The Monitor-register., 1897-09-17

LOCAL EWS.

Straw hats are going to seed.
The leaves are beginning to fall.
The base ball season will soon end.
The grape crop is az abundant one.
All kinds of legal blanks at this office.
The rain last night was most welcome.
The autumnal equinox occurs on the
21st.
Fishing parties are the prevailing sport
now
The circus will exhibit at the Fair
Grounds.
School report cards at one cent each at
this office.
A fine lot of harness at L. B. Wright's
sale, Oct. 9th.
A little rain would lay the dust nicely
and help for wheat sowing.
The small boys will soon be turning
fond chances toEard the che stnut trees.
Howard Harris will have another COW
sale at Ed. Austin's farm on Friday next,
the oath.
The fall session of the West Jersey
Presbytery will be- held at Woodbury. on
Sept. 9Sth.
The cooler weather this week was an
appreciable break 10 the hot spell that
really outdid August.
One of our farmers took q load of
tomatoes to Philadelphia last week and
realized 40 cents per basket.
A circus-just think of it's coming
to town next Friday. Almost as great
a curiosity as a Klondiks miner.
The harvest moon has been an
exec edingly delightful one, and scarcely a
cloudy night to interfere with its brig hG-
ness.
An exchange advises all those who are
going TO Ktondike to leave their full
dress suits and starohed collars and cuffs
at home.
List of unclaimed letters remaining in
the post office for week ending Sept. 18th:
j. A. Gsgnet, G. w. Hamland aid Mrs.
Henry Wright.
The strike of the women at Davis "
L%ippincott's canning factory last Friday
was smicably adjusted, and the strikers
returned to work,
The women in Stout's canning factory,
at Bridgeton, struck on Monday for more
pay, and they were finally induced to go
to work for 81 cents per bucket.
The Highland base ball club, of Phils-
delphia, is expected to play here next
Saturday, the 25Jh. Taylor, Gleason,
and others will play on the home club.
Martin Carney has been carting his
tomatoes to the station at YORKTOWN
this week, receiving 50 a ton for them.
He has picked ONE very nice tomatoes.
The continually growing scarcity of
timber is to be noted in the absence of
timber sales this fall. If there is any
timber to be sold it is time it was
announced.
Water superintendent Stevenson is
pumping one hundred Thousand gallons
of water daily now, aud some times over
that amount. The can houses require q
large quantity.
Firel Firel Fire! a Grand Exhibition
will be- given howing thu Fire Fighting
Qualities of the Little Giant Fire Extin
guisher, at Woodstown, on Saturday,
Sept. 18Th, at 3 p. m.
Mrs. A. M. Holvey, Of West Pittston,
Pa, will deliver a temperance lecture on
Wednesday evening, 22d inst, in the
Daretown Baptist Church. A cordial
invitation is extended to all.
We hear that the canning factories in
Long Island can bny the finest peaches
in the market for 10 to 20 cents a basket.
Around here they bring rs cents and 81
a basket, aud not extra ones at that.
A number of farmers have been filling
their silos the past week. among them
being: Reeve Flitoraf5, N. r. Lippinoott,
Edgar G. Moore, Elmer Duell, Josiah
Humphreys and J. Walter Pancoast.
AL. Morgan, living on the Daretowr
road, cut ten hills of corn that yielded a
bushel of ears. His hills are 3x4. and at
that rate his crop would be over 1oO
bushels to the acre. Who can beat it?
No need of going to the Klondike
Some of u farmers appear to have
struck q gold mine in their tomato
patches, as we understand that Sl2 anG
$15 per ton are being freely offered TO
tomatoes by foreign buyers.
John virgins, who has sold his stor'
at Harrisonville to a Philadelphia party
we understand, will not take an aocoun
of stock uutil the first of December. l
is his purpose then to remove to Woods
town and he will build on his lot OF
South Main street, just below hi
brothers. residence.
VIM. N. Nixon, E. B. Riley, and Law
yer Kraft, of Camden, killed l50 rai
birds on the Elsinboro meadows on Sat
urday. Mr.. Nixon killed 60 birds at .
shots. Messrs. Nixon, Riley and L. q
Peterson tried it again on Wednesday
but the tide was not favorable and the
only got about half as many.
The decision of the Secretary Of tn
Treasury and POstmaster-General t
change the color of the two-cent postag
stamps from carmine to green is al
nounoed. The ten-cent postage stamI
which is now green, will be changed
some other color. The reason for h
change is that the carmine is a too Hash
color.
The railroad station was broker Int
on Monday night, the burglar or bul
glars tearing off the iron screen aud the
breaking the window lights so they coul
unfasten the sash catch and raise th
window. They did not succeed in gel
ting anything, as the money was a
locked in the safe, and this they did NJ
attempt to disturb. They left no trac'
by which they might be Identified.