The Penn's Grove record., 1913-08-15
HOME HAPPENINGS.

The members of Bethel Nj. P. Church
cleared $2l7 by their harvest home last
week.
The Moose from Salem did not arrive
last Wednesday OH the excursion an
nounced.
John Norton has been sending some
fine Tom Watson melons to the Whining
ton market.
D The South Side Baptist Mission of Will
mington, spent Thursday in the Grove.
About 500 came over.
The steamer Clio, brought the base ball
team and fifty other citizens from Odessa,
Del, to Penns Grove last Saturday.
A large humber from this region at
tended the Grange Picnic at Alcyon
Park on Thursday. Thousands were
there.
The ladies of Bethel M. P. Church will
hold a clam chodwer and cake sale in
Sheble's on Saturday afternoon and
evening, August 80.
The early tomato crop is nearly gather
sd. Buyers for Gamers paid from s to -
cents a basket for earlies and as high as
10 cents for first-class second earlies this
week.
Roy McCarson dug forty baskets of
sweet potatoes On Tuesday, the first in
this region, and sen them to Wilmington
market where they were sold for $l.l5 a
basket.
Work was begun on the Penns Grove
Pedricktown state road at the Borough
line on Tuesday by C.. L. Smith, of Ocean
City, who will assist Sutton and Carson
kEho have the the contract.
Il The first dollar excursion to Atlantic
City last Wednesday took 1853 from Penns
Grove and 3T from Penns Grove
branch below Woodbury.. This is the
largest number who ever went on the
first excursion of the season.
AS evidence of the popularity of the
new ferry service between Penns Grove
aud Wilmington a statement issued by
the Company shows that 500 automobiles
crossed the river last July in comparison
to 220 during July 1912.
The birth rate published last week for
1912, was "a tor six months only. 1t was
4S for the entire year. An average of 40
children a year has been born in Penns
Grove during the past eight years, which
' is enough to replenish a school room a
year. The birth rate in the Township
adjoining the Borough and those who
move into the Borough has caused the
need of nearly a room a year.
Last Sunday was the most sultry and
oppressive day of the season, with the
temperature SO. The dense humidity
feel in a copious shower late in the after
noon More rain fell some distance from
the river than at Penns Grove and was ac-
~companied by a tornado. Albert Sum
uneriffs wheat stacks had the tops blown
off. The tops of trees at his home were
broken. Irwin Wright, at Georgetown
crossroads, had several tomato bed sash
broken. The top of a hickory tree neal
the house was broken, also a tree Oh the
Dunn land.
twenty-five per cent reduction in
Mems Gun Metal and Patent Leather
Oxlords. Sizes from + to s. Also a lot
OF Ladies' Gun Metal, Patent Leather
and Wei Ox(ords. Sizes from p to 81 at
Union Corner Store. L.. w. Cook. adv
Cleaning, Pressing, Securing, Dyeiug,
&c. Suits made like new at VIM. f.
BROKERS'. adv.
Gasoline by the gallon OF barrel at V
s. Homan's, 81 Delaware Avenue, Penn's
Grove. Also batteries, oils and electric
supplies. adv tt
Hayerford and Excelsior Motor Cycle
are the go-fast machines you should buy
OF James Workman, Union Corner,
Penn's Grove. adv
When you need a bicycle do not fail to
get a R~eddington or a Dayton of James
Workman, Union Corner, Penns Grove. \
adv
We send laundry away Tuesday and
Thursday of each week. Also call for
and deliver same. VIM. F. BECKER. adv