The Penn's Grove record., 1906-07-13
FRIDAY, JULY Is, 1906


Cook with gas. Safer, quicker, cheaper'
The kitchen of the st. Pauls parson age
has been newly papered.
The heavy rains greatly damaged the
late tomatoes in low ground.
The peach crop is reported to be the
largest in thirteen years in Delaware.
Tomatoes reached the high dollar last
Friday in Philadelphia when the best
sold for 81 and $2.25 a basket.
Souvenir Post Cards-Bisbee. X
A Wilmington man broughta boat load
of manufactured ice to PENIS Grove on
Tuesday and sold it for 40c a hundred.
Capt. II. O. Weber started his truck
line from Courses Landing to Philadelphia
on the I'd, to accommodate the growers Of
early tomatoes. The line never started in
previous years before August.
Marshal Simkins made a raid on
Divers point last Saturday night to break
up %carousing and disorder. Squire Shan.
non imposed $50 fine and cost on one and
another was sentenced to Jail.
There is no small boat carrying truck
from the Cove to Wilmington this year
1t is the first time there has been no line
from there since Jerseymen first went to
Wilmington market.
Try Bisbee the Jeweler-Optician.
Produce brought the following pricesir
Wilmington market on Thursday: toma,
toes 60-75c, cabbage 3O-35c, egg plants 81.
80, squashes 20-25c,~ onions so Coo. Apples
are plentiful 20-25c.
The foundation for the new addition tc
the school house was begun last Monday
Contractor H. S. Titus having Albert
Stetser, Jr's. house inclosed will begin OIL
the school house next week.
The price of ice is double what it was
last year in PENIS Grove. 1t has to be
carted from the factory in Woodstown OF
brought on the cars from Pennsylvania
1t is sold for SOC per 100 pounds and 6Oc
for so ib.
Fine Writing Tablets-Bisbee.*
On Tuesday the 1st United Presbyterian
Church of Wilmington came to Penn's
Grove. There were $50 on the excursion
On Thursday the German Lutherans came
over. More than 700 came The Ulrics
ran midday trips to accommodate both
There is an epidemic in PENIS Grove
OF a peculiar sickness which gives pain il
the head and intestines. Over a hun
dred cases are reported by the physic
lans. One or two big doses of castor OF
is one OF the best remedies.
Denny Bros. have their new whar
completed, at the upper end of Penn.
Grove. The length filled in is $50 fee
and the bridge at the end is 60 feet lons
and 10 feet wide. There is a foot of water
at low tide at the end. They have filed il
a roadway with cinders from the whar
to Delaware Avenue.
Fine toilet articles and fine stationer,
at Johnson's drug store.
Edward Tussey and Monroe Bennett
caught Il 9-foot sturgeon ON Wednesday
which weighed 277 pounds. Very few
are fishing for sturgeon and rarely is one
eau ght. lsreal Dolbow caught a large
roe worth $40. Sturgeon meat is a dam.
ty worth 25c a pound.
The first well at P%erkintown mill ponC
tailed to give a sufficient supply of water
tor PENIS Grove. Another is being driy
Ell this week and it is expected to be
ready next week. The stand pipt
Is kept full with pond water for fire
emergencies. There are about 60 takers
OF water now in PENIS Grove.
Eaton-Hurlburt Stationery-Bisbee
Early tomatoes are ripening slowly. be
cause the weather is cloudy and cool
The crown setting is light and there ha.
been no hot dry weather. The prices re
main good and there is no immediat,
prospect OF a glut to bring them down t.
D canhouse prices. The best stock brought
81 a basket in Philadelphia OH Thursday
Look best, last longest, prices to suit
Cummings photographs, 3O7 Market
street, Wilmington. X 2eow
For HATs-Go to Dubell, the halter
No. 2 East Third Street, Wilmington
Largest sock and lowest prices in tina
city. \
White Pine Balsam, the best for cough
and colds at Johnson's drug store.
A gasoline stove is dangerous ant
Troublesome. Buy your wife gas stove
Tree connections. Penn'sG Grove Gas Co.
Repairs Anything-Bisbee the Watch
maker.