The Penn's Grove record., 1895-12-06
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1896.
Tax paying time is at hand.
Skates at Bricks hardware Store. =

Tax paying time Is at hand.
Skates at Bricks hardware Store. y
Lay in your coal for 1t will soon be
very cold.
Sweet potatoes have advanced to s2.75
o barrel.
Hog killing ssason among the farmers
is at hand.
Johnson's Velvet Cream Is fine =
Many farmers are busy getting ma
nufe for next seasons crops.
Lots OF pretty and useful things at
the Relief Corps fair. Buy them.
John Beyis has purchased a two-year-
old aily BY RolIa, son Of Jay Gould.
Carp continue to be caught in Salem
Greek below the dam in paying guam
titles.
10 per cent. discount on hats at Mrs.
Title Smiths. opposite Odd Fellows
Hall. y
Miss Abbia Kidd had the misfortune
on Thursday to loose the order for her
November salary Cor teaching.
Mrs. Henrietta Johnson has very at
t~ractively frightened her house on Pit
mai street with q coat Of paint.
Some enthusiastic Republicans are
getting q pole ready to tsye a flag rails
ing at their club room on Christmas.
Col. French has completed the cement
wall on the upper side Of Penn's Grove
whatf. It is now thought 1t will with
stand an ice gorge.
The Women's Relief Corps ask your
patronage at the fair and festival this
Saturday. =
Mrs. Rachel A. White has had the
remains Of her husband, Thomas j..
White. removed from Riverview to En-
manuel Cemetery.
A five and q half pound shad was
caught In Chesapeake bay this week.
This 10 The first instance In the long ex-
p~eriencs OF fish dealers Of q slad being
caught at this time Of year.
Another barge load OF shells arrived
for the Borough this week and vera put
above Union Corner 10 the Borough
limit and on the road to the Cove.
Come and hear J. D. Williams lecture
10 Emmanuel Church on Monday even
Ing. Admission 10 cents. =
The Delaware Iron Works, at New
Castie. have received an order for 600
iron telegraph poles TO be used at Cairo,
Egypt. This contract, with several
smaller oDe, will keep the works iun-
ming all winter. Iron poles are used in
Egypt on account Of the ants perforat-
ing and Destroying the wooden ones.
The following is the list Of letters re-
mainins In the Penn Grove Post Office
for the month ending Nov. 80, 1895.
George Witchell (two). w. A. Sailor,
F. W. Willard, Mr.. Rob Watson (two),
MI. Stephen Pyle, Mr.. Charles Yates.
Persons calling Tor the above letters,
please say advertised.
d. ". SUMMERILL, JR. p. M.
The supposed demented man who
startled New Castle three weeks ago by
acting oddly and calling himself Lord
Delaware was a reporter who wished to
b. sent 10 the Delaware asylum. He
has created q great sensation by expos
ing the cruelties Of the asylum officials
and the alleged killing Of Leon Pisa,
an italian inmate. Three OF the keep
,ers have been locked up.
We have received from Wanamaker
81 Brown, eth and Market Sts.. Phila-
delphia, Q large Photograph of a paint
Ing in oil. IS feet BY 0 feet. representing
1.-THE First Journey Of the Liberty Bell.n
1t has been painted expressly for them
and will be unveiled for public view in
q few days. Their purpose Is TO place
it on the 9th St. front Of their building
and present to all who apply by letter or
in person an excellent half tone copy Of
the picture with historical pamphlet.
See the oysters. refreshments and
fancy articles for sale at the Fair oppo-
site The RECORD Office.
An Upper Piitsgrove school teacher
and an aged gentleman visiting in Elmer
happened to be In the Times office at the
sans time on one Saturday afternoon.
They were strangers to each other but
sshen tho aged gentleman heard the
teacher speak Of his occupation, be ask
ed him IL he could tell him what two
numbers multiplied together would
make seven. The pedagogue after
studying q little declared his inability
TO solve the problem. The old man told
him how: he multiplied ons by seven,
seven times one are seven. The teacher
invited him out TO accept q treat to the
best cigar to DO found and the aged man
accepted. We do not say that the
teacher was eyer ia the Shirley school
house and we do not assert that the
aged ~gentleman's name is Ware.-E.
mer Times.
Am buying, furnishing, trading ma
.chinery, supplies, merchandise, odd and
Job lots, dead stock, slow stock, etc, etc.
Everything Is saleable somewhere. Write
tn III. II. Mansfield. 1876 Liberty St., New