The Penn's Grove record., 1906-09-21
FRIDAY, SEPT. 81, 1906


The days and nights are equal.
Reed birds are scarce and worth 81 a
dozen.
L. F~arnsworth, the furniture repairer,
has moved to Salem.
A little fire was needed for comfort
last Sunday.
Some vestibule cars are being run on
the PENIS Grove Branch.
Albert Summeral lost a four-months
old King Wedge colt on Monday.
School supplies at Johnson's drug
store. x
q. Harry Morris is building an ad-
dition to his property on Penn Street.
Time for merchants to plant their fall
advertising to reap a harvest OF profits.
James Diver is having his bulkhead
on the point filled in by a mud digger.
John McCarson has torn down the old
house on his farm and is building a new
one.
Amos q. Justice has broken ground on
South Broad Street for a new double
house.
Asa G.. Turner has had a mud digger
repairing his meadow bank above PENIS
Grove.
William NJ. Davis has taken charge
OF r. f. Shannon's barber shop at Union
Corner.
A festival will be held next Friday
evening 2Sth at Wrights School house.
Proceeds for the school library.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Anderson have
made a new home in one of H. S. Titus's
houses opposite the school house.
John Diver has sold a building lot on
Church Street to Lewis w. Cook who
intends to build thereon this fall.
Primary Elections will be held next
Tuesday. A voter has a right to vote for
whom he wishes nominated on his ticket.
The residence of the late John E. and
Eliza A. Wilson on Mary Street has been
sold by the heirs to Mrs. John X. Stanton,
one of her heirs.
Cook with gas. Safer, quicker, cheaper*
The Ladies' Aid Society, of st. Paul's
Church, will hold their annual oyster
supper. in Odd Fellows Hall, on Satur-
day evening, Oct. 9th
Amos G. Justice has sold his double
house and lot on Railroad Avenue to
Peter Montagnoli, who has been living
in the fremont cottage.
PENIS Grove Schools have abandoned
the vertical style Of writing and returned
to the ~Spencerian s%lanting style, which
is more beautiful and more prac.
tical.
Louis Katz has opened a clothing store
in Shannon's Building at Union Corner.
H is brother-in-law Lewis Somers is in
charge. See his announcement in anoth-
er column.
Rev. j. Warren Davis gave a very
stirring and able address at Bethel har-
vest home on Thursday evening, Oh
''Tactful Energy" energy which touches
something and does some good i'll the
world,
Produce brought the following prices
III Wilmington on Thursday; sweet pota-
toes 35-40c, small 25c, white potatoes
40-45, peppers 20, cabbage 3O,-35, corn
80, apples 1880, pears 2O-35. A few
small melons at &c. each.
Horace c. Seeley, a %conveyancer and
real estate broker, Of 1870 North 9th
Street, Philadelphia, has bought DR..
William Ziesel's cottage and furniture
on Delaware Avenue and moved therein.
lie has made some Improvements since
moving.
The price of sweet potatoes is down to
Sl.20 a barrel and no demand for them
at that price. The warm weather binders
them keeping in shipment. The Virginia
and Maryland sweets are Cutting the
1Faarket. They are being sold for As and
tOc a barrel on the Delmarvia Peninsula.
Capt. William P. Wright bought the
last tomatoes at -Biddle's Landing this
season for a Baltimore firm last Tuesday.
He carried about 100, 000 baskets of early
tomatoes from Pedricktown and about
100000 baskets Of late tomatoes from
Blddle's Landing. Twelve cents a basket
was paid for most of the late ones, four
teen cents for a few.
The Steamer Admiral, Cap. Jas. A. and
Samuel NJ. Denny continues to carry to-
matoes from Bridgeton to Baltimors for
Mnnsen x Co. They carried a few loads
IRON Bridgeton to the firms factory al
Salem, also from Nerton Creek, Md, to
Salem. That was the first tomatoes ever
brought from Maryland to New Jersey
for canning.
Gideon G Dolbow, farmer in Upper
Penns Neck, received the highest price
IN recent years for water melons on
Thursday of last week in Philadelphia.
William Weber sold 240 for $24 a hun
dred to John T.. Wright for P. B. Horner.
Mr.. Weber states that he has sold many
hundreds of no larger melons for S. and
$40 a hundred. Water MELONS have been
very scarce in September.
LosT-A gold frog stick pin between
Johnson's drug store and the Cove, Sept.
l4th. Finder will oblige by leaving at
Record Office. Reward if desired. X
Fine toilet articles and fine stationery
at Johnson's drug store. X
Look best, last longest, prices to suit,
Cummings photographs, 307 Market,
Street, Wilmington. X 2eow..
gasoline stove is dangerous and
troublesome. Buy your wife a gas stove.
Tree connections. Penn's Grove Gas Co. \
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