Alfred L. Sayres, Banker, Stricken; Condition Critical

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Alfred L. Sayres, 86, widely-known Camden County banker, is in critical condition at West Jersey Hospital.
Sayres suffered a stroke while visiting an old friend, Vincent Razyckowski [sic], head of the Newport Bottling Works, 1101 Morton st., Thursday afternoon and was taken to the hospital by a police ambulance. Sayres had been making business calls.
Sayres, who lives at 811 White Horse pike, Oaklyn, earlier in the day had been in the Camden Trust Co. on business and talked with Sylvan G. Fletcher, vice president and treasurer of the bank, and chatted with Razyckowski [sic], who had been talking with Fletcher.
Sayres, a former Camden City councilman under the councilmanic form of government, had been street commissioner of Camden.
He organized and was president of the Parkside Trust Co. in 1918 and which had its banking quarters at Kaighns and Haddon aves. and was merged in 1927 with the West Jersey Trust Co., when Sayres became vice president of the combined banks.
Other members of the Parkside Bank organizing group were Albert S. Woodruff, counsel; William C. Davis, a baker; Mark Bulifant, a realtor; Dr. Oris [sic] W. Saunders, later Camden County physician; Dr. William E. Miller, of 8th and Walnut sts., and O. O. Phillips.