The Penn's Grove record., 1905-12-01
December lst.

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First lay OF winter.
Winter weather sure at 1870
The needed rain came Oh Tuesday anC
continued all the night.
The Bank and stores were closed il
Penn's Grove on Thanksgiving day.
The P. Q. S. of A. attended St. Pauls
and the Baptist Churches last Sunday.
Samuel ]. Justice has bought the Geo
Harbeson farm, below Auburn, OF the
heir 8.
Horace q. Borden has sold his farm
near Wiley School House to Arthur c
Brandriff.
Go to Strengthens mill, near Pedrick.
town, for hotbed sash, glass and putty
before buying elsewhere. X It.
Don't miss the literary treat given by
II. w. Bolton in Emmanuel Church next
Tuesday night. Only l0c. =
There was no school on Thursday.
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but many pupils remained home.
A number of young folks made merry
at Emmanuel parsonage on Thursday
evening, the occasion being Allie Boyd's
18th birthday.
Richard Blocksom succeeds John G.
Gayenta as first mate on the Ulrica. Mr..
Blocksom was formerly pilot on the
steamer Brandywine.
The Commissioners OF Appeal, Israel
Dolbow, Jr., Benjamin S. Featherer and
Jacob f. Shoemaker, met on Tuesday
and corrected a few mistakes in taxation.
Farmers are getting more n this
fall than for several years previous in the
fall. Preparations are also being made
to raise many more tomatoes in this re-
gion.
Fewer Gallons; Wears Longer; Devoe.*
Samuel Townsend started to build a
launch at Pennsville OH Tuesday, for Jas.
Ale. 1t will be so feet long, with 20
loot beam, 6 foot depth of hold and will
be rnn by a gasoline engine.
Mrs. Catharine Justice, of Pedricktown
bad erected a unique and costly monu-
ment over the grave OF her late husband,
Alexander L. Justice in Emmanuel Gene
terry. Snelbaker l;ros. did the work.
Morris Katz, who has been keeping a
grocery store and meat market, in j. S.
Hagan's building adjoining the railroad
on Harmony Street during the past four
months, has moved back to Bridgeton.
All sportsmen and gunners should
hear H. w. Bottoms lecture in Emman-
mel Church next Tuesday evening on
"What to shoot; and how to hit'. All
others should learu what and how also.
Because OF the rain on Tuesday even
ing the lecture by w. II. Bolton, on
"What to shoot; how to hit" was post
poned. He will give it in Emmanuel
Church, next Tuesday evening at 7.3O.
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The drop in temperature from Wednes-
day to Friday morning was remarkable.
kThe south wind which accompanied the
lain put the temperature up to IS on
Wednesday. The northwest gale pulled
it down to 10 this Friday morning.
Fine toilet articles and fine stationery
at Johnson's drug store. n
The large Standard Oil wagon got
stuck in the mire on Wednesday morn
ing OF Oak Street where a new gas pipe
had been recently laid and the earth had
not settled. 1t took over an hours work
in the rain with jack screws to get the
wagon onto hard ground.
Charles Craig and Dennis Fay have
moved into John c. Harker's new house
on Penn Street. Charles Nichols, form
erly OF Delaware, who has had rooms
with Edw. IL. Green, succeeds Mr.. Craig
in Robert Kidd's house mex to Emman-
uel Parsonage.
over one hundred attended the
reception given Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Diver on Thursday night of last week
and presented them with many useful
and handsome presents of silver, glass
and china wear, besides rockers, linen
and pictures. The Band furnished mu-
sic as well as the calithumpians had
merry time.
The large scow belonging t. the N. J.
Central r. R. Co. which was sunk a few
weeks ago off Carney Poiut was towed tc
Denny's shore, at the upper end of Penn's
Grove, on Monday by the steamer Ad
miral, Capts. Samuel and James Denny
who are always looking after the fisher
mems interest. The scow was in til,
eastern drift OF the ishermen's nets.
For HATs-Go to DUBELL, the halter
No. 2 East Third Street, Wilmington
Largest stock and lowest prices in tina
city. x
CLOSING Our.
| am closing out my business and max
ing a positive clearance sale of all MILL
merry goods, at reduced prices. Mrs. Till
lie Smith. If
ii. ii. SMITHS RESTAURANT.
Fish, oysters and CLAIMS. Orders dc
llvered. Your patronage solicited. Corn
er Main and Franklin St.
SIS, 900 For One Story
Conan Doyle, the famous creator {
Sherlock Holiness" has just been give
the highest price ever paid in Americ
for one story. This great historical n
nance, which will, the critics say, be I'll
literary sensation of the day, will begi
in THE Philadelphia Sunday Press.
Remember the date, December 8, an
don't fail to get THE Sunday Press,, til.