Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-08-03
PiTMAN GROVE.


Webb avenue.
| VIM. G. Fox moved his household effects
to Swedesboro on Friday.
The genial countenance Of Rev. Milton
Relyea is welcomed once more.
Miss Clara Boyd is here for the camp
meeting.
Mr.. and Mrs Edward Burning. OF Null
lica Hill, are in town quite frequently.
Heinzs are demonstrating their 81 va
lrietiesa at S. P. Clark this week.
w. B. Rulon, Of Philadelphia, spent
Tuesday with Pitman relatives.
Miss Alice virgins has been spending
few days with her aunt, Mrs. Thomas Me-
Keighan.
Miss Anna Williams is entertaining two
friends, Miss Eckhart and Miss North.
The Association have had the dormitory
and tabernacle newly painted
Mrs Layinia Appleby burned her hand
quite badly with boiling water on Thurs
day.
After many weeks of illness and slow
conyalescence, John Birch is about town
again.
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boarding at the Pasadena during the camp
meeting.
A sweet faced lady dressed in the pecu-
liar garb Of the Dunkards, was in town
over Sunday.
Over one hundred people went from here
to the various seashore resorts on Thursday
R. A. Comey and daughter Eta, returned
from their European tour on Wednesday Of
last week.
Harry Rulon spent Sunday with relatives
who are summering at Monterey, near Len
OK, Mass.
Mrs. Locke, of Hurffyille, is one of the
best lady bowlers at Alcyon Park. and is
likely to capture prize.
Mrs. Oliver Chew is confined to her bed
with illness, and her father, Joseph Young,
is also i'll at the Chew home.
o. w. Downs fished at Grassy Sound on
Tuesday and brought home twenty-five
specimens.
Lewis Hates and family went to Cape
May in his auto on Friday and returned
on Sunday.
Charles Schaffer severely burned an arm
on Friday evening by tipping over pot Of
hos coffee.
Rev. Gladstone Holm, D. D., pastor Of
Tabernacle NJ. E. Church, Philadelphia,
will be the chief orator at the dedication OF
the NJ. E. Church, August 20.
During the camp meeting, the Saturday
afternoon ball games will be played at
Alcyon Park instead of the Athletic
grounds.
The ball club was banquetted at Tenth
avenue restaurant on Saturday by ladies of
the Summer Cottegers' Association.
VIM. c. Fox had big sale on Saturday
afternoon. The building lots corner Pit
man and Railroad avenues were purchased
by a Mr.. Fralinger, of Bridgeton, for
| A balloon which was being inflated at
1Alcyon Park Saturday evening, caught fire,
and the attendant had narrow escape He
Jumped through the breach made by the
fame. -
Miss Ella Ham has been elected a teacher
! in our public school. The list OF teachess
is now complete, as follows: Mr.. Davis, Miss
Stoltz, Miss Garry, Miss Ham, and Miss
Dougherty.
After some weeks spent with friends and
relatives in this and other So. Jersey places,
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Spear, Of Terre
Haute, Indiana, have turned their faces
homeward, but will spend two weeks in
Kane, Pa.
!. The Senior Mechanics of the State of New
Jersey will hold rally at Alcyon Park on
I August 16, andspromise one of the greatest
days ever held there, provided the railroad
Iauthoritity will give them excursion trains.
The annual ball game between the Fat
isand lean men took place at the Athletic
sEness ended the game at the end of the
Ifourth inning The fats being the best
lEluggers, and remarkably agile for men Of
their girth, beat the Trims u to 6.
Mrs. Hannah Stidham, who returned
from California few weeks ago, was the
guest Of j. G. Rulcn and family on Thurs
day. Mrs. Stidham and Miss E. E. Rulon
were travelling companions on the NJ. E.
Conference tour to California in the Spring
of 1904.
1 After little lull the newspaper fakirs
started ont again last week with a fairy
4 tale about the fair bathers at Alcyon Park,
4 and now that the annual camp meeting has
commenced, we must expect them to Guido
themselves during the next two weeks, ~
The Borough Council met Monday even
ing and settlements with Mantua and Glass
borc townships were practically agreed mp
on. We win haye street lights, but few
other Improvements this year. as the Coun-
Gil are determined upon keeping taxes
down.
M The fasco at the ball game at Alcyon
Park on Mechanics Day was a severe blow
Ito the sport in this vicinity, and looks like
u death blow TO future picnics which the
Iechanics might give, although they were
not TO blame.
| The railroad authorities are awakening
70 the fact that the great amount Of travel
to and from this place requires some spe-
cial concessions, and they are being given.
An express now stops here at 8. AZ q. b. ).
and dollar excursion runs to Atlantic
I City on Sundays. Agent Treat ii nern-