The Penn's Grove record., 1894-08-24
FRIDAY, UGU "a, 1894.

Farmers have begun gathering their
harvest Of truck.
There was only a small colored pic;
mic in the Grove ON Wednesday from
Frogtown.
Freebooter tanning has the repairs
to Hawks Bridge completed and travel
over it was resumed to day.
James Sweeten & Son intend TO make
the store business lively in Pedricktown
with their hard-time prices.
About ?5'friends and relatives gave
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hancock a sur
prise visit on Thursday. All enjoyed u
grand feast and a good social time.
r. d. Hughes's canning factory at
the Cove had q small run for the first
OH Friday Of last week and two parts
of days this week. The tomato crop
will be late.
Great reductions in hats at Denny &
Smiths. Call and see them.
Sweet potatoes were worth $3.50 per
barrel on Tuesday but the farmers
rushed them In SO fast that they fell to
So on Wednesday and 81 so on Thurs
day when they quit.
The quickest and surest way to get a
cinder out Of the eye is to keep rubbing
the other eye and the cinder will soon
be out. This Is tile experience and adj
vice of railroad engineers.
Some Penn's Grove persons robbed
some young men who are staying in a
cabin along the shore, of about $50
worth Of clothing and other things. It
is said the persons are known.
The colored people Of. Wilmington
are making extensive preparations for
"Big Quarterly" which will be held
next Sunday at the African Union Free
Colored Methodist Protestant Church.
You can get a full line of school
companions, tablets, pens, ink, pencils,
colored crayons and school supplies of
all kinds at Johnson's Drug Store. y
Charles il. Shubert, Fish Commits
sioner of Delaware, invites Jersey gun
ners over to shoot the black birds of his
farm. What Penn's Grove people want
is an invitation to come over and fish.
Work at the Edge Moor bridge works
is brisking up considerably and, it is
said, men are being hired daily. Ow-
ing to a rush of orders some of the en-
ployes have 10 work several hours at
night.
Delaware farmers have commenced
sowing scarlet clover seed. The low
price Of the seed and the value of the
crop for feed and to pillow down to en-
rich the soifKs causing the farmers to
appreciate this kind OF clover.
Reduced freight rates OIL farmers
produce to Chester and Philadelphia by
steamer Reybold.*
John Gilbert, the railroad machinist,
certainly had an eye to business when
he erected the ~"lovers' bench" on the
river front by the railroad. AT least
some of the people who dwell in the
cottages near there think so. Tired
lovers a be seen resting there at most
any time.
Misses Maria and Emma Pedrick
were treated to a surprise visit Thurs
day evening by about twenty five
friends and neighbors at the solicitation
of Mrs. Louisa Vance who is stopping
there. All enjoyed themselves very
much with a tempting supper, music
and singing.
The horse reported to have been
struck by lightning neal Pigs Eye died
from being over driven. 1t was the
driver who had been struck. Mayor
Acton, of Salem has held James Brown,
colored, for the act. The horse was a
valuable family horse owned by Eben-
ezer Milford.
The Republican voters of the Bor-
ough of Penn's Grove, on Monday even
ing chose the following to represent
them at the Congressional convention
at Cape May on Thursday: E. H.
Green, J. D. Whitaker, Fl. s. Titus, T.
]. Torton, c. S. Conoyer. Alternates,
w. II. Denny, E. G. Brick, w. p. Dem
ny, d. D. Leap, H. ]. Blohm.
For a cool refreshing breeze take the
steamer Reybold for Philadelphia, on
ly 25c, round trip 40e.
The Penn's Grove lookup has at last
been named Fort Fisher.n Harry
Fisher, a young man, of Gibbstown,
became disorderly at the Farmers PIC
mic Friday night Of last week and was
the first n to be locked up over night.
Mayor Torton gave him a hearing Sat
urday morning and released him after
giving him a severe reprimand.
Claude Kille made wei a 100 mile
u on his bicycle on Sunday. He left
Penn's Grove at $40 a. M, went to
Paulsboro. Woodbury., Mantua. Glass
boro, Clayton, Malaga. Vineland, Mill
vile, Bridgeton, Shiloh, Salem, Penns
vile and arrived home at AIS. He
mailed postals at several places which
showed those who doubted that he had
been to those towns.
Beecher, photographer, 315 Market