The Penn's Grove record., 1903-11-27
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 81, 1908.

Read on advertising columns.
Bank statement in this issue.
Read Brader Bros. adv.
Rural mail carriers don't deliver mail on
Holidays.
There was no school on Thursday nor
this Friday.
Shippers have begun to buy sweet po-
tatoes out of houses for So a barrel.
George NJ. Wells will hereafter be at
Woodbury. on Saturday instead OF Fri
day.
A fine line of stationery and school
supplies at Johnson's Drug Store. =
Sixty new cases Of smallpox developed
in Philadelphia last week and ~thirty-four
this week up to Wednesday noon.
The firing of cannon at Fort Mott on
Monday of last week was heard as far as
Elmer and Bridgeton, 20 miles distant.
Charles E. the 10 month old child of
Arthur and Hannah Workman, died on
Wednesday Of catarrhal pneumonia. He
was a delicate child from birth.
Look BEST, LAST BEST, ARE BEST, Cum
mings' photos, 307 Market Street, Will
mington, Del.
Thursday morning was the coolest
Thanksgiving we have had for years. The
temperature was down to 220 at Z a m.
This Friday morning was the 200.
The railroad company has put up a
very formidable rood-bed across the mea-
dows below Bridgeport underlined with
numerous pipes for water to pass through.
1t should now stand a severe storm.
PENIS Grove School resumed last Mon
day after the diptheria scarce. No new
cases developed this week while the sore
throat continues with some children.
Col. John Wainwright, OF Wilmington,
has secured a pension of SIS a month for
Eliza Wilson, widow of John E. Wilson,
of Company K. Path N. J. Vols. 1t be-
gins October 9, 1908.
The Philadelphia Quartette consisting
of Clara Weber, Elizabeth Baney, Will
bur ]. Kerry and George @. Spell gave a
concert in Odd Fellows Hall Thursday
evening under the auspices Of st. Paul's
Church.
Having just laid in a large stock Of
horse blankets which | will sell cheap for
cash. / also have a full line of all goods
to be found in a first-class harness shop.
Repairing a speciality. Jos. A. RoBBINs.*
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. c. Harbeson have
traded their farm, known as the BEN.
Cheeseman farm near PENIS Grove, for
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Turner's farm in
Pilesgrove above Auburn. They both
moved last week.
Mrs. James Simpkins, who returned
home from the University Hospital, Phil
adelphia, five weeks ago after having a
tumor cut from the left side of her throat
returned last Sunday to have one taken
from the right side.
For coughs and colds use Johnson's
Compound Syrup White Pine. \
Howard Cowperthwait died suddenly
at his home in New Egypt last Friday.
He married Jennie, daughter of the late
Samuel S Thompson. Mrs. John M Bevis
and her daughter, Mrs. Arthur H. Green
attended the funeral which was on Mon.
day.
Clarence Jordan, of Pedricktown, on
whom smallpox developed last Satur-
day, was a workman at the Powder
Works at Carney Point. Because of
that Messrs. Dupont, on Tuesday, re-
quested that all the workmen be yaccin-
ated at the Company's expense and that
all workmen from Pedricktown quit
work for a few days, as an extra precau-
ton against spreading smallpox among
the workmen.
For HATS, go to DuBELL, the halter,
No. 2 East Third Street, Wilmington
Largest stock and lowest prices in that
city. *9-l8-13t
During a iracas in French's bar room
last Saturday night between native
whites and Southern colored men, Adam
Jess, Jr., got cut two or three times, but
not badly, by Daniel Davis, of West vir
ginia, who lived with Warren Sparks
Richard Hill, of Maryland, fred off
revolver during the melee. In defaul
OF $500 bail Davis was sent to Jail By
Mayor Elkinton to answer at Court. Hill
was fined $3.50 for carrying concealed
weapons.
| have opened a poultry house at Uniol
Corner to buy for a New York firm, OF
Mondays Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
GEORGE LAWRENCE.
Chupch Notos