The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-02-20

a nice little house on it.
Mrs. "Piil' has been threatened with
the grippe for the last day or two, con-
sequently meals come up SO scarce and ia
between, that (while we've tried to be rev.
erent ever since We went to the young
peoples meetiug) we can't help thinking
when We sit down to partake of our rations
of the little boy who When required TO ask
the blessing said:
"The lord have mercy on Us and keep US all
alive
Ten to dinner and grub for only Eve"
We hope the grippe will soon let up.
If leather is the tanned skin of animals,
aud if animals have no souls, what paIt OF
the animal does sole-leather come from?
The fifteen cents a young father had to
pay for a bottle of paregoric last Tuesday
for the baby, may we suppose fittingly be
termed "hnsh' money.
We read last week that Gov. Patsison,
of Pa. has over 5000 applicants for thirty
five offices. Maybe potatoes have rotted
over there TOO, and everybody is going to
quit farming. Looks a little like it, don't
il?
Mr.. Samuel D. Hitchnes, one of Pitts
groves oldest as well as best known citi-
Gems, has been confined to his house for
several days. DR.. Woodruff, of Elmer,
attends him.
Cbas. F. Gray, of Columbus, N. J., is on
a two-weeks visit to friends in pittsgrove.
One day last week as Rev. l.. Myers was
driving over Daretown mill pond his horse
took fright at one of the bridges, and
started up a pretty merry clip for a preach
er to drive (%althongh we heard toe preach
er was not much scared). The horse was
takep m Sana a. noScfh1o hr1f 1r+ in
time to escape collision with Walter Paul
ding's gravel wagon, coming in the oppo-
site direction. Several spokes were broken,
and an axle bent on the minister's buggy.
No injury is reported done to the gravel
wagon. We are glad the little affair occur
ed just outside our city limits, else two Of
our well known citizens might have been
accused OF fast or foul driving and accord
iDgly pulled ill.," We are glad the acct
de mt was no more serious.
Wilbert Richman, of Woodstown, buys
poultry at the upper store, Andrew Proud.
Of Glassboro, buys at the corner store, and
Vim. Avis takes poultry in at the station.
With three poultry dealers and two preach
ers in our town, the chickens around here
stand a slim chance for the:r lives.
Pastor Myers made the congratnlatory
address at the dedication services of the
new Baptist church at Dias Creek, held
on Wednesday last.
Doctor Ewing preached a very impress
sive sermon last Sunday morning, subject
The Destroying Angel"
Benz. Colson butchersd fo%rty-thres hogs
one day last week, and sold the pork to ].
w. Durham, of AIoway.
We are glad to hear that Miss Eva Hawn
is convalescing from her late Illness.
The meetings at Pleasant Hill have been
wonderfully successful and are still in pro-
gress. About thirty have professed
conversion and the interest seems to be
deepening. The chief difficulty now seems
to be to provide loom for the people. The
pastor has expressed his intention to open
meetings at Yorketown next, and for want
of Dom the meetings may have TO be
transferred at an earlier date than was
otherwise intended. While we are not as
spiritual as we wish W. were. still we are
glad to hear of good meetings, and TO hear
of folks getting converted.
Washington School, Dist. No. 50, at
Pleasant Hill, is said to be among the best
schools of the county. Supt. Gwynne has
awarded the school a beautiful prize for
the neat appearance of their county exam
iuation papers. Miss Lizzie Wander, of
Salem, is the honored teacher of this ad-
vancing school.
II is currently reported around here that
the legislature folks are being i~mportuned
to pass a Law that will license pool-selling
at horse races, and grant the opening OF
saloons on Sunday afternoons. / don't be-
lieve in gambling on anything, and while
| haiu'U much for passing compliments, /
have ALWAYS regarded a man who bets On
a horse race as being near Kin 10 a fool. A
man who follows the betting business at
race tracks generally thinks more of
his horses thar he does of his wife. Folks
who reads the Bible say that it does not
| read Husbands put your money up" but
it SAYS Husbands love your wives. y
While l don't know as much about the
Bible as | ought to know, | believe it is
just as well for a man to think a little of
his family as for him to think so much
about horse races. Much of the time an
not very ''spiritool" yet notwithstanding
our Bitter nature, our blood ''biles''
when we hear tell of the Sabbath
day being e~ncroached upon. When we
first heard tell of it, we wished we we're a
preacher with a voice on us that could be
heard from Maine to Texas, and from
"Californy" to York State. We would use
it in no gentle whisper against the propos.
eu EiHauttC evil dtia AeAaIiOus llaLiG. tu3s
too not so much because we are good, but
be it remembered we are an American
Pill" and as every kind of creed aud ism
is continually landing upon our shores and
| seeking refuge in this land of the free aud
home of the-she2. every American
| should stand firm for the sanctity of the
Sabbath. America can't afford to give up
her Sunday under any consideration. We
are not advocating a return to the PuFi-
tauic Sabbath, yet if any extreme be adj
her d to that would be the safer by far.
We commend our Pfesby teriau minister
| upon his efforts in circulating 4 remou-
| STRANGE to be placed before the law make rs.
Everybody here signs the remonstranee
and We hope the proposed enactment fav-
| oring gambling and rumselling On the
Lords day will be forever squashed. Oar
Temperance procliyi tiles are never paraded
but we have always stuck to it that II a
man gets drunk six DAYS in the week be
| ought to keep sober on the seventh. Meet
lug people say there is something In the
| Bible in regard to the Sabbath day.
| think | have heard that it is one OF the
| Commandments. Some of the Command
ments | believe are numbered, | ain't good
at remembering s'iggers,n but this is thu
| Commandment: Remember the SabbatI
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