The Penn's Grove record., 1894-08-17
FRIDAY. AUGUST II, 1894.


means Please Settle.
Have you seen Leap & Sons special
Red Letter? If not get it. y
Harker's fish market next to the sta
ton is the place to go for fresh fish. =
There was an excursion of about $50
in the Grove from Wilmington on
Thursday.
Clark G. Turner secured the contract
to furnish the County Almshouse with
80 tons of coal.
The Borough Council will meet next
Tuesday,to go over the assessments
made by assessor Morris.
E. Ernest Bright, who is now fishing
for sturgeon, near Georgetown, s. e.,
reports that he is doing well.
Great reductions in hats at Denny &
Smiths. Call and see them.
The electrical railway between Will
mington and Gordon Heights is expect
ed to be in operation by Sunday.
While only II few water melons have
been sent to market yet the price is low,
being only from Sc to IS per 100.
Josiah II. Smiths daughter Mary met
with a painful accident Friday morning
by splitting some hot fat on her knee.
All wishing pigs should call on F. J.
Gayenta, Perkintown. *2t
There was a small colored excursion
in the Grove on Wednesday. A larger
one will be here next Wednesday from
Marshalltown.
Seven young men made a trip to Pit
man Grove last Sunday on bicycles,
and got a good shower of rain and mud
before they got back.
The choir boys of the Church of the
Annunciation who are camping at the
Cove sang at st. Michael's p. Z.
Church in Wilmington on Sunday.
The stern paddle wheel steamer Un-
dine begun running between Penn's
Grove and Wilmington on Monday, but
has discontinued her trips for lack of
patronage.
The Republican voters will meet in
Odd Fellows Hall next Monday even
ing to elect five delegates 10 attend the
Congressional convention at Cape May,
on Thursday, 23rd.
The schooner Brattan, Capt. Price,
arrived at the Cove on Friday of last
week with q cargo of lumber and
shingles from New Berne, N. c., for
John Summerill & Bro.
Reduced freight rates OH farmers
produce to Chester and Philadelphia by
steamer Reybold.*
Capts. James and Samuel Denny are
chaperoning a party Of u citizens in
the Bay this week. They left on a
sloop on Wednesday. We hope they
will return with lots of fish.
The work of riprapping Ship John
and Cross Ledge lighthouses, Delaware
Bay, has been completed by the Brandy
wine Granite Company, the work re-
quiring 10000 tons of granite.
For a cool refreshing breeze lake the
steamer Reybold for Philadelphia, on
ly 25c, round trip 40c.
About 500 came on the Trainers Pic.
mic from along the Delaware River
Railroad to Penn's Grove on Friday.
The Bridgeport Band ~enlivened the &C.
casion with some good music.
EIwood S. Layton has fenced in
about a quarter of an acre of pond on
his farm with wire netting and is rails.
ing fish, tuIJes and loggerheads. He
intends enllfging the pond to about an
acte.
You can get n full line of school
compa dars, tatiets, pens, ink, pencils,
colo1p | cr9y0Hs aud school supplies of
all k ids AT Johnson's Drug Store.
c imans township will have to raise
sEa6 extra tax this year owing to the
n3w school laws. That will be about
ten cents on 500 extra the Oldham
farmers will have to pull out of their
pockets when tax paying time comes in
these hard times.
j. U. Layton will sell at public sale
in front of S. II. Leap & Sons store
next Saturday afternoon, August 25th,
his bay mare Daisy, a two.seated carri-
age, buggy and set of carriage harness.
Don't fail to attend this sale, as these
are valuable property for those who are
wishing to purchase.
On Friday of last week Mis-. Jarvis
Reeves, left home for a few hours after
putting the front door key over the
back door. While she was gone some
one got the key, went into the house
and stole S32 of hard earned savings,
which was hidden in a pitcher.
Beecher, photographer, 315 Market
ST., Wilmington, Del, will to the read.
ers OF this paper and their friends, make
n dozen best cabinet photographs for
81.
Everybody is praising that great school in
Wilmington, Del, Gofdey Commercial and
shorthand College. The graduates get posi-
tons. Catalogue sent free. See advertisement.
Get your letterheads, billheads and
envelopes printed at the RECORD office.
All sizes, colors and prices tt.
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