The Penn's Grove record., 1907-06-28
d JUNE 2S, 1907.
HOME HAPPENINGS.

The good old summer time has arrived
at last.
The Glorious Fourth will be mex
Thursday.
The hot weather has brought on {
big crop of potato bugs.
Ground was broken last Friday for the
new addition to Emmanuel Church.
The early white potato crop promises
to be large.
Some are eating early potatoes from
their gardens.
The shower ON Wednesday afternoon
was refreshing to vegetation.
Barber & Turner are laying in a large
stock of coal for next winter.
Otis Curriden and William Huber
sent peas to Wilmington market last
Friday.
Soda water, delicate favors to suit the
taste at Johnson's drug store.
The bicyclers of PENIS Grove should
keep in the middle OF the road, like Cox
ey's Army.
The Italian berry pickers have been
returning home this week. Some will
remain to pick tomatoes,
Capt. w. P. Wright made the last trip
from Penn's Grove with Strawberries to
Philadelphia on Wednesday.
st. Stephens Lutheran Sunday School,
of Wilmington, spent Thursday i'll the
Grove. About 500 came over.
Joseph Holdcraft brought three ripe
tomatoes to PENIS Grove on Wednes-
day, the first picked in this region.
There will be racing at Salem, ON July
4th, beginning at l.30. $500 worth OF
stakes will be contested for by 2.11, 2.27
and 2.35 classes.
The bottom fell out of the straw berry
market last Saturday when they sold as
low as &c a box. The price this week
was from &c to SC.
Peas are bringing 60c a basket. New
white potatoes are down to about half
what they were three weeks ago, now
So to $3.25 a barrel.
Hay harvest week. The cool wet
spring killed much grass and caused sor-
rel to grow so that the grass crop is shor'
with many farmers.
Mosquitoes were never more numer-
GUS and blood thirsty. Where is John
Smith the ex-termlnator with his $3.50,
600 of state money?
Joseph r. Stiles has sold his farm Oh
which he lives to Frank Dietrich. He
will move next spring onto to the Sam
uel Strengthen farm he purchased last
year.
Those strawberries which Charles
Sheets brought to the Record Office last
Friday measured six inches in circum-
ference. Thirteen filled the box Who
can beat that?
The reason why many local potes do
not get published is because they are not
,enorted. Don't be backward about sona-
ing happenings you know of to the
RECORD Office.
E. S. Harris informs us his shad clear
ed $333. % per hundred this year. 1t was
the most profitable season in fifteen
years. The best fishermen caught be-
tween $500 and 5000 shad,
The steamer Thomas Clyde landed at
Penn's Grove on Tuesday an excursion
of about 500 from Philadelphia and
Chester. She will begin her daily trips
to Woodland Beach on July 4th.
Educate yourself to save none by
opening an account in the Savings De-
partment of the PENIS Grove National
Bank. 1t will earn you 3 per cent inter-
est compound semi-annual and you can
draw on IA days notice.
This week will end the strawberry
season. There has been only about half
a yield but the price has averaged high
for good fruit. The quality and size was
never larger nor finer.
The Junior League and Primary class
of Emmanuel Sunday School had their
annual picnic and treat in Divers Grove
last Saturday afternoon. The meetings
will be suspended during the remainder
of the summer.
The DUPONT water-pipe line between
Danser mill pond and Carneys Point
was connected last Friday and water
flowed thru it for the first. 1t will be
some weeks yet before all the work is
completed. A concrete dam is to be
built at the pond.
The Fire Company cleared about $3.50
by their fair last week and enough goods
remain on hand to make it about $500.
Amy one wishing to help the Company
can do so by purchasing the goods on
hand. The Company wishes to thank
all who contributed and helped make
the fair a success.
The AID annual encampment Grand
Army of the Republic of New Jersey is
being held at Ocean Grove City on Thur
sday, Friday and Saturday of this week.
Mayor ]. D. Torton is the representative
of Acton Post, PENIS Grove, and Joseph
Cheesman alternate. Mrs. A. C. Ped
rick is the delegate from Acton Relief
Corps and Miss Reba Shourds alternate.
The Court of Errors and Appeals at
Trenton has affirms the Judgment of
the Salem County Court which gave a
verdict for $1,000 in favor of Everitt
Sparks, of Penn's Grove, at April term
last year, against the River and Harbor
Improvement Co. Mr.. Sparks lost an
arm some years ago while working on
one of the Company's dredges, because
OF faulty machinery.
A new railroad time table went into