
Dinner Set For Retired Fire Capt.
A testimonial dinner for retired Camden City Fire Marshal Maurice F. O'Brien was set for Kenney's in Camden; Edwin Wirtz, John Moore and John Gaffney assisted with arrangements.
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A testimonial dinner for retired Camden City Fire Marshal Maurice F. O'Brien was set for Kenney's in Camden; Edwin Wirtz, John Moore and John Gaffney assisted with arrangements.

Firemen at the 27th and Federal streets firehouse gave a farewell party for two retired veterans, District Chief Engineer Robert A. Wonsetler and Chief's Aide Irvin F. Bishop. Bishop had spent 33 years at No. 2 Truck Company, 619 Kaighns Avenue.

Veteran Camden fireman William Earl Toy died of injuries suffered when Acting Chief William Van Pfefferle's car, which he was driving to a fire at Berwick and Boyd streets, collided with a Public Service bus at Sixteenth and Federal streets.

Philadelphia Inquirer briefs from December 16, 1917: officers elected by the Firemen's Mutual Benevolent Association and the Associated Charities, and five-year-old Theodore Sipe of 405 Market Street in Cooper Hospital after possibly swallowing a marble.