The Penn's Grove record., 1908-08-07
HOME HAPPENINGS.


WOrk on Ile StOHe Todu is progressing
nicely.
Golden Orangeade, sc, at Johnson
Drng Store. '
Are you reading for Home Coming Day
to morrow? Join the crowd.
Roy McCarson shipped the first loa(
of sweet potatoes from PENIS Grove this
Friday.
Crabs are biting plentiful, They art
UP as far as Woodbury. creek which is E
rare occurrence.
A few farmers from this region attend
ed the Farmers Picnic at Washington
Park on Thursday.
The Milk Dealers Association, of Will
miugton, made an excursion to Penn's
Grove on Thursday.
A expert workman from the quarry
in Vermont is working new designs on
the George G. Sparks monument in En-
manuel Cemetery.
Rev. II. S. Kidd has a ponderoso to-
mato vine nine feet four inches high with
large luscious fruit on it.
Bathing and boating have been excel
ent this week, because of the warm
weather and high tides at evening.
The date of the Salem county Gran
gers picnic at Penn's Grove has been
changed from August 27th to Friday 2Sth,
because the Grove was engaged for the
9th.
S.. R. Bowen is erecting some very
creditable cement curbs and walks about
the town: The latest to put them down
are W. P. Denny and J. d. Torton.
The dry weather stunted the canta-
loupes and melons and the heavy rains
injured the vines so that the crop will he
short and profits small in this region.
Over 600 carloads of potatoes have
been shipped from the stations at Elmer,
Aura, Palatine and Monroevllle thus far
this season at an average price OF S2,65
per barrel.
Michael Askins at Biddle's landing
has a new variety of castor bean plant
which he is taking great pride in growing
because of its large leaf. Some OF them
are three feet across.
The excursion of st. Paul's and En-
manuel Sunday Schools t o Burlington
Island next Wednesday, 18th, will be
the only opportunity to see the river
sights along the upper Delaware. Boat
leaves at s a. M, fare SOC.
The Changers Picnic at Alcyon Park,
which has become a very large affair equal
to an old time agricultural exhibition, will
be held next Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday. The Railroad Co. offers special
rates.
The iron work on courses Landing
bridge was completed last week. The
bridge was painted and the planks put
down by Chosen Freebooter D.. V
Summerill this week. 1t is expected to
be finished in a few days.
Four Camps of the P. o. of A., the
ladies auxiliary to the P. O. S. of A.,
in Wilmington, picnicked in the Grove
on Tuesday, A Free Gospel Mission
also came over. After a discourse by a
Baptist minister seven persons We're i'm
mersed in the river on Blohm's shore at
3 o'clock. "
Risner and DOughten did not load a
barge with tomatoes at the Cove last
Friday and Saturday as announced.
Denny Bros steamer Admiral took about
5000 to Baltimore last Saturday, They
paid 13c a basket last week and l4c on
Saturday. The steamer Numsen took
5000 baskets on Monday.
Golden Orangeade, delicious and re-
freshing. For sale at Johnson's Drug
Store.
The dry weather made the early
tomato crop shorter than last year and
a few farmers will have a good profit.
This week will end the picking for
Baltimore market The crop of late
tomatoes is not very promising as so
few have set on. Late tomatoes will not
ripen much before September.
Those farmers who W peach or
chaids in Warren county state that the
crop will be the best in several seasons
this year. The San Jose scale appears
to be yielding to treatment and a mum
Der of farmers will plant large orchards
this fall and next spring, Ten or fif-
teen years ago Warren county was noted
for its peach crop, but of late years the
yield has been small and most of the
orchards have died without new ones
replacing them.
Educate yourself TO save money 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
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