The Penn's Grove record., 1885-08-29

Main street for q iHFFIug gI0uni,
wbereon wa erected ht 1T25 Il flame
house for worship, supposed rear The
site Of present dwelling built fn the
eare-taFer OF the meeting house. IL
tue year l77l an additional half acre
was bought Of Aquilla BaIber at a cost
Of 70 6 .. Cd. fronting on Main street
and |adiouruing the first purchase, he
ing the ground IN which the present
house now stands. GtLer snail pUr-
! chases Of land adjoining the grounds
were also made. About the year l1l9
Friends finding the house too small to
accommodate tleQuarter|y Meeting an
addition was built thereto.
On the 18th Of ye 7th month l7Sl,
| Fri nds Of Pilesgrove informed Salem
monthly meeting that they had eliga
ged in building a meeting house agree
ably TO the ad ics and consent Of tLat
meeting, and as the hoIse was larg' re-
uuested assistance. The salem Friends
contributed a0g toward the paymen;
! Of the p lesgrovc Meeting hou,e. ODD
Of We ID month, 1889. report was made
that meetings had been held ia Upper
Neck and leave was granted TO con;in-
ne tftmhnGCr the care of Eiihu and
Isaac Pedrick. and in the 1lth month
following they were again continued
| for three months under the care OF
Elihu Pedrick md Jacob S0mers and
report when ended. A separation WIS
made from Salem and the first monthly
Meeting was held at Pibsgroye 4th mo,
| 24hl.l 17a4.. Tic fheetiug ut PENIS
| Neck was Continued for another year
nndef the care of Isaac Ward and Ja-
cob Somcfs. AS early as the year 1880
the Friends appointed Il committee &c
consider the subject Of Spiritious L.
quors when it VAS reported That
Friends hal been able to perform heir
various 1abors without The use Of it, 10
their satisfaction.'
FIRST mo 25th, 1904. The Commit
tee on suffering cases reported the
amount Of fines agai..st right Friends
to be &c SIS aud 4 pence and the
amount Of property taken from them
to make that sum was 3le los 6 p"nce.
These fines were for non-attendance ut
muster on training day; in regard to
Which Friends Of that day were con
cernea to bear a faithful testimony,
neither could they co~nscieatiously pay
tie fines. A few years later Il law was
enacted. exempting from military duty
in time Of peace, all members Of fire en-
! nine companies. Many Friends avail
| Ell themselves Of this law and enrolled
| themselves as members Of such assoc
i%atioas, by this means avoiding mill
tary SCI vice, and relieving themselves
srJm needless eXtorti n.
Salem Monthly Meeting was eSiab
lishei in 1916 and Il brick meeting
house built AT the grave yard in 100.
TIE present meeting hou5e at Sliem
was built in tI72
The exercises comprised an address
of welcome. Il historical sse eli If the
of The first formation of the society in
this place ing back 10 1920; Il review
of the title TO The property OF the yoc'e-
ty ia WoedstJwI.; Il sketch Of the tes-
| timony e Frieuds AGAINST slavery and
and intoxicating drilks; poems COM
memorative Of the OCCASION MI a4drea-
ses and exhFlA inns by visiting F lends
and othersl among prominent visit
ing frienlsI we're L. u Laf@shore, jos.
Truman. aid jam Lawrir, Of Piilad-
elphit; AIeu Nitcraf5 AMI wife, Of
Chester, Pa, Hon. }. $. Haines, John
Parrish, 4co. I. 'Iaiue5 AMI others.
rhe exercises were continued iii the
afternoon, the visitors being ent"rtain--
ed at dinner after the usual hospitable
manner OF Wood5.0wu Friends
Among other interesting features of
tie day was the reading ofalettcr froH
Gohn &. Whittier, and The presence OF
Bartho Cole, the cenienaridn Of Piles
grove, xho ftc,ped Appointment seat
at the h al Of tie meeting aad>sat out
both sessions with less fatigue than
WAS manifested by many Il younger
man. The meeting was formally ad-
iougned 10 meeton the 22d day Of Au-
gust, one hundred years hence,