Charley Birney remembers pumping the lever on the top of the box that contained the bellows there were in the box.  This activated  the bellows and the suction somehow was produced that passed through a long hose protruding from the side of the box.  Miss Cawley could then vacuum her carpets.  Ripley's Believe It or Not, or the Smithsonian Institute probably do not have a model of this early Hoover household contraption.

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The cold winter spent by our troops at Valley Forge during the American Revolution is often recounted.  It is a fact, however, that there was not actually a scarcity of flour, corn, beans, molasses, etc.  Food supplies stored in warehouses to the southward were unavailable as there were no wagons to carry the supplies to the encampment, so the troops suffered.

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At the turn of the century the same way of life existed in nearly every household in both urban and suburban areas.  Monday of every week was washday, Tuesday was ironing day, Wednesday was mending day, Thursday was baking day, Friday was housecleaning day, and Saturday was marketing day.

On Sunday the whole family attended church and dinner was a noontime family affair.  Often in communities like Haddonfield Sunday School was an afternoon ritual.  No work was permitted at all on Sunday unless there were animals that had to be fed.  Yes, times have changed!

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When Sam Hunt's butcher shop was where Howard Griffeth’s electric shop is now, on east Kings Highway, Mr Hunt was always hanging dressed pigs on hooks on the front porch of his shop.  It was a ritual for many schoolboys passing to, without breaking stride, slap the pigs rumps.

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The building on the corner of Friends Avenue and East Kings Highway that was Bud's Market for years, was once the office of the Public Service and Gas Company for Haddonfield.  It had the first electric light in town.  Light poles were stacked in the rear yard.  In the basement of the building there is still against the front wall an old square hollowed out wooden log through which electric wires were once strung from the Main street.  A story has been passed down through the years that a tunnel once existed that ran from the old cellar to under the Main street up to the guardhouse opposite the Indian King.  The tunnel is reputed to have been the underground prison for British prisoners of war during the Revolution.