The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-06-13

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Peter Robinson, Mrs. Mary Reed, Mr..
Horace Howell, Mrs. Maria Johnson, Mr..
Oliver Jackson, Miss M. LIZZIE Harris.
The members of the w. G. T. U. ac-
companied by others, joined with the
Salem w. G. T. L. in celebrating "Flower
Mission" day on Monday, distributing
bouquets and flowers among the inmates of
the a~lmshouse.
e. G. Haines has received an order for
his can-fllins machine from the Severy
Canning Company, Kansas. This is the
second machine shipped to Kansas this
year. An order was received last night
from San Francisco.
A Georgia editor apologies for the
scarcity of local news in his paper, and
says: ave will have plenty of news next
week, as we have taken a census contract,
and we are III the inside track of every
citizen in the county"
Tuesday closed the shad fishing season
in the Delaware bay and river. The sea-
son has been a prosperous one, good prices
being realized. The catch has been ex-
%ceptionally large and the prices rave been
fair, ruling from 50 to $50 per hundred.
Mrs. Wm. Seeker, while attending the
children's day services in the M. E. Church
on Sunday evening, was overcome by the
heat near the close of the exercises. On
being removed to the open air she regained
consciousness and was taken to her home.
The Trustees have re elected all the old
teachers Of the public school, and have
secured Miss Nellie Craig, of Elmer, to
teach the intermediate department in place
of Miss Ackley, who has resigned. Miss
Craig has been teaching for five years past
at Wenonah and comes highly recon-
mended.
Mrs. VIM. 3. Kirby, living on Salem
street. met with Il serious accident on
Monday, while preparing a meal. She
tripped while taking a teapot from the
stove, and in the fall broke the bone of
her arm, also receiving painful scalds from
the hot liquid.
The arrivals at the EAST Avenue for
the past week are: A. b. Figner. Merchant
vile; N. Reeve, Haddonield; W.. Hodge
Bennett. Herman Jonas, Phiiada S. F..
Kress, Batavia n. Y; II. w. Bardwell,
Trenton; Nettie Morris, E. G. Glasford,
Geo. Singer, John Hedge, Sam. Lewis.
No one reported at the Court House in
Salem on Saturday, for the examination
for entrance to Rutgers College, under the
law passed by Legislature last winter
giving a free scholarship to each Assembly
district. This is an excellent opportunity
for some young nan of Salem county anx-
ious for an education.
An advance of 81. 90 per ton was made
by the dealers in ice on jun LIST, and j. IL.
PETE rson 6 Son, our local dealers, have
v,aIa a nnrrasnnndinn adyanoa in thntr
prices. At Swedesboro the dealers get
81. 90 per 100 pounds for ice; at Woodbury.
the price is 90 cents, while our people are
supplied at 10 cents per 100 pounds.
Last weeks advances in the price of
sugar, which are likely to be continued
this week, are not to be attributed
to the Sugar Trust, but to the sea-
son Of preserving. The amount of sugar
used in preserving strawberries Just at
present and the other fruits as they come
along is immense, and the demand always
puts the price up.
The stage of the Opera House was not
large enough to accommodate all the
tricks of Prot. Morris pony and deg show
on Wednesday night, and some of the best
acts were unavoidably omitted. The man.
ager of the company, Mr.. Glasford, said
he had been a travelling Snowman for
years and that Woodstown's Opera House
was the incest and cosiest he had ever seen
in all his ramblings.
All the smaller towns within a radius of
six to eight miles send their quota of visit
ors to Woodstown on Saturday evenings,
and the consequence is that the centre or
business portion of the borough is full,
and hitching posts are at a premium. II
to morrow night is clear, take a walk
down or up to the business centre of town
and see the sights, and make up your mind
that the town you are living in is about as
bright and lively as any of its size on this
green earth.
Says the the n. Y. !Sun of yesterday
Upon q cake of ice in Washington Mar
ket there lay yesterday morning a pair of
frogs legs which weighed half a pound.
The big ..jug.o'-rum" who once owned
these prime saddles was captured in Salem,
N. j., with a piece of red flannel on a hook.
The owner of the stand said that he had
sold a pair OF frogs legs not long since
that weighed one pound. One man in
Washington Market sells 100 pounds per
week Of frogs legs.