The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30
LOCAL NEWS.
Lookout for warmer weather now.

The present spring seems about as
fokle as all its predecessors.
The cold snap on Tuesday made fires
and overcoats comfortable accessories.
Lawyer E. S. Fogg has been adding a
handsome large Mosier safe to the equip
ment of his Office.
Isaac &. Lippincott has bean appointed
a member OF Borough Co uncil in place of
the late Robert Hewitt.
Attend the strawberry festival in the
Atkinson building on Friday aud Satur-
Gay evenings. an welcome.
at the sale of COWS yesterday by Gao.
G. Waddington, tw~enty-one were knock
ed of at an average price of $40 so.
Quite a number of city wheelmen are
seen here on Sundays. Woodstown is
becoming very popular for club runs.
Alice has a little lamb,
Its fleece is white, you know,
And when Alice takes a walk
"Willie' wants to 60.
The recent cold snap destroyed a large
part of the stray berry crop of Samuel
headley. He took the precautio on to
cover them this week.
Governor Griggs has signed the Gled.
hill bicycle baggage bill, SO that it is now
a law, and when wbeelmen get tired they
can now take the cars.
James Sharp has moved from his farm
near Sharptown to the house he recently
purchased of ex Mayor Holmes. He has
had it completely renovated.
Superior cottage cheese can be bad at
Moore's West Avenue Cresmery every
McAnocIa :, onA Saturday E ua, laptf
want to go to the creamery after it, listen
for the bell and stop the wagon.
Frank Borton in getting in his wagon
on Wednesday morning, in front of Dun
hams butcher shop, made a misstep and
fell and came near being run over. He
fortunately escaped with only a bruised
baud.
Memorial Day and the Fourth of July
both come on Sunday this year, 80 that
Monday will be observed in each iu-
stance. Soon be time to think about
Woodstown's Fourth of July celebra-
tioD.
List of unclaimed letters remaining in
the Woodstown Post Office for the week
ending April "a. 1897: Champion Atkin-
son, Charlie Nickerson, Miss E. 81.
Fidler, W. W. Homan, A. G. Patterson
and Allen Toner.
Has the time come for a public ceme-
terry? Salem has a beautiful one, so
have Penpsgrove and Swedesboro, the
latter being advertised in this issue d.
They are preferable to church yards,
because they are well kept and located
outside of borough or city limits.
A large number of the friends Of Mrs.
BlacBwood Crispin gave her a delightful
birthday surprise on Thursday evening,
at their home in Warrington. The CON.
pany numbered about sixty, aud they
made it a merry occasion. Refreshments
were served before the company dispersed.
An agent of the Republic Savings and
Loan Association, with headquarters in
Newark, was in town last week trying
10 establish a branch here, but as the
ground is pretty we'll covered already by
tbe home and two foreign building asso.
Citations, be did not find anyone willing
to try the new venture. There is a
branch in Salem.
The opening game of base ball will be
played on Saturday, May 18th, between
the home club and the Stevens A. A, of
Camden. The same club will play two
games here on Decoration Day. The
Stevens played several games here last
year and won many friends by their gen.
tlemanly conduct and good ball playing.
Cyclers should ride slow at street
crossings, aud they should bear in mind
that if they are run down or collide with
d team at night and have no signal light
on their wheel no damages can be claim
cd, as the borough ordinance require s
lamps and bells on wheels at night. A
word to the wise ought to be sufi sient.
the safest way is always best.
Detective Garrison, of Swedesboro, is
urgIng the citizens of Gloucester county
la procure a bloodhound to run down
thieves aud burglars. He believes the
POSSESSION of a hound will greatly check
u~utlawry. Constable Coles says he is
willing TO take charge of and keep in
training a hound for use in this section
if our citizens become conve ted to
'Garry's'' belief.
Ii is a fact easily demonstrated that
people read advertisements now more
tran they did twenty years ago, and
there are good reasons why it must be
sU-the advertisements are better pre-
pared and better worth the reading, and
it is more necessary as a matter of econ
omy that they should be read. Many q
woman makes her pin money out of what
she saves in her purchase by advertise
ment reading.
Strange things happen some times.
The other evening the leader of the
Woodstown Band went to the Baptist
Church to join the choir in practice with
his cornet Tor a special occasion. To his
establishment when he opened his case to
take the instrument out, a ~large-sized
brogan stared him in the face. Recalling
the fact that he had stopped in q shoe
store on the way to the church, he readily
accepted the chang GO as a prank of his
friends and enjoyed the joke as much as
anybody.
The publisher of the Ayoca (Csl } Her.
aid recently sued delinquent subseribel
for seven years. subscription, S24. He
occurred judgment, with costs, notwish.
standing the paper had been refused al
the post office. The arrearages had no
been paid, and the name was continued
on the books and the paper mailed to hi
address. Many persons think they car
refuse to take the paper from the pos
Office, and whether they have paid arrear
ages or not, that ends their obligation
to the publisher. Such is not the case
under the newspaper law, as demon
trated by this paragraph.