The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-10-29
ssarrIsOuyiIIe NNtes.

The W. c. T. L. festival was a success
financially and otherwise.
Rev. g. +. Hancock gave Il temperance
speech at Lincoln last Saturday night.
The public school was closed three days
this week on account of Teacher's Institute
at Woodbury..
There is talk OF having a temperance lee
tnre at this place on Monday night pre-
ceding election.
The band went over to SwedesborO last
Saturday evening to furnish music at the
festival given by the band of that place.
Politics are raging. Both the Republic
cans and Democrats are hopeful of electing
the governor, while the Gen. Fisk men ex-
pect to give him a vote that will surprise
some good people.
Rev. II. D. Opdyke gave a very earnest
and forcible talk in the M. f.. church. His
foundation was Exodus 81, 1929. Look
it up and see what it is. lie said that run
is the OK that cores our people. Then he
spoke of the deliberate and systematic
methods of the rum-seiler TO entice and de-
stroy our young men. He stated that on
an average ten young men frequent each
liquor saloon and that the saloon is educat-
ing the young men more rapidly in oice
than the church is in uirtHe. lie said it is
hob AOth tilHt ~ DiRAliA q Cliti0Ei diltt q
school house on one corner and a saloon on
the other to undo the work that the church
and school do. He then p~ropounded these
questions: What shall be done with the
OK: Who owns the OK? What shall be
done with the owner? They were answer
ed as follows: 1st. If the fence (meaning
the license law } will not hold the OK, tear
1t down and kill the OK. Cd. The people
own the OK and they are responsible for it.
Sd. lie shall be stoned. We manufacture
paper buckets, paper car wheels, etc.
Paper can be made as hard as a stone.
Therefore, stone him with little pieces Of
paper. Stone him with the ballot.
CoGITo.
Miss Phoebe Garrison, OF Shirley, takes
charge of the primary department of the
public school hele next Monday. Mr..
Oliver Grimshaw is principal. There are
about seventy pupils in attendance now.
Mr.. Porch has extended the improve
ments at his mill by the introduction of a
cob crusher.
A band of gypsies are encampcd at Gum
swamp and are visited nightly by num-
bers Of our young people.
The farmers in this vicinity are very busy
at present husking corn. At night the
great place OF resort is Al. Madara's store,
ana some wonderful tales may occasionally
be heard. One man made the assertion the
other night that he had husked a shock Of
thirty-six hills in four minutes!
VIM. Ladow disposed OF two of his pop
uIar make of ca rriages one day lately.
There is considerable talk in our village
of endeayoring to secure a further exten-
sion of the railroad that is to be built to
MulIica Hill, SO that our people may have
better railroad accommodations. DR..
Stanger and John virgins were in eon-
sultation with the railroad authorities in
Philadelphia and the plan was favorably
received. Nothing definite will be done in
the matter until spring, however.
Hugh Grimshaw met with a painful ac-
cident on Tuesday. While telling logs one
fell across his foot, crushing it seriously
and nearly severing the large toe from the
foot.
While a boy was burning a bed of aspar-
agus adjoining the farm of Walter Bas-
sett on Monday, a large field Of grass be-
longing to Bassett's farm caught fire and
the entire field was burned over before it
be ~extinguished. Mr.. Blssett places the
damage at $500.
NEHTIG.