The Penn's Grove record., 1909-08-27
HOME HAPPENINGS.


Summer is nearly ended.
Election notices appear in this issue.
Penn's Grove Shoots will begin Sep.
TENDER 9th.
One more week of vacation and then
the children will resume study.
st. Paul's Auxiliary cleared 1902 by
their harvest home last week.
Jersey watermelons and cantaloupes
were never finer than this year.
Miss Helen Manders, of Oxford Md.
is visiting her sister, Mrs. ]. Albert Fish
er.
Samuel M. Hunt is building a 15-foot
addition to his store because of his in
creasing grocery trade.
The Jag Protectors will hold theiI
monthly meeting at the Council room
this Friday evening at s o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fitzpatrick, OF
Philadelphia, spent Saturday and Sunday
with her sister, Mrs Harry s. Bowen.
The Book and Thimble Club held their
annual delightful outing at Dolbow's
landing on Wednesday. About thirty
went.
About sixty folks of st. Paul's con-
gregation went to C%larksboro on Thurs
day and had a merry picnic at Joseph V.
Clark's.
R. F. Willis has broken ground for a
new house on Pitman Street, adjoining
the house his father bought of Capt. S.
M. Denny.
st. James r. G. Church will hold a
picnic and supper in French's Grove Sat-
urday afternoon and evening, Supper
Csc. The young folks will enjoy dane
ing.
The New Castle County Fair at the
Driving Park, in Wilmington, will have
special attractions to draw farmers from
this region next Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday.
The funeral of Mrs. Matthew L. Kidd
was largely attended in Emmanuel
Church on Tuesday. Members of Penn's
Grove Grange attended in a body and
acted as pallbearers.
A complete line of stationery, and
toilet articles at Johnson's Drug Store. \
Sweet potatoes are late this year. Those
few who have them large enough to dig
are getting so cents a basket and So. 90 a
barrel. Water melons are selling well
this year, from $40 to $25 per 500.
Penn's Grove Water Supply Company
is having a filter plant put in at their
pumping station at Perkintown mill pond
to take iron out of the water which has
made 1t unpotable the past two months.
E. E. Bright is acting as purser on IL e
steamer Ulrica this week while Capt.
Lackey is laid up in a hospital in Will
mington recovering from a hemorrhage.
MI. Bright was stricken with rheumatism
nearly three years ago while on the
Ulrica and this Is the first time he has
been able to do anything.
There was some complaint last week
about the time advertised in the Record
for the train to leave Penn's Grove for
Atlantic City. The time as advertised,
ITO, was what was furnished on copy
from Broad Street station. The lex
and last 81 excursion from Penn's Grove
to Atlantic City will leave next Wednes-
day, September LIST at 7.05.
The early tomatoes are about done
The second early are now picking and a
few late ones have begun to ripen. Capt.
w. P. Wright quit buying tomatoes at
Pedricktown for Baltimore Gamers
on Tuesday. He began buying at
Biddle's landing near Hawks bridge last
week. Most of the early tomato growers
have had a profitable season. Some
have done better than for years.
Wheels to hire, also three first-class
tandems. J. K. Duffy 79tf.
The Delaware river is a veritable gold
mine, and sturgeon are the nuggets. On
Wednesday Harry IL. Smith caught one
which weighed $50 pounds for which he
received $l57. On Thursday Joseph w.
Sayers caught n which weighed 100
pounds for which he received $l18.
Postmaster T, E. Hunt bought them.
Sturgeon roe is worth $1.50 a pound. A
few sturgeon are being caught. The
above mentioned were the largest report
ed this summer.
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 s%emi-annual and you can
draw on IA days notice.
CHURCH NOTES
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