The Penn's Grove record., 1899-09-01
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER /, 1899.
September LIST.
Summer is ended.
Vacation is over.
Oysters r ripe.

working in the canning factory at
Quinton.
Paul McAllister was fined Sl2.00 and
cost by Mayor Torton Thursday morn
ing for being drunk and d%isorderly.
Lemuel Tussey has brought to the
RECORD office a tomato which weighed
BIB 10oz. 1t is the largest we ever saw.
Barber's pea coal 1925, delivered
1915. See prices in another column. y
Clark Turner has torn down his coal
tressel to run cars on and will have a
level track and shovel the coal out here
after.
Quarterly meeting will be held in
st. Pauls M. E. Church on Sunday with
the pastor Rev. Sanford NJ. Nichols in
charge.
Joseph l.. Wright is erecting a COW
barn, with stalls for all his cattle. He
wants them sheltered in case of anoth-
blizzard.
Charles A. Robinson after spending a
honey moon in Wilmington has return
ed to Penn's Grove, declaring his wife
has not been faithful.
For artistic house painting and paper
hanging call on Charles M. Bodine.
The Eureka Tea Co., Jere p. Hayes,
proprietor, will open a new store under
Odd Fellows Hall this Saturday. See
adv. i'll another column.
Some workmen have been discharged
recently from the powder works for hav-
ing matches in their pocket and fen be
ing asleep while on watch.
All members of NokOmis Tribe, Impd
o. II. NJ. are requested to meet at the
Wigwam next Tuesday night. Sept. 9TH
Business OF Importance. w. Z. Shourds,
r. c. \
Presiding Elder George l.. Dobbins
will hold Quarterly Conference at
Emmanuel Church next Tuesday eve
ming at 80 and at st. Taul's Church at
s o'clock.
Several colored persons from New
Jersey attended the big quarterly at
Wilmington last Sunday. The steamer
Reybold took 450 and several went by
the Ulrica.
The friends of Henry NJ. Wright
were pleased to see him in town on Mon
day, for the first time for over six
months. He is slowly recovering from
his Illness.
For harness and saddlery, trunks,
bags, and travellers supplies go to Hir-
am Yerger's Hand made Harness and
Safe Collar Works, II East Sd ST., Viii.
mington, Del, 81 3m
Committeeman Bevis has put a coat
ing of clay and sand on the sandy road
between the brick mill mt John Nor
toms. This was the worst piece of
road between PENIS Grove and Sharp
town.
Thomas Firestone has a vine with
two long green fruit on it, the longest
being As inches. 1t has been called a
California squash, egg plant, cucumber
and gourd. The seed was procured by
Alfred Hufnal from the Government
seed department.
The North Baptist Bible School, of
McDowellville, on the border of VIII
mington, spent Thursday in the Grove.
About 600 were over. This Bible school
has been coming to Penn's Grove for
over 20 years and for several years past
on the last Thursday in August.
The schooner Rillie S. Derby, Capt.
Thomas Naylor, which had been anchor
ed off PENIS Grove for three days,
cleared with a cargo of coal for Salem,
Mass, on Monday. A cargo of ice will
be brought back from Richmond Me,
Charles Naylor accompanied his father.
1.-THE best investment of my Iife,'- is
what a graduate says of his tuition fee at
Goldey Com'l and Shorthand College,
Wilmington, Del. Get the catalogue. 1t
is free.
Vincent Biddle's 3.year.o old son died
or diptheria last Sunday. The other
children reported sick are recovering
The Board of health ordered the water
course cleared out in the neighborhood
of Mary street on Monday for fear OF
an epidemic.
Owing to their being so much mari ii
the subsoil on Thomas Perry's farm a
Perkintown, tenanted by Joseph Perry
it was impossible to get good watei
with an ordinary well, so Mr.. Perry hai
had a we'll bored 115 feet deep from
which good water is procured.
The committee on repairs to Penn
Neck bridge has awarded the contrac
of erecting an iron span 80 feet long, t
replace the present masonry approach
on the Penns Neck end to the G0rde
Bridge Co. for $3.50. The heavy ms
sonry has caused the bridge to settle an
twist the draw out of working order. ]
is hoped this charge will remedy th
trouble.
Fl. ii. Bisbee, expert JeMeler an
%optician. recently from louisiana, bt
formerly of Ludington. Mich. wi
open his stole Sept. LIST in the bulldin
at present occupied by Mrs. Il. Scot
dress maker, 241 Main Street. 18tf.