The Penn's Grove record., 1904-01-22

Who said good old-time cold weathe
was a thing of the past?
A Farmers Institute will be held il
Woodstown next Thursday and Friday
2Sth and 10Th.
Henry j. Blohm finished filling hi
ice house last Saturday with l2-inch ic
from Wiley's pond.
Assemblyman Hunt makes his head
quarters when in Trenton at Hotel Ster
ling, formerly State Street House.
A number of friends celebrated Will
liam d. Torton's 10Th birthday on Mon
day with a terrapin dinner at the light
house.
Have you seen those three-color pos
tiers printed at the PENIS Grove Record
office for ]. M. Bevis? Are they not all
right?
Boone Ice Cream Co. have been gath.
ering fine ice IL and Is inches thick from
their pond on Edw. Turner's farm, this
week.
Matthew Vanneman was put under
$500 bail for appearance at court by
Mayor Elkinton on Tuesday for assault
and battery on John Warren ON the 18th.
Israel Lloyd, one of Penn's Grove old
est citizens fell on the ice on Monday and
hurt his hip very badly. He is making
his home with Mrs. Jane Bright, who is
quite sick.
Philadelphia IN has been ice
bound this week by a jam in the horse
shoe bend. Ferry boats have run with
much difficulty between Philadelphia
and Camden.
Charles Woodley, who has not been i n
Penn's Grove for five years and has been
living in the Soldiers Home at Hampton,
Va, for three years, arrived from there
on Tuesday to stay some time in Penn's
Grove.
There has been excellent skating on
the river between PENIS Grove and Car
ney's Point this week. George A. Bisbee
constructed a sail and with the assistance
of another skater utilized the wind on
skates.
George Hall, keeper of the Schooner
Ledge lighthouse at Essington, was found
dead sitting in his rocking chair at l
O'Clock last Saturday morning. The dis
covery was made by his wife, who looked
into the sitting room to talk to her hus-
band, having awakened from her sleep.
He was 65 years old and had been in the
government employ over 25 years.
The temerature was down to 100 last
Monday morning and did not rise above
200 during the day. Tuesday was as cold
a morning as has been this winter. The
mercury dropped to zero and some ther-
mometers stood g. below. 1t was very
cold all day. On Wednesday it got up
10 320 aud on Thursday snow and ice
melted and made sloppy streets.
Pastor T~ushingham will preach in the
Bethel M. P. Church Sunday morning,
oath, at 1890 on Prevailing Prayer
evening subject, Where art thou?' The
revival services have been very success
full this week. AS high as eight have been
at the altar of a night and twelve have
protested conversion during the meetings.
Last Sunday morning the center-cap of
the turn table at Penn's Grove station
broke while an engine was turned half
around. A wrecking train was brought
down to pull it the remainder of the way
around. Since Sunday the locomotives
have had to run backwards one way.
The railroad officials are considering the
building Of a Y on which to turn the To-.
connective.
Lena Bell, the youngest daughter OF
Mrs. Ella and the late Isaac P. Zane, aged
s years, died last Saturday night Of dip
liberia, at the home of her uncle, Eli
Zanes, with whom she made her home.
She had been sick with a sore throat
since the Sunday previous. Not thinking
it could be diptheria a doctor was not
called until Saturday morning. She had
been no where except at school and the
only way it is Thought she could have
caught the ~diptheria germ was by eating
some snow.
You will find at Johnson's Drng Store,
a fine line of toilet articles. The list
comprises preparations for the face,
hands, teeth and hair, also a full line of
~perfumery, toilet waters, etc.