The Penn's Grove record., 1893-05-05
FISHING OrES.

FISHING VOTES.
For the past two weeks the catch OF
Shad and herring in Chesapeake Bay
has been unusually plentiful and all the
fishermen are making money.
Herring are being caught in such i'm.
mense quantities in Barnegat Bay aud
the Manasquan and Shark Rivers that
they are being sold to farmers for fertil-
izer.
The sturgeon fishermen at Bayside
did not do much last week, only from
Is to % having been caught to "a firm.
The fishing has also been poor this
week.
Herring are being caught SO enorm-
ously in Chesapeake Bay that the large
seines cannot be drawn in. Small seines
are used 10 haul inside of the large les
until enough fish are taken out to make
the large Net light enough to land.
The shad fishermen did, very good in
the Bay the latter part of last week.
Between 200 and 800 were caught TO a
net on some days aud six or eight nets
caught between 500 and 1000 siiad
during the week. They all cleared owe
$40 per 100 last. week.
Shad fishing has been poor this week,
partly owing to bad weather. The
catch at Penn's Grove was good on
Monday, two nets got about 200 and
many over 100, while the rest of the
week The catch was small. Fishing on
Monday was not so good in the Bay as
in the river but better on Tuesday
About 16, 600 were taken to market on
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Thursday vas one Of the worst ever ex.
perience by many fishermen. Twenty
fishing boats filed and the rigging and
nets in them were damaged. Four
boats which went three hand after shad
were not very well rewarded for their
work. They caught only 8. g., II and
20, proving shad are scarce. The
steamer Flemming, did not make he trip
in the Bay on Wednesday but tied up
at the Government wharf on the Della
ware shore. The wind was not SO
heavy on Friday and a few fishermen
went out. Shad were worth SIS to $40
the fore part Of the week and they
could not be had for any price on
Thursday and Friday.
ARBoR DAY
was observed with interesting exercises
at the Penn's Grove school. Two hun
dred and ten scholars marched to DON
four and five where the following pro.
gram was rendered:
Singing, Tribute to Nature
Lords Prayer, by Principal.
Exercises by Al cIilden from room No. i, Ab.
bic Kidd teacher.
World
Room No. 2, Annie F. Barber teacher.
Recitation, .Arbor Day Verses
Lottie NJ. Werle.
Recitation, Beautiful Trees
Reading, Little Flowers, Laura Barber;
recitation, 'Plantlng the Trees,
Singing, Planting the Trees
Room No. 3, Hattie Hoffman teacher:
Reading, Spring" Annie Mclntire.
Reading, WHAT Tree Did, Anna Canary.
Song, .ArbOr Day. Is Girls.
Room No. A, Ella Henry Teacher. .,
Recitation, Planting the Apple Tree
Dialogue, The Buried seed,'
Stella Dolbow, Louie stiles;
RecitatiOny .WoOdman Spare That Tree
Recitation, Historic Trees, Ralph Smith.
Recitation Mabel Ei * stoanse Experience
Recitation, Praise Meeting OF the Flowers
Singing, Song of Arbor Day.
Reading, 'COlnmbia's Emblem
Miss E.S Murlin.
Remarks were made by Capt. j. D. Whitaker
aud Trustee =. IL. Leap.
Excellent addresses were made by Revs.J.H
Clarke, D., W. .McIntire and s. lawrence;
Flowers were planted in a mound which had
been constructed for the occasion.
The exercises were said to lie the
most successful ever held.