The Monitor., 1891-08-14
LOCAL NEWS.

Peterson & Davis have several thousands
of baskets of different kinds for sale.
Authority is like dried apples. A few
cents worth will puff man up astonish-
ingy.
Mark Miller, of Sharptown, has moved
to Quinton, where he has secured situa-
tion with Hires 81 Co.
Opening of season at Opera House,
Woodstown, Wednesday, Aug Goth, with
Barlow Bros. Minstrels.
Wednesday was great day among the
coored people of this vicinity. A picnic at
Pennsgrove was the attraction.
Mrs. Charles P. Reeve. is suffering from
a broken arm, occasioned by fall from
chair on which she standing on Tuesday.
w. P. Lippincott & Co. will sell at pub
lie sale on Monday next, on tie Fair
grounds, drove of twenty cows. See
advertisement.
Mrs. Smith Hewitt has secured the din
ner privilege at the coming Woodstown
Fair. Dinner will be served in the usual
first class style for so cents.
Uncalled for letters remain in the Woods
town post -of1ice addressed to: Mrs. Geo.
Wise, Mrs. Eva Thomas, Mrs. Lizzie
Smith, Mrs. Elmer c. Clark.
The members of the w. C. I. U. and Y.
w. G. T. I. are invited to attend parlor
meeting at the residence of James PAN
coast on Wedne sday evening next.
Mrs. Jane E. Urion, of Woodstown, has
received the crayon portrait of her husband
from the Tranquerey Portrait Society,
Brooklyn,N Y. which is very satisfactory.
A Somerset county farmer who sent ten
cents to learn how to run farm without
hai lAd bvrv 10 fn htrvG hn
reply: "Plant fruit trees instead of pota-
toes"
The privileges for the coming Woods
private sale at good prices. There will be
merry-go-round and razzle- dazzle on the
grounds.
Friend Asahel Borton, who presented us
yesterday with basket of peaches from
his well-kept orchard aud garden on
Marlton street, has our thanks for his kind
remembrance.
A movement is on foot by the Pennsyl-
vania and Reading Railroad companies to
make the uniform rate to passengers two
cents per mile, thus doing away with the
mileage book business.
Salem county has only two Catholic
church edifices, at Salem and Woodstown,
valued at $11, 500 and with 715 members.
The state contains 191 churches, valued at
over SO, o00 600, with 222, ,274 members.
Cox & Bro, of Bridgeton, assisted by
VIM. b. Croft, have this week placed in
the Farmers canning factory and the
factory of E. Wallace & Bro, Cox cap
ping machines, to cap cans by machinery.
New Jersey farmer finds that it costs
him, in labor, machinery and interest to
raise bushel OF oats. about five cents
more than he will pay for equally good
oats delivered to the nearest railroad
station.
The twenty first annual exhibition of the
West Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural
Association W i'll be held at Woodstown on
August 25th, Goth, and 9th. About 10000
in premiums is offered in the different de-
partments.
A number of tel ephone poles in front of
the farm of Saml. Ridgway, ON the road
from Eldridge's Hill to Harrisonville, were
split completely in two by the lightning
on Wednesday afternoon, and the wire in
some places was shattered into small
pieces.
There has been more than the usual
number of Harvest Homes, picnics, excur-
sons and such like this summer in our
section. The time for them is now grow.
ing shorter and our people will be obliged
to settle down to work and the children to
school.
The Pomona Grange picnic in Pancoast's s
grove yesterday was fairly attended, and
all present enjoyed themselves. Addresses
were given in the afternoon, by Hon.
Edward Borronghs, president of the State
Board of Agriculture, and Amos Ebert, Of
Camden county.
Here's to your health and your family's,
MAY you live long and prosper; 1T you
drink Root Beer made from Knapp's Root
Beer Extract.