The Penn's Grove record., 1913-04-25
HOME HAPPENINGS.

HUME HAPPENINGS.
DIR. C. L. Fleming now drives a new
Ford touring car.
May day next Thursday. Go a may.
ing by cleaning up premises.
The cold weather last Saturday and
Sunday caused ice to form Sunday night.
Early tomato growers began setting
their plants in the field this week in this
region.
Miss Esther Strengthen has one lone
chicken, a pullet, which laid "a eggs be-
fore stopping.
Governor Fielder has signed the bill
annexing the upper portion OF Pittsgrove
township east OF Monroevllle to Upper
%Pittsgrove.
Piling are being driven a distance from
Penns Grove wharf to hold the steamer
Long Beach while she is tied to the end
of the wharf.
5. Monroe Humphreys, who has owned
the VIM. Gibson farm below Auburn for
five years, has sold it to August Wine
man, of Philadelphia.
The musicale in Emmanuel Church ON
Saturday evening under the direction of
Miss Ethel Povlick, of Philadelphia,
promises to be a fine treat to the lovers of
music.
The Executive Committee of the Inter-
State Milk Producers Association has fix
4 ed the wholesale price of milk for May
1913, at Al cents per quart until further
notice.
Asa T. Richardson is having the Geo.
Stanton house which he recently pur-
chased, remodeled. A wider portico and
larger round posts are an attractive i'm
prOvement.
A barge ran into Penns Neck bridge at
Salem oil Wednesday night end knocked
one end off SO it hangs in Salem creek.
Travel between Salem and Penns Neck
has been stopped thereby.
Ammon Gibbs has torn down the Sam
uel Sayers' house OH Penn Street which
4 he recently bought and will have a
> double house erected upon the lot. Hud-
son s.. Titus is the contractor.
The extension of electric lights along
the street line of the Electric Picture
Palace and also j. K. Duffy's make Main
and Franklin Street the best illuminated
part OF the Borough in the evening.
By the bursting of a testing tube at the
Powder Works last Friday, John Began
was badly burned on the face. Earle
Walker WAS also burned OH the foot, but |
not bad enough to hinder him from con-
tinuing work. Mr.. Began was unable to
return to work for a few days.
In the column headed "The Where
abouts and Doings of Good People You
Know" we like to make mention of all
possible. II you know of anybody from
a distance who is visiting or any one who
is away OH a visit who do not get men,
toned, drop us a post card when away.
The customary visits to n%eighboring
towns cease to be news when frequently
made.
The monthly Parent Teachers meeting
will be held in Penns Grove school house
next Wednesday at $50 p. m. County
Superintendent o. o. Barr will be pres
ent. These meetings are held to get more
parents interested in the school which
their children attend so there will be a
mutual and cordial cooperation between
parents and teachers. More should make
a special effort to attend.
Daring the year 1872, $50 automobiles
crossed the river at Penns Grove. Their
destinations were mostly to the seasiore
and return. This was very great consid-
erlng the inadequate ferry facilities be-
tween .Penns Grove and Wilmington.
Last year WAS the first of any considera-
BILE travel. The forecast for 1913 with a
new ferry boat and the route advertised
there will probably be 1000 automobiles
to cross the river at Penns Grove. After
the improved state road is built aud the
route extensively advertised the automo-
bile travel will he immense.
We are now having a Special Sale of
$3.50 Smyrna Rugs for $3.50 for this
month only. Call and see them. S.
NJ. Hunt. 4-1l-3t adv.
BIGGEST and BEST STOCK Of LATEST
STYLE HATS in Wilmington at DubelPs,
No. 2 East Third Street. Children's hats
a Specially. A adv
When you need a bicycle do not fail to
get a Reddington OF a Dayton of James
Workman, Union Corner, Penns Grove. n
adv
Laundry received on Monday Tuesday
and Wednesday and delivered on Thurs
day Friday and Saturday. Headquarters
for Turner's Laundry at Johnson's Drug
store, 245 Main at. Mayhem johnson
Agent. adv. 1t.
We send laundry away Tuesday and
Thursday of each week. Also call for
and deliver same. VIM. F. BECKER, adv
Cleaning, Pressing, Securing, Dyeing,
&c. Suite made like new at VIM. F.
BROKERS'. adv.
Gasoline 10y the gallon OF barrel at V
5. Homan's, 81 Delaware A venue, Penn's
Grove. Also batteries, oils and electric
supplies. adv tt
Haverford and Excelsior Motor Cycle
are the go-fast machines you should buy
OF James Workman, Union Corner,
Psnn's Grove, adv