Everett Street

EVERETT STREET Camden runs from Fourth Street east to Haddon Avenue, interrupted between South Sixth Street and South Ninth Streets, and again at Pershing Street, between Lansdowne Avenue and Jackson Street. Best known as a residential street, Everett Street was also the home of the Liberty Bottling Works warehouse, Camden Auto Spring Company, and, at the intersection of Broadway and Everett, a baseball field where many of the best teams in Camden and traveling professional teams came to play.

Phil Cohen
Saturday, August 17, 2019

Arrested on a federal charge of transporting and possession of beer, John Grost, 39, of 1603 Norris Street, was committed to jail without bail for a hearing before U.S. Commissioner Wynn Armstrong today.

The truck driven by Grost was stopped at Collings Road and the Black Horse pike by police, who found three half barrels of beer. In the machine with Grost was Bruno Skalowski, 16, of 1057 Everett Street, who was held as a material witness.

When the pair were locked up, Grost told Jailer Harry Stahl that “someone drove alongside of his truck and put the barrels in there.”

To the Editor:

Sir — Will you kindly find space in the columns of the Mail Bag for the attached letter:

To my fellow delegates and Congressmen: Being rather lazy and reluctant to write all the delegates and congressmen of the Congress of Civic Associations and having this valuable medium whereby one letter will reach all as well as giving the publicity we always strove for in the days of the congress, it is my desire to reminisce with you of those good days when our congress was feared by every politician. For one, I am sorry that there exists no longer the congress. I sure did enjoy hearing you, Frank, and you, Clarence, as well as the rest of us, on the commission floor “bawling out” our city fathers. We’d have to arrange that a little different now, for it would be awkward for you, Frank, to get down from the commissioner’s chair to the floor to raise the devil with the other commissioners because they made the taxes go up. Clarence could not very well attend the meetings to criticize the city government, at least so long as he is on city’s time. But be that as it may, perhaps it can be arranged through another congress, where we could make all the plans for our bi-monthly show at every commission meeting.

LEON S. WOJTKOWIAK
1062 Everett Street

An argument over a pushcart in which a man was severely beaten on the head and face resulted in Joseph Dworanczyk, 29, of 1155 Lowell Street, being sent to jail for four months in police court yesterday.

With his left eye badly blackened and his face cut and swollen to almost twice its usual size, Simon Balicyck, 55, of 1065 Everett Street, told Police Judge Pancoast that Dworanczyk beat him with a board. He said that the attack occurred at Farnham Park when he refused to give Dworanczyk his pushcart.

Dworanczyk pleaded not guilty to the charge and said he struck Balicyck in self-defense.

Leon Lokaj, 21, of 1040 Everett street, was held in $500 bail for a further hearing November 19 when a woman who previously accused another man, charged in police court yesterday that Lokaj was the real father of her baby.

The woman, Sue Carroda, 22, of 2040 Arlington street, also told Police Judge Lewis Liberman that Lokaj is the father of a second child she expects soon.

On October 17 the Carroda woman finally cleared the name of Stanley Wrotney, 22, of 1070 Everett street, who had been paying her $3 a week because she testified on February 19 that he was the father of her firstborn. She retracted to Mrs. Etta C. Pfrommer, of the bureau of charities, because her conscience troubled her, she said. The woman testified she lied about Wrotney because she was threatened by Lokaj, who also pleaded not guilty yesterday.

The full article is on Camden Courier-Post, October 29, 1935.

After a long illness, William Amenda, 72, died yesterday at his home, 1234 Everett street. He is survived by his wife, Gottliebe; a son, Otto; and a daughter, Mrs. Dale Hill, all of Camden.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow at the Schroeder Funeral Home, 715 Cooper street. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.

1910s–1960s — Eugene Wales (aka Eugene Waleskiewicz), 1243 Everett Street.

A near collision with the Audubon police patrol car last night resulted in arrest of Edgar Rambo, 35, of 1244 Everett street, Camden, on a drunken driving charge.

Sergeant Dewey Parker, Patrolmen Henry Mehrer and Thor Anderson arrested Rambo after they swerved their car into a side street to avoid collision with Rambo’s machine at White Horse pike and Nicholson road. Dr. G. C. McKeown pronounced Rambo intoxicated. A $200 fine and revocation of license was imposed by Recorder Jay Daniels.

Just before Camden firemen were planning to leave headquarters yesterday to march to the home of Captain Martin B. Carrigan, who lost his life in the falling roof at the Economy Store fire, they were summoned to a three alarm fire at the stables of Hugh A. Greenan, 1736 South 7th Street.

When Engine Companies No. 7 and 8 reached their fire houses this morning after the Carrigan funeral, an alarm was received from the drugstore of W.J. Grobiowski, 1250 Everett street.

The Grobowski fire had its origin in a pile of rubbish in the basement and was extinguished with a small loss.

Charged with loitering with intent to steal three Liberty Park youths will be given hearings in police court today.

They are John Milena, 20, of 1244 Whitman avenue; John Malik, 15, of 1295 Everett street, and Edward Bukowski, 17, of 1507 Norris street. They were arrested by Detective George Zeitz.

Prior to their arrest 900 cigars were stolen from the parked automobile of Edward Spiegel, 1500 Bradley Avenue. Zeitz said the youths were near the car.

As a result of these meetings and some pressure from Camden’s City government, the tunnel underneath the railroad that extended Whitman Avenue into Parkside was constructed.

Thorn Street, one of the streets that tunnel served, has its own page.