Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-01-23
PlTMAN.

PlTMAN.
What exceptionally fine weather for
January.
Dandelions are blooming in protect
ed places.
George Creekmore's new house is
enclosed.
Mrs. Jos. Lodge is visiting Allen
town, Pa, relatives.
Mrs. John Cowan has been entertain
ing her sister from Pittsburg.
Miss Bessie LeFevre is spending a
few days with relatives at Haddon-
field.
Brentwood Inn is entirely enclosed
and is a massive structure.
Lumber has taken a drop here large
ly owing to competition.
Watson Michael's new house is re-
ceiving the finishing touches.
A carload of f1agstone crossings are
being put down where needed.
Eugene Doughty left on Friday for
Los Angeles, Cal, as he has been fail
ing quite rapidly in health lately.
The members of the Schubert Sym
phony Club made their headquarters at
Hotel Pitman last week.
Aaron Simpkins, residing with his
SOn-in-law, Samuel Tomlin, suffered
several paralytic strokes on Monday.
The required number or residents of
Simpson. Holly and West Jersey ave-
nues have petitioned council for an or
dinance calling for the paving of the
sidewalks on those avenues, and the
work will probably be done this spring
Miss Anna McClelland had three
friends or acquaintance, made in mus
ical circles, who were victims of the
Boyertown horror.
We hear T. l. Dunlap has purchased
the new property Gibbons Lloyd is
erecting on South Broadway on the
Suburban tract. It will not be finish
ed for several weeks.
After entertaining his father for
some time, Jonathan Duncan accom-
panied him to Camden on Monday. He
noticed his aged parent seemed poor
ly. A few hours after Mr.. Duncan
came home he received a message
stating that his father was dead.
Charles Riley, accompanied by his
father, was driving his milk wagon ov-
er the Broadway crossing Monday
morning when he saw a train bearing
down upon them. Both jumped and
escaped harm. The rear of the wagon
was struck and considerably broken.
Had the train been under full speed
they would have been killed.
The Association is clearing away the
trees for the site of the new post Of
fee. They will put up the structure
and the government will pay rent for
it, as the Office is now in the third
class. 1t must be built of either ce-
ment blocks or stone and according to
government specifications. The size is
to be 20x40, and the furnishings first
class.
The following ministers are scheduled
to preach in the revival services dur
ing the week: Tuesday evening, Rev.
Edward Gill, pastor of the Pitman
Church, Philadelphia; Wednesday ev-
ening, Rev D. B. Harris, of our town;
Thursday evening, Rev. ]. L. Howard,
of Woodbury.; Friday evening, Rev. H.
M. Smith, of Mullica HILL
Mrs. Chollerton, mother of Mrs.
John Cowan, was operated on at the
German Hospital on Saturday for gall
stones. Four stones as large as me-
dunn sized olives and two about the
size of prune seeds were removed. The
operation is dangerous one, but we
hear she has fair chance of recov-
cry. For years Mrs. Chollerton has
consulted physicians, but they either
could not or would not tell her the
trouble, and it remained for a Pitman
physician, DIR. G. B. Phillips, to dag
nose her case correctly.
A horse attached to a Philadelphia
department store delivery wagon was
brutally beaten by its drunken drivers
on Monday evening. There have been
cases before, and particularly with
drivers of the same wagon, who have
beaten and driven their horses when
they were nearly dead from overwork
and abuse. AS luck would have it, an
agent of the S. P. C. A., who has the
backbone to do something, came on
the scene and ordered the animal stab
led and fed. This agent proposes to
do his duty and viii spare no one in
their abuse of an animal, and it will
be well for transgressors to take heed.
CROSS KEYS.