The Penn's Grove record., 1912-05-17


Good Luck at Coast Resorts.
Salvatore Romano, a Millville groo-
er, was fined $40 and costs by Mayor
Ware for Illegally selling liquor.
The total enrolment in the Vine
land public schools during April was
PAIL.
Fire companies at Burlington are to
be equipped with 1900 feet more of
fire hose.
The Egg Harbor City Council grant
ed Is hotel and tavern licenses. The
fee remains $125 a year.
Siphron C. Keith has sold French's
Hotel, Woodstown, to Isaac Stetser, of
Bridgeton.
The graduating class of the Wood
bury High School will consist of SO,
the largest in the history of the
school.
Water has been turned on at the
works in Bridgeport, and the town is
enjoying all the comforts Of both gas
and water.
A Philadelphia commission firm dis
tributed two carloads of truck baskets
to Gloucester county farmers from
Woodbury..
Another victim of appendicitis, Mrs.
Chalfont, has been added to the four
already in hospitals from Mullica Hill
for this disease.
During the month of April 4018
books were taken out of the Vineland
public library, 1856 of which we're non
fiction.
Miss Helen Read, daughter of the
Rev. ]. Morgan Read, has been elected
a teacher in the New Brunswick pub
lie school.
Residents of Glassboro have the au-
tomObile craze. Eight machines have
been sold to residents within the last
month.
The first mosquitoes of the season
made their appearance in Millville,
the wet weather bringing them forth
by the thousands.
Howard Vandergrift, of Mantua, kill
ed the largest hawk ever seen in that
vicinity. The bird measured 3 feet 10
inches from tip to tip. Vandergrift
will have it mounted.
The Cape May County Board Of
Freeholders has elected Dr.. l.. N. Girls
com, of Ocean City, Coroner's physi-
clan for three years, at a salary of
$500 a year.
Miss Elizabeth Breckley, for a num-
Der of years chief operator in the Bell
Telephone Company's office al Ocean
City, has resigned to take charge of
the city's Electrical Bureau.
Taken i'll at the supper table, Den
mis- Hustled, Sr., engineer at the Flor
ence Tread Works, died suddenly at
his home. He had been in apparently
good health. A physician said death
was due to paralysis.
ROLAND Calhoun fell in front of an
approaching train on the West Jersey
& Seashore Railroad at Mauricetown,
and was saved from death by the hero
ic action of Station Agent Wood
Boggs.
William Carter, one of the oldest col
ored men in Gloucester county, owns
the only yoke of oxen in South Jersey
and can be seen driving them almost
any day in the vicinity of Williams
town.
Work on the e canning plant at
Pine Grove, our miles west of Mill
vile, is progressing rapidly. The plant
will be ready before the strawberry
season is at its height.
Former Assemblyman James ]. Da-
wilson, of Swedesboro, who has been
in Florida farming all winter, sent a
carload of potatoes to Philadelphia,
and writes that he has been very sue
cessful with his venture.
The swimming season in the Della
ware River has been opened at Bur-
lington by members of the Lakanoo
Boat Club, but the early bathers have
found the water too chilly to be en-
joyable.
Notwithstanding the unreasonable
weather, asparagus shipments from
Swedesboro are heavy.
Residents of GIassboro are urging
the building of a new high school, and
the Board of Education agreed to call
a public meeting to discuss the pro-
ject.
Frank Rice, of Newark, was way
laid, beaten and robbed of $50 at War
rem and Morgan streets, Jersey City,
while on his way from the home of his
cousin, at 191 Bay street.
Woodstown is advertising for a site
for a new schoolhouse.
The borough of Paulsboro has So
motorcycle riders, and dealers say
they will have twice the number be.
fore summer is passed.
Nicholas Laif, 10 years old, of Jer-
sey City. while on his way to school
was run down by an automobile be-
longing to President of the Board of
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