The Penn's Grove record., 1889-03-23
SATURDAY, MARCH %, 1889.



A vet quinostial this week.
Miss Bella Holton Is on a months
visit in Camden.
Wm.S s. Avis and wife, of Camden,
spent Sunday In renn's Grove.
Sweet potatoes now bring $2.25 per
barrel for large and about 80 cents for
small.
Frank Fl. Carman graduated at the
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy on
Tuesday.
North Carolina shad sold for from
$40 to $50 per hundred In Philadelphia
last Saturday
MIS-. Winfield Strengthen has been
confined to her bed with rheumatism
but is improving.
Herbert Hill has entered the RECORD
office to learn the art preventative.
He makes a fine p. d.
st. Patrick was quite mild last Sun
day, probably because local option had
not been repealed then.
The high tide last Saturday morning
topped the meadow banks and inundat-
cd some Of the meadows.
Frank Walker. Jr., who has been on
q tug at Brooklyn, arrived home ON
Saturday to get ready for fishing.
Samr M. Justice was reelected Trus-
tee Of the Cove school on Tuesday ev-
ening for another t., RIM Of three years.
Next Monday is moving day. Many
have taken time by the forelock and
got squared away in their new homes.
Rev. H. Atkins, of Philadelphia, will
preach in the Emmanuel church tomor-
row, oath, both morning and evening.
Don't eat your supper at home to-
night and get it in Odd Fellows Hall.
Oysters IN every style, also ice cream
and refreshments.*
Teno T. Vulkoff, a Bulgarian stu
dent at Grocer Theological Seminary
will preach in the Pedricktown Baptist
church tomorrow, Gath.
Warren ]. Harris and Robert Har-
bison, who have been fishing on the st.
Johns river in Florida the past winter,
arrived home on monday.
The open winter has compelled the
coal monopolies to reduce prices and
coal is now being delivered in Phila-
delphia for $500 per ton.
Frank Cunningham, who is fishing in
the bay for rock, fell overheard recent
" and came near drowning before the
boat could be rounded to him..
10 G. French is having g floor
put In and making other improvements
to his bar room to be in readiness when
he secures his license from the Court.
A delegation Of Penn's Grove US
went to Pennsville to attend the Couu-
ty convention Of the w. G. T. q. on
Wednesday, hut when they got there
they found they were the only ones that
convened.
The bland smile of Taylor Bros. cat
In another column is an evidence they
have something the people want and
and their fair dealings has led people to
deal with them until they now have
al extensive business.
The personal interest taken by the
teachers in the Penn's Grove public
school under the encouraging leader
ship Of the efficient principal has never
been taken since when DR.. j. p. Bur-
nett was teacher twelve year ago. The
parents, and also the tax payers should
encouraged them and give honor to whom
1t Is due.
James A. Black, who has heen suf-
feriBg badly with a urinary disease
tor sometime, went to the Univer-
sity hospital, Philadelphia, last week
and had an operation performed. We
are pleased TO hear ha is improving un-
der the treatment their. He will have
to remain there sometime to get per-
manen tly cured.
Edward S. Harris who has been fish |
ing in st. Johns river, Florida, arriy-
ed home on Wednesday. He reports
that he only made a fair season, not
w%ithstanding he caught more shad than
last year and shad were never knownto
be so thick there. Prices were low, av-
eraging for the easoD only about
$l2. SO. about the same as here.
JOSEPH Horn, who had the flying
horses in Elkinton's grove last sum
mer, will be there again next summer.
If he can secure suitable grounds he
expects to erect a novel bathing tobOg-
gan shoot, which have become SO popu.
lar at Saratoga and Chautauqua Lake.
The bather gets in a fiat sled and sill des
down an incline plane into the water.
While raking among some ashes in
his yard last Saturday Jesse d. Clay
poole found y piece of Continental
money which passed for twenty shil-
lings. On the face the following words
were very distinct as if the note had
been we'll preserved. ''This Indented
Bill shall pass current for Twenty Shil-
lings according to an Act of the Gener-
al Assembly OF the Counties OF New
castle, Kent and Sussex, upon Della
ware. Passed in the 18th year of the
Reign of His Majesty, Geo. the Sd.
Dated the LIST Day, Of Jan, 1776. XXX"
On the back was . sheaf of wheat
and the words: ITO Counterfeit is
Death. Printed by James Adams,
l776.n How it got In Mr.. ClaypOole's
yard lie does not know as 1t was found
on the ground from where q pile of
aahaa HAD heAn