The building was where later the Haddon Ice and Coal Company eventually did business for many years.

There was a one cylinder steam engine to which was attached a generator that produced the electricity. It was operated at first only at night, when the electric bulbs that had been installed on the poles placed around the principal streets in town were lit.

Howard Griffeth remembers that early one snowy winter day, Mr. Shivers, the milkman who delivered milk daily all over town from his dairy farm over in Ellisburg, had two horses who pulled his milk wagon killed when the high-powered electric wire fell on them on Kings Highway at Potter Street. The wires carried the current to the arc lights on the poles.

There are not many Haddonfield old-timers who remember the big wagons coming into town every summer picking up the wooden sidewalks from the principal streets of the town.

The summer was spent repairing them, so that they were ready to be put back on the street when autumn came around and they were ready to stand the rigors of the winter.

Remember when the peddlers sold strawberries around town from door to door for 25 cents a quart?

Remember the two-wheel pushcarts in which the paperboys brought the morning papers down from the railroad station every morning to old man Wright's paper store as part of their delivery job?

Another memory is when customers would order oysters on the half shell from John Sterling, who would have Jake Anderson, his deliveryman, walk them to their destination. He carried them on a tray, and occasionally some would slip off the tray, but he picked them up, put them back and no one was the wiser.

Such was life in Haddonfield way back then in "modern times."