Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-12-05
PiTMAN.


Company No. /.
trio cars are furnishing us with free
pyrotechnic displays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Shute and
son, of Wildwood, were Thanksgiving
guests of Mr. and Mrs. |. d. Haines.
E. G. Champion has the cellar dug
| for a new house on Grandview ave-
nue..
Joseph Lodge and family took
Thanksgiving dinner with relatives at
Chew's Landing.
George Cowan moved on Wednesday
last to the dwelling recently vacated
by Frank Harry.
About one hundred guests ate their
Thanksgiving dinner at Hotel Pitman.
The hotel was full over Sunday.
\ Liveryman Carr has purchased the
former w. D. Carter property on Sum
nit avenue nearly opposite the water
works
Rev and Mrs D. b. Harris enter
| tanned the Walter Harris and H. S..
White families. of Philadelphia and
Pitman On Thanksgiving Day
There has been considerable petty
burglary here lately John Holetons,
E. L. Lacy's and A P. Strings places
of business have lately been entered.
Mr. and Mrs. Parker H. Graham are
delightfully."- located in one of Miss
Rulon's new houses on Mount Vernon
avenue.
| Mrs. L. L. Appleby was quite badly
burned few days ago by falling
against a stove.
Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Downer were
numbered among forty guests at the
residence of S. w. Downer and family,
of Downer.
Several local members of the Young
| family attended the annual Thanks
| giving dinner given this year by Mr.
/ and Mrs. Oliver Chew, of Woodbury..
sUncle JIM Mccall and his niece,
Miss Helen Booth, with four OF her
young teacher comrades Of Philadel-
phia, were week end guests at Hotel
Pitman
Pitman Fire Company, No. 1, held a
pleasant carnival at the Alcyon rink
Wednesday evening. Eight prizes
were given Twenty dollars were
| cleared
Miss Harriet R. S. Rulon, of Rich
wood, is making her home with her
| brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. d. Carr. Her health has been
poor for some time and does not i'm
! prove
The barber shop at First avenue en-
trance is to be located near the Tab
ernacle on Fourth avenue, and is to be
used exclusively as a fire house by
Volunteer Company No. 2. The boys
OF No. moved it on Thanksgiving
Day as far as North avenue, where
they We're halted by an open sewer
ditch
Joseph Lodge has sold his store
business and his K G.. e. Hall Asso-
citation stock to Mr.. Crosse, of Phil
adelphia, who will take charge next
week.
The Hanlon Company has the ditch
dug for the surface sewer pipes from
the Broadway railroad crossing to
| First avenue. The non-arrival of pipe
is delaying work on the system.
John D. Clark recently purchased A.
/ S. ConOyer's barn, and his sons with
a number of friends helped him move
It on Thanksgiving Day, and then par
took of big potpie dinner.
DR.. Chas. Phillips entertained his
children at dinner Thursday. Mrs.
Phillips is an invalid and has been
confined to the house for months. it
was her birthday and about hundred
cards were received from friends.
Joseph Campbell and family, of AT
lantic City, moved into their now home
on Broadway on Wednesday. They
have many friends in Gloucester coun-
ty who patronized the Clayton cottage
which Mrs. Campbell made popular.
Their new home in Pitman will be
very attractive when all details are
completed.
Thursday was a sad Thanksgiving
Day for John Storer and family, OF
Philadelphia and Pitman. The second
son, John, Jr., died of kidney trouble
Sunday and was buried at Hurffville
on Friday afternoon. John was fa-
yorite among the young people of our
community, as he was in the family
circle.
Joseph B. Moore died Tuesday even
ing the Goth, at his home in Merchant
vile. He spent his summers here
with his daughter, Mrs. w. G. K.
! Walls. Mr.. Moore was as fond of FISH
ing as Grover Cleveland, and he and
some old friends would frequently
"OAu tuCA way W A1CyOH OF FLICK
ett's pond for the day.
The question of bonding the borough
for $4,000 for new school house
was voted on Friday evening and the
proposition was defeated by vote OF
"a to 48. We presume every man
present desired new quarters for our
school, but conservative voters
thought it unwise at this early day in
the history of the borough to saddle
it with such a debt and consequent
| high tax rate.
A rather curious accident occurred
the ether day while the Association
workmen were telling tree on Broad
way. The tree stood few feet back
of the walk near a porch, and was
about eighteen inches in diameter.
Supt. Schoch had left order to let it
down gently by means of a rear line.
| Tho I1c11ol WOW would houo hoa,, l,ot