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As Camden opened its World War II drive to collect old aluminum for national defense, an unidentified South Camden resident of German birth was among the first donors, carrying his old pots and pans to Engine Company No. 8's firehouse.
Report of the February 4, 1938 Camden County Council meeting of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which set the fourth annual military ball for Armistice night and pressed a county-wide membership drive; Howard Bean served as publicity officer of Corp. Mathews-Purnell Post No. 518.
More than 60 comrades honored Fire Capt. Herman Kreher of Engine Company No. 11 at a dinner marking his fiftieth birthday and the eve of his retirement.
Funeral services were held in Camden for Nicholas Romaine, 48, a member of Engine Company No. 11, who died of injuries suffered fighting a junk-shop fire nearly eight years earlier.