Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-09-08
PITMAN GROVE.

Fl. P. Young is still very i'll.
Rev. Harry Lopez was able to attend
church on Sunday morning.
The last church service in the tabernacle
for this season was held on Sunday evening.
/ Alcyon Park will close on the 18th with
the annual oyster supper.
/ Rev. David Fisher, and wife, of Bridge
ton, have been spending some time with
relatives in the grove
The former Mead property on North
Broadway, has been newly painted and
fitted up by the present owner, Mr.. Eek
ard.
| from California, and were warmly welcomed
by former friends and neighbors.
Frank sayre has gone into business as a
forest at 1926 South Second ST., Phila
Mr.. Archer, of Steelman & Archer, drug
gists, Philada, will build another nice
cottage on Webb avenue adjoining the one
he now lives in.
The Camden Athletics and Pitman ball
team played their second game on the
Playground on Monday, and the Athletics
won to 1.
The business houses closed on Monday
at l D. M, and the town was nearly de-
serted, the ball game and attractions at the
Park being the centers Of interest
Our public school opened on Tuesday
with large enrolment of pupils in charge
of the following teachers; Miss Eva NJ.
Allen, Miss Kate Stultz, Miss Ivy Dufield,
and Miss Laura Dougherty.
Rev. D. B. Harris, OF Asbury Park,
expects to become resident of our town in
the not far distant future, when he shall
retire from the active ministry, and has
bought site on Oak avenue for his home.
Frank Mitchell, the medical student who
was drowned at Asbury Park last week, was
warm friend of Warren Focer's, and IN
his visit to Mr.. Foeer had made number
of friends who deplore the sad event.
The clam bake, ball game, and political
debate drew big crowd at Alcyon Park on
Labor Day. The debate was fair sample
of how professional politicians can talk and
arouse mementary interest and enthusiasm
yet say very little that is practical Rev
DR. Parker easily carried of the honoTs.
DIR. Swallows address IN the evening was
not up to expectations.
A would-bc joke on Mr.. and Mrs Thos
Fleming, who are childless, has been the
means Of affording that worthy couple
endless amusement, and the joke itself IS
on several scores of people not thought OF
by the originators. About $50 on We'd
nesday afternoon Of last week the express
man left prepaid package at the Fleming
home. Mrs F. opened it and found
pretty doll. With the doll were bottle,
pacifier, rattle and a note of instructions
When Mr. Fleming came home, they had a
hearty laugh over it, and later in the even
ing took their new treasure around to
several Of the neighbors. THE news got
abroad that real live baby had been left
at the Flemings, and the next day the peo-
pie began to come, and Mrs. Fleming says
the men were decidedly more curious than
the women. The discontinue OF the
curious ones can be imagined when Mrs.
Fleming with serious countenance, led
them up the supposed bundle Of humanity
and they found il to be creation OF wax.
In all nearly seventy-fye people called,
among them three ladies one of whom
stated that she would like to adopt the
child of Mrs. Fleming did not care to keep
it. She told them she had decided to keep
! it. but would let them see il. Their faces
were study upon beholding the hoax.
The real live baby part Of it got into some
Of the Camden and Philadelphia papers,
and some Of the railroad authorities dele
gated one Of their employees who lived here,
Joseph Orr, to fully Investigate the matter
as the package had been expressed from
Haddon avenue ReY. George Ashley, q
Philadelphia school principal, who sum
Imers here, facetiously offered to christen Il.
The Fslemings thought they would not put
him ID 80 much trouble, but hereafter Pit
man Flaming viii have Il conspicuous
nIaoe Il, their home mid Il Ruaxanteed aeYer