The Penn's Grove record., 1907-10-25
HOME HAPPENINGS.

Chestnuts are scarce this year. So arr
good winter apples.
The plastering of Emmanuel ChurcI
is finished and painters c~oloring the plast
er. Wood work fnishers have moi
begun yet.
Seven dollars a ton were given for {
carload of pumpkins at Penn's Grove
last week by a Salem Gamer.
George w. Taylor, of Wilmington has
the contract to build Postmaster T. E.
Hunts new house.
There had been several frosts previous
but the one OIL Tuesday morning was like
a light snow.
See if you are Oh the registry list. II
not get on next Tuesday afternoon OF
evening.
u. ID. Leap represents the largest
tailoring establishments in New York.
Call and look over the line. II
The tomato cannery at Sharptown has
been running on small sweet potatoes
the past two weeks, paying zoe a bask-
ct.
Liberty Fire Company expect their
new Fire Engine to arrive on Thanks
giving day When they will hold a big
supper to help pay for it.
Local milk dealers are having dif-
ficulty to get a supply OF milk and their
profits are smaller because they continue
to sell at &c a quart.
Thomas Durr has bought the Mrs.
Sarah Holton property on Franklin
street recently vacated by Captain Alvin
Hatch, and has moved his family there.
The farmers in the region of Penns-
vile and Salem picked tomatoes on Mon
day. There was no killing frost in that
region until Tuesday morning.
William G. Peterson's timber three
miles from PENIS Grove on the Sharp
town road last Saturday soldfor a high
price. The eleven acres averaged nearly
$40 an acre.
While on a scaffold in Emmanuel
Church last Friday a plank broken under
John R. Wilson and gave him a fall of
sixteen feet, breaking his left arm at the
wrist.
ID. ID. Leap is showing a large line of
the Brooklyn Knitting Co.'S popular
Jacket Sweaters in Silver, Oxford, White
and Black at So $3.50, So, So. 80, 81 and S..
Same styles in Boys sizes.
Capt. James Ale, Jr., has had such
success carrying freight and passengers
on the steamer Margaret Acton, between
Salem and Philadelphia, since she start
ed last July that arrangements are being
made for a larger boat next year.
One of the eight balloons which started
Monday afternoon from St. Louis in the
international balloon race was seen north
of Penn's Grove on Wednesday morning.
1t wasthe German balloon which landed
near Asbury Park. The French balloon
landed near Lakewood.
The Isthmian Canal Commission has
placed a large order for dynamite needed
for the canal work, the successful bidder
being the E. L. du Pont de Nemours
Powder Company at $195, 92S. The con-
tract includes LIS, 900 pounds of salt
peter dynamite.
Harry Elliot succeeded ]. H. South
ard as Superintendent of the Water
Works on Monday. Mr.. Southland be-
came manager of the Grocery Supply
Co.. store at Union Corner. Jere Cham
bers became manager Of S. +. Leap &
Sons grocery department.
Roy. and Mrs. H. R. Blackwood went
to the M. P. Conference at Millville on
Wednesday OF last week. On Thursday
their two-year-old daughter Mabel had
d~ip.heria to develope and they return
ed on Friday. The child is better, but
Mrs. Blackwood had the disease to de-
velope i'll her throat on Monday and she
is quite sick. Edith, the eight years old
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Ziegler
at the Cove also has diptheria. On
Thursday two more cases developed and
it was thought best to close the school
this Friday morning until Monday.
The prices which the real estate of the
late George G. Sparks brought at public
sale last Saturday put a high premium
Oh the location over that paid i'll former
years. The residence at the corner of
Main and Franklin Streets was bought
by James Diver for $5475, Capt. VIM. P.
Wright being the nex highest bidders.
That price is about $1400 above the
cost of the house and lot a few
years ago. The store property was
bought by Asa G. Justice for 5000. The
meadow and barn was bought by Wilbert
Sparks for $3.50.
l have the agency for Sayer Bros,
Tail ors' Wilmington, Del. All orders
for cleaning, dyeing, securing, and alter
ing promptly attended to
1O-1l-4t Mayhem Johnson X
School supplies and fine stationery a
Johnson Drng stores
For Hats, go to Dubell the halter
No. 2 East Third Street Wilmington.
Largest stock and lowest prices in that
city. 9-27.3 N