The Penn's Grove record., 1915-12-10
ABOUT HOME
What Is Occurring And Being Talked
About lal The Borough and Township

lH6 OOyS III DluH are becoming lew,
sc give tfem a cordial welcome mex
Monday.
Street Supervisor, Joseph g. Flanagan
is havingl the surface drains cleaned out
commercially.
The moltlly song fea st in Emmanuel
Church, WIS heard by a large congrega-
ton last Sunday night.
The fetry boat Arctic having been
repaired, lis now on the line while the
Long BeaSh is being overhauled.
Last Mbnday was pay day.. Tie drunk
aud disOrtierlies are decreasing. A better
class OF Workman are being employed.
Ridinglin an automobile on Broad street
is good itr Indigestion. The jolts will be-
come a glide alter the State road is made.
j. ALBERT Fisher aud Morris p. New
ton have bought the double house on
Piman Street, owned by the late Hen
rietta johnson for So. 100.
Three hundred men came from Will
mingtonl at 3 30 TO go to work OF the 4
o'clock shift. About 100 other passen-
gers canle over last Wednesday afternoon.
Tie steamer Merchant, recently bought
by the Wilmington Ferry Co, will be-
gin trip4 betwee Fourth street wharf
and Deep Water Point new wharf next
Monday.
Harry Johnson, Alfred Jess, Walter
Petit, George s.. Dickel and Eugene A..
McAdaIis have been appointed fire
marsiIafs subject to approval by tie
Borough Council.
As THE construction work is completed
at the Powder Plant men are being laid
off aud superintendent who formerly
had enough to supervise in one depart
ment are given supervision over two or
more.
A wrestling match between Billy
Maier, former lightweight champion Of
New Jersey, aud Bobby Mcclure, a for
mer United States naval athlete, will be
held iu SoudeT's Hall, Psulsboro, this
Friday evening.
This is hog killing time, but the pork
ers are very few to be butclered in this
region, in December this year. Because
cholera killed many, farmers sold most
Of their hogs early in the fall for fear Of
losing them. The loss in Upper Penns
Neck and 0ldmans will probable amount
to over $5 1900.
Ralph Golf, OF Ocean City, has bought
the two farms two miles from Penns
Grove on the road to Sharptown, formerly
owned by Josiah NJ. Brick and part by
Ann SummeriIl Kaighn. The price is
reported to have been $17 200. He an
nounces part OF it for sale as building
lots.
James Workman ia having the old
house at Union corner formerly owned
by Abbie l.. Kidd, moved back to face
east Main street. The corner will be the
location for the new Peoples Bank. He
expects TO erect a building tor a picture
show adjoining, with entrances Oil Main
and Broad streets.
The weather has been flirting with
winter this week. The chill Of SNOW has
been in the atmosphere. A furry fell on
Wednesday morning but soon melted.
The temperature has been down to freeZ.
ing and shell ice las been formed. This
Friday morning the temperature was 80
and a chilly northwest gale prevailed.
Rents are advancing at a great rate in
Penns Grove. Houses which rented for
from $40 to SIP a month, a year ago now
rent for from $40 to $25. Que owner OH
Main street has been offered $50 a month,
for a recently built house which has
electric lights, gas and a bath. This is
stimulating the sale OF lots and building
OF a good class of houses.
An item in the daily papers says:
.sThere is a great demand for Cumber-
land county farms, and several have re-
Gently been sold to persons from various
parts Of the country. Prices are ranging
high" That may be true there, but in
Salem county tile prices are low. Land
owners are running after tenants and
farms are for sale at the price of build
ings in some places.
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