The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-15

on of Woodstown was organized April II.
1883. by Mrs. EFT Scott, at meeting held
for that purpose in the Presbyterian church.
The following officers Were elected: Presi-
dent, Mrs. DIR. Gilman; Nice-Presidents.
Mrs Ware, Z. Cawley Crate, Wilson and
Humphreys; Recording Secretary, Mrs.
Carrie Andrews: Corresponding Secretary,
Mrs. Charlotte Pancoast; Treasurer, Mrs.
Mary Borden. The president elected at
this meeting declined to serve, and at the
next meeting. held April 18th, Mrs. Char
lotte Pancoast was elected. and presided
over the two following meetings, the min
utes of which have never come in to the pos
session of the present secretary.
On May 18th the Union met in the Meth
odist church. and seven ladies signed our
constitution. From this date We considered
ourselves a working Union, and decided to
meet every two weeks.
The meetings of May 3lst and June l4th
were held at the Methodist parsonage. On
the last date Mrs. Cornelia Ware was elect
cd President Mrs J. w. Humphreys, Re
cording Secretary; Miss Annie f. Macal-
TONER, Corresponding Secretary. Our first
thousand tracts were ordered at this meet
ing.
Three persons were present at a meeting
held Oh July 18th, and no more meetings
were held until September 9th, at which
the president and treasurer were absent.
L., ioI in no, nd, of lao
secretary, who, representing the three Off
GERS, spent the hour alone at the appointed
place of meeting. During this time Rev.
Mr. Rogers. of Elmer, had delivered a tenn
peranee lecture in the Baptist church, and
boxes filled with temperance tracts had
been placed in the Post Office, Baptist,
Presbyterian and Methodist churches and
at the depot. 1t was decided to hold union
temperance meetings every six weeks.
September 20th.--The number of MEM
bers had increased to sixteen, and the first
blanks were filled and forwarded to Mrs.
Ellis. The day of meeting was changed
from Thursday to Wednesday, in order to
secure a warm room in the church. No
tees of meetings were read from the differ
ent pulpits
October 4th.-A committee was appoint
ed to visit trustees of churches and ask
that collections taken at temperance meet
ings be given to the Union, which request
was granted.
October 18th. Rev. Daniel Harris deliv-
! la on ist OH H.. l.
lection, S303
October 1th.-It was decided to hold the
meetings at the homes of the members.
November 14th.-A committee was APP
pointed to establish department of tenn
perance it the HOodstoten Register. One of
the first articles published was criticised by
the n. Y sun.
November lSth-Rev. Mr.. Price, of Eliz-
abeth. delivered lecture ON the Power
of the People," in the Methodist church,
collection, $500.
November 19th.-A union service, adj
dressed by the different pastors, was held
in the Presbyterian church; collection, 81. rs.
On Friday evening, December 18th. Mrs.
Downs met the Union, for the first time, III
the Presbyterian Church. and was greeted
1--WE regret to say with only a small audi
ence; collection. Sill.
December 23d.-Efforts were made to
celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Wo-
mans Crusade, which occurs Oh this date
with partial success. Mr.. Crate preached
a temperance sermon i'll the morning. and
a union service was held at six O'Clock in
the evening, addressed by Mrs. Z. j. Trim
BILE Lippincott and others. The evening
was very stormy, consequently the audi
ence was small.
December 26th.-The committee reported
that they were having some trouble about
the temperance column i'll the Register, and.
ON January 9th, reported that the editor
had refused to continue it. A set of reso-
lutions were adopted at this meeting to-
wards establishing paper of our own.
Major Scott through the efforts of few
gentlemen, gave "a series of eight lectures,
commencing January 18th.
\ special meeting was called on January
appointed for Band of Hope. Their
first meeting was held on January 10Th.
On the 18th of January +. b. Hum
phreys gave us the use of the room we now
occupy, and we held our first meeting in it
onJanuary 23d At this meeting we learned
that our paper had been contracted for, and
decided that its name should be the NOM
TOR and that the editorial board should
consist of nine persons, viz: Mrs. Annie
Flitcraft, Mrs. Esther J. Trimble Lippin-
colt, Mrs. J. W. Humphreys, the pastors
of the three churches of Woodstown, Ed
ward Wallace, Hannah A. Cawley, and
Enoch S. FOgg.
January 25th.-A Burns entertainment
was given, which Melted the Society $329 %,
which we decided should be used for liter
allure.
Since June 9th we had been holding "a
regular meeting one week, and special
meeting the next, therefore. on February
9th we decided to hold our meetings week
ly at 2.30 p. VI. Baileytown and the Cath
Ollie church were included in the literature
work.