Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-09-10
PlTMAN GROVE.

P. w. Hurst and family returned to their
Camden home on Friday.
Charles W. Seeds is building new barn.
Harry v. Chew has rented one Of the
apartments in Dilks' hotel.
Mrs. S. c. Lozour is having her residence
painted.
o. B Chew gave small bouquet of as
ters to every purchaser Saturday evening.
j. o. Kelly is at Pen Mar, Md, for two
weeks.
Our bank officials report deposits heavy
for the lime of year.
Volunteer Fire Co. 2 have purchased
several hundred feet of new hose.
The Ushers' Union enjoyed straw ride
to Downer Friday night.
W. S. Dilks has ground broken for new
house on Grafton avenue.
The stork brought brand new baby to
the home of R. NJ. Fisher Sunday night.
We are sorry TO say that Will McClelland
is very i'll with typhoid fever.
The registry list shows AIS voters in the
borough.
The Joseph L. Horner family held their
reunion at Alcyon Park on Labor Day.
Captain E L. Stratton and Samuel Nor
man CT Mulliea Hill were in town Tuesday.
The weather favored the Gloucester
County Sunday schools last Wednesday
and big picnic was the result.
William B. French and Miss Theodocia
B. Behl were married Monday evening by
Rev. E A. Robinson.
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OF the Fire Patrol and Charles Kemmerer
vice president
The M. E. parsonage will be fitted out
with bath room and steam heat, and a
roomy study will be built.
Hermann Lord and family have been
spending their vacation with Harry De-
vaults near Egg Harbor.
The Fadeley and Pimm families, sum-
mer residents, have rented the Frost dwell
ing on Pitman avenue for the winter.
Harvey Snyder has generously donated
to the local w. H. M. s. fine gas range.
Claude Alkire and Miss Hazel Prender-
vile, of Pitman, were married Wednesday
evening last.
/ Carr Bros, had big crowd at Alcyon
Park on Labor Day. Over eleven hundred
Iltickets of admission to the races were sold
\ We are glad to hear that after all bills
are paid the M. E. Church of Redwood is
$3.50 better off for the excellent dinner ser
we'd at Alcyon Park last week
Frank Dealy has resigned as manager for
VIM 7. B. Roberts & Son, and Harlan Page
Albert, formerly OF Atlantic City, will sue
coed him.
Mrs. Mary Duncan has sold two building
lots lately, one TO Mrs. Alice Edwards, who
has been spending the summer here, and
one to Ella w. Clement, of Philadelphia
Marcellus Lord has quite a bad case of
blood poisoning in his right hand the result
OF scratch from a paint can. He will be
disabled for several weeks
The Hopeybrook Realty Company, COM
posed Of several young men either residents
OF or interested in Pitman. purchased some
time since a section OF land at Glen Lake
and have broken ground for the first OF sew
eral houses they contemplate building.
| One of j. L. Kuhn's colored men was
scared almost senseless Saturday morning
on going into the NOW OF the old barn on
the Kuhn farm TO find the decomposing
body Of a man hanging there. About two
weeks before some hay was taken out of the
NOV, and the stranger evidently committed
the deed shorty after that time. Under
taker Seeds had the unpleasant duty of dis
posing of she body.
Pitman Fire Co. No. / and the Fire Pa
troll made good showings in the splendid
fremen's parade at Clifton Heights on Sat-
urday. Both companies took their hook
and ladder trucks, and the small chemical
wagon OF No. / received much favorable
comment. Watson Michael generously
offered to haul No. rs apparatus TO Phila-
delphia and there put in his big grays for
the parade. The patrol were accompanied
! by the Aquilla band of Philadelphia. Rob-
ert Clement, who resided here for sometime,
and is member OF the Clifton Heights
company entertained the several ladies and
number OF firemen from here and lavish
ed eyery attention upon them.
At the Republican caucus Tuesday, Ed
ward Knisell and Harvey Snyder were
slated for Council; w. 8. Fink for Assessor
and William Collins for Collector.