The Penn's Grove record., 1889-05-11
SATURDAY, MAY IL, 1889.
LOCALS. s.


Some premature straw hats have be-
gun to bloom.
The new Wilmington Directory con-
tains 10000 uames
The prospects are favorable for a
good crop of grass.
q. &C. Mines cooking extracts, cholera
mixture. and ginger for sale by J.. U
Layton only.*
Strawberries are in bloom and so are
the festivals. The first n in Odd Eel
lows Hall tonight.
Although this is an off year for ap-
pies vet the large number Of blossoms
suggest a fair apple crop.
VIM. Shoemaker brought out a brand
new butcher wagon last Saturday which
has q very fine appearance.
Don't forget the st. Paul's strawber-
ry festival in Odd Fellows Hall this
afternoon and evening, nth.
John Finnegan, of L.. P. Neck, caught
the largest shad Of the season on last
week.. 1t weighed 8 pounds.
Stiles & Treas, of Salem, have some
thing In our advertising columns of
much interest to our lady readers.
Rev. A. M. Sembower, of Salem,
paid some members of the PedricktOwn
Baptist church a visit last Saturday.
j. Ford Thompson, who has been
bad sick with malaria for the past four
weeks we are pleased to hear is some
better.
Rev. T. c. Parker went to Col
umbus on Tuesday 10 bring his horse
to Penn's Grove. He returned on
Thursday.
Out of 1900 Wilmington women
qualified to vote at school elections
but 20 took advantage Of the privilege
last Saturday.
Some members and friends of the
Bethel Church gave their pastor, Rev.
g. s. P0welson, a donation party on
Tuesday evening.
Mr.. H. H. Shoemaker, a native of
Pedricktown and now connected with
the Egg Harbor Bank is organizing a
neW State Bank at TuckertOn.
The Delaware River Railroad Com
pany's annual meeting put off the elec-
ton of officers until an adjourned meet
ing next Monday at Paul's Hotel,
Woodbury..
W. Henry Denny and wife have
ed in with their son-in-law William
Shoemaker. John p. virgins will
occupy the David Guest house vacated
by Mr.. Denny.
Rev. W. H. Coxson pastor of the M.
p. Church at MOorestown, was strick-
en- with paralysis about ten weeks ago.
He has recovered so he is able to travel
out doors again.
Joseph Stout, ST., lost a young horse
on Sunday. 1t died from injuries receiv-
ed while running away some time since.
1t ran into a barb wire fence and was
pre- tty badly cut up.
The farmers In this region are not
planting near so many water melons
this year as usual, as they have proved
a failure the past few yeals, both as TO
production and price.
Mrs. Jas. d. Torton arrived home
from Brooklyn OH Monday where she
spent a ten days visit with Vincent
Cook and wife. Mr.. Cook is NJ of the
best reporters for the N. Y. World.
Rev. X. H. Basmajian, q missionary
from Adrianople, Turkey, with his six
year old daughter, will speak and sing
In the pedricktown Baptist church to-
morrow evening, 18th. The little girl
will sing III four different languages.
A pound of bananas is said to con
tain az much nutriment as three pounds
of meat. Possibly this is so; but a
pound Of meat will help to build a man
up, while a small piece of banana will
bring him down so quickly that his
head will swim.
The township committee notifies all
delinquent tax payers in another col
umn to pay up at once or be prosecut-
cd. They mean business and it is
they rights hOuld AS TO be lenient with
those who do not pay is al injustice to
those who do pay
John P. virgins took account OF
W. H. Denny & Bros. stock at cost
price in their store this week which
amounted to about $4500. Mr., Wrig-
gins will move his family to Penn's
Grove on Monday and assume full
control of the store.
A. G. Weber, a merchant at Chris
tiana, DEL, who has relatives and
friends ip this region, was taken to the
University Of Pennsylvania hospital on
Monday to have a delicate internal
operation performed, as the result of a
fall received on Saturday.
Lawyer Jos. ]. Summerill, WIN. T.
Garrison, ESQ.,, s. X. Leap, N. d.
Leap, W. +. Yeager and Job Bevis
took a trip down the Bay on the steam
or Greenwich on Monday and saw the
largest lot of shad of the season. They
reached PENIS Grove about II O'Clock,
midnight. when II, 200 shad in boxes
had to be transferred from the lay boat
to the Greenwich. Most Of the excur-
sionists gave the boys on the boat a lift
with willing hands. The boys enjoyed