The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-02-27
LOCAL NEWS.

Friends Quarterly meeting in Woods
town next Thursday.
Election Tuesday, March 10th-polls
open from 6 a.. m. to Z p. m.
Postmaster Hewitt has been offered 800
more than he paid for his Santa Claus
colt.
The blizzard of last Eight made the
scraDing of the roads this week of nc
avail.
Thomas Green's hogs, lately butchered,
weighed Ago and 407 pounds, aud a spring
pig 800 pounds.
The boards Of registration in this town
ship will meet on Tuesday next to revise
the registry lists.
Despite bad weather the receipts of the
y. W. G.. T. U. supper last week were
very satisfactory.
The regular COS pei temperance prayer
meeting will be held in the W. G. I. U.
room next Sunday night. All are invited.
Lippincott aud Reeves did not PIT up
all their horses at their sale last 5 lturdaV,
owing to storm. What we're sold brought
fair prices.
The celebrated and favorite Moss Family
Concert company will play in the Opera
House here in April, their third visit to
Woodstown.
Heavy timbers and plling are on the
ground for repairs to the high trestle
railroad bridge at the county line, near
Harrisonville .tation.
The First National Bank, of Woodstown,
recently collected a check for S49. 600 FOL
the school tax t. be distributed among the
Township Collectors of Salem county.
Yesterday was very disagreeable, but
the large sale OF personal property of VIM.
Austin, decd, went on as advertised, and
stock and implements sold at good prices.
Prof. Smock, the State Geologist, has
begun a new survey ofthe State. 1t is ex.
pected to take five years. 1t will deal
particularly with the surface. and aid in
opening the vast pine lands of South Jer.
sey to valuable uses.
A catalogue of horses entered for the
sale at the Philadelphia Tattersalls next
week shows quite a large rumber from
Salem county which compare more than
favorably with any others'on the list in
blood and individuality.
Letters remain uncalied tor in the Woods.
town post office, week ending Feb. 81, as
follows: JOS. ii. Black, Son &Co., Ge"rgt
Stevens, Herman Miller. Mrs. Miller, Mrs.
Mary Pierce, Miss Ida Lippincott, Lizzie
Ebinger, Mrs. John Clark.
Isaac Ballinger has purchased the house
and lot. about 50x200 feet. on Main street,
ow ned and occupied by Mrs. Hannah r..
Smith for $2700, Mr.. Ballinger will move
there next moath, while Mrs. Smith will
move to the house now occupied by DR..
Pierpont.
James p. Stratton, Jr., received lately
from his brother, c. Clark Stratton, OF
Ouray, Col, a handsome opal, about the
size of d lima bean. oval in shape, and cut
SO as to show a most brilliant play Of
colors. The gem is a beauty. and is val
ued at 1925.
Every voter should be careful to see that
he is properly registered, and remember
that he will have but one opportunity foi
attending to this matter. The Registry
Boards will sit on Tuesday, March 3D.. at
the polling places, to make all corrections
and revisions.
Emma, wife of ]. Johnson Richman, who
has been sick for nearly d year past, died
on Monday morning and will bs buried
in tho Pittsgrove Presbyterian cemetery
to-day. Mr.. Richman and bis family
moved to Ashbourne, Penna, two or three
years ago, where he was engaged IN onsi
ness. The deceased, who was aged about
80 years, leaves five children with her nus
band to mourn her death.