The Penn's Grove record., 1903-10-02

FRIDAY. OCTOBER 2. 1908.


Trenton Fair this week.
Fresh pork and sausage has appeared
to thicken the blood for winter.
Harry Pyle has beautiied his barber
shop by having the floor covered with
linoleum.
Mrs. Margaret p. Bilderback is in the
Polytechnic Hospital, Philadelphia, being
treated for an internal tumor.
Yeager and Layton are having a con.
crete pavement put in front Of then
building this week by S.. R. Bowen.
Farmers are busy getting out sweet Pc
tatoes which are worth at Penn's Grove
station from ST. 25 to $1.50 a barrel.
The Women's Relief Corps will hold
an oyster supper in Odd Fellows Hall,
Saturday evening, OctSber 10th. :
PENIS Groves tax rate stands at the
head of the list in the county. 1t should
make us prosperous like a high tariff.
William D.. Robbins had added two
beautiful show window bottles on new
pedestals to his popular pharmacy this
week.
The launch Adelaide, Capt. Edward
Dougherty, ran between PENIS Grove
and Wilmington on Wednesday, while
the boiler of the Ulrica was being clean
ed.
The thunder gust last Sunday evening
was accompanied by hail, many OF the
hailstones being as large as peas. The
cool weather which followed the storm
made fires necessary for comfort.
fine line of stationery and school
supplies at Johnson's Drug Store. \
The Republican county convention
will be held in Woodstown on Monday,
October 18th and the Democratic con-
vention will be held at the same place on
Thursday, the 10Th, three days later.
Mrs. Mary Ann Leap, widow of Seth
Leap, fell down stairs Monday evening
and was badly bruised, but not seriously
hurt. Her nose was fractured, right
wrist sprained and a finger dislocated.
A team of base ball, composed of men,
bers of Viola Council Jr. O. U. A. NJ,
will play a team from Alert Council, of
Pennsville, next Tuesday afternoon.
They will make a visitation to Alert
Council in the evening.
James A. and Samuel NJ. Denny have
sold a lot fronting 40 feet on Delaware
Avenue and extending to the Riyer to
William and Andrew Wentisch, of Phil
adelphia, who have been spending the
past ten summers on Simpkins shore.
The Mckinley sisters will sing and re-
cite and Miss McVey, all of Wilmington,
will recite at the measuring social and
entertainment in the Bethel Church next
Thursday evening, Sth. y
Charles NJ. HiJlman has resumed work
in the RECORD Office after being sick two
weeks with the shingles. During that
time the RECORD has been got out with
diffie ulty by our faithful foreman, Jas. P.
fourison, singing type day and night.
John E. Wilson, one OF the oldest vet
Grams died at moor on Tuesday of an in
ternal abscess. He had been ailing for
some years and been blind the past year.
The funeral takes place this Friday
morning. Interment in Emmanuel
Church Yard.
Mrs. Albert Naylor has started a snap
per farm in the rear of the bakery. Last
May Walter Justice, at Bridgeport killed
a large loggerhead which had 40 eggs in
it. These were planted in the ground
and two weeks ago % little loggerheads
appeared. They are kept in box with
plenty OF mud and water and fed with
bread and meat.
The past summer was so wet that
wheat was damaged in the West. Will
liam Weber recalls the fact that in 1910,
So years ago the season was so wet that
wheat in Salem county sprouted in the
head before being cut. Flour made from
grown wheat makes a runny, stickey
sponge. The way to remedy it is to
thoroughly scald the -four.
For coughs and colds use Johnson's
Compound Syrup White Pine. =
The fact that the glass factories will
not employ boys under IA years of age,
SO as to be within the limit of the law,
has filled the schools in glass towns to
overlooking. Besides this, some factor
les will not resume until the last of the
month or first of October, and not a few
lads even over IA years will take advan-
tage of the few weeks tuition.
VIM. X. Fisher, known in PENIS
Grove, and late assistant editor OF the
New Jersey Methodist and Epworth Ad-
vocate has left Ocean City and taken hi.
residence in Camden. He is now fnan-
cial secretary Of the Philadelphia Tract
and Mission Society. This society has
had a successful career of seventy-five
years duration, and is the only one in
Philadelphia which furnishes tracts fol
free distribution.
List of letters uncalled for in Penn,s
Grove Post Office Sept. Both: Mrs. JOS
Bayer, Miss Anna Collins, Josiah Dol
bow, VIM. Hanna, Mr.. J. Jaquette
Noah johnson, Mrs. Robt. Keisel, Miss
Katherine Mensch, Mrs. Freeman Mitch
ell, Mrs. McElwee, Mrs. ). T. Murphy
Mrs. T. E. Price, Horace Snyder, Mrs. J
II. subers, Mr.. F. S. Worrell, ~, Mis-
M. C. Whitaker. Persons calling TO
the above letters will please say adver
tised. J. D. Whitaker, P. M.
Look BEST, LAST BEST, ARE BEST, Cum
mings' photos, 307 Market Street, Will
mingtOn, Del