The Penn's Grove record., 1911-09-01
PENIS GROVE. N. j.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER l. 1911.
IN ALL PARTS
OF new JERSEY


Telegraphed Localities Cover
ing the Entire State.
FARMERS PUSHING WORK
Cuttings From Late Dispatches That
Epitomize the News of the State
for a Week--Fishermen Report
Good Luck at Coast Resorts.
The recent storms have played
havoc with the electric light system
in Woodbury..
The recent rains have helped corn.
and there will be a bumper crop in
Gloucester County.
The hog cholera in Pennsgrove has
abated but little, although every pre-
caution has been taken.
Joseph Magee, the mail carrier be-
tween Woodbury. and National Park,
has been made a deputy game warden.
Swapping mackerel are being caught
in the Delaware Bay near the channel
off Fortescue. This is unusual, and
anglers are having fine sport.
Bernard M. Saunders, while at work
in the Pennsylvania Railroad car
eye by a piece of brass and surgeons
found it necessary to remove the eye.
Friends of Augustus Marian, who
left Gloucester to enter the Soldiers
Home at Hamoton, Va, two months
ago, are much concerned for his safe
ty, as he never reached the institution.
Fred Dill, Raymond Keller and
James Bond, lads from Delaware, were
in the Woodbury. Jail, charged with
stealing watermelons from the patch
of John Naples, near Woodbury..
A hot fight is to be waged at Mill
vile for Freebooter between Freder-
lex Roedel and Samuel B. Durham,
who is a candidate for reelection.
Roedel is aschampion of good roads.
There has been a big drop in the
price of pickles in Gloucester County
A Franklinville farmer sem two bar
rels to a commission merchant in Phil
adelphia and received a two-cent pos
tage stamp as return.
The Finance Committee of the Mill
vile Council, decided to employ a COM
petent engineer to ascertain the ap-
proximate cost of electric light and
water plants. Municipal ownership is
strongly advocated.
During a storm a large portion of
the roof of the river bridge at Stock
ton was torn away and thrown into
the Delaware. Many large trees in
Lambertville were blown over, great
ly damaging the telephone and cleo
trio light system.
Patrick Murphy, thirty years old. OF
No. % Belleville avenue, Bloomfield,
was struck by a train on the Green
wood Lake branch of the Erie Rail-
road near the Soho Park Station. He
was taken to Newark on the train
and died later in the City Hospital.
Firth Wood, of Woodbury., and Sam
uel Cameron, of Millville, met by
chance at the farmers picnic at
Washington Park. They had not seen
each other for forty-fve. years, when
they were in the Battle Of Winchester
as members of Company A, Tenth Reg
iment, New Jersey Volunteers.
Knocked down by a motorcycle, near
his home, No. 763 Chestnut street,
Camden, Joseph Sweepsteak, eight
years old, sustained a fracture of the
right ankle. The boy was taken to
the Homeopathic Hospital. The police
were furnished a description of the
cyclist, who kept on after he struck
the little fellow.
The potato shipments of South Jer-
sey are ended for the season, and the
railroad records show shipments OF
4277 cars, about 923 less than a year
ago. Prices, however, have been o
than double, ranging from $4.12 to
$40, an average of $3.40 a barrel. The
acreage this year was much greater
but the yield, owing to dry weather,
was less.
Struck by a train of the Atlantic
City Railroad, at Newtonville, Cape
May County, Tony Barbarry, eighteen
months old, was so badly injured that
there was little hope for his recovery
in Cooper Hospital, in Camden. Both
legs were broken and the child suf-
fered also bad cuts about the head
and body. The child wandered on the
tracks, and before he could be reached
was hurled aaginst an embankment
by the Cape May express.
DR.. L. w. Munhall, Of Philadelphia,
in his sermon on "The Judgment Day"
at the camp meeting service, Ocean
City, aroused his hearers to enthus-
iasm, and there were many shouts OF
praise. The young peoples meeting
tonight was led by Rev. and Mrs. r.
NJ. Howells. of Philadelphia. The
children's meeting was in charge OF
Mrs. Thompson.
catcher for a Woodbury. ball team,
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