The Penn's Grove record., 1905-02-03
.enn's Grove is still in the dark.

PENIS Grove is still in the dark.
The sample gss light was repaired ant
lighted on Tuesday.
Examinations. were held in Penn's
Grove School this week.
Chickens continue at a good price.
The best are worth zoe a pound.
H. S. Titus has built an addition to his
store house for builders supplies.
Douglass shoes at So so at Penn's Grove
Bargain house. x
Gideon C. Dolbow has had a barn
built in the rear of his residence in PENIS
Grove.
The quiet fall of two inches Of snow on
Sunday night made sleighing good on the
bare roads.
The roads in the Township have been
ditched out in some places where badly
blocked with snow.
Ten inch ice was gathered this week
from the Wiley pond above PENIS Grove
and put into H. ]. Blohms ice house.
With snow blocked sidewalks and no
street lights some carry lanterns to guide
their foot steps, in Penn's Grove this week.
Josiah Dubois has moved into half of
his new double house on South Broad
Street. Herman Johns will occupy the
side.
The Philadelphia ice boats have had
much difficulty in keeping the western
channel open for ocean bound steamers
this week.
Our Annual February Shoe Sale is now
on. See Adv. D. D. LEAP. \
Edward 5. Harris has received WORT
that shad fishing was good in St. Johns
river, Florida, in December but not so
good in January.
A report got started that the legislature
last year passed a law, compelling farmers
to ditch out the road along their farms
and made food for talk. There is no
such law.
A water melon in tie middle of Jan
uary is a rare curiosity in this region
Jacob Hampton kept one in fair condi-
ton which tasted like a melon, although
stale and fiat.
Col. John Wainwright, of Wilmington,
has secured a pension for Sarah Murphy,
of Penn's Grove of SIS a month from Dec.
s, 1902. She is a widow of James G
Murphy Co. K.-24. N. J. Vols.
Extensive Improvements have been
made to the interior of the First Baptist
Church OF Penn's Grove. The floor has
been carpeted, cushions put on the seats,
the walls papered and painted. Gas was
used for the first last Sunday.
White Pine Balsam the best for coughs
and colds at Johnson's drug store. \
The Delaware river is frozen solid to
the western channel which is kept open
by Philadelphia ice boats. The Duponts
who come over from Wilmington on the
tug Emily have to walk half way across
the river on the ice to Carney Point.
Last Monday morning was the coolest
this winter to that date, when the mer-
curry was at &C.; Tuesday morning 100;
Wednesday 14o; Thursday 24o. This
Friday was the coolest this year when
some thermometers registered zero.
A lot containing one acre and 11-1OO
fronting on North Broad Street, Penn's
Grove, owned by the late Samuel M.
Raine was sold a commissioners sale last
Saturday to Charles D. Raine, of Brook
lyn, for $500, he being one of the heirs.
So Douglass shoes the best for the mon
ey. Penn's Grove Bargain House. n
The RECORD did not get issued until
Saturday noon last week, one day late be-
cause the blizzard delayed our supply OF
paper. That is the latest the RECORD has
been issued in twenty years and we hope
it will not occur again for that length of
time.
The George Harbeson farm of II acres
below Auburn, was not sold last Saturday.
There was only one bid of $1,000 made on
it. The 122 acres of timber land adioin-
ing Elijah Harbeson's were sold to w.
P. Denny for $1l.50 an acre. The heirs
hold the farm at private sale.
Thursday, February I'd, was Candel-
mas Day when the proverbial ground
hog appears to prognosticate the weather
at sunrise. 1t was cloudy until 8 O'Clock
when the sun came out and shone the re-
mainder OF the. As Mr.. Ground Hog did
not see his shadow at sunrise the winter
is declared ended.
We are also offering balance of this
Seasons Boys and Young Mems Suits
II Mems Stiff and Soft Hats at about
Half Price. ID. Il. Lean 4
Witch hazel cream for chapped hands
at Johnson's drug store. y
Ancient and Modem advice about how
to acquire wealth.
The ancient sages' ''sure road to wealth.
was be temperate in all things, be econom.
ical always" Modern life, with it's rush
methods" in business requires that 'skeer