The Penn's Grove record., 1912-10-04
HOME HAPPENINGS.

Carloads of peppers are being shipped.
The growers receive Z C a basket.
The oyster supper iii Emmanuel Church
Saturday evening will afford a luscious
feast.
Chestnuts are ripe and the small boys
delight i'll journeys to the woods alter
them.
Mrs. Daniel Price who was severely
bitten by a horse a short time ago is
improving.
The Senior Choir of Emmanuel Church
entertained the Junior Choir in the
church last Friday evening.
The first frost was made last Monday
morning by the cool damp weather. Fires
have been needed since for comfort.
Carload of choice Pennsylvania eating
potatoes now here. Can fill orders the
coming week. II. d. TURNER. adv.
The Ladies' Aid of St. Paul's NJ. E.
Church will hold their annual oyster
supper in Odd Fellows Hall, on Satur-
day evening, Oct. 18th. IL. L. Hunt,
secretary.
Because of the cold Home Week" in
Wilmington next week the steamer Ul-
RIGA will make al extra trip at night on
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day, leaving Penns Grove at S and Will
mington at II p. m.
Farmers ale digging their sweet pota-
toes rapidly. They receive from 81. rs to
So 90 a barrel at PENIS Grove station and
from 40 to 90 cents a basket i'll Whining
ton, less = cents freight, carriage and
commission. The crop ls light.
The last session OF Congress appropriate
ed $l00,0 900 for the extension OF free mail
delivery. Postmaster Thomas f. Hunt
has made application for free delivery in
Penns Grove and has received reply that
it will be taken under consideration.
Some days ago a gunner shot a good
milking COW belonging to Aaron Dennis at
Courses Landing and in two days she
died. Not only the suffering of the ami
but the loss of a valuable and needed
COW shows a very brutal nature that pref
udlces all armel against gunners coming
on their tarms.
ID Stewart Craven received the nomi-
nation for Congress over John T. Wright
by ST plurality. 1t was thought at
first that Wright was nominated, on esti-
mated votes 1t would have been true
but for the mistake OF a hundred plurali-
ty less for Craven i'll Gloucester county
than he received.
The steamer Queen Anne quit daily
trips between Salem and Philadelphia
last Saturday. The steamer Adelaide
which ran between Bridgeport and Phil
delphia, during the summer, began trips
RAINING between Salem and Philadelphia
last Monday, going up the river one day
aud down the next.
''Old Home Week. will be celebrated
all next week in Wilmington when the
City Council will have something doing
every day to entertain the visitors as well
AS the citizens. The program for each
day is i'll kennard & Co.'S advertisement.
That old reliable firms advertisement is
interesting reading each week. They
make a speciality OF reliable goods.
The Committee OF the Board of Free
holders opened the bids for shells to 90
OH the Penns Neck road from the Canal,
northward, last Saturday. The contract
was given to Capt. w. P. Wright for a
cents a bushel. Chas. Boyer bid Al
cents a bushel and +. j. Action 81 cents.
Capt. Wright's bid was for the shells to
he in buckets or OF wag ons. The others
were at side OF wharf.
BIGGEST and BEsT SToCK of LATEST
STYLE HATS in Wilmington at Dubell's,
No. 2 East Third Street. Children's hats
a Speciality. adv 9-27
When you need a bicycle do not fail to
get a Reddington or a Dayton OF James
Workman, Union Corner, Penns Grove. \
adv
Gasoline by the gallon Or barrel at V.
S. Homan's,3l Delaware Avenue, Penn's
Grove. Also batteries, oils and electric
supplies. adv tt
Haverfurd and Excelsior Motor Cycles
are the go-last machines you should buy
of James Workman, Union Corner,
P5nn's Grove, adv