The Penn's Grove record., 1903-03-06
Paulsboro Posings.
March 18th, 1913.
DEAR RECORD,

DEAR RECORD,
Our town has been
shaken from base to apex with internal
connections of wrath the past three days.
Two parties, both having the good ofthis
city in the bud at heart, are turning the
world upside down. One faction isclam-
oring for a borough, with all the beauti-
full parahernalia that is hitched into a
big, city. The other party thinks it
would be consummit nonsense and sui
cidal to the town Of great expectations.
One party sent a petition for the Legis-
lature to make it a borough and the other
party got up a remonstrance and sent fei-
lows out to canvass the town for sigma
lures. Then the other fellows did the
same thing. Then they loaded them
selves into a car yesterday morning, grin
ming at each other like chessy cats, and
took the Legislature by storm. Haven't
found out just what the outcome will be,
but SO far as l can see from my stand
point it is like two pens Of hogs. Some
fellows are in the pen eating thecorn and
the other porkers are squeezing for it out
side. They say the assessor gets $210 and
collector 1868.
This wonderful love that they are all
shouting about the good of the town runs
down to the pocket nerve. That is the
vital part that is more tender than the
eye. Oh! self interest, thou art a jewel.
This is a great town to disagree and will
compare well with many of the places
spoken of in Richardson's Beyond the
Mississippi"
This little township has been in litiga-
ton for six years with one of the Town
ship Committee and the end is not yet.
Expenses have run up to $1,000.
John Layton, formerly Of PENIS Grove,
is in Cuba. He has just returned from
Santiago after working on an iron bridge
in Berracco with Spaniards, ~Frenchmen
and Hatians and only nine Americans.
The bridge is 1877 feet high and 7s5 feet
long. He has had the Cuban fever twice
in three months. He is offered $3.50 a
month to stay a year but he cannot stand
the climate.
Jack Weldie was buried last Monday
week from his late residence in Paulsboro.
He was honored with a large respectable
funeral. He came to this country with
the late Reimer Hendricks, of Pedrick-
town. Somebody was writing about luck
in the Record and says there is no such
thing. | say there is. Christian Dietrich
who died lately at Pedricktown and Mr..
Wolferth, of Wolferth station farm, come
from Germany in the same ship and
fetched up at Paulsboro. Wolferth
bought an old farm that the crows had q
mortgage on at Solomon's graveyard and
commenced to scratch out a fortune.
After some years of hard knocks the
Swedesboro Railroad went through his
property and made a shipping place there.
He added shipping business to farming,
steered straight and they say he is worth
500, OOO.
Dietrich went to California, endured
awful ~hardships, got chronic rheumatism,
made a little money and wound up life
prematurely. Dietrich was the smarter
man OF the two in many ways, but the
fates were against him, while good luck
came to Wolferth.
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There are plenty Of men with honest
endeavors who launch out on the broad
ocean of life, but-mect~heaA winds and
unpropitious tides and wind up life with
a failure.
l believe in luck in this great battle for
mead n II these were the days OF Hea-
then Mythology, I should say the gods
have their favorites.
Everybody seems to want to to get on
Main Street in Paulsboro and rents have
taken q look upward. There has been a
good deal Of moving the last few days.
Very many are sick in Paulsboro. One
doctorstold me he had been run day and
night for four weeks. Rev. Mr.. Smith,
Q Faul, Erma Lodge are congfleecent.
Georgetown fishermen from here, now
IN South Carolina, are catching shad we'll
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