The Penn's Grove record., 1904-09-30
FRIDAY, sEPTEMB Err 80, 1904.

Farmers are busy getting ready to SOW
seed wheat.
A performing bear was in town on
Wednesday.
Chestnuting time. The frost last week
opened the burs.
Several persons of this region attended
the Trenton Fair this week.
r. d. Hughes began shipping away
his canned tomatoes this week.
"A Benz. w. Hurff took party to Borden
own last Saturday on his yacht, Arbutus
Frank Dole's new house built by H. S.
j Titus is a fine improvement to Franklin
Street.
James Diver has bought the west shore
front on the Cove point, of Joseph G.
Summerill.
The Junior League of Emmanuel
Church resumed their Saturday afternoon
meet ings last Saturday.
School supplies for sale at Johnson's
drug store. \
Robert Smiths new house on Church
Street, built by G. E. Barber. is inclosed.
1t shows the drift of building on the Div
er land.
The steamer Pokanoket, which has
been plying on the Potomac river all
summer, returned to PENIS Grove on
Tuesday night.
Benz. W. Hurff is building a naptha
launch for B. F. Jobes, of Bordentown.
1t is 80 feet long, 7 feet beam and will be
run by a 10-horse power engine.
The steamer Ulrica will drop her early
and late trips on October 1st, but will run
a late trip to Wilmington Saturday night.
See time table in another column.
The foundations for PENIS Grove Gas
Works is completed and the walls of the
engine and purifying rooms were erected
this week. A carload of pipe has arriv-
ed.
The sentiment for the Peoples Demo-
cratic ticket is so strong in Upper Penns
Neck and Oldmans that some have ex-
pressed a desire for a public meeting and
a county ticket.
For HATS, go to DUBELL, the halter,
No. 2 East Third Street, Wilmington.
Largest stock and lowest prices in that
ity. X
Miss Sarah Thompson, of Courses
Landing, after teaching school for over
thirty continuous years, did not take a
school this year. She will devote her
talents to raising pigeons.
Richard f. Shannon turned his atten-
ton to raising tomatoes this year in his
chicken yard. From "a hills he picked
II baskets. One hill had on it AZ toma-
toes and some vines were IL feet long.
Letters uncalled for in Penn's Grove
post office, Sept. 9th: Howard Branner,
EmmIt BurrelI, John Currin, Sara Cunay.
ANNA Green, Elizabeth Eurno, Prof. O..
S. Kribel, Oner J. Wood, Samuel Walk
err.
The Literary Society of the Penn's
Grove High School was organized on
Friday, Sept. 23, 1904, by e~Iecting the
following officers: Pres, Emma Shourds;
Sec, Chas. G.. Leonard; Treas, Frank
W. Broadway.
The Democratic County Convention
will be held at Penn's Grove on Thurs
day, October 10, at which time nominal
tions will be made for the Assembly and
County Clerk. The Republican County
Convention will be held at Elmer on the
18th.
Opening days at Mrs. r. j. Divers.
Friday, Sept 80, and Saturday, Oct. LIST,
246 Main St., PENIS Grove. X
Gideon G. Dolbow, near Courses Land
ing raised the finest water melons sent
from Salem County to the Philadelphia
market this year. The largest brought
from $l3 to SIS per 100. Water melons
have been extra fine in quality this year
and have brought an extra price over
past years.
Capt. William P. Wright took his last
cargo of tomatoes this season from Bid
dies wharf to Baltimore on Thursday.
The season has been a good one for him
and for the growers. The crop has been
large and the quality the finest ever
grown. Some farmers have made more
off their tomatoes than from the same
acreage OF sweet potatoes.
The tug boat Israel w. Durham. of
Philadelphia, which capsized in the
Delaware river below the mouth of Chris
tiana Creek in the storm Sept. 10, was
raised Wednesday afternoon by Captain
John j. Williams, of Chester. The tug
was beached on the Delaware shore, and
after being pumped out will be sent to
some shipyard for repairs,
Articles OF incorporation have been
filed in the County Clerks office by the
Penn's Grove Water Supply Company.
The amout of capital stock named is
$4,000, composed of 1000 shares. The
~incorporators are John P. Leap, B. B.
Filler, ]. P. higgins, H. E. Crompton.
d. d. Leap, H. ]. Blohm, w. F. Yeager,
j. ID. Whitaker, ]. Adelbert higgins.
For SALE cheap, 10000 California pri-
Wits, the fence plant. G. l.. Smith. 23-tf
The Ladies Aid and Ushers Union OF
st. Pauls Church will hold an oyster sup.
per in Odd Fellows Hall PENIS Grove,
on Saturday, Oct. l. st.
LOOK BEST, LAST BEST, ARE BEST, Cum.
mings' photos 307 Market Street, Viii.
mington, Del.
Old papers the best thing to put under
carpets for sale at RECORD Office. If.
/ find nothing better for liver derange
ment and contipation than Chamberlain.
Stomach and Liver Tablets.--L. F. AND
REWS, Des Moines, Iowa. For Sale BY
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