The Penn's Grove record., 1894-09-07
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 1894.


A band of aipseys is stopping in Div.
er's woods.
: Peach baskets have shrunk consider
ably in size this year.
John Clark has bought the Benz.
Justice farm Of Jehu Allen.
Joseph D. Whitaker is having a feed
mill erected on Edw. G. Bricks lot, he
having purchased Jos. V. Clark's engine
and mill.
A full attendance of the w. G. T. U.
is earnestly requested for next Thurs
day 18th, as an election of officers will
be held.
There will be a partial eclipse of the
moon on next Friday evening. 1t will
begin about 8 O'Clock and end after
midnight.
Exceptional bargains in ladies' high
grade footwear at D. D. Leaps. See
adv. in another column 1t.
Farmers are sending such q small
quantity of produce to Philadelphia
that Edw. Justice has quit running his
sloop from Dolbow's Landing.
j. Wilmer Clark was seen in Phil
adelphia last week and he sent word to
the farmers that he would pay them for
all the produce he sold for them.
Reduced freight rates on farmers
produce to Chester and Philadelphia by
steamer Reybold.*
Fourth-class postmasters can now,
under a new law, administer oaths to
pensioners and their witnesses at %
cents each, attested by their office
stamp.
Harry u. Layton has caught 46 moles
In a trap at various places on his moth
er's farm. Any one who wants mole
skins or feet for a charm Harry can
furnish them.
a Delaware farmer rear Newark
took twenty-five baskets of peaches to
Wilmington and took home $50. Some
Of the peaches were ten inches in cir
conference and sold for ten cents each.
1t has been published that W. D..
Torton has resigned as keeper of the
real light house of the canal range. We
are authorized 10 announce that he has
not resigned and does not expect to at
the present.
Miss Fannie Black entertained a
number of her friends at a water melon
social on Tuesday evening. As the
young ladies dropped and broke their
best melon they Toasted on some of the
white meat variety.
Science tell us that the body of every
human being weighing $50 pounds con-
taips n pound Of salt. Also that
every n of us needs in a year about
fifteen pounds of salt-Ex. Can 1t be
that a person who is too fresh has not
eaten his fifteen pounds of salt
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. =
The appropriation of $50, 900 for the
Christiana River at Wilmington, in the
River and Harbor bill. is for preiimi-
nary surveys and incidental expenses of
a plan for deeping the river to a uni.
form depth Of 81 to "a feet at low water.
p;aa e,u;,.m
w. b. kille, who had the contract
for erecting the street lamps put them
up this week and the streets Of our Dor.
ough were lighted for the frat time on
Thursday night. The lamps would
have been up sooner but Mr.. Kille had
the posts burned in Mr.. G. E. Barber's
sash factory and he a to order others.
William F.. Walker has in his barber
shop n of the latest and curious in.
ventions in optics. 1t is a round look
ing glass with nineteen convex bulbs
on it each of which give a completo
image and in tho hoct oro,sa !. the
im"se anu IN 'ne pack GROUND Is tne
moL;no t,a,t, mo.os .oao.,oa H.
""Aihs twenty iniaBeS iehecLeu ny Oue
looking glass.
Every one wondered why a man about
town.
Tin fact, n of blacksmith renown)
On Monday last a holiday took.
Wandered about town and grim care