The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-17
LOCALNEWS.

Red Astrachan apples are in market.
A number from this place spent yester-
day at Lincoln Park.
Bruna's second excursion to Atlantic
City on Thursday of next week.
The regular meeting of Borough Coun.
Gil will be held next Monday night.
Miss Emma Robbins, OF Woodstowr, is
to teach Jefferson School next year.
Grapes in this vicinity are afflicted with
the rot, and are dropping off the vines.
The game of croquet has been revived .
Woodstown has several ''crack" players.
Several yards over town contain hand
some specimens of the gorgeous h%ollyhock.
The Pitman Grove Camp Meeting begins
this year on July Both, and ends on August
18th.
W6odstown Grange, Patrons of Hus-
bandry, will picnic at lakewood Beach
tonight.
Painters from Philadelphia will com.
mence e week to repaint the residence
of Jas. G. Parcoast.
Residents of North Woodstown com
plain of thieves who steal chairs left out
over night on the porches.
The West Jersey Driving Club will hold
matinee races on the Fair Grounds this
afternoon. There will be five races.
All the material for the new iron bridge
at Courses Landing is shipped to Woods
town, and hauled over from our station.
Woodstown Friends First-day school
picnic will be held ON Fifth.day, Both inst.
IN Aliens Grove, a mile southwest of Har-
risonville.
The July meeting of the County Board
of Agriculture will be held at Elmer on
Thursday, 23d inst. Franklin Dye will be
one of the speakers.
Gen. Dix Post, of Swedesboro and the
CO lored Post at Fenwick, will unite on the
G.. A. r. excursion to Atlantic City on
Wednesday, the Goth.
Two of our citizens drove to Atlantic
City one day this week, starting at two
O'Clock in the morning, and reaching there
at 8 o'clock that evening.
Miller Oliphant, of Sharptown, says the
famous pond lilies are late, and the pros
pect is not favorable for a large crop,
though they may come on in August.
Those who use gasoline st owes, and
whose houses are insured should see that
they have a permit TO use gasoline from
the company in which they are in sured.
Abram Cochran, Esq, of Elmer, was on
Tuesday unanimously elected a director
of the First National Bank of Woodstown,
to fill one of the vacancies existing in the
Board.
T.1o1la r. Ill., ~-.- I'D n
town post-office addressed to Sewing Ma
Hiles, Mrs. Matte r. Mitchell, Mrs. Lizzie
Wilson.
A carriage painter who has been working
at one of our Woodstown carriage works
left town suddenly one day last week,
leaving an unpaid board bill of $50 and
several smaller debts.
The flag pole at the corner of Main and
Salem streets is said to be about 72I feet
high, and some idea Of the heighth of the
SO foot towe of the new bank building
may be formed from this.
Jersey tomatoes sold at two dollars a
basket the first week 10 July. Last week
they could be had for a dollar, and by the
end of his week will be SO plentiful they
can be bought for fifty cents.
The increase in Postmaster Hewitt's
salary was followed on Tuesday by another
sort of Increase, and the genial p. M. is
now a "grand- pop" The new arrival has
be on named Ella Parson Hewitt.
Contractor Jas. Johnston and Architect
Albert W. Dilks, of Philadelphia, were in
Woodstown yesterday looking up the
building lines and completing preliminary
arrangements for the erection of the new
bank building. The mason work is to be
done by Dorsey & Smith. of Philadelphia,
and work on the cellar will probably be
started next week.