The Penn's Grove record., 1899-08-11
FRIDAY, AUGUST II, 1899.

Iuut6 W UulilCS lbOihCbt 15l'
John McCarson seem to be up head
with sweet potatoes in this region.
Look for shooting stars. Sunday uignt
is the time for the greatest number.
Jacob X. Dolbow, has broken ground
on Railroad Avenue for a new house.
Grape Juice for sale at Johnson's \
Charles M. Bodine has just finished
painting Postmaster Whitaker's house.
About 100 hundred went on The Beth
81 excursion to National Park on We'd
nesday.
Joseph Holdcraft has a chicken
with three legs. The third leg has
seven toes Oh ii.
The steamer Endeayor took an ex-
cursion FROM Bridgeton on Friday which
remained over night.
Last boat leaves Wilmington on Aug
ust 23rd & "a after the races are over"
Last Saturday a bicycle run down a
chicken on Main Street and the chick
en- broke the rim of his wheel. That is
fowl wheeling.
William G. Pedrick had his arm bur
by being stinck on the elbow at tbs
Powder Mills on Monday, so he wa
unable to work this week.
Rubber lire buggies which have been
in STYLE for a few years in the city are
lev becoming fashionable in the count
~. They make riding easier.
For artistic house painting call on
Charles M. Bodlne.
Emman uel and Central Sunday School
will hold their annual union picnic AZ
he Cove School House next Wednes-
day, 10th. If stormy the next day.
A colored excursion from West
Chester spent Thursday in the Grove,
About AGO came. If it had not been
stormy there would probably have been
1000.
The Wawaset races at Wilmington
on August 23rd & oath will be the best
they have ever had, last boat leaves
Wilmington at 7.30 z. M. =
The Brandy wine club which had
never been beaten came over to wipe
the diamond With the Penn2a -IGfoye
club last Saturday but went home
beaten by a score of IL to s.
The L. l.. d. base ball club being
dis ,ead with the management of
tb 1T the bicycle track have
laid AZ a new ball ground in Charlie
d. Aborns field on South Broad Street.
Josephine Vanneman, widow of Eds
win A. Vanneman, of U. p. Neck, and
daughter of Robert Newell, died in
Salem last Sunday after five weeks ser
ious illness. The funeral was held
Thursday morning.
OFF to the Commercial College. New
catalogue ready. Write for it to-day to
II. s. Goldey, Principal Goldey College,
Wilmington, Del, 1t is true.
The schooner A. b. Sherman, Capt.
Ely johnson, of Penn's Grove. which
cleared from Philadelphia with coal for
jacksonville, Fla, nearly four weeks
ago has not been heard from. The
friends of the Captain begin to feel con-
cerned about his safety.
Ralph DeSola, of WILMINGTON who
was the manager of Cuban ~iilibusters
who were caught in Penn's Grove two
years ago was appointed customs in
spector in Cuba, has been made chief
officer OF the importation bureau of the
Havana Custom House.
Supt. Green has been very busy of
late experimenting the building of the
new shipping station at Pedricktown
1t is 100 feet long. "a wide with an up
per story for storing barrels. 1t will
be covered with corrugated iron. The
platform at Magnolia is also being ex-
tended 80 feet.
The officers of the Wawaset Driving
Association at Wilmington have made
arrangements to havet the last boat leave
Wilmington on August, 23rd Il oath
after the races are over. y
The law of the road in relation to the
right of a person driving up behind to
pass in safety the vehicle ahead has
been declared in the appellate division
of Brooklyn, The driver ahead not on
ly must not obstruct the highway, but
he must make way, where it is practic-
able, for the man behind. If accident
should result from such interference
the INSTRUCTOR must pay damages.
The yacht lola Capt. W. McRoy, left
this Friday with Supt. A. G. McCaus-
land, son William and br~otIler-in-law,
Walter Dolan, for Rohobeth Beach
where Mrs. McCausland and son Frank
will be taken aboard for a weeks cruise
to Cape May and Atlantic City. Mark
Brannen is mate; Walter Watson, cook;
and George Mattson, Jr. Lewis, Jack
Sullivan and Jim Brady crew.
? The damage by the hail storm We'd
nesday of last week to the crops in l..
P. Neck and the vicinity of Salem far
exceeds u first report. Several toma-
to patches we're completely ruined, and
other crops greatly damaged. The loss
is estimated at from S75, 600 to $1,000 600.
and 81 900 will not replace the broken
glass in Salem. The citizens in the
region of Salem are contemplating call
ing a public meeting in the court house
to consider the feasibility of assessing
the damages to the farmers and getting
contributions to partly pay their loss.