The Penn's Grove record., 1905-06-16
FRIDAY, JUNE Is. 1905.

Longest summer days.
The moonlight nights are beautiful.
The good old summer time weather has
arrived at last.
There was war in Poland camp OH
Tuesday night.
Cool nights and the cut worms have
made crops backward.
Emmanuel Church had a house-clean-
ing on Wednesday. Cleanliness is next
to Goodness.
Harry and JohnM. Smith have opened
q fish stand in the James j. Harris res
taurant building.
The cherry crop is short this year,
there being about scarcely more than
enough for the birds.
Elmer Shoemaker is able to be about
his work again after suffering severely
for six weeks with an abscess under his
right arm.
About 500 persons came over from Will
mington last Sunday. The Ulrica had to
make an extra trip in the evening to
take them back.
Witch hazel cream for chapped hands
at Johnson's drug store. \
The shad fishing season legally closed
on Thursday. Two or three nets were
out on Monday. John s. Dolbow and
Samuel Raine caught a dozen shad.
Jacob Gaventa shipped twenty-one
baskets of squashes Oh Monday. Jacob
was a little slow in getting married but
with early truck he is always up head.
The Italian berry pickers returned to
Philadelphia this week. after two weeks
hard work in the strawberry patches.
They returned many hundred dol
lars richer, besides having a country out
ing.
Horace G. Borden has sold a lot of land
to Mrs. Wm. V. Layton, adjoining her
residence, also another lot adjoining hers
to the Penn's Grove Water Supply Com
pany upon which the stand-pipe will be
erected.
st. Paul's, Emmanuel and the Bethel
Sunday Schools will make a combination
excursion to Brandywine Springs next
Thursday %. They will 90 at 10 o'clock
on the Ulrica. There will be an extra
boat leaving at l o'clock. Fare IS and
zoe. Everybody is going. Come go along.
For HATS 60 to Dubell, the halter,
No. 2 East Third Street, Wilmington.
Largest stock and lowest prices in that
city. n
Paul r., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Pape, of Philadelphia, died at the home
of his grand father William V. Layton,
on Tuesday, aged three years and seven
months. He had recovered from diph-
liberia, and had been out doors, but he
died from paralysis of the heart. The
funeral services were held Thursday after
noon, interment being in Riverview
Cemetery.
The body of Angie Flotz, who was
drowned on the 9th, was found last Sat-
urday about twenty yards from where he
went down off John McCarson's wharf,
by a Chester fishermen named Ross.
Coroner 5. j. Shute viewed the body and
buried it in the colored burying ground
at Swedesboro, at the expense of MI.
McCarson, who gave $40 reward for the
finding Of the body.
The strawberry season closed this week
except with those who have a late variety
The crop was never finer and never so
large, because of the increased acreage.
Some had prolific crops while the yield
on other patches were not so large. The
price was low from the time the Jersey
crop started to market. While a few
fancy berries broght from SC to 10c a
box wholesale, the great bulk of the crop
was sold for from Sc to sc a box. The
profits will be small, when lie a box
for picking and more than a cent a box
for freight and commission are deducted.
1t will leave only from 3c to 23c a quart
clear for the grower. II will not pay
much at that rate and the acreage will be
reduced. In fact it has been severa
years since berries sold so low as this year
White Pine Balsam the best for cough
and colds at Johnson's drug store. :
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