstown base ball club will play
at Swedesboro with the club there to-mor-
row..
There are SO children of school age in
Eldridgc's Hill district, ten less than last
year.
There will be a hor Sc race and bicycle
race on Thunderbolt track at Sa lem ON the
4th of July.
The barn in the rear of Elizabeth Fit
crafts residence has been newly rooted
"it "CAthti Dcdittd.
Miss Kate Summerill, of Woodstown,
spent Sunday last at Ashbourne, Pa, with
her friend, Miss Nellie Ridgway.
A game of ball played here on Tuesday
with the PedricktOwn club resulted in a
defeat for Woodstown, by a score of 10 to
A..
Our readers will do us a favor by send
ing in personal items of interest concern
ing visitors to tow IL, or those of our peo-
pie who are visiting elsewhere.
The +. b. Humphreys Pantaloon Co.
have shipped this week twelve entire cases
of their pantaloons and shirts to wholesale
dealers in Philadelphia and elsewhere.
Letters remain in our P. o. addressed to
Tanner Willets. J. Levithan, Lizzie W.
Taylor, John Gill, George Oragc, Miss
Mary Russell and Mrs. Mary Ann Eliza
Porter.
iluckleberries promise to be plentiful; a
walk through the woods will satisfy any
one of the fact. Large green berries, big
enough to cook, already hang on the
bushes.
The MONITOR force managed to keep
cool yesterday through the kindness of our
genial restaurant keeper, Ernst Becker,
who set out before them q large can OF
Davis celebrated" ice cream.
Theodore lotions horses became fright
oned at a pile of rubbish near the creek
bridge below Dickinson & Lippincott's
~can-house on Sunday evening and par
TALLY demolished one Of the wheels of the
vehicle.
At the various grass sales which lave
been held in this neighborhood prices have
ruled low, as the crop is SO bounteous.
Our farmers are in the midst of the hay
getting, and are harvesting some OF the
finest Tor years past.
The Governor has signed the Assembly
bill No. 554, on which there is such a
warm fight in Gloucester County. 1t
amends the road law so that In the future
the Road Overseers cannot call out the
inhabitants to work on the roads.
1t is thought the summer schedule of
trains on our railroad will go in effect to-
morrow week. We hear that a train
leaving Salem at $50 A. M. will be put on,
and also that the last train down will reach
here a few minutes before eight O'Clock.
j. b. Smith, State Entomologist, who is
connected with the New Jersey Expert
ment Station, has been spending several
days in Vineland with a view to discover
ing a rose bug exterminator. His efforts,
thus far, however, have not been success
full.
Walter l.. Mains circus gave a very
fine show here last Wednesday, playing
to packed houses both afternoon and
evening. This sliow is now consolidated
with the great Van Amburgh show but
the admission price remains the same.-
Courier Gazette, Rockland, Me-, August
10, 1889.