The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-10

at $50 and PENIS Grove at 4:30 for Pennsville,
New Castle, Delaware City and Salem. Round
trip 40c, one way 2c.
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1896.
Moonlight excursion next Friday
night. Take it in.
Fine Soda is rare. Try Johnson's. n
The rains are making a good crop
of early truck. Showers every daylthis
week.
Late vegetable plants for sale at E.
4. Smith & Sons.
PENIS Grove as a resort for excur-
sions is growing less. The Parks fur
nish more attractions.
The excursion route from Whining
ton to Washington Park has not been
very well ~patronized yet.
or course you want to see the line
fireworks at Lincoln Park this Satar-
day evening. Get a pass.
Read and take advantage of Cum
mings' photo offer in another column"
Those who send us items must sign
their name at the bottom, so we may
know the news is reliable.
The Republican club put a new flag
to the breeze on their pole opposite the
RECORD office on the Fourth.
Miss Mamie Hammitt, of Whining
ton, has opened an art Studio on the
second floor Of Red Mems Hall.
Drink Robbins Red Orange and you
will wish your throat a mile long,
Biddie Wright, in Eagletown has his
new house completed, to take the place
of the one destroyed by lightning.
For pictures and frames go to Hiram
Yerger's, IL E. Sd St., Wilmington. 4.24
Carp are being caught up the Della
ware near Bristol. Last Saturday one
was taken which weighed 20 pounds.
There being no attractions there were
but few persons in Penn's Grove on the
Fourth. Several went to the Parks.
The front Street Mission Sunday
School, of Wilmington, spent Tuesday
in the grove. About 200 were over.
Hannah M. Pyle, of Penn's Grove,
and Rachel Webster, Of Pedricktown,
have been granted a Widows pensions.
About 80 held a merry party in James
Cooks orchard on the Fourth. They
had plenty of music, singing, and a
feast.
DR., DOolittle will make the best set
of teeth for $3.50. No charge for ex-
tracing when teeth are ordered. y
Capt. Edward Justice has his sloop
Mary s. ON Barber's railway undergo
ing repairs, preparing for the truck
season.
j. D. Whitaker is selling the Pills
bury Flour, made from Western spring
wheat, which he claims will make ONE
fifth more bread.
OF course you have received n OF
the free passes Of the Sons of Veterans
on their excursion to Lincoln Park this
Saturday and are going.
Dana Cholera Cure, q safe and sure
remedy for Cramps, Collie, Cholera
Morbus and all summer complaints get
1t at Robbins Pharmacy. y
John A. Featherer, one of our oldest
citizens, will sell his household goods
and personal property next Saturday
afternoon and break up housekeeping.
Our readers attention is called to the
announcement of the excursion TO
Reading in another column. This will
give those al opportunity to go who did
not 60 last year.
the schooner Rillie S. Derby, Capt.
Thomas Naylor, lett Penn's Grove on
Thursday with a cargo of coal for Gard
ner, Me. His wife, son Charles, and
Miss Lille. Ayers, Of Salem, accom-
panied him. lie will bring ice back.
1t is estimated that the crowd of
pleasure seekers at Washington Park
on the Fourth numbered $4,000, the
largest gathering at n place ! n the
experience of tue surrounding parks
this year. Money was collected from
the stands each hour and counted into
barrels and taken to bank.
The tug Laura B. ran into the steam
er Ulrica early on Friday morning of
last week, In Christina Creek, off
Moore's shipyard, digging a fog. About
IL feet Of the guard and the waist were
badly broken on the starboard side.
She missed only two trips for repairs
during the day. Both boats are owned
by the Wilmington & Northern Rail
road.
One use Robbins Headache Powders
means always to use them. :"
On last Saturday morning about 2
O'Clock Mrs. Carter heard a noise near
the waters edge on Simpkins' front, at
low tide. She went down and found
Charles Neal and Harry Klund, two
young men drunk, attempting to get in
or out of a boat and down in the mud.
She got Marshall Harker, who put them
in the lookup where they spent the
Fourth and sobered up. They might
have drowned in their drunkenness If
she had not attended to them.
Are you thirsty : Try a glass OF
Johnson's Fine Soda Water. y
There we're ten he~adstones, for sold
iers graves, received by Acton Post,
No. SO. G. A. R., this week. They
were placed In position in three ceme-
teries: five in Emmanuel, three in Per
kintown, one in Friends at Pedrick'
town, and n in C~larksboro. The