The Penn's Grove record., 1885-06-13
County G1eanin gs.

There is a project on foot in Salem t
have a freight siding constructed fror
the main track t. the factories alonI
the creek. Tie citizens think it shoul'
be constructed on the opposite side 0
the creek and n%otthrOugh the city.
W~oodstown's shoe factory project /
at a stand still because of the service
ola superintendent. Geo. L. L'ppin
colt who came to Woodstown and goi
the business men aroused 10 undertake
it has refused the position and with
drawn from the concern because the
directors would not give him as large a
salary as he desired. Those men WHO
go to a town and get the citizen to raise
the money to start anindustry ex eel
to get all the plums of the pudding
free gratis.
The daily average of milk at tho
Wood5town creamery is over 900U
pounds.
The bondsmen oil Revenue Collector
Thos. N. Terrell, who are responsible
in the sum of $40, 600 each, are w. ).
Thompson, of Gloucester City, Charles
S. Ridgway, David p. Morgan, of Cam
den and d.. Samuel L. Miller, OF Giou-
cester county.
Bridgeton District of the New Jer'
sey Conference of the NJ. Il. Church
contains II pastoral charges, 81
churches and chapels, valued at S32l,-
S4j, and 3 churches are being built; 81
~parsonages, valued at S67, 70O-making
a total valuation of church properly
Of $3.50, ,6j4, an average of $46 pei
member.
Michael Potter, of Willow Grove, the
ce~nteuarian of this county, is reported
to be in very feeble health. His hurli-
ed breathing, swollen ~extremities and
failing strength indicate approaching
dissol ution and corroborate the asser'
ton ofan eminent medical writer that
Old age is with rare exceptions "a pro-
tracted and terrible disease. PotttI
will be 101 years old if he lives until
the Is of July.
Last Wed'y afternoon as two little
boys, named Johnnie HARRISON and vii
lie Roberts OF Auburn, were going at.
ter the COWS for their neighborS, they
sawtwO horses ~pasturing on the school
house lawn, and Willie, ia an endeav-
or to drive them off struck II OF them
when it instantly kicked him in t he
right eye. The poor little fellow il
now in II critical condition.
The school census of Salem just taken
shows that th"re are $40 children Of
School age i'll the last ward aud OK
III the West warl, making a total OF l.
so OF this number, 102 are c1lored,
Last yer there we're 1898 school chill
dren, a falling eff Of 10. Oae hunlre 1
and twenty-One school children wert
oun d unvaccinated this year, az
against 81 last year.
Samuel Z. Smiley, of Salem, is "
MN the recent graduates at West
Point.
The steamer "Clampion'' made her
appearance AZ peuusvi!ie Oh Thd5sda J
of hast rvek. Size ts99ught down ~
cargo Of len souls, and on the follDw-
ing day, three pair mora we're added
to the list, making sixteen passengers
in two dtys. On saturday she iai &c
to arrive, but on Sunday ~silseGns viii
about twenty passengers. 1t is said
she will run the season out if it takes
all SRinmer.
The County Historical Sotie ty eX-
poets to have a paper prepared on the
life and and wcrk of John Fenw!ch
who first owned and settled this Conn
~. Ills lurial place is not known but
some of the old est citizens, Thomas
Shourds, of Hancock's Bridge, Samuel
Kelly and III. Thompson, of Salem
visited the locality where they are sup
posed to rest, last week. After a care
full survey from mem ry located the
spot on the farm owned by Mrs. MIR
gan, formerly part of the Sharp tract
in a field at the Intersection of the Oak
LAID road with the main Salem and
WoodstOwn road, near tae Count
Almshouse. 1t is expected a suitable
monument may soon permanently mark
this spot.