The Monitor-register., 1896-09-11
LGCAL NEWS.


EH'A EAeb ~ bOOo ~ r
TIT wells have responded to the copious
rain.
If you ant a buggy attend Levi B
Wright's carriage sale Sept. 9Th.
The copious rain on Saturday and Sun
day filled a long. felt want, especially in
some OF the wells.
Geo. G. Waddington will have a sale OF
York State cattle at his farm on Thurs.
day next, the 18th.
The Woodstown Band is footing away
again. Look out for some lively cam
paign m usic this fall.
A fog in August indicates a frost on the
corresponding date i'll October. The fist
fog was On August Is. Watch October Is
List of unclaimed letters remaining in
the post Office tor week ending Sept. 8:
Ida Hall, Genie SCOTT, 3; John Seagraves.
Labor Day was more observed in the
breach in Woodstown than Use.
The bank and post Office, however. were
closed.
The City of Bridgeton has lst issued
$25 900 in school bonds, which we're taken
by the Cumberland Trust Co at S100.50
above par.
NV that the schools have re opened,
teachers will want report cards. We
have them at this Office at one cent each.
Send in your order.
How about a Mckinley and Hobart
sound money campaign club for Wood
stown aud Pilesgrove? Can one be organ
lied? Where are all our young menP
With the coming of fall stoves will be
10 demand. John G. Reeves keeps a full
stock, as also of agricultural implements.
Note What be says about fodder cutters.
The Epworth League of the M. +.
Churoh will have a socia bic at the par
sonage on Friday evening next, to which
ALI the members are invited. An eDJoya-
BILE g will be presented.
VIM. N. Nixon brought to this office on
Monday morning 8 cutting from his
orapeyipe. of about fifteen inches in
length. from the branches of which hung
ffty punches of grapes. They are OF
the Clinton variety. This is a grape
year.
The horse races, says the EDenang Ne'0s,
sneakipg of the Bridgeton Fair, were a
great drain on the Agricultural Society's
fnances this year. Why not try bicycle
- ,es and novelties on the track next year
Instead? The people want something
newer.
II ;s rumored that several young men
who are boarding at oDe of our popular
bosteIries nave been rehearsing LOT a
NAV entitled. ''StoIen Sweets; or, we
Didn,t Know il was Loaded" Pies and
watermeIops are to be the principal char
acters.
The new granite monument, wnicn is
70 he erected to the memory OF the late
AaA lfsfar in the ShATDGOW0
Demeterv. by Suelbaker Brosr is now at
tbe railroad station, being lettered before
heine placed in the cemetery. 1t weighs
over 5000 pounds.
IT. ;s said that there is no insect that
will eat either root or stock OF
and sowing it on a piece or grouno Two
y ears in succession will kiii Cue mHe
worms by furnishing them Win noeh'hg
to eat. Should any of the farmers maze
a practical test of the above we snouiu
be glad to know the result.
Howard M Jenkins, Editor OF the
Friends IntelLigencer, of philadelphia,
contributed a most excellent article TO
the New York Independent On the recent
Friends Conferences st Sw~arthmore,
which we have reproduced on our first
maze. It's tone indicates, as an outgrowth
Of these conferences, an aggressive move
ment in this always conservative religious
society.
The case of Edward A. Clair vs.. Salem
County Board of Freeholders, will come
up in the Camden Supreme Court on
Monday. 1t will be remembered that
Clair is the young mau who brought suit
in the sum of $40. 600 for alleged injuries
shat he received while riding a bicycle
near Monroeville. J. Forman Sinnickson:
Esq will appear as counsel for the Board
of Free holders.
1t seems that Salem county produce is
greatly in demand at Wildwood. Reeves
Flitcraft, one OF our citizens, who now
occupies the s'Silver Dean Cottage" OF
that place, sold in two weeks Is crates OF
eggs (450 dozen) and called for more.
lie has sold from $50 to 300 quarts OF
milk each day, besides a large lot OF but
ter, all of which has been shipped from
our sta ton. Moses Banks, Jr, and Hen
ry A. RichmsD, of this place. who occupies
the ''Onieda Cottage" have also handled
some Salem county produce.
John P. Price, one of the popular con-
ducters on the West Jersey road. com.
ple5ed bis Both year in the service on
August 81. His first run was ia a gig
top from Salem to Elmer. Daring his
early experience be ran a freight train for
six months. He was made a cond
on April Is, 1871, aud ran on the maiu
line for two seasons. after which he was
transferred to the Salem branch and has
been running here eyer since. 10 all this
time he has never been in a fatal wreck
or has had a passenger or employee who
worked with him seriously injured.
&oo0stown contributed a number of
patrons to the South Jersey Fair, at Glou-
cesteF City, this week., the attraction, in
part as least, being the trotting of some
Woodstown horses. Frank Davis Rob
Roy trotted in the 2 40 race on Wednes-
day against e strong field. dropping only
one heat, aud winning in 9 s2i. Belfry.
the promising colt raised pv Samuel
French, made a record of 217I. Yester.
day Rob Roy was again entered in the
9 50 race, with even a stronger field pitted
against him, and had he been accorded a
fair show, outstanding the fact
that be was not in good condition. he
~ould again have finished at least second.
Charley Lippincott handled the reins we'll.
The exhibits at the Fair are rather poor.
1T being quite evident that the racing was
intended TO be the chief feature. Old
gloucester has not forgotten It's cunning
vet.