The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-11-20
LOCAL NEWS.


No meeting of the w. G. T. L. will be
held on Thanksgiving Day.
No more companies are booked at the
Opera House until the last of December.
Gov. Albeit has issued his proclamation
designating Thursday, November goth, as
the dag for public thanksgiving and prayer
ia this State.
The first OF a series of dance sooiables to
be held this inter under the management
offs. r. White and Chas. 3. Gricr was given
in Hunts Hall last night.
Salem's city council has the granting or
refusal of licenses to sell cider. The cider
business in Woodstown should be placed
under some kind of restriction, or better
still, abolished entirely.
The follow ing uncalled for letters re-
main in the Woodstown post-offiee: Fran
ces Halchitte, Mart Peterson, Mis-. Elsie
Marshall, Jessie IL. Campbell. Mary A.
Blake, Chas. G. Shute.
Thanksgiving Cay, Goth inst. is donation
day at the New Jersey Training school for
feeble minded children at Vipeland. All
donations, whether of money or useful
articles, will be thankfully received.
A house painter says that he would not
advise people to begin house painting at
this season of the year. The frost takes
off the gloss and in the spring the house
will not present the neat appearance it
should after being newly painted.
VIM. B. Snelbaker of the East Avenue
marble and granite works, has lately
placed grave stones at the grave of Eliza
beth Wescott in the Presbyterian cemetery
and has also a handsome set in his yard to
be placed at the grave of Clayton Locuson
in the Methodist Cemetery, and another
for the grave of Josiah Dubois. in Piles
grove cemetery.
On Sunday night, between the hours of
six and seven O'Clock. our citizens were
permitted to witness a total eclipse OF the
moon. The moon rose at .3S P. NJ. with
the shadow already on it, although it was
invisible to the naked eye. From 5.34 un-
til c. 80 the shadow gradually advanced.
The total observation occurred at .. "a.
From this time until 9.04 the shadow slow
~ disappeared.
Freeholders Bottom, Shute and Denny
met at Pedricktown yesterday, by appoint
ment Of the Common Pleas Court, to re-
view the assessment of damages made to
Ebenezer Sparks by Surveyors of High
ways on the laying out of a public road or
street in that village last summer. The
Surveyors awarded Mr.. Sparks 500 for
MS idnu TAKEN lOI tne IOdu. Il I've
holders, after viewing the premises and
hearing the matter, increased the award to
$500, to be paid by the township of Old
mans to Mr.. Sparks.
Judge Nixon, in his charge to the
Passaic county grand jury recently, laid
down the law in reference to sidewalks.
Judge Nixon said he had been asked to
cali the attention of the jurors to the OBJ
struction Of sidewalks permanent and tenn
porary. Permanent distractions were
made by buildings which encroached upon
the lines of the public highways, and tenn
porary distractions were made by the
storekeepers who monoplized too much
of the sidewalks. Every obstruction which
substantially interfcred with the use of the
public highway was a public nuisance, and
the person or persons causing it should be
indicted without regard to municipal ordin-
ances on the subject, except in cases where
the encroachments were incidents of neces-
sity, areaways etc
Two bul Ky qualto volumes, just issued
by the State. comprise 'sThe Recorl OF
Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil
War of 1876" published by authority OF
Legislature. The joint resolution propos-
ing this great work was adopted by the
Legislature in 1871. The supply of copies
having become exhausted senator barrett,
of Essex, last season, offered a Joint resolu-
ton for the printing of the additional edi-
ton, aud this work is now ready for deliv-
ery. The record is most complete, both as
to individuals and organizations. The
record of each man. whether enlisted or
commissioned, is given in detail, and where
individuals credited to the State Of New
Jersey were enrolled with troops OF other
states, they are followed up with care and
their names and subsequent history are
duly recorded in these volumes.