The Monitor., 1891-09-11
LOCAL NEWS.

WoodStOwn has two blcyclIetS OF tie
gentler sex.
Peter Peters, veterinary surgeon at
Mullica Hill, has his card in this issue.
Lewis Horner, son of Geo. Horner, has
entered the employ of Borton & Andrews.
A chicken without eyes was among
those hatched by a South Woodstown hen
last week.
The annual reunion of the Ninth Regi-
ment n. J. VOL, will be held in Fleming
ton next Thu rsday.
Bridgetons tax rate this year is 81. 20,
Salem's $1.25, Woodstown's (borough),
n cts, Pilesgroye township, IS cts.
A crowd of Italian women to work in
Dickinson & Lippincott's canning factor y
arrived yesterday from Philadelphia.
Mrs. Kate Dickinson and Miss Mary
Mattson have moved into the Crispin man.
sion onSalem street, where they will reside.
When the contemplated addition to the
b. b. Humphreys pantaloon factory is
completed, about fifteen more operatives
on machines will be required.
James and Thomas Whalen, who do
considerable tiling and ditching, report
that they have plenty of work, and are in
need of additional laborers.
Frederick Rapp, who has a farm near
Ilarrisonville, finds ready sale for all the
peaches he brings to Woodstown market,
the fruit being Of excellent flavor.
special meeting of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union will be held
Saturday evening, 18th inst, for the purpose
of electing new officers for the ensuing
year.
tar r;cit, r,,,ar of
who are growing truck this year as rec
reation, claim that it is more profitable
than raising ducks, hogs or white potatoes
exclusively.
The crayon portrait people have left
town, after aweek of poor business, and
are of the opinion that Woodstown resi-
dents don't know good thing when they
see it. Perhaps not.
Uncalled for letters addressed as follows
remain in the Woodstown post office: Mr..
William Sparks, Miss Emma Border, Miss
Mary Blake, Miss Nora Howard, Mrs. Anna
l.. Batten, NJ. c. Henry, Harry st. Clair,
Miss Kate Fraub.
The following are the delegates appoint
ed at the meeting Of the Woodstown W..
G. T. L. to attend the County Convention
at Pennsgrove next Thursday: Mrs. Jos.
Bradway, Ruth Stow, Mrs. Jos. Turner
and Mrs. Blanche Davis.
land tortoise was found crawling
along the street in South Woodstown one
day last week. The under-shell was mark
ed with the letter "M, V and it is thought
to be one of the two turtles Chas. Macal-
tioner placed in Macaltoner's meadow
nearly ten years ago.
DR.. Charles De Garmo, Professor of
Philosophy and Pedagogics in the Univer-
sity of Illinois, was on Tuesday elected
President of Swarthmore College by unan-
imous vote of the managers. He has ac-
cepted the position, and will Immediately
enter upon his duties.
Woodstovn public schools opened on
Monday, with an average attendance,
under the principalship OF Miss Emily
Sayre, the teachers in the other depart
ments remaining the same as last year.
The attendance usually remains small
until after the close of the canning
factories.
We are quite used TO crcuses that adver-
tise investments of from one million to
three millions of dollars, but there is an
other side to tho picture. In the small
railroad towns OF New Jersey circus now
making one-day stands, uses only two cars
for It's outfit and exhibits only one horse
and one rider in its ring.
In another column will be found an ex,
tract from temperance lecture delivered
by U. S. Senator Frye, in church in
Androscogin, Maine, last Sunday afternoon.
The Senator is Republican with nation
al reputation and his opinion of the rum
business and those engaged in the tratiic
is expressed in plain English.
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You can get pair of good boots at the
store under the Opera House for one dol
lar and nine cents.