The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-12-04
Just over the CounIx Lines.

Just over the County Lines.
Bridgeton and vicinity is suffering from
repeated burglaries. No arrests have been
made.
The sale of the Col. Hazleton farm at
Mullica Hill, set for last Saturday, was
adjourned.
Under the County Excise act there have
been seven hotels and drinking saloons
licensed in Bridgeton.
The young folks of Trinity P. E. Church,
Swedesboro, will give an entertainment in
Meley's Hall on Dec. 1S.
l. Hurff Weatherby, of Swedesboro, is
visiting his son, who is attending Lehigh
University at Bethlehem, Pa.
David r. Black, of Swedesboro, had the
thumb of his left hand torn off while feed
ing the patent corn husker or Monday.
The Malaga glass works have been sold,
and Messrs. Butcher & Waddington, ~lessees
of the Elmer Glass Works, became the
purchasers.
There is a big squeal at Atlantic City
over the increased assessments on beach
front properties. The Commissioners of
| Appeal are considering a one third re-
duction.
The annual reunion of Mary A Kirby's
family met at the residence of her son-in-
law, Saml. H. Moore, near Swedesboro, on
Thanksgiving day, with about thirty in
attendance,
Judge Garrison is too i'll topreside at the
| opening of the Gloucester and Burlington
| County Courts. Judge Reed will open the
former on Tuesday next and Judge Nixon
the latter a week later.
Robert s. Clvmer, formerly the Repub-
lican City Solicitor of Woodbury., but who
became a Democrat four yearsago, has just
been appointed Law Judge of Gloucester
county by Governor Albeit.
The large barn and wagon house con-
nected with the feed and fertilizer ware
house of G. T. MoloDey, at Woodbury.,
were destroyed by fire on Wednesday even
ing. The horses and wagons were saved.
The loss, it is said, is nearly covered by
insurance.
The annual meeting of the Gloucester
County Board of Agriculture will be held
in Patrons Hall, Mullica Hill, on Monday
Dec. 18th. Officers will be elected fol the
ensuing year, reports from the committee
on the Farmers Institute, and from the
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made. Il full attendance is desired.
A report is current on pretty good au-
thority that the West Jersey Railroad Com
pany have under serious consideration the
establishment of car and engine repair
shops for their road at Newield. TIE
company own a very eligible piece of
ground suitable for purposes OF that kind,
in the large lot lying in the angle of the
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Cape May tracks.
Abalr storming theatrical company from
| Philadelphia had Haddonfield in an uproar
last Saturday night. The combination was
| advertised to show in the Jersey Building,
but upon their arrival a split occurred, and
the two companies paraded the streets,
| beaded by bands, after which one faction
| opened in Wilkins Hall, and the other in
the J Jersey Building. Neither company
took in money enough to pay for the hired
music.
A rot among the sweet potatoes has
made its appearance in Camden county
and the farmers are kept busy oyerhauling
their bins and getting their supply to the
market. The price obtained is very low,
in a number of cases not being sufficient to
pay the freight charges. Hundreds of
bushels are OelBS Qaly leu W Tue Coh anu
hogs, and the owners of large incubating
plants are purchasing the potatoes in large
quantities, which they boil and feed to the
chickens.
The Cape May City School Board has
put riding whips in divisions of the public
| schools where there has been insubordina-
ton. Five teachers nave been thus sup
piled, accompanied by orders to use them
when necessary to enforce discipline. AS
corporal punishment is forbidden by stat
utory law, there promises to be trouble if
the whips are brought into use by tie
teachers. One of the primary rooms of
the school has the third teacher for the
term.
John Benezet, a ~well-known business
man of Cape May City, has brought suit
in the Court of Chancery against Theodore
Yourison. of Cape May Court House, a
former agent OF his, whom he charges with
embezzling $40, 900 during a period of q
years, in which Yourison conducted the
Court House branch of Mr.. Benezet's busi-
ness. 1t is charged by the complainant
that Mr.. YouIison could not have set up
| for him self, near the old stand, as he has
done. on a salary of 81 per week. which, it
is said, was his pay.