The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-30
D AUGUST 30, 1901
Excursion DAYS are over.

Tomorrow is the last day OF summer.
George Watson is rebuilding his house
on Franklin Street.
Ground was broken on Monday for the
new Catholic Church.
Caterpillars are devastating many
fruit trees in this region.
Did you see j. q. Layton's advertise
ment in the Auxiliary Trumphet? =
The reed bird season opened on Mon
day, but the birds are scarce and poor.
Mrs. Mark C. Dolbow, lost a gold watch
and chain on Cooper Street, Camden on
Tuesday.
II. S. Titus has the frame up for Han
nah S. Ashcraft's new double house on
Pitman st.
John X. Whitsell has the foundation
erected for a new double house on South
Broad Street,
Mrs. Catharine Hughes has a lemon
tree with five lemons Of it. 1t is a graft
ed tree and she has used fine lemons off
it. 1t is for sale.
Cherry Ripe is fine, at Johnson's.
Miss. Henrietta G. Fahs, of Ileispire,
Pa, has been elected and has accepted
the position as teacher in the Grammar
department of PENIS Grove School.
Howard Sheppard, the electrician at
the Powder Works, has moved from Will
mington, into half of H. S. Titus's new
double house on Main Street.
VIM. Matlack whose barn and horses
were burned at Courses Landing recently
estimates his loss at 81, 900 on which was
$500 insurance.
A. NJ. Oliphant and Son at Sharptown
completed repairs to their mill dam and
resumed grinding on Tuesday. See an
nouncement in another column.
About 200 colored persons went from
the ~neighborhoods OF Salem, Manning
ton and Pilesgrove last Sunday to Will
mington to attend the big quarterly,
Albert W. Shultz, son OF George and
Susan N. Shultz, aged 80, died with on
sumption last Friday and was buried on
Monday in st. Mary's Catholic Cemetery,
Salem.
Ice Cream Soda at Johnson's on Sat
urdays. \
During the flood in Salem Creek on
Monday of last week the water at Courses
Landing was as high as the bottom ofthe
iron bridge and came up to the corner OF
the store.
J. W. Pratt reached a depth OF about
100 with the water works well last week
with no prospects of a good supply of
water. He has not been boring this
week.
The beet sugar plant on the Delaware,
at Bellavue, above Wilmington, has been
sold to the William G. Newport Company,
OF Philadelphia, and will be used for the
manufacture of fertilizers and chemicals.
The owners will employ about 800 hands.
The finest flavors in Soda at Johnson's.*
John Halter, who has been head en-
silttl db WIG lbNhtl III vi ilNhiil slA
years, has quit and will become head en-
gineer at a morocco factory in Wilmington
on Monday, at an increase of wages, and
less work. Messrs. Dupont gave him an
excellent recommendation.
Eighteen members of Woodstown Coun-
Gil No. 81, Jr. Order of American Me-
chauins mid a fratnrpal visit 10 Viola
Council No. 20 Monday evening. They
were entertained with speeches, recita-
tions and music by the Hawk-Eye Club,
after which they We're treated at
Boone's with refreshments.
Doctor William Ziesel, Dentist of 1859
North Franklin Street, Philadelphia, will
be at his Penn's Grove office, Delaware
Avenue and Pitman Streets, every Thurs
day. Crown and bridge work, filling,
extracting and artificial dentures. APP
pointments by mail or otherwise, \
Next Sunday at the Baptist Church will
be Missionary Sunday. In the morning
the pastor will speak upon "Africa, The
Great Missionary Field" In the evening
at $50 there will be a Missionary Con-
cert; The Subject for consideration being,
'Sketches from the Life and Labors of
Adoniram Judson.
The new addition OF two rooms to the
public school house is completed. The
building has been newly painted outside
and papered inside, The new Steamboat
err and radiators are completed and steam
was put on for a test N Thursday, The
rooms will have to be cleaned and desks
replaced next week before school opens,
on Sept. 9th.
Seven business firms alone employ fiji
ty-two Goldey College graduates. Write
to-day to Principal II. S. Goldey, Will
mington, Del, and ask for new, free,
beautiful catalogue. See adv. this paper.