The Penn's Grove record., 1889-06-29

The steamer Haber took an excursion
down the Bay on Thursday instead o
TO Penn's Grove as formerly reported
she would. A tug ran in her place be
tween PENIS Grove and Wilmington.
Notwithstanding the rainy weathe
on Wednesday, about $50 people wen
on the st. Paul's Sunday School excur
sion on the steamer Greenwich through
the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal {,
Turkey Point.
Best dinner in the County on Jul,
4th for 25 cents in Divers woods.
The Y. M. c. A, of Salem, will
make an excursion to Woodland Beach
on July 10th. Several sports will tax,
place such as base ball and tug-of-war
A delegation from the Bridgeton Asso
citation will accompany them.
VIM. w. Somers, at Church Landing
has the best tomato patch between Sa.
lem and Camden. He is also up head
with his squashes. He picked a bas.
ket last week and sent them to vii.
mington for the first they brought 81
cents a basket.
Rev. Joseph Garrison will deliver an
address in Divers woods OF July 4th.
Don't fail to hear him.
Miss Carrie V. Holton aeent the
week with Mrs. Julia Atkinson, %Jlo is
visiting her sistef Mrs. X. Dobbins.
at Columbus. The friends and ac.
quaintances of Mrs. Atkinson will be
pleased to hear she is quite well, much
better than she has been.
Produce brought the following prices
in the Wilmington market on Thurs
day: Peas 60 cents a basket; onions so
60c !; new potatoes, 65.75c. old potatoes,
45c. tomatoes, 81. 80; yellow wax beans
60c.; green snap beans SOC. j. Wilmer
Clark commission dealer.
r. j. Shoemaker has been chosen
book keeper andbusiness correspondent
for the Columbia(Pa Wagon Company,
which will necessitate his giving up The
principalship of the PENIS Grove pub
lie school. The latter will be regretted
by a large majority of our citizens.
The Declaration of Independence
will be read in Divers woods on July
4th.
The West Jersey Agricultural Asso-
citation, at Woodstown, will inaugu-
rate their new track on Thursday, 4th,
which has been graded and greatly i'm
proved. There will be four races in
the afternoon AS follows: so class,
purse, $3.50; 4-year-od, purse 500; g.
year-old, purse $50; 2.40, purse $500.
VIM. Diver, the joyial Union Corner
grocer, thought he would get a joke on
Frank Willett and Charles II. Osborn
by offering them 81 to carry a soap sign
around town on one of their backs on
Tuesday. They turned the joke on MI.
Diver by marching around with it and
he had to give the dollar.
Miss Nina Smith has Il rare lily call
ed the Golden Band Lily, which had
four beautiful blooms on it this year.
The flowers consist of six white petals
with yellow strips down the middle. 1t
is very fragrant and beautiful. The
plant does not bloom until it is three
years old when il has only one bud and
continues to increase n each year.
On Thursday the small girls at the
Cove enjoyed a shore party and an ex-
cellent supper at ''Aunt Lib" Tussey's.
Seven young queens of the household
sat around the festive table and gave
Mrs. Tussey much enjoyment to think
she was making others happy. After
gathering some in from the byways six
teen in all enjoy 1aRal hospitality.
Hon. Belmont Perry will deliver the
Grafton in Divers woods on July 4th in
Divers woods. Don't fail tGShear him.
The piling for the Kent County and
railroad at Bombay Hook has
all been driven and the caps and floor.
ing is being put on. A similar pier
is being being built on the Jersey side
of the river at Bayside for the trans
port to ply between. The construction
train between Smyrna and Bombay
Hook is kept running daily.
The following new postmaslers have
been appointed in New Jersey the past
week: Mrs. Nancy Rogers, Elmer;
Mark L. Carney, Greenwich; Randolph
Mcfarland, Monroeville; Joshua Fox,
Pittsgrove; William Plummer, Jr..
QuintOn; Edgar II. Bonham, Shiloh;
Jacob Sickler, Siekierville: Charles ii.
McCully, Wilton: VIM. X. West,
Bridgeport.
Capt. Strowbridge, of Auburn, has
loaned to the citizens of Swedesboro, to
assist them in their celebration on July
4th, probably the first cannon captured
by our.blockading fleet after Fort Sump-
ter was fired on. 1t is a lib. gun pre-
sented to him by the captain of the
English barque Empress, which was
trying to enter the Charleston harbor
with a cargo of copper, about June /,
1861.
This month of hay and wheat harvest
has been the most rainy of any in the
memory of many of our most aged citi-
zeis. Grass should have been cut and
in before this week but showers have
been so frequent as to hinder the gath
ering of upland hay until after the
wheat is cut. Most of the wheat was
cut this week between showers but
if the rain continues as it has been it is
some of the wheat will be spoil