The Penn's Grove record., 1903-05-08
PauIsboro Posings.

May 6th-A thousand home seekers
can find a building lot at Paulsboro and
be greeted with the smiles Of a dozen
land sharks. Where the brier grew, the
serpent had his habitation and the rabbit
his lair beautiful houses now adorn the
soil, where twelve months ago was a
| picture of desolation. The axmen and
grubber have invited the builder, and
the place reminds us of Frederick Bream-
er's homes in the new world
The Billingsport wharf is a perfect
wreck. That northeastern did the bust
ness.
It is a fine ride from Lincoln Park fer
ry across the river and thence to Phil
adelphia by trolley.
An awful lot OF tomatoes have persisted
with the cold. John Sharp would take
a $l.00 for his field.
The mighty battleship Maine is at the
navy yard and is not strong enough for
her powerful guns they say. She will be
strengthened.
The channel back d League Island is
being dug 80 feet deep SO to make sfresh-
water harbor for our mighty ships, 80 the
barnacles will not bother the bottom.
This is the only freshwater harbor we
have.
George Devault has moved t. National
Park. He has a naptha and takes %
every day to work at the navy yard. He
has work also there. That is well for he
wintered hard with sickness without end.
They pay him 80 cents a week to take
them to and from work.
The Government shad hatchers were
buying roe shad yesterday at Billingsport.
| They pay one cent a thousand for the
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ment, $4,000 to a fish or more. They
the eggs hatch and then commences the
struggle for life among the little fish, for
big fish eat little fish.
That law is reversed in the case of the
whale for the sword fish and the thrash
er attacks him together, the sword fish
underneath and thrasher pounds his
pate when he comes to the surface they
soon do him.
Poor fishing at Billingsport from 5 to
so to a net on the 9Th. One dealer got
the fish from 5 wagons for country pat
ronage. Not many shad are caught on
the silver hook in these diggins.
The water works pumps will be run by
a gasoline engine. The stand pipe is up
Is feet and is to 60 100. They have the
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which was moved a mile in 6 days with
one horse. It is as big as a church 65x45.
Old Archemedies with his lever and
fulcrum must take a back seat in these
days Of high grade mechanics. Yet we
admire old Pythagoras as we look down
through the vista of years when twenty
five centuries ago he discovered that in a
rlght-angle triangle the sum of the
squares Of the two legs or sides was equal
to the square on the hypothenuse. Ev-
cry carpenter uses it to square his build
ing. He measures 6 feet on one side, 8
on the other and 10 across.
Billingsport Church is being doubly
enlarged, raised up s feet and a basement
put under it at a cost of $1,000. The
preacher breaches gratuitously
and the congregation is a middle class
well to do, and can pay the bill. They
are an independent methodist denomina-
ton.
Rev. DIR. j. III. Payran fills the bill.
Quarterly meeting next Sunday week
at Payran's Church.
They are raising money lively for the
Baptist Church and building the town
all around it, beautiful houses too. It is
a grand location. Mr.. Manloye's house
is the finest, stands on a high large lot
that runs down to the railroad, painted
pink and trimmed white, adorned with
modern fix ups. R.
Mr.. Joseph Pominville, of Saltwater
MIMI, after having spent over So, 600 with
the best doctors for stomach trouble, without
relief, was advised by his druggist Mr. Alex
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