The Monitor-register., 1896-06-12
LOCAL NEWS.
is the last week of school.

This is the last week of school.
The gardens are looking better since
the rain.
The recent drought shortened the
strawberry crop.
Next Sunday is June Quarterly, and
Bnshtown is looking for a-croMd-
How about That trolley line that was
to have run through Woodstown?
Some plantations wagons, Miiburn
make, at l.. B. Wright's sale June Gath.
A number of farmers were troubled
with a lack of water for their stock last
week.
White, the jeweler, sells the best bicy-
eles for the money. If you want one go
see him.
There seems to be little regard paid to
the law requiring dogs to be muzzled
and registered.
Attend the meeting at the Public Build
ing next Tuesday night to make arrange
ments for a celebration of the Fourth of
July.
The grass sale of Annie N. Peterson,
advertised for the 10Th, will not a
place, the grass having been rented for
pasture.
Snelbaker Bros. nave placed a stone
curbing and carriage step in front of the
property of Miss Rebecca Hiles, on Dick
jnson street.
List of unclaimed letters remaining in
the post office for week ending June 9th:
Mrs. A. E. Allison, VIM. B. Stephenson,
Henry Sparks.
IF YOU want to aid a genuine home
calculation of the Fourth of July, attend
the meeting at the Public Building next
Tuesday evening.
The third annual reunion of the
Alumni of the Woodstown High School
will be held on Tuesday evening next, IN
The school building.
M. u. Dickinson has had his residence,
West avenue, enclosed Win d nanH-
some iron fence. 1t was put up by ~
Petit s. Co., Philadelphia.
A narty of ten wheelmen from Frank
ford. three from Germantown, together
with two from Bridgeton, took dinner at
the East Avenue on Sunday.
Some of the wheelmen think that so
long as they are not allowed to use the
sidewalks. the residents should not make
the streets a mud puddle by too muen
sprinkllng.
The rain of Tuesday was most welcome,
in relieving the long drought, whlcn hao
beeuu to be serious for the farmers.
Though too late to help the hay CROP IL
will greatly aid vegetation.
Next Sunday is the anniversary OF the
adoption of the stars and stripes ana Cne
event is asked to be celebrated on oatur-
.day. Old Glory never waved more
.nroudly, and is worthy of a Datlons
highest honors.
A tombstone in the Baptist cemetery
has carved upon it the following inscrip-
tion: "In memory of Hannah, daugnteI
of Anthony and Hannah Waters, dieo
Oct. 10, 1917. This is the first person
buried in this yard" -
If ANYTHING happens in your vlciniIy
that YOU think will interest others, make
a note of it to send to the home paper.
The editor ia always glad to receive bits
of news, for the popularity OF a paper
greatly depends or such items.
A iocose farmer was asked tne osno,
morning when he intended TO comHienoo !,
moving. 81 moved one held las "eeN,
was his reply; "a couple OF horses na~t
into he field one night and tne heA'
morning there was no grass to cut. 90
Michael Kirby, while assisting ~
uDtOaO nay al bu0 Odih "a ~.
the residence of Mrs. Gaunt, on oppoi
Main street, yesterday morning, aoS,
IDENTIFY fell astride of the ladder, ny tne
breaking of a rung, inftctlng sum
injuries that he went to Cooper Hospiesi'
Camden, for treatment.
E. @. Haines has been engaged III
arranging Geo. Horner's deep well at
Harrisonville, to pump by horse po"e.
instead of the wind mill, the latter nos
having sufficentpower. Extensive arrange
ments are required to raise the water III
sufficient quantities from SO deep a source
which Mr.. Haines is experimenting.
James l.. Summerill, of near Dnelps
Corner, while picking cherries on Wed
nesday, fell off a ladder, a distance OF
fourteen feet. Fortunately no bones
were broken, but he sustained such
severe bruises as to require the services
of a physicean, and it may be some time
before ne will be able to attend to his
usual duties.
A small child of T. G. Souders was
fatally burned yesterday morning. Tn
mother was upstairs at the time, and the
child got some matches and struck one Of
them. the blaze igniting its dress. The
mother heard its screams ana rusoeo
down stairs to find the child's clotnins
10 flames. 1t was severely burned aoou'
the face. arms and body. DIR. Souaer was
called and dressed the wounds OF the iisCie
sufferer. and if was thought mat Gn'
child was getting along nicely, but it diee
This morning from it's injuries. IL war
Lo.,t thraa YEARS OLD '