The Penn's Grove record., 1894-07-27
FRIDAY, July q, 1894.
Farmers are wishing for rain.

Grove.
The high tides and warm evenings
have made boating and bathing popular
this week.
The steamer Elsie Weatherby has
been undergoing repairs on Barber's
railway this week.
1t is said the prospects are fairly
bright for the glass industry the ap.
preaching season.
A live subject for a PENIS Grove de.
batting society. personal Liberty VS..
Ecclesiastical Tyranny"
The displacement of horses by cleo.
tricity in city transit has decreased the
demand and price of horses.
J.. U. Layton has turned carriage
painter and now drives q neat hack and
shows excursionists our town.
Great reductions in hats at Denny s.
Smiths. Call and see them.
Capt. Frank II. Walker has begun
running a small steamer from Courses
Landing to Wilmington market.
The Bethel Sunday School run their
annual excursion to Lincoln Park next
Thursday. You a go on all trains.
Last Sunday was the coolest July day
since 1871. Thicker clothing and small
fires were needed to keep off the chill.
Supt. McCausIand intends to erect a
telegraph wire across the Delaware
river from Wilmington to Penn's Grove.
Mrs. Robert Sparks invested 81. 80 in
advertising eggs last spring. She sold
2,100 eggs for $35. Did advertising
pay?
DIR. M. johnson, Francis p. Walker
and Mrs. Title Pierce who have been
very sick, we are pleased to announce
better.
The foundation for Hawks Bridge
draw was in such a bad condition that
it will take another week before the
bridge is completed for travel to be re.
sumed.
Did you ever think Of the fact that
the English language needs a singular
personal pronoun that will refer to
either gender, as their does in plural
cases.
There was an excursion Of abOu $50
colored persons in the Grove on We'd
nesday from Delaware City and vii.
mington. They were much more peace
able than in former years.
Capt. Thomas Naylor and son Charles
cleared from PENIS Grove on Tuesday
on the schooner Rillie s. Derby with a
load of coal for Gardiner, Me. They
will bring a cargo of ice back.
Reduced freight rates OIL farmers
produce to Chester and Philadelphia by |
steamer Reynolds
Protection for the home merchant Is |
provided by n of the laws passed by
the last legislature. 1t provides that
dealers who go about holding ''bank-
rupt sales" shall first obtain a license
of the Town Clerk before beginning
business.
The steamer Elsie Weatherby, Capt.
Benz. W. W~eatherby, will make an ex-
cursion from along Oldman's Creek to
the Geological Garden next Tuesday, |
leaving Pedricktown at 7.30 a. m.
Fare, adults, Co.,; children, SOC. On
Wednesday Captain Weatherby will be.
gin loading truck.
Since Wendell P. Leap purchased the
John Borden farm last spring he has
been spending considerable money there
in needed improvements. He has re-
paired the barn and crib house and last
week raised a new house on the opposite
side of the yard from the old house.
Mr. Leap is to be commendsd for his
thrift hA W
AS a Blood Purifier, one bottle of
Johnson's Liver Searcher will do more
good than four bottles of any other Sar-
saparilla. 1t cures Malaria as vel! as
Dyspepsia and all skin diseases.
The following officers of Mural
Lodge, No. Sc, L. o. o. Fellows, have
been elected and installed: Noble Grand,
Isaac Hillman; Corresponding Score
tary, C. W. Cable; Recording Secretary,
II. j. Blohm; Treasurer, s. R. Leap;
Chaplain, Rev. D. W. G. McIntire;
Warden, James Murphy; Inside Guard,
George 2. Cam; Outside Guard, James
F, Layton.
Prices of produce in the Wilmington
market this week have been about as
follows: tomatoes. 75e a basket; crcum-
bers, 30c.; apples, Co.,, corn, S0-90c.;
s~quashes, 50c.; onions, 50c.; egg plants,
81; cantaloupe, S1.50. There are very
few cantaloupes and very poor on ac-
count of the dry weGther. Southern
water melons are selling from SIS to
$50 per 100.
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
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