The Penn's Grove record., 1888-04-28
SATURDAY, APRIL Is. 1883.
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The maple leaves are spreading to
the breeze.
OF course you are all ready to sign
for Il local option election.
Host French has built concrete steps
from the grove to the river bed.
Chas Sheets has bought the Thomss
Price property of j. d. Whitaker.
The personal property of c, A. Bor
den. dec, will be sold this afternoon.
J. W. Trumbull has improved his
premises by having a new fence erected.
Farmers at Laurel, Del, art coli
tracing to furnish tomatoes To can
neries at 81 per ton.
Daniel Jaquette, Sr., and wife, OF
Salem, have been visiting in Penns-
grove the past past week.
Daniel V. Summerill, Jr., and wife
arrived home last Saturday after seing
the sights at Washington.
r. ID. Hughes, of Philadelphia, has
been in town during the week looking
after his canning interest at the Cove.
John and Geo. Cook caught the larg-
est shad on Monday which has been
reported yet. 1t weighed 8 pounds 81
ounces.
The Delaware River Telegraph Co.
paid a :ax Of $40. 14-being a tax of
two per cent. on the gross receipts
$520.46.
Fashion has most wisely and hui
namely decreeded that birds are not to
be worn any longer on ladies' hats and
bonnets.
d. D. Leap has had fenced in the
plot of ground on the north side of
his house which he purchased of Chas.
ElkintOn's estate. J..
We would inform ouI friend, the
Register. that shad have been artiiically
propagated in the Delaware each spring
for several years past.
A Philadelphia party came to Penns-
grove on brewer Betz's yacht on
Thursday and partook of u planked
shad dinner at French's.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Bethel
church propose holding Il strawberry
festival in the basement Of the church
on Saturday evening of May 18th.
W.. A. Sack. Sr. who has been stur-
geon fishing in Florida the past win
ter arrived home or Wednesday and
will begin plying his business in Della
ware bay.
l. o. Acton, of Salem having pur-
chase j. J. Summerill's insurance BUSH
LESS, gives notice in another column of
his pleasure to attend to transfers, &C.,
in that line of business.
The W. J. Press says it understand
a company is now being secretly organ
lied to build a railroad connecting
the Delaware River road withthe Phil
adelpbia and Atlantic at Glocester.
Parker Fennimore caught in his shad
net on Thursday the largest white
perch many have ever heard of. 1t
weighed l pound and a ozs.; was 13s
inches long and l0s inches in circum-
ference.
The skiff in which Asa Ovens, John
Dolbow and another Salem fisherman
We're being lowed behind the steamer
Greenwich last Saturday night was fill
ed off Stoney Point and the men came
near drowning before being rescued
The exhausted and drowsy feelings
cOmmo to spring time. indicate an
impure md sluggish condition of the
blood, which may be remedied by the
use Ayers Sarsaparilla. 1t is the most
powerful, and, at the same time, most
economical blood purifier known.
o. II. virgins, of Sharptown, gives
notice in another column that
he has taken charge of the store
at Courses Landing, and will
run the same with David S. Kiger IN
charge. Mr.. virgins will continue
his store and poultry business at Sharp
town rs heretofore.
The schooner j. r. p. Moore will
lumber from North Carolina for JOIN
Summerill & Bro. arrived on Tuesday
at Salem and part of the cargo WAS
consigned to J.. 5. Newell & Son.
She unloaded part of her cargo at the
Cove.
While Robert Burk. of Prospect:
was taking something out of the back
part of "a buggy at the station on Thurs
day, the horse, which belonged to l.. A.
Stanton, got scared at the locomotive
and raj up Main ST. and the rail
road to Pitman ST. where it was caught.
The buggy Was racked badly.
Frank Fowl started to drive his
brother Henry's horse from Thos.
NortOn's to the Cove Oh sunday. 1t
became unmanageable when it saw
the carriage top, as it had never been
driven to a top wagon before, and ran
most of the way and upset the carriage
at Summerill's store breaking it, hut
not hurting Mr.. Fowl.
If you want to buy an organ on easy
terms, call at the Post Ofiice.+
In consequence of winter diet and
lack of open air exercise, the whole
physical mechanism becomes impaired.
Aytr's Sarsaparilla is the proper RENE
dy, i'll the spring Of the year, to
strengthen the appetite, ~invieorate
the system, and exrel all impurities
from fl.. hlnu1