Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
PITMAN GROVE.

1WO COACH loduS OF naIAmOHlOn people
came over on Thursday and took in the
farmers picnic and camp meeting.
DR.. Knowlton, Of Camden, who is spend
ing his first Summer here, likes the place
so well he has bought a cottage on West
avenue.
Il. P. Young has had his house, corner
Second and East avenues, painted,
Mrs. Ira Iszard of Glassboro, has been
the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Bert Kni-
sell, for the past two weeks.
G. P. Carly has had house on Wood
lynne avenue painted and is now painting
one on Holly avenue.
Harry Hiles expects to build handsome
colonial cottage, corner OF North and West
avenues in the near future
Several coach loads went to Clayton on
| Tuesday afternoon to witness the second
battle between the Clayton team and Gu
ban Giants. Cuban Giants won, to 2.
Mr.. Parsons has small patch of pota-
toes tha6 is supplying bugs for all that part
Eof Holly avenue.
George Anderson has staked out the
ground for new house on Holly avenue
which he will build for Mrs. Carter, of
4 Aura.
The lightning on Wednesday evening OF
last week did considerable damage to one
of the dynamos at the electric light plant.
4 During Wednesday mornings very
heavy shower dog was drawn into the
underground drain and by the time it
emerged at the other end it was dead
creature.
The Century Wheelman had an enjoyable
outing at Alcyon on Saturday afternoon
and evening, but were beaten at both base
ball and bowling by their Pitman oppon-
ents.
4 Big preparations are being made for the
firemens picnic. Beside the minstrel
show, pike, and supper the fat and lean
men promise an interesting game of ball in
the afternoon.
Miss Nina Gilbert and friend were
, driving on Monday evening and met with
a mishap, the second Miss Gilbert has had
in week. The first resulted in an upset
and broken buggy, the second in mix-up
on Broadway in which one girl jumped and
the other was thrown out. Both suffered
slight injuries.
The Recreation Band, under the director
ship of &. w. Sickler will give free con-
cert at Summit Park pavilion on Saturday
evening. The entire band will be present
/; and musical treat we are sure to receive.
Large drain pipes are being laid on the
North side Of Pitman avenue from Clark S
coal yard to Broadway. They will be
placed on the South side also, where there
! is special need of them.
Matthias Chew, of Cecil, came to the
farmers picnic in his automobile Mr..
Chew is not so young as he used to be.
but ne handles his auto with as much dar-
!. ing he would were he young man.
+ So many people came on the North
bound one o'clock train on Wednesday and
! Thursday that the trains had to be stopped
! on the cut between Glassboro and Pitman
q to allow the trainmen to collect the tickets,
t More people came BY rail than ever before
and helped to make the farmers picnic q
record breaker. Conservative estimates
: place the number in attendance on Thurs
(, day afternoon at 25,000 The large store
of provisions was all disposed of and late
in the evening sandwiches were made oi
soda crackers. Expressman Knisell says il
. was the first time he could not haul ice
cream with one horse as fast as people could
eat it. The picnic has become a great
affair and ought to be held at least thret
days.
Thursday was quite busy day witt
Constable Downs and Justice LefeYre. Fl
{; started in the morning with the apprehen-
sion of a man who gave his name as John
: Carr. He had been beside Jos. Garter
whose pocket was picked in the train, but
as Mr.. Carter could not swear that Carr
: robbed him he was released and told to gel
/ out OF the town as soon as he could. He
was later recognized as a suspicious charac-
ter who frequented the neighhorhood oi
17th and Vine SITS, Phila., and was taken
E into custody by Sheriff Jones. The Sheriff
made another capture later in the day. j.
NJ. MCGOWAN supposes he was a victim as
9 his purse was gone with about SIS. But
) decidedly the greatest local interest CEN
/. tered in the case of Thomas Z. Wilson who
had been boarding in the town since
Spring. He had been the engineer for the
association but was summarily dismissed
J about two weeks ago for getting intoxl-
Gated. On Wednesday he went through
. the grove and collected considerable money
on pretext that it was for engineer
Doughty. On Thursday morning num-
Der of indignant men and women were
ready to appear against him. He was
; placed under S400 ball and nndlng no one
to 90 his security was taken to Woodbury.,
There will likely be number Of charges
, against him as he made threats against
some of Mr.. Doughty's friends and rela-
: tives who live here for exposing his rascal
ity.
Interest was aroused on Friday morning
when it became known that an infant, {
piri. had been left on G. W. Cars porch
7 and another, boy, on James Adams
Both children were poorly dressed, were II
5 the same kind of baskets, and the sewing
on their clothing was the same, indicating
that they came from the same place. Il i
7 supposed they were left about three O'Clock
/. in the morning as all the dogs on the street
5 were barking at that time. Both wer.
] taken to the county house on Friday bs
Constable Downs. The boy, about tws
months old, was named John Holly, as i
was fny13d an H0liv avenue ami thf, eirf