The Penn's Grove record., 1893-08-25
FRIDAY, AUGUST %, 1898.


urday.
Bargains in gasoline stoves at W. Is.
Kille's.*
Woodstown Fair next week. Are
you going?
The wind blew the top off an old box
car Wednesday night.
AS peaches are "down'' it 10 time for
housewives to put them sup"
Only one more week of vacation.
School will begin September 4tb.
Crops have suffered more from
drought i'll Gloucester than in Salem
county.
Truck baskets for sale by Edw. G.
Brick. \
Merit j. Lingo made 4! miles on his
bicycle on Tuesday in IA minutes and
45 seconds.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. z. Simpkins had
quite a social gathering of young folks
last Saturday night.
A few sweet potatoes were shipped
from PENIS Grove this week for which
So a barrel were paid.
st. Georges p. E. Sunday School, of
Church Landing, picnicked in French's
Grove on Wednesday.
The digester of sturgeon refuse,
which Is made into fertilizer. is on
l'arber's railway for repairs.
The Edge Moor Iron Works have Sc
cured Il number OF new contracts for
bridges and are buster than for some
time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lin Huff were made
happy by the arrival of a little girl at
their home Tuesday evening at the
Cove.
Great damage was done by Wednes-
day nights storm in New Jersey, New
York and New England, especially
along the coast.
lille Smith has reduced her shirt
wastes from 90c. TO 75c. Late style
sailor hats for 25c.*
Owing to the heavy wind and low
tide on Thursday morning the steamer
UIrica did not make her 6 O'Clock trip.
The hurricane which accompanied
the welcomed rain Wednesday evening
blew many small limbs off of trees, and
blew down corn badly.
Woodstown Fair should be well pat
ronized by the residents of the County
in this region rs there will be no Will
mington Fair this year.
One of the excursionists walked off
the stone wall into the river Friday
evening of last week in the dark. and
cut his chin very badly.
The government is building a new
foundation ard new building for the
red light on the end of the jetty, at the
mouth of Christiana Creek.
r. d. Hughes's Canning factory at
the Cove will soon start up. The time
of starting is later this year as thassdry
weather has damaged the tomato ciNs&
Chemists say that it takes more than
twice as much sugar to sWeeten pre-
serves, sauces, ETC., if put in when they
begin to cook, as it does to sweeten
them after the fruit is cooked.
Get them ~whilecheap, gasoline stoves
at W. b. Killie's.*
All members of the W. c. 7. U. will
please meet in their 0 next Thurs
day, 31st as it is the time for the an
nual election of officers and the appoint
meut of delegates to the County Con-
yention which will be held in Woods
town.
The members of the Bethel NJ. r.
Church will hold their last harvest
home in the basement of the old church
ediGce next Friday and Saturday even
ings, Sept. LIST, and End. As This will
be the last supper in the old Bethel
church the aid of all patrons of
the past is solicited. Supper, 25c.
Paints and Painters supplies of all
kinds at Edw. G. Bricks. -"
Some men can afford to keep Il dog
or two and smoke a cigar or two a day
but are too poor to take a local paper
which costs as much a week as one CT
gar. A local paper is a library of home
happenings and a common school edu
of the children in a family and is.
worth more to a family with children
than twice the cost.
During high water Monday evening
William F. Yeager's little son Chris,
fell overheard while playing on the
stone wall in French's grove. Arthur
Chandler, hearing n splash in the water,
ran to see what it was, and jumped
overheard as he saw the little fellow &c
under and, after a little difficulty. saved
him from a watery grave.
Miss I.ottie Armstrong on Tuesday
saw IA large snake in her fathers yard
and killed it. Soon she saw another
smaller one come out of a hole in the
ground and they continued to come out
until she had killed eighty of various
sizes. This is II true snake story. To
prove it we might state Penn's Grove
is not ''dry" but Miss Lottie is a brave
temperance girl who believes in prohib.
iting them.