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Journal entry
the editor9s Desk, Pottersville, NJ
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Celebrating 24 years!
Volume 24, Issue 1 of The
Black River Journal
PUblisher
Lee c. Wolfe
editor -in-Chief
c.G. Wolfe
ContribUting Writers
sara catherine Lichon
Jacob Parsley
William D. trego
cindy ehrenclou
raritan Headwaters assn.
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Lauren kearns
stacey roessler
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century ago, before text messages
and news alerts flashed across our
phone screens, the church bells that
beckoned the faithful to service on Sunday, doubled as the village9s town crier.
They rang-in holidays and special occasions, like a wedding or a funeral, and
they alerted the community to big national events of the day.
On a 8dry9 morning in 1919, the bells
of the Presbyterian Church in Califon,
New Jersey, rang in the era known as Prohibition; heralding the passing of the
Eighteenth Amendment, which outlawed
the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors. For the temperance
movement, it was the long-awaited death
knell for