The Penn's Grove record., 1895-08-30
D AUGUST 80, 1895.

Fall work begins now in earnest.
For the cough use Robbins No. 8. =
After a general family quarrel last
Friday James Mills took a days aca
tion in the lookup.
As the demand for milk is over sup
piled in Pilesgrove, some farmers are
grazing more sheep.
Monday is Labor Day, a legal holiday.
1t should be on Saturday as the law of
Pennsylvania provides.
Finest Soda 10 town at Johnson's.+
Don't dodge a bicycle. Walk on at
your usual course and gait and the rider
will know how to pass you.
St. Paul M. E. Sunday School, about
500 strong, of Wilmington, came oye
and spent Thursday in the Grove.
For the first time since the year 1879
Raccoon creek is alive with crabs, and
they have driven all other fish from the
stream.
Some of our citizens attended the
"big quarterly" of the colored people
in Wilmington last Sunday. About 200
came Oh the Reybold to go over on the
Uric.
Some think it is smart to pretend
that they don't read their local paper.
But just let o two.line item in it refer
to some one of their failings it is fun to
hear them howl.
Lower prices on clover and timothy
seeds at Edw. G. Bricks.
Since truck has brought a low price
this year and last and the price of corn
remained good, undoubtedly more corn
will be grown hereafter to make up the
supply of feed usually bought.
The Board of Stewards of the Bethel
M. P. Church have decided to hold a
Harvest Home on Saturday evening,
September 29, 1896. Full announce
ment will be made in a late issue.
There has been a glut Of ca~ntaloupes
all over the country. Many have been
sold for the freight and others have
been thrown away. In San Francisco
500 crates were dumped into the bay.
Judge Richard T. Miller, of the Sa-
lem Circuit Court, has appointed Geo.
II. Elkinton, Esq, Of this place, audi
tor In the attachment case of T. b. Cal
vert 6 Co., against Warren B. Kille.
About fifteen Cubans, from Whining
ton, who had lots Of dynamite packages
and firearms were arrested this Friday
afternoon at Penn's Grove by detec.
tives. They left Wilmington on the
tug Taurus with the expectation of
boarding a vessel from Philadelphia for
Cuba.
The best soda 1 ever drank 1 got at
Robbins Pharmacy. =
The season for shooting reed birds
opened on Monday. Several Of the cit
liens along the River in Salem county
depend partly for a living by gunning.
But Game Protector G. &. Shriner has
decided that the law prohibits shipping
game out Of the State except it be car.
ried out by the gunner.
A new corn cutting and binding
machine is now IN the market. With
it, it is said, two men and two horses
can cut and bind and shuck twelve
acres Of corr in one day and the draft
is very light. 1t is also warranted to
cut aud bind corr satisfactorily that is
considerably tangled.
Soda Water made fine and served &C.
ceptably at Johnson's Drug Store.*
Charles E. Barber has moved his
family into Mrs. Joseph Somers' house
on Penn street. Isaac Layton, of
S~harptown, moved into G. H. ELEPHANTS
house vacated by Mr.. Barber On Thurs
day and Mr.. Oliphant will board with
him. MI. Layton is a PENIS Grove
boy who left here many years ago, and
we welcome his return.
August was the driest month on
record and the farmers crops have been
suffering much for need of rain, as
none fell for four weeks, of any conse-
quence. The light shower on Tuesday
wal refreshing but the heavy soaking
rain for half and hour on Thursday
afternoon will be worth thousands Of
dollars to the farmers.
The Penn's Grove School house has
been improved with chutes over the
entrances to keep the rain and snow
out, has been cleaned and a new vel
driven. School will begin next Mon
day with the following efficient corps oil
teachers in charge. Principal, ]. Harry
Smith; intermediate, Miss Ella Murlin
Secondary, Miss Hattie Hoffman; Pri'
mary, Mrs. Anna f. Barber and Miss
Abbie l.. Kidd.
Beecher, Photographer, 315 Market
St., Wilmington, DEL, will make fol
the readers Of this paper and theil
frisnds one dozen cabinet pictures and
one extra in a nice frame, all for two
dollars.
Business practice from the start is tn,
splendid new departure at Goldey Wi
mington (Del.) Commercial and Short
hand College. If looking for a good place
10 attend school send for its magnihcen
catalogue.