The Penn's Grove record., 1907-06-14
FRIDAY, JUNE IA, 1907.
HOME HAPPENINGS.

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Flag Day.
Hurrah for Betsy Ross.
Fly screens are not needed yet.
The straw hat is keeping in the shade.
Alex Thomas was committed to Jail on
Monday for beating his wife.
George Jordan was the only fishermen
at Hope Creek this year who had a sail
boat.
S. R. Bowen is still confined to the
house with the grippe.
The Parkside boys of Wilmington
came over last Saturday and beat PENIS
Grove A, A. at base ball by a score Of
9 to O.
James U. Layton has his new addition
to his store with a dwelling attached
inclosed ready for the plasterers.
Samuel P. Ward and Philip Curriden
have BEEN granted pension of $l2 per
month.
New white potatoes are worth Sc a
barrel IN Philadelphia. Old potatoes
about 81 a bushel.
Capt. w. P. Wright started his straw
berry line from Barber's wharf to Phila-
delphit on Monday.
Upper Penns Neck and Oldmans Town
ships have an italian population OF berry
pickers of probably a thousand.
Last Sunday was the first warm day
this summer. During the night it be-
came cooler and a little fire has been
needed for comfort all the remainder of
the week.
Flower Mission Day was observed by
the w. G.. T. U. They sent fourteen
boquets to babies and twenty-one to sick
and shut in folks. They hope tie flowers
will teach what we cannot of Gods love.
Fine Stationary and souvenir post
cards of Penn's Grove at Johnson's
drug store. As
On Wednesday afternoon of last week
during the rain in this region hail fell
in a route from Courses Landing, across
Warrington, Salem and Elsinboro.
Some damages was done to truck and
window lights were broken in Lower
Penn's Neck. A hail storm in June is
a rare and poor crop producer.
Mrs. Joseph Whitaker, who lived along
the shore with three small children while
her husband, worked in Wilmington, was
committed to Jail for drunkenness and
adultery last Saturday. Mr. Whitaker
has put the children under the care of
the Children's Home in Camden. Others
implicated are missing from town.
The dupont water pipe line from Dan
ser's mill pond to Carneys Point is near
ing completion. An iron pipe was put in
over the low place along Biddle's creek on
the Penn's Grove-Sharptown road. When |
the pipe was lowered to connect the wood |
en- pipes, Oh Monday it was found that |
the pipe at the upper end was one foot
lower than it should be.
Mr.. A. S. Clark would like all persons |
expecting to begin, or continue the study |
OF music in the fall, to write him on or |
before July LIST. No. SO Centre St.,
Woodbury., N. j. *4t
Straw berries are becoming a leading
crop in this region. A few were picked
last week, but the season opened on Mon
day with small shipments because the
berries are ripening very slow during the
COO weather. AS a consequent prices are
high, berries bringing from 10c to lac a
box wholesale, Buyers paid 1O4c on
Barber's wharf on Wednesday.
The continued cold, unreasonable
weather makes some of our oldest citizens
recall what their fathers and grandfathers
told them about the cold summer in the
thirtles, when it was so cold and the warm
season so short that corn never ripened
and was worth 81 a bushel. Joseph G
Cowgirl, of Mt. Holly, while looking over
an old diary recently found the following
record: May 10, 1884, very cold, freez-
ing in the shade with a clear sun. Icicles
hanging twelve inches long,"
Educate yourself to save money by
opening an account in the Savings De-
partment of the Penn's Grove National
Bank. 1t will earn you 3 per cent inter-
est compound semi-annual and you can
draw on IA days notice.
The annual commencement of Goldev
Wilmington Commercial and Shorthand
College will be held next Monday even
ing, in the grand Opera House, Whining
ton. Hon. w. H. Berry, State Treasur-
er of Pennsylvania, will address the
graduates, and Roland D. Grant, of New
Hampshire will deliver the annual adj
dress. Goldey College is one of the fore
most educational institutions ia this
part of the country, and worthy of the
patronage Of those desiring a business
education.
For HATS, Go to Dubell the halter
No. 2 East Third Street Wilmington. |
Largest stock and lowest prices in that
city. 4-5-3 m X
For sALE-Twelve bicycles for from
6 to SIS. J. K. DUFFY.
White Pine Cough Balsam, the best
for coughs and colds at Johnson's Drug
Store. Il
CHURCH NOTES
BETHEL METHODIST PROTESTANT