Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-01-11
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which the annual election was held
and the following officers chosen for
the year of 1912: president, David
Paulin; yice-president, L. N Shreve;
treasurer, A. A. Weisner; secretary,
Walter L. Dunham; chief, j. Leon
Barton; assistant chief, A. G. Stew
art, Jr.; hose cart foreman, Alfred
Voelker; ladder truck foreman, F..
M. Porterfield; fire wardens, Richard
S. Doughty, VIM. Martin, John s..
SAUL Harry Carroll, Wesley Dilks;
plugman, Chas. A. Voelker; mascot.
Master Earl Miller. A. A. Weisner
was also elected by the company as
a representative to the Local Relief
Association. The assistant ladder
foreman and hose cart foreman will
be appointed later.
A sick or visiting committee has
been appointed in the fire company to
look after the sick and disabled fire.
men of the township, with Chief
Barton as chairman, for one year,
and John Saul, Harry Carroll and
Edward S. Scott for three months.
The Cow Boy Girl, a Western play,
made famous by Messrs Kirby and
Britton throughout the country, was
presented at the Auditorium on Sat
urday night to we'll filled house.
The theme and situations are origin
al and rich subjects for melodrama-
tic complications, although the play
cannot be called melOdrama, being
more in the musical comedy class
There were several big song hits, in
cluding The Cow Boy Girl Indian
| Rag, Whittling," -Four Bad Men
from Arizona, and He Treated Me
White. The play was well staged
and the lines were we'll taken by the
characters
| The Womans Foreign Missionary
Society of the NJ. P. Church held a
meeting at the home of Mrs. Hiram
Stanger on Main street on Wednesday
afternoon
The High School basket ball team
will play the Phila. Trades School,
team on Friday evening at the Audi.
torium, and before the game and dur
ing the intermission the Rosebud
Academy Club will play the Stag
/ Club OF Pitman.
| At the revival services held on Sat
urday night in the First NJ. E. church
/, hot coffee was served and social
held at the close of the meeting.
One hundred and sixty pupils of II
| local public schools we're neither alb
sent nor tardy during the month oi
| December.
/ Despite this being leap year, the
young ladies of Glassboro seem in nj
hast to take advantage of it; so fal
no leap year parties or dances have
| been held
Alfred Duffield is laid up witt
rheumatism at his home on South
Academy street and he is a great
sufferer,
Joseph McDonohue a former Glass
boro boy but who the past ten years
has been working in the middle West
was calling on friends here Saturday
and Sunday.
| The Glassboro County Club held it.
annual election of officers in its rooms
on last Friday evening, and the fol,
lowing were elected: President. Or,
b. M. Duffield; vice president, j. Ar.
thur Johnson; treasurer, Frank r
| Stanger; secretary, John Taylor;
board of directors, Alfred w. Mar
SHALL one year; William Heritage
three years.
| As a result of the intense. cold the
underground pipes of the pipe organ
/ in the First NJ. E.. Church became
frozen and the organ could not be
used during the Sunday services.
The Glassboro Board of Health a
it's last meeting elected Lewis N
i Shreve chairman; Joseph H. Helms
| clerk, and Dr. Charles S.Heritage
physician.
The week of prayer is being observ
ed here by union services being helC
/ each afternoon at O'Clock, alter
mating in the Methodist Episcopal
/ presbyterian and Methodist Protest
ant churches
Samuel w. Ledden left GlaSsborC
on the 1.0S p. m. train on Saturday
for Cincinnati where he has accepted
| a position as machinist in big glass
plant. Mr.. Ledden formerly was en-
ployed by the Whitney Glass Works
! Miss Lillian Tice, of Holly Beach
spent a portion of last week with
friends and relatives here Miss Tict
I is former Glassboro girl and hel
many friends were glad to see her
She recently returned from triI
through New York State
/ Miss T. Townsend, who has beer
spending few days at Monticello
Fla, returned to her home here or
Saturday.
Mrs. M. G.. Townsend and Miss
Helen Townsend were Saturday visit.
ors in Philadelphia.
Merreld Dunhan spent Sunday witt
his parents at Millville.
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PITMAN.