The Penn's Grove record., 1899-08-04
FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1899.

bTchkinB up uOuSe Keeping WIN dh ~
is the latest on Main street,
Joseph Megill has the foundation foI
a new house laid ut Megiilville.
The Baptist Sunday School will MAXI
an excursion to Brandywine Springs or
the 10th.
Grape Juice for sale at J%ohnsOh's
Committeeman CLARK has put a good
Grating OF clay on the road at Wiley
School House.
E. E. Bright is putting a gas engine
in his slad sk,ff, intending her for u
pleasure Yacht.
st. Pauls, Auxiliary will hold tleir
Annual Harvest Home Aug. 23, in
Sllebie's Grove.
For artistic house painting call Oh
Charles NJ. BOdihe. =
Edw. q. Brick has built u new
stuir house on the lot he recently
bought of /. L. Simpkins.
A small colored excursion from Della
ware City came on The Re, bold and
spent Thursday in the Grove.
Herbert L. DolDow got thu end of
one uf his fingers cut off with shears AZ
the Powder Works on Tuesday.
William a. Sack, JI., has the foun-
dat. un up loi "A new double house next
10 his residence. Charles L. Barber is
The buiId,i.
Charles d. Pedrick has bought the
10 next To the school grounds of the
Samuel Si,eble heirs and will build a
house thereon.
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 l.ur da, sexcursion 10 Washing
ton ON The steamer Endeavor is an
n0unced to leave PENIS Grove on the
14lh At II O'Clock.
Capt. H.. o. Webber will begin his
truck line from Courses Landing to
Philadelphia next Thursday 10th. He
has rented another scow to 20 on the
line.
Edward Whitaker had the end of a
little iingure cut off by u pulper at the
Powder Works Tuesday forenoon. He
went TO Cooper Hospital TO have it
doctored.
If you take mail from the post office
that belongs to somebody else, and fail
to return it, you are liable to a fine of
$500. This applies 10 newspapers, as
well as letters.
Ice Cream Soda on Saturday at john
sons.
Rev. George I. Harris had charge
Of the Epworth League devotinal SER
vice at Pitman Grove on Thursday morn
ing and will preach there next Monday
morning.
Charles d. Pedrick has sold the lot
he recently bought of Henry Barber on
North Broad Street to Mrs. Ammon
Raine, who will build u double house
thereon. Charles +. Barber is the con-
tractor.
Two rolling mills ia the lower yards
OF the DUPONT Powder Company, near
Rising Sun, DEL, blew up Tuesday
afternoon, shaking the neighborhood.
No one wa hurt, and the loss was
slight.
The Delaware and Atlantic Tele-
phone Co., contemplate erecting a tele-
phone line connecting Woodbury. with
Bridgeport PedricktOwn, Penn's Grove,
P~ennsville an in extension to Salem.
This would he a great convenience.
One Of Harry o. Webber's scows ly-
ing at the wharf on Kiger and Bros.
farm below Courses Landing was burn.
ed to the waters edge on Monday night.
1t vac presumably set Oh fire, loss about
$1,000, with no insurance.
Max Reinhart, of Pedricktown,
formerly a missionary to Central Ameri-
ca will preach in Emmanuel Church
Sunday morning in the 0bsence Of the
pastor. The Epworth League will
have charge Of the evening service.
Evangelists Andrew J. Dolbow; of
Wilmington, and G. Q. Hammel. of
Delanco, will move their gospel tent to
PeRn's Grove and begin u ten days re-
vival under the auspices Of Emmanuel
Church on the Goth. Prof. j.. f. Fer
guson. will preside at the organ, as he
does at Pitman Grove Camp.
1t is very noticeable that the sweet
potato plants In the fields along the
railroads in Salem and Gloucester coun-
ties are dying from yellow rot or other
causes. The cold weather In May kill
ed some. The stand and dying being
so general where New York manur is
used leads some to think that an acid
put on the manure to rot it Is hurting
the sweet p0rato crop. A large crop Is
mol expected this year.
On Tuesday evening while John
Gallagher was riding on a bicycle on the
right side of the street along side Of a
wagon with no lamp he was run into by
Harry Barnett who was riding fast
past the wagon, but with a light on his
wheel. Gallagher was knocked off, his
right collar bone broken and his head
injured 80 there was considerable bleed