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Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Camden Lodge of Elks tonight will shatter all initiation records of recent years. In addition to 50 new members to be received 80 former members are to be reinstated.
Camden Courier-Post - October 16, 1933 Retired Builder Dies at Penn Street Home; Resident Here for 50 Years The funeral of William C. Aitken , 87, retired builder, who died Saturday at his home at 421 Penn street , will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Camden Courier-Post - October 16, 1933 The funeral of William C. Aitken , 87, retired builder, who died Saturday at his home at 421 Penn street , will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Mr. Aitken was one of the best known builders of his day.
Group Gaining Weight in Vermont Mountains as They Clear Timber to Make Way for Jam, And Sleep Under Heavy Blankets Forty-three Camden city and county men with Company 2204, Citizens' Conservation Corps, are now located at Knapp Andrew Camp, Montpelier, Vt., word received here yesterday disclosed.
Charged with threatening to kill a North Camden man, Aloysious 'Patsy' Mozier , former boxer, of 3006 Hartford Road , was arrested last night, held in default of $1500 bail for a hearing in police court this morning.
Three people were hurt when an Audubon motorist lost control on the trolley tracks on Mt. Ephraim Avenue near Decatur Street; among the injured was Miss Dorothy Conroy, 19, of 507 North Fourth Street.
Representatives of every Jewish organization in Camden were in attendance last night at an emergency meeting of the United Committee for relief of German Jews, held in Talmud Torah Hall, Kaighn Avenue near Seventh Street, when plans to complete a drive for $10,000 by July 3 were adopted.
Mrs. Rose Paiano, 26, of 1522 Park Boulevard, was treated at Cooper Hospital for cuts suffered in an automobile collision at Seventh and Pine Streets.
Uniformed Veterans to Join Lodge Members in Colorful Ceremonies Arrangements are completed for the Flag Day celebration to be held tonight by the Camden Elks Lodge Lodge at Seventh and Cooper Street s. The program will open at 7.30 p.m. Doors of the lodge room will be opened to the public at 7:15 p. m. The program will be broadcast over WCAM .
Camden Courier-Post - June 8, 1933 Elaborate Ceremonies Monday Night Will Be Open to Public An elaborate Flag Day celebration to be open to the public and broadcast over the radio is planned by Camden Elks for Monday night.
Four men and a woman, among them 28-year-old Walter Koscianski of 966 Bulson Street, were fined $25 each in Camden police court in June 1933 after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct while denying they had been disorderly — a case arising from a motorcycle policeman's arrest of the five at Tenth and Bulson Streets.
Military and Civic Organizations Parade in Camden and Join Services Addressed by Clergy and Congressman Wolverton More than 2500 persons attended a joint veterans memorial observance in Convention Hall which followed a parade of veterans and civic organizations yesterday afternoon.
Six-year-old Floyd Rochester of 734 Elm Street suffered a fractured leg when struck on Elm Street by a car driven by the Rev. Joseph Rigney of 101 Fourth Street, Riverton.
A Philadelphia motorist who forced off-duty Policeman Earl Wright's car onto the sidewalk and punched him was chased to the bridge and arrested on reckless driving and assault charges.
Camden Courier-Post - June 11, 1932 Offer of $5,300,000 for Catholic Church Property Disclosed in Court.
Five swimmers drowned over a summer weekend in South Jersey waters; Camden motorist J. W. Reed of 1147 North Twenty-second Street alerted police after witnessing one of the drownings at Wildwood.
Federal prohibition agents discover a 300-gallon still operating in the attic of 3215 Alabama Road, Fairview, after following the odor of alcohol through the neighborhood. Harry Benzuk and Alex Slusaruk arrested. Camden Courier-Post, November 12, 1931.
The campaign for A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and local Democratic candidates, will be carried into six wards of the city and in seven communities of the county tonight.
Ben Courter's 1931 Camden Courier-Post reminiscence of four leading South Jersey physicians — Drs. Godfrey, Iszard, Davis and Gross — recalling how Dr. H. H. Davis transformed health care for Camden's schoolchildren.
Two Figured in Wounding of Cop and Slaying of Pal Four members of the notorious North Cramer Hill gang, two of them participants in the robbery in which one bandit was killed after wounding a city detective, were sentenced to state prison terms by Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday.
A weekend crime sweep in Camden: two alleged Philadelphia gangsters were trapped in Harleigh Cemetery by Patrolman Howard Bean and others, while a South Camden grocer routed two holdup men — four suspects held for the Grand Jury.
With two Assemblymen taking the highest stations, Camden Lodge of Elks will tonight install recently elected officers at the home, Seventh and Cooper streets. The ceremony will be presided over by Past Exalted Ruler James H. Long.
Eugene Marshall, 21, of 404 Jasper Street, admitted he was the man Camden police sought after an anonymous letter named him the "phantom sniper," but charged he was framed by an enemy he believed to be the real sniper. The same day a fire-alarm box at Kaighn Avenue and Hyde Park was drilled, and a weekend shot narrowly missed Joseph Carone.
Thomas Atkins of Oaklyn, driver of the automobile that struck and killed Mrs. Emma Scholl, 67, of 694 Tulip Street at Ninth Street and Morgan Boulevard, was held for the grand jury on a technical charge of manslaughter by Judge Bertman in traffic court.
Mayor Van Hart's June 1922 proclamation for a safe and sane Fourth of July, with Camden news of the ferryboat Millville, a Masonic funeral for William P. Weiser, and a divorce advised for Mrs. Margaret Jenkins of 1418 Louis Street.
Fire believed to have started through the drying of animal hair destroyed Hugh A. Greenan's frame building at 1736 South 7th Street; six horses were rescued and Chief Peter B. Carter sounded a general alarm.
Camden firemen were called to a three-alarm fire at Hugh A. Greenan's stables on South 7th Street just before marching to Captain Martin B. Carrigan's funeral, and to a drugstore fire on Everett Street on their return.
Police and detectives swept disorderly houses across South Camden in one of the largest raids of the period, led by Capt. Lewis Stehr.
Philadelphia Inquirer briefs from February 19, 1917: a police raid at 710 Sycamore Street, a scalded child on South Seventh Street, a burglary at 1529 Federal Street, and an arrest over stolen chickens.
Joseph Copvinski of 1053 Diamond Street and Frank Notevis of Mount Vernon Street were held in $1,000 bail each on charges arising from labor troubles at the Keystone Leather Company.
The man killed by a West Jersey and Seashore Railroad electric train at Seventh Street and Kaighn Avenue was identified as Stanislaus Schmick, 42, of 1046 Everett Street. Philadelphia Inquirer, June 12, 1915.
Thomas O'Connell and his son James, of 2309 South Seventh Street, were held by Recorder Stackhouse in Camden, accused of beating William Laute, 37, of 741 Fairview Street, who was taken to Cooper Hospital.
Elizabeth Green stabs John Gideon in front of 731 Baxter Street; Gideon dies at Cooper Hospital fifteen minutes later.
Andrew B F Smith sued the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad for $2000 over two horses and a wagon struck by an electric train at Seventh and Royden streets; driver George Miller died on the way to Cooper Hospital.
Philadelphia Inquirer — April 2, 1910 ** In memory of Policeman Casper Hart, who was fatally injured in a collision between a trolley car and the Second District patrol wagon at Broadway and Benson streets , flags at all the station houses were placed at half mast yesterday and the headquarters of the Second district police draped in mourning.
A fire destroyed the garage of J. G. Reeves on North Seventh Street just above Market, wrecking the automobiles of twenty-three Camden business and professional men and badly damaging the adjoining Evangelical Lutheran Church; an explosion hurled firemen Peter Carter, John Lennox and John Lutz across the street.
Policeman Camillus Appley of the Seventh Ward, held for court on a charge of assault and battery on saloonkeeper William Laute at Seventh and Fairview Streets, was suspended pending an inquiry by the Police Committee of City Council.
Saloonkeeper Patrick Carr of Seventh Street and Kaighn Avenue sued Police Captain Stanley for $10,000, alleging that Stanley's testimony before the State Excise Commission naming Carr's saloon as one that should not be licensed damaged his business and character.
William Smith, 23, of 419 Clinton Street, fell on the sidewalk at Seventh and Benson Streets from an attack of heart disease and was taken to Cooper Hospital.
Camden briefs for July 15, 1907, opening with Captain Stanley's early-morning raid on 139 Chestnut Street and the arrest of alleged proprietresses Bessie Heisler and Emma Carll.
Thomas G. Fogarty of 2224 South Tenth Street fights off would-be robbers near Seventh and Bulson Streets; Miss Anne Larsen of 2222 South Fourth Street escapes a similar attack.
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden items from March 1, 1906: a railroad power house going up at Seventh and Vanhook streets, bids for a lift bridge over Cooper Creek, and six-year-old Emma Jones of 1066 Louis Street badly burned in a bonfire.
Philadelphia Inquirer - March 1, 1905 Attacked at Third and Mickle street s, Camden, late Monday night by a man, Mrs. Bessie O. Day, of Seventh and Clinton streets , had her clothing cut in strips.
John Jamison, 20, of 680 Woodland Avenue, a pitcher, broke his arm above the elbow while throwing a curve ball during a game at Seventh and Fairview Streets. Cooper Hospital doctors said a sudden twist caused the fracture.
Rain stopped the morning exercises at the Pyne Point Park Fourth of July celebration in Camden in 1903, while the East Side's leading fireworks display was at the fire house at Twenty-seventh and Federal streets under Captain Amadee Middleton. Blank cartridges and toy cannon caused a string of injuries treated at Cooper Hospital and Homeopathic Hospital.
A column of Camden briefs for August 11, 1901, including a report that Police Captain Stanley was in a head-on trolley collision at Brigantine Beach and escaped with a bad shaking up.
Tack Sing, a Chinese laundryman at Seventh and Mt. Vernon Streets, was arrested on a policy-writing charge after a slip covered in Chinese characters was found on him. An interpreter testified the slip was a doctor's prescription for toothache medicine.
Robert Taylor shoots Sumner Derrickson in a gambling dispute on Baxter Street; Derrickson taken to Cooper Hospital, Taylor arrested at the Federal Street ferry.
A race riot in South Camden's Seventh Ward leaves two men wounded; police, including Policemen Hyde and McClung, exchange pistol fire with the combatants and make several arrests.
John Hill, in his 18th year, was hanged at the Camden County Jail for the murder of Joseph Dodson, the first execution on Camden County's new gallows, less than six months after he shot Dodson near Reed & Derrickson's saloon at Seventh and Sycamore streets.