The Penn's Grove record., 1909-12-24
HOME HAPPENINGS.

The Kid, he does full justice
To all they brew and bake;
1t wouldn't seem like Christmas
Without q stomach-ache.
Merry Christmas to all our readers.
The travel to Wilmington has beer
heavy this week.
The schools close this Friday and will
not open until January Sd.
Turkeys are roosting high in the cities,
at IS and 40 cents a pound.
Christmas will be observed as a bust
ness holiday in Penn's Grove.
Mumps are giving the children in
Penn's Grove swell honle-staying parties.
Joseph G. French began filling his ice
house on Tuesday with ice 1t inches
thick.
Jesse Keables has been appointed su-
perintendent OF PENIS Grove Gas Com
pany.
Collector s. L. Boone reports that taxes
have not been paid az well as in former
years. II
Some small boys are enjoying skating.
Ice is scarce to skate OH because Of the
drought.
John Nipe has bought the Elijah Har-
bosom farm at Perkintown and will move
thereon.
Joseph Clements has purchased the
Charles E. Barber property on Pitman
Street of Harry Kater.
The temperature was down to 20 on
Monday and Tuesday mornings and has
continued below freezing all the week.
Penn's Grove Grange held a box social
on Wednesday night. Next Wednesday
night the annual election of officers will
take place.
Central School will give an entertain
ment for the benefit of the school on
Thursday evening, December Both. Ad-
mission 10 cents.
A coating of fine stone and gravel has
been put on the Upper PENIS Neck
State road, The time for its final &C.
ceptance is near.
The cold weather has maze shell ice as
far OUT as the end Of PENIS Grove wharf.
The cove is filled with ice, between
Divers and Carney Point.
The drought continues and some farm
ers are compelled to cart water for their
cattle. Biddle's Creek at Central School
has never gone dry yet, altho it has been
dry at the Sharptown embarrassing at
the end Of the stone road.
Bids were opened as follows last Mon
day at the United States engineers office
in Wilmington for dredging in Alloway's
Creek, N. j.: Richards Dredging Co.,
l12a cents per cubic yard; River and Har-
Dor Improvement Co., 1873 Gents. lie /
contract has not been awarded.
Auctioneer David English made a rec
ord at the Hewitt sale last week. He
got So cents busbel for corn, the highest
price it has sold for this season, and got
more for some articles than was paid for
them. One purchaser declared he got
500 above the usual prices on the whole
sale.
Matthew Mitchell paid the following
prices for poultry this week: Chickens. /,
to 26 cents per pound; geese, l4-16;
l4-1S; turkeys, %. This is as high |
higher than selling prices quoted in
Philadelphia. MIR. Mitchell is able to
pay these fancy prices because the poul- |
try raised in this region has a market |
among the best class Of buyers in New
York City.
Hello! Where are you going? Going to
Bloomars? Well ask to see his boots and
felts for Xmas. Cheapest and best line
in town. Bloomar's, All King Street,
Wilmington.
Educate yourself to save money by
opening an account in the Savings De-
partment of the PENIS Grove National
Bank. 1t will earn you 8 per cent inter-
est compound ~senii-annual and you can
draw on IA days notice.
For Hats 60 to Dubell the halter
No. 2 East Third Street, Wilmington
Largest stock and lowest prices in that
city. 9-24-3m
For Headache and Neuralgia, stop in
and get a box of Johnson's Headache