The Penn's Grove record., 1895-09-27
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 81, 1896.
Trenton Fair next week.
The days are getting short.
Frost will soon ripen the che

Trenton Fair next week.
The days are getting short.
Frost will soon Iipen the %chestnuts.
Finest Soda in town at J~ohnson's.*
Get your stoves and coal ready for a
cool snap.
Thursdays shower was cooling and
refreshing.
The scar and yellow leaves have
begun to fall.
Truck baskets at reduced prices.
Edw. G. Brick. y
The steamer Reybold has discontin-
ued her Sunday trips.
The cool weather last week caused a
frost in some places.
b. G. Wood offers his house, fishing
boats and cabins for sale.
There is a fair apple crop this year.
They are worth only 15c a basket in
market.
Quite a number of our citizens and
farmers attended Gloucester Fair on
Thursday.
The shipment of sweet potatoes make
heavy freights on the Delaware River
Railroad now.
The sloop Sallie, Capt. Asa Owens,
of Pedricktown, is undergoing repairs
on Barber's railway.
Jacob Featherer has white potatoes,
az Of which I'll a basket. Hegave them
for the Bethel supper.
Samuel Hillman has shown us a bas.
ket of Fallowater apples. 80 made a
basketful and weighed "a pounds.
The members Of the Bethel Church
hold their harvest home supper in Odd
Fellows Hall this Saturday evening.
Twelve prisoners we're whipped at
New Castle last Saturday. The max
imum punishment was 25 lashes on a
negro.
Call for the latest style of fall and
winter hats and bonnets at Mrs. r. j.
Divers, opposite st. Paul Church. n
Job Bevis, agt., for Robert Burk, has
begun buying sweet potatoes on Penn's
Grove station, making three now buy
ing here.
James Mattson, of Philadelphia.
formerly of L. Z. Neck, buried his 81
year-old daughter Emma, in Emmanuel
Cemetery on Tuesday.
Mrs. Clara Kidd has had a very neat
monument erected over the grave of
her husband VIM. b. Kidd. j.. d.
Claypoole did the work.
Last Saturday and Sunday were the
hottest days of the month. The tenn
perature was from $50 to 99o in the
shade and 100 in the sun.
The grape crop in this section is
much lighter than last year, but the
New York crop is as big, fine and sell
ing as cheap as ever in market.
Jacob Shoemaker is having a second
story put on the rear and an A front
and a peak put on his house so as to be
in style and out.top his neIghbors.
Water melons have been holding on
long. There we're several hundred in
Wilmington market this week which
sold for from Sc to 500 per hundred.
Some farmers from the neighborhood
of Courses Landing cart their sweet po-
tatoes to the cars at PENIS Grove as
they claim they can a v freight and
commission.
Lower prices on clover and timothy
seeds at Edw. G. Bricks. ~
1t has been very dry this week and
rain Is needed badly. Salem county, 1t
is said, has not suffered from drought
as badly as Cumberland and Gloucester
counties.
The MessIs. Duponts, managers of
the Carney Point powder works, will
take their employees to see the Wild
West Show in Wilmington this Satur.
day night.
The steamer Repablic has been max.
ing money this month by carrying peo-
pie from Philadelphia to Cape May and
return for SOC. She has run later than
ever before this year.
Tie tomato canning season is nearly
ended. Some finished picking last week.
The hot dry weather in August prohi'
bited any blooms from setting on and
making late tomatoes.
Quite Il number of the Snmmerill
family and connections went TO Salem
last Saturday to enliVen the birthday of
Mrs. Josephine Vanneman, whose
mother was q Summerill.
Sl.50 a barrel has been the ruling
price for sweet potatoes this week. The
crop is lighter this year than last. Be.
tween A and 5 baskets TO the 100 hills
is the average this year. Last year
from 6 to 0 were dug.
Beecher, Photographer, 3l5 Market
ST., Wilmington, Del, will make for
The readers of this paper and their
friends one dozen cabinet pictures and
Que extra in a nice frame, all for two
dollars.
1t is getting to be quite the thing to
graduate and get n position through the
recommendation of that fine school,
Goldey Wilmington (Del.) Commercial
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