The Penn's Grove record., 1914-05-29

The w. G. T. U. cleared $25 by their
festival last Saturday evening.
Store Closed Saturday Decoration Day
III ~ a. M. w. 5. Leap.
Lawrence Huber shipped the first crate
OF strawberries last Friday and four on
Monday.
The fire whistle will be blown next
Monday evening at 9 o'clock on final
test before acceptance by the council.
Our store will not be open after 9 O'Clock
in the morning on Decoration Day.
S. R. Leap & Son
A few Strawberries have ripened this
week. The season is abont ten DAYS
late.
The Penns Grove High School ball
team went to Salem last Saturday after
noon and got defeated IL to 3.
Two-Price Suits of genuine Palm
Beach Cloth, $7.50 at w. S. Leaps
Capt. Jos. +. Munyan resumed his
position as pilot on the steamer Thomas
Clyde to day. She will make her first trip
oil the season on Saturday.
The Official Board and Epworth League
OF Emmanuel Church will hold a straw :
berry festival on Charles L. Smiths lawn
next Thursday afternoon and evening,
June 4th.
Y. S~teinhauer, of Salem, has rented the
rooms in Whitaker building lately oc-
cupied by w. Lehberger, jeweler, where
he will have an agent to sell fine bread,
cakes and pies.
George j. Bevis grows the largest as
paragus we have even seen i'm this
Township. He brought to the Record
Office two bnnches. the stalks in which
were from l to II inches iu diameter. s
made a bunch. Who can beat it?
Hartwell Wright, an eleven year old
pupil at Wrights, lost two days by sick
ness OF he would have attended every day
in two years. during which time he walk
ed over a thousand miles. He was never
tardy.
There is every indication that the glass
works at Swedesboro which had a late
start this season, will be operated all sum-
mer. The plant is being greatly enlarged,
a score of bricklayers now being at work
on additional furnaces and ovens.
Wrights school closed last Friday and
Wiley School last Tuesday after nine
months sessions. Miss Margaret Matchett,
of Moorestown, has been reelected teach
er at Wright school; and Miss Ruth G..
Smith, of Mansfield, Pa, has been re-elec-
ted teacher at Wiley school.
Chautauqua week at Salem begins Sat-
urday, June 20, and ends on Friday the
26th. Some of the noted speakers on
tho nr0Uronn ORC. nr g Dazzle Ool-oo
Judge r. M. Wanamaker, VIM. II. Ellis,
Chauncey j. Hawkins. Mrs. Grace d.
Goodwin, and DR.. Scott Nearing.
Last Sunday two men from New Cas-
tile, had the appearance of being intoxicat-
ed showed off their smartness. Mashall
Harbeson took them before Recorder
Elkinton who had them locked up until
their fines of $12.75 were paid. This
should be a warning Tor others to be or
derby on the Sabbath when away from
home.
Workmen while grading a new street
in Woodbury. excavated thru an old grave
yard and unearthed 100 skulls. Some
of the skeletons were in rows on top OF
each other. Some are led to believe from
traditional reports that the bodies of the
American soldiers who were killed at the
battle Of Red Bank in the Revolutionary
war was brought there and buried.
The County Board of Taxation was
in Penns Grove last week to help asses
sor D. p. Featherer equalize valuations
on properties for taxation. There has
been much difference in adjoining and
adjacent properties and the only way tc
make a fair valuation will be to have q
map made showing the frontage and
depth OF properties 30 that they may be
assessed by a systematic rule of so much
. foot front and SO much per square foot
for tho on firo LOT