Over in Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer, August 20, 1897

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OVER IN CAMDEN
Walter F. Toms and ex-City Surveyor Jacob H. Yocum are the latest additions to the list of candidates for the position of Chief Engineer of the Water Department. City Council will elect at its meeting next Thursday night.
No one having identified the corpse of the man found drowned at Gloucester last Sunday it was buried in Potter's Field yesterday.
The Camden bicycle ordinance has been certioraried to the Supreme Court to test its legality. Lawyer Rex yesterday served the writ on Mayor Westcott. George B. Fithian, who was fined by the Mayor for driving on a bicycle path, is contesting the ordinance.
Game Warden Guthridge yesterday arrested Bladimer Blominski, a Polander, for killing a thrush. The bird cost him $20, as that was the amount of fine imposed by Justice Braker.
A large delegation from Camden Lodge, No. 15, F. and A. M., attended the funeral of David G. Patterson, a Past Master of the lodge, at Woodbury yesterday.
Rev. Matthew Register, colored, was held in $500 bail by Justice Colding, charged with threatening to do bodily harm to Helen Jones, of 1008 Kaighn avenue, who, it is alleged, did not appreciate the attention paid to her by the preacher.
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