The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-06-05
LOCAL NEWS.
Jersey peas are ia market.

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The temperature Yesterday fell eco in
six hours.
Woodstown's public schools will close
next Friday.
Bees are swarming, likewise busily en-
gagged in storing honey.
Is Woodstown to pass the summer with
out a strawberry festival?
Geo. w. Crotfers will nave a livery
stable in Atlantic City this summer.
Pancoast & Lippincott have an interest
ing announcement on our second page
this week.
Micajah Conover has given up the BUTCH
ering business and the old meat stand Is
now closed.
The June meeting of the county Board
of Freeholders will be held in Salem next
Wednesday.
Lingo's motion for a new trial will not
be heard till November by the New Jersey
Supreme Court.
Green lice, that greatly injured last years
wheat crop, have again made their appear
ance on growing wheat.
Potato bugs have not yet made their ap-
pearance in sufficient numbers to seriously
threaten the potato crop.
Blackberries promise the biggest kind
of a yield, the bushes being as full of
bloom as it is possible for them to be.
The season at the Woodstown Opera
House will open August Goth, earlier than
usual, with Barlow Brothers Minstrels.
A good collection of photographs taken
by James p. Stratton, Jr., are now on
exhibition in Borton & Andrews drug
store.
VIM. b. Sneibaker, the marble man, has
been giving his workroom on East Avenue
a coat of paint which greatly adds to it's
appearance.
Cherries are %ripening, and the yield this
year it is said will be larger than for many
years past. The trees are fairly loaded
To- with them.
The estate of the late Saml. Fl. Weather
by is estimated at from SO, 900 to $50, 900.
VIM. NJ. Weatherby, one of the executors,
will settle it up.
AS a result of the crowd attracted by the
races on Saturday, Mayor Richman reports
more drunkenness and disorder than for
many weeks past.
The June moon. which will be new on
the 9th and full on the 22d, will make sew
eral interesting ~copjunctions with planets
during the month.
Thos. Keen's restaurant was broken into
on Wednesday night, the burglars con-
tenting themselves with several gallons Of
cider and some cigars.
DR.. l.. A. d. Allen has girdled the row
of silver maple trees fronting his property
on Salem street, as they have badly i'm
poverished the ground.
Gloucester race-track Is announced to
open Tomorrow. Wcodstown has several
''get-rich-quick" young men who will he
pleased with this ncement.
Uncalled for letters remain in the Woods
town post-olice addressed to Mrs. L. B.
MeCaulley, DR.. Francis Haines. Miss Mag
gle Brown, and Mr.. Suel. Waters.
District Clerk Andrews reports 500
children Of school age in this district,
which is eight less than last year. There
are 16 empty houses in town.
The Trustees of the Wood stown public
school on Tuesday night reelected the
present teachers, Miss Emily Sayre, Of
Wenonah, having already been selected as
principal.
A Philadelphia cut stone dealer has en-
closed the burial lot, in the NJ. Z. ceme-
terry at Sharptown, belonging to Josiah
Morris, of Salem, with heavy inc deco
rated granite.
Joel Borton, who has two and q half
acres in asparagus, reports the yield this
year as heavier than usual, and prices
averaging good. He will stop cutting about
the 10th inst.
Sharptown residents were treated yes
terday afternoon to the edifying spectacle
of a nearby farm .r, lying stretched out
on his back on one of the store fronts, In a
drunken sleep.
The so-called official bulletin, giving the
population OF the county, as printed in
the Salem papers, which gives Woodstown
only $50 population, would seem to be
anything but official.
We would like to secure good cores
pondents in Harrisonvills, S~harptown,
Swedesboro, Pennsgrove and Mullica Hill.
Fair Inducements will be offered to the
right parties. Let US hear from you.
Don't be afraid. it Won't hurt you. Root
Beer made from Knapp's Root Beer Ex-
tract cheers but not inebriates.