The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-03
FRIDAY, MARCH 3. 1905.
VENDUES
March 4-Geo. w. Fennimore, household
goods, Penn's Grove.
Borough Statement in this issue.

Borough Statement in this issue.
Guns at Fort Delaware are being re-
modelled.
John Summerill & Bro. are now ship
ping large quantities of fishing Irvine.
A stork has left a daughter at Harry j.
Cables and a boy at Warren Richmonds.
H. S. Titus began work on Shape q
Higgins's new meat market on Thursday.
The N. j. M. E. Conference will meet
in Atlantic City next Wednesday, 9Th.
Spring has come, because the boys
have begun to play marbles, which is a
sure sign.
Some workmen at Carney Point have
been laid off because the supply o. focal is
running short.
Fishermen are getting their boats and
nets ready, altho the Delaware river is
still covered with ice.
Ray Strait of Philadelphia who bought
the PENIS Grove Bargain House, Of
Harry Herman, announces special bar
gains in another column.
The post office at Courses Landing
was discontinued IN Tuesday and the
farmers in that region will be served
by rural delivery. A post Office with
David Kiger postmaster has been there
about sixteen years.
Melting weather during the daytime
the past two weeks, although the freezing
point was reached at night, has allowed
building operations to be resumed. The
temperature has been dropping to 20 at
night and rising to 40 in the sun during
the day.
A deal was completed last Saturday,
at Button, Ind, in nitro-glycerine prop
critics, by which all such interests in the
Indiana and Northwest Ohio oil fields
pass into the control of the Hercules Tor
pedo Company, a dupont concern, of
Wilmington, Del, on March l. The
Western headquarters of the company
will be at Toledo.
White Pine Balsam the best for coughs
and colds at Johnson's drug store. \
A debate was held at Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pa last Friday between the two
Literary Societies on the question, Re-
solved the fifteenth amendment should
be repealed. j. Summerill Diver, who
will be graduated in June was one of the
three debaters on the the affirmative and
winning side. They gave the most and
best arguments why the colored man
should be deprived of his vote.
Lewis w. Holmes went to New Castle
on Monday to look after his boat Emily
r. Green which has been there since the
freeze-up, loaded with 600 bushels of
corn. He found the report that the boat
was sunk and corn ruined untrue because
it was too near high water mark to sink.
Asa Holmes and Alfred Kreest have been
there with the boat all winter. While
there was a small leak, the boat was
kept pumped out and was soon corked.
A fire broke out in the new gun cotton
store house on Carney Point at 1890 last
Saturday night. AS the flames burst from
the building it made a most brilliant il
Elimination of the sky, but no noise was
made. The building and about six tons
of gun cotton, ready to be pressed into
various shapes for use, were completely
destroyed. The fire lasted about an hour.
No one was in the the building. 1t is
supposed the fire started from the radia-
tors. The building destroyed was about
30x9O feet and comparatively new.
When the Powder Trust was organized
the International Powder Company
which was organized to make powder
with cornstalks as a basis was taken in.
The International Company bought sever
al acres of land below the mouth of Penns
Neck Canal. Recently the DuPonts Co.
has been surveying this land. There is
a report that the company officials are
considering the project of moving the
black powder works beyond Wilmington
over to the Deep Water Point farm, be
cause Wilmington is growing too near to
the works in Delaware.
Witch hazel cream for chapped hands
at Johnson's drug store.
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