The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-01-09
LOCAL NEWS.

Board of Freeholders meet at Salem
next Wednesday.
The pond has afforded plenty Of fine
skating this week.
There were in Salem county during 1890
$50 marriages, sos births and 1888 deaths.
Borough council will take up the water
works ordinance at the meeting on Mon
day night.
We have received copies of the hand
some calencarst issued by CT. Hood 81 Co.,
Lowell, Mass.
Au advance of about two cents per mile
has been made in local freight rates by the
West Jersey Railroad.
a dancing school, taught by Prof.
Much, of Philadelphia, was started in one
of the rooms in the Hunt building last
night.
Some large catches of pike are reported
from Woods pond. One of our townsmen
caught over thirty there in a half hour one
day this week.
The First National Bank of Woodstown
will hold their annual election next Tues
day. The Swedesboro Bank will also hold
their election on this date.
A stated meeting of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children will be
held in the Grand Jury Rooms, at Salem,
on Saturday, 18th, at II A. NJ.
We are in receipt of Bulletin 76, ''Some
FuDgous diseases of the Sweet Potato
and No. II, Experiments with different
Breeds of Dairy cows" sent out from the
State Experiment station.
The following letters remain uncalled
for in the Woodstown post-ofice, week
ending Jan. Sd: Mrs. Clancy Pierce. Miss
a. Pfeitfer, Miss Eliza Ellis, Frank
Bilderback, Herbert Munyan.
Beginning Jan. 1st all tickets sold from
stations on the W. j. r. r. to Camden or
Philadelphia and return will be good for
ten days. This step IN the part OF the
company will be greatly appreciated by
the travelling public.
A measure was made on Wednesday Of
the number of miles of streets composed in
the built-up portion of our thorough. and
the amount was found to be 4 and 9O-lOO
miles. The estimate of 3 miles of piping,
made in the proposed contract for water,
works, would, therefore. not be sufficient.
The happiest time in all our lives, with
maLy of us, was in the good old days OF
youth, when skating on some pond or
lake. We can't skate so we'll now, some
of us, and SO take great delight in having
the boys and girls do it, even better per-
haps. than it was done by US j.. the long
ago.
Edward Burrough, President Of the
State Board of Agriculture of New Jersey,
has made announcement to the effect that
that body desires that the farmers keep
the Secretary posted of offerings and prices
of farm land in the State, as the Board in
tends buying all vacant farms in New
Jersey, thinking it will benefit the farmers.
The annual meeting of the State Board
of Agriculture will be held in Trenton on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Jan.
CT. % and 90. An interesting programme
of subjects has been prepared and the best
speakers obtainable have been engaged to
speak on and aid in the discussion of the
same. 1t is hoped there will be a large
attendance of farmers.
The outlook for an ice crop is at present
encouraging and it is the duty ofevery one
who owns an ice house to see to it that 1T Is
filed. lee is nowadays a necessity, and II
we can get a good crop it will save buying
of foreign dealers. Last season many
thousands of dollars were sent out TO other
states for ice, every dollar of which made
Salem county just that much poorer. Get
your ice house, if you have one, in readiness
and fill at once, if the ice don't &c before
this reaches you.