The Monitor., 1891-09-04
rust over tine county Lines.

| James j. Davidson is making extensive
| improvements to his property at Swedes-
| boro.
was fined $50 and costs at Bridgeton on
Tuesday.
Two hundred oyster boats left Port
Norris Tuesday to commence the season s
dredging.
Edward and Hannah r. Cooper celebrat.
ed their golden wedding, few days ago,
at Mickleton.
|. Miss Matte Stewart, of Camden, bas
been engaged to teach the Harmony
Academy, at Mullica Hill.
The Swedesboro base ball club met it's
| first defeat this year on Wednesday, when
the Euclid nine, of Woodbury., defeated
them by score of to l.
The Vineland Fair which closed yester-
day was not as largely attended as hereto
fore, probably. it is thought, on account
| of the decision of the directors to dispense
with trotting. The exhibition of fruits
and all kinds of agricultural products
grown in that region was very fine.
| Cedar logs that have been buried in the
swamps of Cape May county for two thou
sand years are being dug up, and the
| choicest butts are cut off and shipped to
Michigan where they are sawed up and
something about the wood that imparts a
very soft and melodious tone to the
| instrument.
| As David Richardson, of Swedesboro,
was returning home from his farm on Sat
1 L. "a r1 occSr fknr rasf frnaf n
! track near the town. in a wagon drawn by
two mules. lie was surprised at the near
| approach of the Salem freight train, and
| seeing that he was in imminent danger
| jumped and saved himself. The wagon
" as demolished and one mule caught and
dragged some distance, but not seriously
| hurt.
There is trouble over the new Friesburg
Post Office. The residents of Cohansey,
| village mile and half distant. say that
| it takes the patronage from their office.
| The minister of the church between the
| two villages patronizes the Friesburg Office,
and the Cohansey members of church say
| that unless he patronizes their Office they
| W ill leave the church. The post master OF
| Friespurg keeps a creamery, and the Co
hansey people have stopped dealing with
him. S8EA
The next regular meeting of the Glouces-
| ter County Board of Agriculture will be
held in Patrons, Hall in Mullica Hill, on
Monday Sept. 2. at . o'clock p. m. Reports
| will be rendered by the committees ap.
pointed at the meeting in March on the
result of spraying fruit trees and vine
| truck; the use of nitrogen from different
sources in growing potatoes and the appli-
cation of fertilizers in different ways in
growing potatoes, etc., eto. Also report
| from the committee appointed to visit
Peach Ridge nursery farm of John Repp d
Son near Glassboro. A general invitation
lis extended to farmers and others to be
present and participate.
Friday afternoon Sheriff Packer, OF
| Woodbury., was notified to arrest several
men who, while on their way home from
| the Woodstown Fair In charge Of race
horses, had entered . farmer 3 " watermelon
patch near Swedesboro and helped them
selves while the train stopped at station.
| The men were rather averse to complying
with the Sheriff's orders which he gave
them as the train was at Woodbury. station,
but they yielded. The matter was finally
arranged, after conference with Squire
Richardson Of s wedesboro, and the four
| men in custody were charged about stO
which Mr.. G. T. Molony paid for them on
account of the owners Of the horses.