The Penn's Grove record., 1905-04-28
FRIDAY, APRIL %, 1905.

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FRIDAY, APRIL %. 1905.
Penn's Grove will soon turn on the gas.
The belated April showers have fallen
this week.
Leaves on the trees have been putting
out this week.
Strawberries are in bloom, which in
dicates an early crop.
Early truckers have been setting out
early tomato plants this week.
Barber & Turner have laid in about
500 tons of coal at April prices.
Eli Zane shipped the first asparagus
from PENIS Grove on Thursday.
Fishermen should get rich quickly, be-
aus all their catch is all net profits.
Witch hazel cream for chapped hands
at Johnson's drug store. n
North Carolinn strawberries are in the
city markets at from Is to zoe a quart.
Shape & Higgins moved into their new
butcher shop ON Main Street last Satur-
day.
The steamer Sylvan Dell will ply be-
tween Bridgeton and Philadelphia, this
year.
Miss Sarah ]. Rogers, of the Normal
School, is teaching in Woodbury. school
this week.
George w. Davis, who has been clerk
ing with James Sweeten, Jr., is now with
S. r. Leap &Son.
HI. s.. Titus has the frame for C. C.
Turner's five apartment houses ON Della
ware Avenue raised.
Miss Florence Strengthen has been re-
elected n OF the twenty-five teachers
in Woodbury. school.
For HATS go to Dubell, the halter,
No. 2 East Third Street, Wilmington.
Largest stock and lowest prices in that
city. \
Theo. B. Paullin, Jr., who was with
d. D. Leap, for twelve years, has opened
a shoe store in Hammonton.
The Epworth Choir OF Wilmington,
will give a concert in the Bethel Church
on Saturday evening, May 18th.
Mrs. Jane Avis, widow of the late Geo.
]. LAWS, will sell her household goods,
on Saturday afternoon, May 9th.
Thomas Watson, one OF our bright
youths, has accepted a position with
Bailey, Banks & Biddle, Jewellers, Phila-
delphia.
The end of Penn's Grove wharf has
been repaired with new timber and plank
this week and new spring posts driven
at the end.
Joseph Collins, a prominent contractor
and builder in Salem, came to his death
by falling off a portico roof striking the
pavement with his head on Tuesday.
Joseph Jordan, of near Harrisonvill,
died quite suddenly with typhoid pneu.
monia on Monday. He leaves a widow
and six children. He was a brother to
tn late John P. Jordan, of U. P. Neck.
You know Snelbaker Bros, the reli-
able marble dealers. Place your orders
with them for Decoration Day. Drop a,
card to Woodbury. or Woodstown. They
will reply. 4
st. Pauls Sunday School will hold a
strawberry festival in Odd Fellows Hall,
next Saturday evening, May 9Th. An
invitation is given for all to enjoy the
social as well as ice cream, cake, straw
berries, fruits and etc.
With well lighted streets and good
water for household use and fire pro-
lection and house going up as fast as
carpenters can erect them, PENIS Grove
will begin to think herself big enough
to be a city in the heal future.
Ezekiel Turner has about completed
the work of blowing the wood and arm-
or plates off the old monitor Lehigh on
James Divers shore and expects to the
bare hull to be towed to Philadelphia
next week where it will be torn up for
scrap iron. The wooden armor off the
Lehigh will be enough for Mr.. Diver to
finish bulkheading his entire river front
and protect his property from being
washed away by the wind and tides.
The shore has been washing away about
a rod in twenty years, some prominent
places move
White Pine Balsam the best for coughs
and colds at Johnson's drug store. Il
To neglect placing your orders with
Snelbaker Bros. for marble and granite
means disappointment on Decoration
Day. Write for them to call on you at
once, at Woodbury. or Woodstown, N. ]. \