The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-29

form Club, made an earnest and 4 feeling
address, and Mr.. John H. French, pres
dent of the club, contrasted his present
condition with that he was i'll as hard
drinker before he had becomesa member of
the organization. There Were singing and
music. and the presentation of numerous
and elegant floral pieces to the president
to the club, to the Women Christian Tenn
perance Union and to Colonel Scott, the
artist who had painted the large picture of
which the club is very proud Then thous-
ands of Plainfield's citizens and many hun
dreds who had come from out of town
marched or rode in carriages through the
rows of flags that tluttered in the streets Of
the town. and all along the line of march
there were cheering and the waving ofhan-
kerchiefs from the men and women who
looked on The liquor dealers evidently
felt that it was no day for them to disport
themselves, and the saloons that were
passed were the only places where the hur-
random was broken.
SOME PREDICTIONS AND A BET.
young girls in white and other dozens of
more matronly ladies fitted around about
rows ofgreat, long tables in the church base
ment, filling unique wooden platters with
edibles. handing around Japanese paper
napkins and pouring coffee and lemonade.
In the evening there was further jubilation.
The red iacketed and white helmeted band
ofthe Drake Veteran Zouaves, of Elizabeth,
played in the club house, and there We're
enthusiastic impromptu addresses and soci-
al converse. When the lights We're turned
out and the visitors had departed on late
trains every body felt that it had been a
great day for Plainfield and for the cause
of temperance.
! President Gibbs. of the New York Tenn
perancc Union and Mr.. Horace Waters, of
| New York, were active participators i'll the
days exercises. Mr. Waters predicted that
st. John, the prohibition Presidential can
didate, would get 1 900, 900 votes. and that
prohibition President would be elected i'll
1888 or at all events in 1892, and President
Gibbs wanted to bet 800 that st. John
would get 100000 votes Ben Butler
5000, 600, and that neither Cleveland nor
Blaine would be elected
DEAR MoNIToR:-An organ evidently in
! spred by one of its collateral bosses says
''some mischief-makers who have been
trying to injure our Agricultural Society,
have circulated a ridiculous lie to the effect
| that rum has been sold on our Fair Grounds
during the Fair If this assertion is as
unreliable as many others as positively
made by that organ, the lie is on the other
side
| Now we put the plain question. Why
did the soft Drink" privilege for the
| Woodstown Fair sell for nearly double
that of any other privilege, and more than
double that forthe Raspberryand Lemonade.
Home Made Beer, Soda Water and Root
Beer privileges at the Bridgeton Fair, if
there was not an implied understanding
that something more than the drinks just
enumerated was included? Was not an
official of the Woodstown Fair informed
last year that Intoxicating liquor was
being sold at the soft DRINK stand, and
did he not reply that he could not help it?
! The fathers and mothers whose SONS will
visit the coming Fair are interested in
these questions. A surreptitious whiskey
stand is the minors opportunity for strong
drink, and the place where many young
man has taken his first glass in his eli
trance on the road to ruin
| A FATHER.
SQuarely Answered.,