The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-16
LOCAL NEWS.

full by Memorial Day.
The examinations in our public school
were finished last week.
The May term of Salem County Courts
will next Tuesday.
Moses Banks, Jr., will sell his household
goods at public sale next Saturday.
A meeting of the County Board of As
SCISSORS was held at Salem yesterday.
John Wallace and Chas. S. Caffrey are
having hedges planted around their prop
critics.
Cornelius Mulvehill has had his resi-
dence in North Woodstown painted in at
~tractive coloIs.
Collector. for 500, 900, was approved and
filed on Wednesday.
Festival under the charge of the Young
Mems Alliance in McAllister's Hall to-
night and tomorrow.
Our Iiverymen deny that they will in
crease the rates for horse hire on account
of the failure of the ice crop.
VIM. Morrison is unable to work on ac-
count of q troublesome tumor which has
made it's temperance in his side.
Frank w. Hughes has received from a
friend in Kansas the tail of a rattiesnake
containing four rattles and a button.
The roofs of the buildings of Wallace s.
Bro s canning factory, in South Woods
town, have been reprinted a rich brown
color.
The members of the Baptist Sunday
school are preparing and rehearsing a pro-
gramme of exercises for 'Childrcn's Day.
Tune 9Th.
The factory OF the E. B. Humphreys
Pantaloon Co. will shut down next week
to allow a thorough overllauling of the
machinery.
The opening game of ball here will be
played on the grounds of the Woodstown
Club on May 30th with the Euclid Club,
of Philadelphia.
\ land turtle picked up on the farm of
Richard Kirby on the Auburn road, lately,
contained the date 1915, with the initials of
Mr.. Kirby's father cut in the shell.
Clark Petit has a brood mare that will
be eight years old on the I'd of next July.
She has dropped six colts and for one of
them, a five years. old, Mr.. Petit refused
$1,000.
U. Grant Hillman has been elected mes
senger and Waterman of the First National
Bank in place of his father, A. w. Hill
man, who has resigned on account of poor
health.
A large number of Friends from this
vicinity have been in attendance at the
Yearly Meeting in Philadelphia this week.
The number that went up yesterday was
very large.
The farmers OF Sussex county are con-
siderably alarmed over the appearance of a
worm resembling the common grub worm,
which is doing great havoc to the clover in
that section.
James McAllistcr is erecting a new barn
on the farm formerly occupied by his son
James McAllister, Jr, deceased. The
farm has been without a tenant since Mr..
McAllister's death.
Broadway 6 Tico will hold a sale of Ohio
cows at Deerield next Tuesday, and w.
z. Lippincott & Co. will offer n lot of cat
tie at public sale on Thursday, 22d inst,
or the Fair Grounds.
The next examination of candidates for
teachers certificates will be held in the
High school, Salem. on Friday and Satur-
day, June 9th and It'll. The examination
will be for all grades.
A heavy wind which partook much of
the nature of a cyclone preceded the rain
shortly after eight o'clock on Wednesday
night. We have heard of no serious dam
age in this vicinity from it.
The arrivals at the Cast Avenue'' for
the past week are j. NJ. Cutler, Chas.
Hathaway, A.. Hufnal, A. S. Keats, Harry
De Stillfried, S. B. Smith, Philadelphia;
VIM. 4. Fliteraft, Woodstown.
yorktown Belle" the Salem county
mare trotted in the $50 race at Washing
ton. last Friday, winning a heat in 2.26
and being second in 2.21s and 22449, show
ing she is as fleet of foot as ever.
A peculiar glaring Ii light in the north
west, which appears and disappears at in
%tervals, has been noticed by many of our
residents on cloudy nights, and is said to
be the reflection from a large blast furnace
at Chester, Pa.
The ''Y's" are preparing for their Milk
maids Convention, which will be held in
the Opera House the last week in May.
The exact date is yet not settled. This
wall be a grand affair. Make your ar
engagements to attend.
Samuel Goforth, while tearing down an
old house near Courses Landing, found
back OF the chimney a piece of weather.
boarding on which was written 'Stacy
Ill. jess, mason, May 18th, 1885," The
board was well preserved and the writing
distinct.
A number of Sussex County farmers,
famous for their skill in producing milk
and butter, are turning their attention to
tobacco growing. They claim that tobacco
raising is more profitable than conducting
dairy farms. Last years trial crops prov
ed profitable and this season many more
acres will be planted.
VIM. G. Sithcns, living on the Hedge
Hill farm, over the creek bridge, reports
plenty of the wheat lico on his wheat. Mr..
Sithens says that the lice are much more
numerous on the wheat in the ella yey por-
tions of the field, but thinks the fact that
the wheat is not so large and consequently
more tender may account for the differ
ence.
TIL horses rave found this a very
unreasonable spring. Large numbers of
them have caught cold, and some of them
have been quite sick. Such horses as are
shedding their coat have felt the changes
of temperature of the past two weeks, and
they cough and NOPE in their stables.
They are not in a fit condition for use, but
the rate of mortality is not great.
The MONITOR now has on it's subscrip-
tion books nearly 300 names of paid up,
bona-fide subscribers, a circulation nearly
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