The Penn's Grove record., 1903-05-15
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1908.

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The schools will close this Friday.
The dry weather has cut short thu
grass crop.
D. v. Summerill has broken ground fo
a new house at the Cove.
The sorrel crop was never larger than
this year because of the dry weather.
Everybody will remember the Straw
berry Festival in Odd Fellows Hall thil
Saturday evening. Cake sale in connec
ton with the festival.
James Nipe at Perkintown picked the
first ripe strawberries in this region on
Thursday. They are a small but early
variety.
Ice Cold Soda Water at Johnson's Drug
Store. =
Capt. Charles Osborn went to Glouces
ter City on Thursday to become pilot Oh
one of the Washington Park steamboats,
during the ensuing season.
After next Monday the fare on the
steamer Reybold will be SOC. for a round
trip to Philadelphia and Soc. one way
1t has been 25c. and Acc. for some years.
The Butterfly Carnival to be given by
the Ladies Auxiliary of st. Paul's Church
is progressing nicely, and promises to be
one OF the finest affairs ever held in
Penn's Grove.
Mrs. Mary Fisher, mother of Mrs. B.
G. Wood, Mrs. Samuel Jess and Mrs.
Frank Strengthen, died at her home at
Port Penn last Sunday and was buried
there on Wednesday.
WANTED, strawberry pickers. CHAs
L. SMITH. If.
William A. Sack, who has beenconfined
to the house for five weeks, with neural
gia in his left eye, is able to be out again.
He has recovered nicely from having a
cancer taken from the left side of his
mouth,
CAUTION! Don't fail to attend the
annual Strawberry Festival of the Broth
erhood Union of Emmanuel Church on
the church lawn, next Saturday evening,
%, if you would enjoy a rare treat of eat
ables and amusement. See posters. X
John and Joseph c. summerill have
sold 7.4O acres Of meadow in the Henby
Creek meadow, bought of Josiah NJ.
Bricks estate, to the Dupont Company.
The Duponts O own all the meadow
between Carney Point and Deep Water
Point west of Goose Creek. Josiah and
William G. Summerill are the only priv
ate owners between what the Duponts
own and the high land.
Look BEST, LAST BEST, ARE BEST, Cum
mings' photos. 307 Market Street, Will
mington, Del. n
Abigail, wife of Charles Curriden, died
in Upper Penn's Neck township on the
I'd instant, in her Goth year and was bur-
led on the 9Th. Mrs. Curriden was twice
married, her first husband being Charles
Wilson, of Gloucester County. There
are seven surviving children by her first
marriage: Belle and John, of Salem;
Adnia Ballenger, of Malaga; Lewis of
Courses Landing; Lemuel of H~addonfield;
Cooper of PENIS Grove and Edward o.
Woodbury., all of whom attended the
funeral. The five sons are all stalwart
men, their combined weights being 1895
pounds.
Edw. Townsend wants purchasers for
bicycles. See him before purchasing
elsewhere. SIG up. \
The lecture by Rev. ]. F. Morrison in
st. James Church Thursday evening on
the Vatican included many historical
facts in which the Popes at Rome and
their worshippers took part in the spread
ing OF Christianity and civilization in the
middle ages. He said, the Pope was now
stripped of his just temporal power and
was a prisoner at Rome, yet he reigned
all powerful as the spiritual head OF the
great Catholic church and his encyclical
letters did much today in settling great
religious and social questions. The aud
fence well filled the church and the lee.
ture was appreciated most by those most
widely read in history.
For Hats, go to Dupell, the halter, No
2 East Third St Wilmington, Del. Larg
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