The Penn's Grove record., 1912-03-29
HOME HAPPENINGS.

Spring weather has arrived and every
body is busy.
Other towns are having cleaning NJ
days. Why not Penn's Grove?
Shad fishermen with their cabins began
passing down the river last Saturday.
The first six shad of this season a
Pennsville were caught last Saturday.
Corn being from so cents to 81 there is
talk OF importing corn from South Amer
lea.
The several fishermen left for the Bay
this week to catch the shad before they
run up the river.
The ground is so wet that some farmers
have been unable to haul cornstalks for
cows and to pillow.
Farmers have to pay from $3.50 to
$3.50 a sack for Green Mountain and
Cobbler potatoes for seed.
Jonas G. Raine caught five shad on
Wednesday, the first off Penn's Grove
this season. He sold them for 81 each.
The executive committee of the Inter
State Milk Producers Association has
fixed the price of milk for April at a
cents a quart.
The fishermen have returned hone
who went to parien Georgia, last Deem
Der. They report the catch of shad poor
er than for ome years.
The base ball team of the Gymnasium
Association OF Emmanuel Church defeat
ed tile st. Paal's Boy Scouts team last
Saturday by the score of Is to IA.
After being at home for three months,
more than two hundred persons went to
Wilmington last Saturday, the first day
the steamer Ulrica resumed her trips.
Large train-loads of coal have been ar.
irving at the Carney Point Powder
Works so a supply will be on hand in
case there be a strike of coal miners April
LIST.
All parents who have children they
desire to enter school this spring should
send them next Monday, as the law for
bids their entering after the first five
days in April.
Sweet potatoes are 81 a basket in Will
mingtOn market with small demand.
White potatoes are 80-85 cents a basket.
Many imported potatoes are sold, on
which 25c a bushel tariff is paid.
Deputy Fish and Game Warden Edwin
Leap received four ring neck pheasants
from the State Game Commission last
week and let them free in the Township.
The law forbids shooting them for two
years.
When you need bicycle do not fail to
get a Reddington or a Dayton of James
Workman, Union Corner, Penn's Groves
The profit OF a cent-a-word advertise
in the Penn's Grove RECORD is
great. Prof. Marts put one in costing 80
cents and sold $50 worth of poultry and
eggs. Try it when you have something
to sell.
Seldom does news occur in the quiet
neighborhood of the Cove. Hence, the
arrival at Josiah SummeriIPs oil a new
horse, the first he has bought in
generation, having raised former ones
himself, is the talk of that part of the
town.
The steamer Ulrica resumed her trips
between PENIS Grove and Wilmington
last Saturday, under tile new owners
Capt. Horace Wilson and son, Paul S.
Wilson, with the old crew as follows
capt. Oliver Donovan, master pilot:
Charles Harkins, purser; John C.Jamison,
engineer; Chris Yeager, fireman.
BIGGEST and BEST STOCK of HATS in
at DubelPs, No. . East 3. St.
.hildren's straws a speciality. 9-l5-3m
The prospects are that the road be.
ween Penn's Grove and Pennsville will
,e improved this year by the county. A
committee of Chosen F~reeholders has
'een informed by the State Commissioner
If Roads that he was willing to appropri-
tie some money but lot enough for all.
t was agreed that the County shall
make up the deficiency.
Gasoline by the gallon or barrel at V.
). ~Homan's,3l Delaware Avenue, Penn's
1rove. Also batteries, oils and electric
supplies. If
Haverford and Excelsior Motor Cycles
re the go-fast machines you should buy
II James Workman, Union Corner,
Grove, II
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