The Monitor-register., 1896-08-14
LOCAL N EWS.

The corn was showing the effect of the
drouth.
The dog days have ended, for which
We are very thankful.
DR.. L. A D. Allen has introduced the
borough water into his residence.
Farmers picnic will be held at Silver
Grove, Pennsville, on Thursday, Aug. 90.
William Rlchman's canning factory at
Daretown made the first run on Wednes-
day.
Rev. David s. Wells, pastor of the Bai.
leytown Church, has been granted pen
sion.
Snelbaker Bros. have put a substan ial
stone curb in front of the public school
property.
Mortality has been playing sad havoc
with the census of our large cities during
the past two weeks.
Water Superintendent Stevenson had
to caution users of borough water this
week not to be too liberal with the supply.
The Woodstown Field Club enjoyed
their annual outing in Richman's Grove,
at Sharptown, on Wednesday.
This has been the hottest August for
wears, the thermometer having ranged
above $40 for ten days or more.
The promised 'oold wave" arrived on
time last night, accompanied by refresh
ING shower, which relieved the drouth and
broke the hot spell.
One of the great mysteries of house
keeping yet to be solved is how the HES
and mosquitoes get 10 when every "inoo"
and door has screens.
General Humidity and the shirt collar
were in dispute most all OF last week. IL
is conceded that the General had the
best of the argument.
A oneer specimen of the deep has been
caught at Cape May. 1t weighs % pounds
is three feet long and is known to shore
men as the "cOw fish,"
Tt isn't bit too early to begin to save
for Christmas. You never have enough
spending money on that occasion, "heh-
ever YOU start in to accumulate.
One of the needs that every summer
brings to Woodstown, and which all the
wear steadily reipforces. is that of puoiic
axeraoe. Public health demands it.
By all means let us have public park'
sncb as our correspondent suggests; out
we want it a trifle larger than the Two
lots named Then, too, we want tne
babbling brook, some trees ana souh' Vi
the diversified beauties OF nature
William Reeves, of Salem, one OF the
railroad section men at that end Oh Tue
line. has been promoted to foremen OF tne
Woodstown gang in place of Mr. 0arri
son. against whom complaint was maae
by the men over whom he had cnarge'
The county caucus meetings, to elect
delep ates to the State Convention at lreh-
ton. Aug 9th, to name Presidential elec,
tors for the Republican ticket, are called
for Saturday evening, Aug. 22d; Eacp
borough and township is entitled to one
delegate.
The special attention of our readers is
called to the article, "The American
Home, it's Relation to the Republic,
by Isabella Hammond Demarest, the
States Recording Secretary, as it appears
in the department of "Gleanlngs" on
second page.
Sheriff virgins sold the canning rae
torv of John Wallace, located at tnis
nlace. at Salem, on Saturday, to Frank
Davis. for $500. This includes the rae
tory and ali the fixtures. Mr.. Wallace Is
said to have paid $500 for one OF the
steam boilers. Mr.. Davis has not ye'
determined what be will do Win Tue
factory.
There have been a large number OF
deaths, in the larger cities, from the
extre me heat of the past ten days or more.
While it has been very Oppressive here, we
have beard of no prostrations. We nave
the advantage of being free from the
added reflection of the suns rays on prics
an mortar. and then we get an occasional
cooling breeze.
Adam Knowles took trip to Bridge
ton one day last week on his new wheel,
and was only sixty minutes going from
Daretown to his destination. Mr.
Knowles is now constructing a ladies'
bicycle, which was ordered a few days
ago. Bicycle supplies and repairing done
at his machine works in South Woods
towp. He offers his new wheels at $45
The Napanee Star, published away on,
in Ontario, makes mention of travelling
tinker as follows: ION Saturday last )
peculiar looking tinker struck town in
the person of young man on one Of The
hardest looking bicycles that it was evel
the lot of man to ride-it weighed only
SIS pounds. The front tire was hello
together by wire, and the hind one was
patched in a number of places. Both
rider and wheel looked as If they nae
passed through several Western cyclones
His tinker's kit was fastened on hi'
wheel. The rider said he was making 9
trip from Chicago to San Francisco ant
that he had been three weeks and three
davs on the road ~