The Penn's Grove record., 1888-04-07
SATURDAY, APRIL I, 1888.
.LO S.

The farmers busy season has begun.
A band of Gipsies are encamped in
Divers woods.
The fishermen aretakng their shad-
" from the water.
Beautiful spring weather and April
showers have arrived.
Read our new advertisements this
week as we'll as the old ones.
Alfred +. Layton runs Samuel j.
Uurff's meat wagon in Woodstown.
Harry S. Kidd, of Norwalk, Conn,
will make a seasons fishing at tenhs-
grove.
John & James blossoms advertise
ment should command the attention OF
our readers.
When you want a new spring nal
call at Hilborn's and get square deal
ings. Read ad.
The Denney Brothers steam barge
Greenwich is nearing completion and
will be used to carry shad to Philadei-
phia.
The steamer Major Reybold has
been taken to Wilmington to be over
hauled. The T!los. Clyde has been
running the past week in her place.
Miss Verna Black, of P~ilesgrove,
who is a student at Pennington Sem
mary, spent Sunday at home and re-
turned to the opening of the spring
term on Tuesday.
Nearly all the shaG fishermen who
do their fishing at Hope and Alloway
creeks and Port Penn have gone down
the bay. The sturgeon fishermen are
now preparing to emigrate to Bay
Side.
The Delaware shad are now on hand.
Several nets have caught from one to
a dozen a day during the week. Twelve
is the highest number we hear of be-
ing caught. They are sold for 30 and
GO cents each.
Capt. Dodo Borden, well known for
years as Il pilot on the steamer Della
ware, has moved from Salem to Cam
den to engage in the picking business
with his son. He has followed the wa
ter for forty years.
The iron schooner yacht building at
Wilmington. Del, for A. Cass Garfield
of New York, will be named the Sea
Fox. She will he launched this month,
and is expected to be the fastest craft
of her kind yet built.
The seal seen in the Delaware last
week by Geo. Jordan was caught at
Florence on Friday of last week. 1t
was six feet long. 1t has been sever
al years since a seal has been seen in
the Delaware previous to this n
The entire heard of cows Oh the
farm of Margerum Hancock, in Low
er Penn's Neck, which IS afflicted with
pleuro-pneumonia, will be killed to pre-
vent the spread of the disease. The
government will pay him for his loss.
Mrs. Amy Lummis, who kept house
for the hate Thos. Murphy and
received pay from him has been allow
ell s, 20 and court charges out of the
estal y the Gloucester county court.
10, -,,,;o.o avtopJad nyar sayap wars
Those of our readers who receive
spring announcements from A. &.
Yates II Co. and go there to purchase
should not fail to call for j.. r. MaloneS
whose compliments they are, and say
you saw their advertisement in the
RECORD.
Leonard A.. Stanton arrived home
last Saturday with twenty-eight young
Kentucky bred horses and mares.
Some of this lot are better than he
has ever had before. They are now
at his stables in Pennsgrove held for
private sale.
The first shad caught in the Della
ware along the Salem county line was
taken last Saturday by Henry Fowl,
off Carney's point. 1t was a roe shad
about live pounds in weight. Jos. G.
Summerill paid 81 for it and enjoyed
1t for Easter.
Onsthirty-second part of the schoon.
er Lewis X. COttingham, Capt. j. d.
Whitaker, was sold in Philadelphia on
Tuesday for $3.50; cost price Sll 900.
Jacob Grouse & Son would be pleased
to see our readers at their store.
Read their ad.
List of letters remaining in the post
office at Pennsgroye for the month
ending March 3lst. Richard Corkel,
Mrs. Joseph Fisher. Messrs. Gaskill Il
Co, w. Holling worth, Eugenne Sell
yn, ]. A. J. Shuts, Charley b. StraugA-
EN-, Taylor & Belts,
G W. Reed, auditor of the Della
ware River railroad, has moved from
Paulsboro to Woodbury. where he will
devote his time exclusively at The new
Auditors, office recently bnilt. Mr..
. Reeds son, Wilbur, now has charge of
the PaulsborO station.
Strawbridge & Clothier have a new
advertisement OF interest to all house
wives.
Enaroy will 1n almnSt auythinU bmt