The Penn's Grove record., 1910-05-13
HOME HAPPENINGS.

A few strawberries are turning. Some
persons expect to pick a few next week.
The frost last Friday morning damaged
Strawberries and early tomatoes In diner
ent localities.
fkThe gentle spring rain on Tuesday
night and Wednesday will help make a
anger hay crop.
The Penn's Grove Schools celebrated
Arbor Day last Friday afternoon with
appropriate exercises.
Lard and meats are about Is per cent
higher than this time last year. The
remedy is grow hogs and cattle.
Charles G. Flanagan and Mrs. Lizzie
Sailor are the first to have cement curbs
put in on Harmony Street this year.
Congress has passed a bill appropriating
$40, 900 to build a road from Fort Mott to
Jacksonville, in Lower Penns Neck.
The VIC. T. U. cleared $45 by their
festival last Saturday evening, which is
a nice addition to the public fountain
fund.
As the Penn's Grove school holds only
nine and a half months, the examinations
in the grammar and high school grades
will be held next week.
VIM. C. Pedrick has bought Frank Tur-
ner's milk route. He and Frank Law
renee will become partners in the milk
business and each serve different parts OF
the town.
The large amount of sorrel in grass
fields indicate that the farmers will have
to use more lime. Lime has not been
used extensively for the past twenty-five
or thirty years.
Farmers are mixing a pound of paris
green with a bushel Of bran and sowingit
on their tomatoes, cantaloupes and water
melons to kill the cut worms, which were
never so destructive.
The restaurant in the Justice building,
1902 Main Street, will be opened under new
management OH Saturday, May 18th. A
share of your patronage is solicited.
Duffy & Citizens, proprietors. 13-2t
Frank Summeril | caught a large long
cared owl, grey III color, measuring four
feet from tip to tip of its wings, in a steel
trap. 1t was after chickens. He killed
it. Such birds are very rare in this
region.
The State Camp OF the Sons OF Vet
Grams was held at Red Bank on
Wednesday. Mayor F. A. Gentieu and
Benjamin Peacock attended, and later
made a trip to the DUPONT Powder Works
at Haskell.
Several automobile owners of Penn's
Grove and Pedricktown were i'll Salem
on Tuesday at the reception given the
Harrisburg Meter Club. Forty-eight cars
were there in the run from Harrisburg, |
Pa, to Salem.
The pupils in the fourth primary grade
took the examination last week, for pro-
to the grammar grade. The
grade grammar pupils will take
the county examination mex week for
promotion to the high school, and the
in the high school will take exam
for promotion, the fourth year
pupils being graduates.
Potatoes are being sold in Titusville, |
Pa, by the farmers of Crawford county
Is cents a hushel. The low price is
due to the planting Of a large acreage last
year. when the crop was uniformly good.
Many merchants laid in a stock in the
fall, paying iron 40 to TO cents a bushel |
Inasnluch as a year OF high prices usually
a spring when potatoes are cheap, |
Crawford county farmers are preparing to
plant heavily regardless of the present
market.
S. r. Leap and & Son sell and recon-
mend Campbell's Varnish Stain for
and vanishing all kinds of In
terror Woodwork, Furniture, etc. A 25c
can will do three chairs. A 75c can will
cover an average floor. Dries hard, very
durable. Why not try it.
For Headache and Neuralgia, stop in
and get a box of Johnson's Headache
Tablets. loo, at Johnson's Pharmacy. n
After the big dinner try some of john
sons Digestive Tablets. 25c per box. at
Johnson's Pharmacy.
For SALE-Bean poles, cabbage, toma-
toes, egg and pepper plants, delivered to
any part of Borough. Chas. l.. Smith. tt
Order your strawberry checks at the |
PENIS Grove RECORD Office early.
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