The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-15
LOCAL NEWS.
Golden rod is blooming.
Shooting meteors are about.

Golden rod is blooming.
Shooting meteors are about.
Days are percept;bly shortening.
Red astraeban apples fetch fancy fruit
prices.
1t is said that there were IL, 900 people
at Pitman Grove last Sunday.
We learn thai VIM. w. Fox has sold his
house on Salem street to Earl S. Nanleer.
Miss Helena Tyler, of Woodstown, will
teach at Fisher school at Alloway, this
year.
J. Nelson Currie has picked somes second
crop ray berries from vines in his garden
this week.
katydids have commenced to tune their
Tyres in the twilight, a sign of frost inside
OF six weeks from the present time.
Besides the regular freight, a special
consisting of over twenty cars is sent from
Swedesboro and points above every day.
Don't forget, friends, those liv ing out of
town as well as those in, if any happening
takes place in your n~eighborhood to inform
us of the fact.
The horse of DR.. Barnard, of Penns-
grove, ian away near that place yesterday
morning, cutting the Dr's. head, and badly
wrecking his wagon.
Two parts of lemon juice, one part
9lycerine and one of almond oil are recon-
mended as making quite tho best of all
preparations for removing snnburn.
A pair of spectacles and case were lost
on the road from Woodstown to Michael
Aliens on Wednesday. The finder will
oblige the ownerby leaving them at this
office.
Every reader of the MONITOR is hereby
delegated a special reporter of this paper
and is requested to send us any item of
local interest, personal, political or 9TH
erwlse.
a single sun flower stalk growing in the
ward OF John II. virgins moasures13
feet high, 10 inches around at the base,
and contains over SIS flowers. Who can
beat this?
John McCarson living oil Aaron Hurff's
farm between Swedesboro and Bridgeport,
had three acres in watcrmelons and sold
the patch to a dealer for over fou hun
drcd dollars.
a correspondent in one of the Salem
papers suggests the sale of the Almshouse
farm and the purchase of a few acres of
ground near Woodstown, on which an
asylum might be built.
We have received bulletins go and 10
from the New Jersey Experiment Station,
dealing with analyses and Valuation of
Complete Fertilizers" and ''Some Fun
gous Diseases of the Spinach"
The annual meeting ofthe Salem County
Protective Association will be held at Nc
allistcr's Hall, Woodstown, on Monday
Aug. 25tA, at . p. NJ. for the election of
officers and transaction of other business.
Dickinson & Lippincott will commence
canning tomatoes on Tuesday. A large
addition has been built at the end of the
factory, aifording protection to the wagons
while unloading and more room for help.
The following letters remain uncalled
for in the Woodstown post-office, week
ending August 9th: Mr.. Elmer Davis, Mr..
John Ernst. Miss jennie Proud, Miss Jen-
ME Shimp, Miss Della Borton, Bridget
Pants.
The arrivals at the "Etst Avenn e" for
the past week are A. S. Anderson, VIM. p.
Rhoads, G. ID. Burk, Paul Albright, S. 7
Budd and wife, MISS Elsie Budd, Master
Burton Budd, Philadelphia; Martin Ander-
son, Bridgeton; Geo. A.. Underhill, New
York.
Mt. Salem A. U. NJ. p. Church will hold
a church camp. in Cedar Grove,
ing on Saturday next and breaking up on
Sunday, the 9th inst. Rev. William Nj.
James, pastor in charge, will be assisted
by Rev. Daniel Russell, ST., and Rev. b.
Scott.
A meeting of the trustees of the Piles
grove Library Association was held last
Friday evening. Formal notification of
the bequcst of 5000, left the Association
by Thomas Dayis, deceased, was made,
and it was ordered that $50, be at once
expended for new books.
Charles II. Smith, of lladdonfield, on
Monday sent his pacing horse Opal and
trotting horses Daisy Farnt, Louie r.. and
Oxygen to Bridgeton, they being entered
for the races at that place Wednesday and
Thursday of next week. From there they
will so the entire circuit.