The Penn's Grove record., 1889-06-08

IHEU H.I
A dog.pound has been established in
Wilmington.
Unlicensed peddlers in Delaware are
fined $500 each.
This evening Central Sunday School
hold their strawberry festival.
Bay trout are plentiful. Two Salem
men caught $50 in ~ hours recently.
At Bayside on Tuesday night IA fish.
ing skiffs were wreck during the gale.
Tomorrow Is Childrens' Day at the
M. E. church and extra services will be
held.
Every tax payers should read the an
nual county statement In another col
umn.
Emmanuel Church cleared $26.67 by
the strawberry festival last Saturday
evening.
Strawberry peddlers are more thick
than flies.
Get your grass sale bills printed at
the RECORD office.
Rev. G. s. Powelson q subject tomor-
row afternoon ut the Bethel will be the
Johnstown disaster.
The high tide on Friday Of last week
topped many Of the river banks and
flooded some meadows.
The weather has been 80 very rainy
and cloudy that the early cherries are
rotting before they ripen.
Tomorrow IN June Quarterly with
the colored people. The unusual big
time will be held at Bushtown.
The Trustees of Emmanuel Church
are having q barn built At the rear Of
the parsonage for the PASTORS horse.
AT the recent commencement exer-
cises of the public school at Bridgeport
a large number Of people could not get
IN the hall.
The Auburn public school held its
closing exercises yesterday afternoon.
Misses Vida and Clara Lippencott and
Lille Wright graduated.
Edward Sites will open the restau-
rant and ice cream saloon In French's
grove today, for the season, and invites
the patronage of his old friends.*
Nekomis Tribe of Red Men have
donated $40 to the Johnstown sufferers
and PENIS Grove Order Of Heptasophs
have also given the same amount.
The steamer Delaware resumed her
trips between Salem and Philadelphia
on Wednesday leaving Philadelphia at
$50 a. m. and Salem at 2.45 p. no.
Distric: Clerk Geo. H. Elkinton has
finished taking the census Of The Penn's
Grove school children and finds there
are 1926 between the age Of 10 and Is
years.
The one-eyed colt with no nostrils,
recently born from a mare belonging to
Margerum Hancock In Bower Neck,
has been stuffed and will be exhibited
at fairs.
The great Jamestown disaster fully
Illustrated in this weeks issue Of Frank
Leslies Illustrated newspaper. For
sale by j. w. Trumbull, News Agent.
Price 10c.*
As the persons who bought the wreck
OF the burned steamer Juniata have
not removed the boiler and hull and as
IL hinders boats from landing at the
lower side Of ths wharf the County
will be called upon to remove the OBJ
struction.
Produce sold in Wilmington at the
following prices on Thursday: Peas so
a basket; strawberries; from II to 7c.
: box; sweet potatoes, large. SOC. a
basket; small zoe; cabbage, $1.25; on
ions, CO.,; old white potatoes, 25c.;
new, $l.2
Save the paper bags in which you get
articles from the store. When black
ing the stove you can slip the hand into
mi OF these and handle the brush just
as well, and will not be soiled, and
when through with them you can drop
them into the stove.
List Of letters remaining in the Post
Office at Penn's Grove for the month
ending May 31st James Coekell, Esq,
Albert H. Davenport, Jno. w. Flame
gan. Miss s. James, Mrs. Robt. Nor
gan and Chas. Willard. Persons call
ing for the above will please say adver-
tised. j. D. WHITAKER, P. M.
The Pilesgrove Dairy Association is
now resolving Is 900 pounds OF milk
daily. The very wet Spring has caused
an unusual production Of milk, and
butter has been an article bard to dis
pose of. 1t is rumored that only fifty
cents per hundred pounds will be paid
for the month Of May. That Is only
about one cent q quart.
According to the Pennington Demo-
crat the striped cucumber bug may be
annihilated by the following diet:
Take half q peck Of plaster, n and a
half tablespoonfuls Of cayenne pepper.
and mix them thoroughly. Sprinkle a
small quantity on each hill and plants.
The person giving this recipe says he
has used 1t for years, and has never
lost a vine from the bugs.
Children's Day was specially observ-
cd at the Bethel church last Sunday.
The pastor G. .. Powelson. preached
upon flowers il the afternoon and in the
evening the children held forth. Be-
iidss the singing and short recitations by
classes. the following recited; Bertha
~Simpkins. Louie Stiles, Mamie barker,
Florence Broadway, Bessie Davis, Elsie
Morris. Belle Layton; Jennie Harker;