The Penn's Grove record., 1893-08-04

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The funeral of Mrs. Samuel Tussey
was largely attended in Emmanuel
Church last Sunday, which was eyi.
, dence of the high esteem in which
many held her.
Edward Laddy, of Camden, was
drowned off the steamer Thomas A.
Morgan, last Sunday evening, off Deep
Water Point. Luddy was sitting on a
guard rail and lost his balance. His
body was found on Tuesday at New
Castle. The Morgan runs to Angus.
tine Pier.
The annual county convention of the
w. G. Il. U. will be held in Woods.
town, on Friday, Sept. 10Th. Col.
George W. Balm, the sill v%er-tongue ora
tor, will be the evening speaker. Mrs.
Louise Downs Quigley, o. Orange, will
be present during the day, and will read
a paper on "Pubiic Meetings, and
Why?"
Mrs. George Miller and Mrs. Schank,
Of Philadelphia, who have been staying
at the Philapelphia club house on Div
er's shore, had a narrow escape from
drowning on Friday evening of last
week. They were out in a small boat
grabbing. When the boat got to leak.
ing badly they became frightened and
upset the boat. The timely assistance
of Charles Eckert and others saved
them.
Either the millers, storekeepers or
both are now making big money in
dealing in flour. Wheat is selling at
about go cents a bushel, or less. Two
and a half bushels of wheat should
make 100 pounds of flour after the mil
Ter takes his toll out, which should
make flour cost a farmer SIS per 100
weight. Flour sells for from so TO 70
cents per quarter, equal to S2.40 to $50
per 100 weight.
Monday morning, about ) O'Clock,
house No. l, in which the gauze cotton
was stored al Dupont's Gun Cotton
Works on Carney's Point was discover
ed to be on fire. The building was
burned and about five tons of baled cot
ton were damaged. The loss will prob
ably be $4,000 or $4,000, the machinery
not being damaged much. The build
ings are all separate SO that the fire did
not spread and no explosives caught
fire.
Boys, you have given me a regular
boom on those shoes to wear down to
the Point. Thanks, come again. NEW
SHOE STORE
The superstition about the number
thirteen being unlucky is put to multi
piled test in the new twenty.ive-cent
pieces. On one side of the coin there
are no less than ten repetitiOns s.of the
number, thirteen stars, thirteen letters
in the scroll held in the eagles beak,
thirteen marginal feathers in each wing,
thirteen tail feathers, thirteen parallel
lines in the shield, thirteen horizontal
bars, thirteen arrow-heads in one claw,
thirteen leaves on the branch in the
other claw, and thirteen letters in words
''quarter dollar" There hasn't seemed
TO he anything unlucky in the the thir-
teen original States, mol in the thirteen
stripes on the flag, and nov remains to
be seer if the man who gets his pockets
full of these new quarter dollars will be
unlucky.-Sum.
How bout you Buddy, going to keep
boots? Yes, mems good winter boots;
yes and boys; yes and kids; yes, New
SHOE SToRE.*
When in want of good photographs be
sure and go to Beecher's Gallery, 315
Market St, Wilmington. To Jersey Gus
toners he will give an 8 * 10 framed pict-
ure with each dozen cabinets. t
In September, 1892, dysentery in a very
severe form, prevailed at Jamesburg, N. j.
Walter Willard, a we'll known merchant of
the place procured a supply of Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. He
says, sit is certainly one of the best things
ever made, and has given the highest salts
faction in the most severe cases of dysen-
terry" For sale at Robbins Pharmacy
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