The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28
LOCAL NEWS.

1896 is slipping away rapidly.
The pear crop is rather short.
Delightful weather for cycling.
A brisk fall trade is looked for.
S%trawhats will soon be called in.
Chestnut time will soon be here.
Another warm wave is predicted.
Watermelon parties are all the go.
Vacation days will soon be at an end.
A few days more and summer will be
ended.
The free silver craze has some what
abated.
Painters are at work on Jerry Gala
hans residence.
Did you see the double rainbow on
Monday evening?
All the streets have been given a gen.
erous coat of gravel.
Many wells are beginning to show the
effects of the drought.
Go to Grier & Boone for all the latest
styles of hats and caps.
The icemen haven't had much cause
for compliant this summer.
Mondays rain was good as far as it
went. The supply was too limited.
Quite a number from here attended the
camp meeting at Malaga last Sunday.
The rain was most welcome. The
ponds and wells were getting very low.
Did you notice how happy the ice cream
men looked during the recent hot spell.
Dickinson & Lippincott employ only
home labor in their factory this season.
Frank Davis and Isaac K. Lippincott
took the deed for the Wallace canning
factory on Saturday.
Has anyone seen any indications OF the
doa las being enforced? Bat then the
dog days are past now.
The water is so low in the ponds tbat
the mills using water power ma IL oi"'
cult to keep things moving now.
List of unclaimed letters remaining 10
the post Office for week ending Aug. Ssu'
WIN. Mcfarland, Miss Leah Robinson.
The legal season for shooting reed bros
and mud hens will begin on September l,
and the marshes are reported TO Do well
stocked with the game birds.
Roy. the infant son of Horace and
Jennie Lewis, of Y~orketown, died OF
cholera infaltum on Monday morning.
He as sick but a few hours.
Persons having ~noxious weeds growing
around their premises should cut them
down before they go to seed and thu
prevent them from spreading.
We learn that Alfred L%ippiDcott, Jr.,
will begin the first of the month as pro-
prietor of the Hsrrisonville creamery.
His friends " ish him much success in his
bew business.
The wind is blowing over the oats
stubble, the crickets are mefrily chirplng
aud the katydids are singing their
mouotonous songs-all indicating tnat
Autumn is close at hand
Gorton's New Orleans Minstrels,
ALWAYS favorite here, and the hnest
minstrel organization on the road, Will
appear at Woodstown Opera House,
Monday evening, Sept. 7th.
TIE Ninth N. j. Veteran Volunteers
Association, Of which a number OF tne
members TT side in this section, will hold
their eleventh annual reunion In Jersey
City, on Th ursday, Sept. 18th.
Oar genial barber, Frank Peterson, has
secured letters patent for his stoveplpe
water heater and is now looking around
for a live man to introduce his useful
device. Persons who wish to have a
quantity OF hot water handy at all hour
OF the day or night should rave one OF
Peterson's heaters. Here is certainly an
opportunity for somebody.
A Woodstown lady had the misfortune
this week to find herself alone at
Washington Park without a cent, having
lost her pocketbook, she supposes, in a
trolley car. 1t SO happened that on that
very day a gentleman from this place
visited the Park, who, when Informed by
her of her situation, eased her anxiety by
giving pecuniary assistance.
The principal county fairs in New
Jersey this year will occur as follows;
New Jersey State Fair, Waverly. Sept.
7-12; Atlantic County, Egg Harbor City,
Sept 10 10; Burlington County, Nous
Holly, Sept. 90 25; Cumberland County,
Bridgeton, Sept. Q 8; Interstate, Trenton.
Sept. %, Oct. 2. South Jersey Fair, al
Gloucester City, Sept. Sill.
John Nelson and wife had a streak Of
misfortune last week A hanging shell
in the cellar containing about fifty jars Of
preserved fruit took a tumble and precip
itated it's contents to the floor, breaking
many of the jars. 1t is not so much thu
value of the fruit, but that the many hour
that Mrs. Nelson spent around the no
fire should really count for aught. A large
picture in the parlor also fell to the Eooi
the other night, and 10 it's descent broke
several things. including a glass vase
John must lave been born on the 18Th
day of the month.