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The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
The Building Boom Continues
But Construction Work At Powder
Mill SIackens.

rive hundred and fifty workmen arriv-
Gu from Wilmington last Monday morn
ing ana Went to Carney's Point. Many
''au peen home over Sunday.
lne greatest rush of construction work
at the Powder Mills is over. The extern
SION OF Plant No. l is nearly completed
>and about /, 200 less workmen are now
employed. Many have been tagged out
working for a month or more for from ten
70 fourteen hours daily with no Sunday
rest ana sleeping i'll barracks on hay.
Inc construction of plant No. 2 is more
eilan hall completed and the new plant
OH Deep Water Point is well under way.
FOR the past three weeks some of the
men nave been given every other Sun
gay or Saturday off and work will soon
pe advanced SO that Sunday work will be
not needed for construction.
Some of the manufacturing branches
are being put on 8 hour shifts which
allows recuperatlon for those who have
had continuous work for from ten to IA
hours daily without a Sunday break.
The freight trains mostly with building
materials coal and cotton continues to be
from 20 to 40 cars daily. The train out
at night numbers from 80 to 40 cars only
from 3 to 8 being loaded. The largest
number OF freight cars taken out on one
tram about six weeks ago numbered u
and blocked the Camden yard.
The Company is looking after the SAN
ltary needs of the thousands of men as
never before. Sanitary privies, are being
constructed, tight from flies. The gal
VQnlZp rnnDnfaOIno oro or,nfioca ox,orx, Io,,
or W and purified with choloride of
lime.
An excellent quality of drinking water
has been found OIL Willard Layton's farm
n a line of cedar pipes ten inches in d.
ameter is being laid on the top of the pipe
line which carries water from the dupont
Reservoir Formerly Danser mill pond)
to the water works. This water will he
run to the fifty villas on the Kidd farm
in Baskerville. Electric lights will be
supplied from the Powder Works. The
Company proposes to have a store at the
Villas.
A large cement mixer and a large force
OF men are making the foundations for
the villas, or bungalows, which have
been bought in the West ready to be erec-
ted. Eacif piece of lumber is sawed and
planed and fitted.
Orders have been given that all the
workmen must reside OH this side of the
river. Many have been coming on the
Long Beach and H. A. Haber. By this
not only there has been extra expense,
but also much delay in getting to and
from the work. This order to live in or
near Penns Grove will keep up the de-
mand for new homes. New homes make
a demand tor land, labor to erect houses,
and merchandise to supply families.
All brings greater prosperity to the Bor-
ough and should be a greater happiness
to the people.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
Smallpox Has Appeared

E. b. Goodwin, of Millville, who is a
brakeman on a train running between
Penns Grove and Camden, became i'll
last Tuesday morning. When examined
by DIR. G. H. johnson, the Railroad
physician in Camden, the disease was
pronounced to be the smallpox. DIR. J..
+. Leavitt. medical inspector of the
Board of Health, confirmed the diagnosis
and sent Goodwin to the Municipal Hos
pital. He WAS isolated in the garage at
the Hospital, until the pest house used
during the epidemic several years ago
could De renovated.
The case is mild and DIR. Leavitt does
not anticipate further spread OF the dis
ease, because OF the precaution taken.
The coaches in which Goodwin worked
were segregated and fumigated.
Penns Grove station was fumigated on
Wednesday. The office force was put in
quarantine in a passenger car and vaccin-
ated. The station was opened Thursday
morning.
After the railroad physicians pro-
nounced the disease smallpox Millville
has been put into great excitement where
fifty cases have appeared because the 6rst
cases which developed were treated as
chickenpox, SO mild were the forms.
Undoubtedly it is a revival of the dis
ease which appeared in Cumberland
County and Penns Grove four years ago.
1t was so mild that 10 one was seriously
i'll and because OF that come who had had
the old-fashioned maligntnt smallpox, do
not believe the disease typical smallpox.
Prominent physicians did not declare it
typical smallpox, but atypical Of the
benign, kind, mild variety.
More persons suffered more from the
effects of vaccination than any one did
from the effects of the small smallpox.
Few ever lost their appetites and many
lived off the Borough better than they
had been accustomted to live. OF tile
twenty or more who had it the face of
only one shows brown blotches OF having
had small pox.
There is no need Of becoming terri
fed over the benign small pox than over
chicken pox or measles. In fact, some
call it German measles. 1t does not leave
the person afflicted as measles does in
some cases.
Whatever 1t was it cost Penns Grove
Borough S., 900 and the last 81, 900 was
paid last January,
The workmen at the Powder Works
are being vAecinated i'll large numbers.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
Some Removals

Harry E. Crompton has moved into the
John Patton house at the Cove owned by
his vile.
Mrs. Sarah A.. Summerill widow of
Joseph G.. Summerill, succeeded Mr..
Crompton in her own house and vacated
the Cove store property which has been
occupied by two generations of Sum-
merills since 1929.
Robert W. Bevis being unable to get a
house in Penns Grove, took apartments
with Harvey Pedrick OH the adjoining
farm. Jon. L. Dolbow, Jr. succeed him
to till John M. Bevis's farm.
William E. McColIister from Harry
Hurff's farm in Gloucester County follow
ed Mr.. Dolbow on the William Webber
Homestead farm at Courses Landing.
George Dugan followed McCollister and
Charles Thompson succeeded Dugan Oh
Mrs. Jos. s. Blacks farm at Courses Land
ing. William Graham followed Mr..
Thompson on the farm he bought of Ar
thur &. Brandrjff.
John s. Dolbow moved onto DR.. L.
II. Hummells farm near Quinton. Sam
uel G. Zane and Harry Gibson followed
him the Webber farm at Courses Landing
and Joseph Burden followed Zane on Mrs.
Margaret C. Atkinson's farm.
William Crispin who quit the dupont
farm, where the village is being erected,
will manage Eugene duPonts farm in Del
aware. Joseph q. Boone moved onto a
farm near Sharptown, Vim Thomas
WhiteselI followed Boone on his own
farm in Warrington near Hawks Bridge,
having vacated the DUPONT farm upon
which the new Powder Plant No. 2 has
been erected.
l. Cooper Wilson moved from a dupont
farm to Salem. Henry W. Moore moved
from a DUPONT farm into Warrington,
near the Almshouse. Carl Wilson quit
the Deep Water Point farm.
Bert Sayers moved onto Hance JAG
quette's farm in L. p. Neck. Frank
Crispin succeeded Mr.. Sayers on Wilmer
K. Layton's farm at the Forked Hickory
Cross Roads. Robert W. Bevis will follow
Mr.. Crispin in part of Vim. Braker's house
at the Cove.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
ORDINANCE NO. 30

An ordinance for the regulating and lieens.
ilg o! travelling and street shows, street CIV.
mloitlons, clrcuses. concerts, theaters. thea.
IiCdl wrestling bouts. or0an
grinders, and travelling photo, ferretype and
PennS Grove. 7"
BE 10 ordained by The Mayor and Council OF
the Borough OF Penns Grove:
Sec. All travelling and other street sbo,y0
street exhibitions, circuses. concerfs tGea
tefS, theatrical performances, WRESTLING
DOuts, organ grinders, and travelling nhoto
Ie[I1tyPe ana daguerreotype galleries shall be
required 20 procure a license from the Mayor
Oh Salu Borough of PennS Grove for fhe
purpose OF displaying or conducting and
s&niodtlOn or performing or carrying on any
business within the limits of the Boronob
aforesaid, and the fee for the granting ri sueh
license shall be as follows:
For all travel ing and other street shows
street exhibitions, and organ grinders the fee
snail De Three Dollars per day,
For c%ircuses, Fifty Dollars per day.
For all concerts, theaters and theatrical
Torrance. pOi
performances. "
FOR travelling photo. ferrotype and da-
sueLreotype galleries, Five Dollars per
ahhuh' or One Dollar per day Provided,
mat nothing in this ordinance shall be
construed as providing for the licensing or
pIohlpltlng OF any concert or entertainment
gwen under the auspices of anv reliyious
euucatlonai, fraternal or municipal organi,
zatlonS composed of members residing within
the limits of SAID Borough. ~
Sec; 2. No person. persons or corporation
vnohuing against any portion of this ordinance
by conducting or carrying on any business ar
anything Tor which by this license is reonired
as aforesaid without first having procured
sucn incense shall upon conviction thereof be
sentenced 10 pay no less than Twenty or more
9nan Ohe hundred Dollars or be imprisoned
~ the Borough Lookup for a period NOT
exceeding twenty days or both.
oec. .. This Ordinace shall 60 into effect on
the second day Of April, 1915.
lSignedl r.. F WILLIS, Mayor,
Attest: Asa G. Justic, Bor. CLERK. 3 Is 1t.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
Continued Interest In penns Grove

The Penns Grove RECORD has several
subscribers who were former residents.
Their continued interest in their old
home is greatly appreciated and their
words of commentator in advocating
civic progress is cheering.
SOUTH YARMOUTH, Mass,
March 23d, 1915.
Editor Of Penns Grove Record.
DEAR SIR-Please find enclosed So for
Inst years and this years subscription to
Record.
/ still have the old-time interest in the
paper and the people OF Penns Grove /
always had. | haye read your struggle
for bigger and better school houses. I
am sure that with the grow til of the
Borough better facilities for the schools
are needed. | have travelled along the
Atlantic seaboard and have invariably
found that in the building of new towns
and borOughs early attention was given
to the erection promptly and generally Of
a fine large building for school purposes
| have been interested in the taking
over of so much property in the vicinity
OF the Powder Works and notice that
some Of the farms have been abandoned
for the necessary extension of the plant.
The war i'll Europe, of course, is largely
| the reason for the extraordinary boom.
| All who wish to be employed find EN-
ployment aud a large number of siran-
gers are in Penns Grove. PeDns Grove
| should keep abreast OF the times not only
with it's modern school houses, but in al
other ways that make for a progressive
Borough.
While l am seldom able to get down t.
Penns Grove, when my steamship arrives
! in Philadelphia, / am surely pleased /,
read of the prosperity OF the place anc
hope that it may keep OH growing anC
improving. There is a younger gener
alton now coming that will take hold AM
and do things which the old conservative
we're afraid OF. The time goesswiftly by
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
Salem Now Has A Mayor

Salem now has a Mayor. He ls Morris
H. Stratton, Jr. The office has been va
cant since the death of Robert Gwynne,
Jr., last December. Asthe Council stands
4 republicans and 4 democrats neither
party yielded until last Monday night
when it became necessary to grant LIQUOR
licenses, and party lines soon yield to that
interest when pressure is brought to bear.
Three hotel and three bottlers' licenses
were granted.
A few weeks ago Alfred u. Mitchell
received the democratic votes in the all
scence of the republicans, and was worn
in, but City Solicitor H. B. Ware de-
cided than a majority vote was needed to
elect. Mr.. stratton, democrat, received
all the votes.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
ORDINANCE NO. 81

An ordnance for the regulating and licens-
ing 81 common crlers. hawkers, and peddIers
III the Borough Of PeunS Grove.
DO ~ Ordained by the Mayor and Councils nj
the Borough of Penns Grove: "
sec. l. All common criers, hawkers. ned
uIerS snail be required to procure 4 Iicense
rom Inc Mayor and Council of the Boronoh
u renhS Grove Tor the purpose of CARVING an
eKelI business within the limits OF the Borongh
Sec.2, All common criers, nawkers. and
R1uulersShaIi pay an annual license fee OF
lWenty-hVe Dollars TO the Mayor and Council
OF the Borough of Penns Grove before thew
Can carry on any of their respective business.
within Sne limits Of said Borough nroS ided
sndG WheFe SUCH common crier, haWker or
peddler snail desire the privilege OF CARVING
IN MS or Inelr business within the limits ~
tne Borough OF Penns Grove for a less neriod
than one year the license fee shall he one
Donar per day, and provided further. that ali
common cflerS, hawkerS, aud peddlers shall
procure their license before attemnting 70
carry on any OF their said business. "
Sec.3. ANY person or persons or cornora-
ZION OHendlng against this ordinance nv con
uucting or carrying on any such business az
aloieSdlu Without having first procured such
8 .toonse snail upon conviction thereof be
oontohceu 70 pay a nne Of not less than twenty
VI more than One hundred Dollars or he
imprisoned IN the Borough LOckuD for a
poElOu not exceeding twenty days or both
pEOVlaed, that nothing in this Ordinance
snaIl De construed to require any person or
farm, "o "a neI
sec. 4. This Ordinance shall go into effect
On the second day of April. 1915,
[Signed1 R. f. WILLIS. Mavor.
ASsest; Asa q. Justice, Dor. Clerk. 3 i9 1t
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
Real Estate Changes

Harry j. Sherwood has bought a lot OH
Elvin Avenue OF Harry S. Barber and in
tends having a bungalow erected thereon.
Capt. Samuel M. Denny has sold build
ing lots to the following off the ShebIe
tract, between Penn and Franklin Street
which he bought last month and has had
graded; George Jordan, Charles A. Hig-
gsns, Walter ). Shape, John w. Morgan,
Harrison II. Holton, Edward Newkirk,
and John Croft.
Edward Doughtery has bought lot OH
Penn Street OF Capt. Denny from the rear
of the cottage lot. Ella G. Ale has bought
more land to add to her lot.
Matthew Mitchell has bought Miss Ab-
igail L. Kidd's house at Union Corner.
James Workman has bought the Susan
Shannon house OF Oliver Ziegler.
Arthur M. Denny has bought the acre
lot OH New Street of Mrs. Mary E. Whit
aker.
Capt. w. P. Wright a bought the
Simpkins meadow along the Sack land
between the railroad aud State Street ex.
tension.
G. Harry Morris has sold the Naylol
lot he recently purchased to Harvey
Hortman Of Pedricktown.
John Vogeding has bought William g
PstersoniNproperty 239 Main Street, oc
upied by Arttlur II. Green.
No Use to Try AND Wear Out Your Cold
1t Will Wear YOU Out Instead
Thousands keep on suffering Cough
and Colds through neglect and delay
Why make Yourself an easy prey to ser
ious ailments and epidenkics as the result
of a neglected Cold? Coughs and Cold
sap your strength and WEALTHY unless check
ed in the early stages. DIR. Kings Ne,
Discovery is what you need--the first dos
helps. Your head clears up, you ble.th
freely and you feel SO much better. Buy
bottle to-day and start taking at once.
adv.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
PERSONAL MENTION and SOCIAL NOTES
The Whereabouts And Doings OF
Good People You Know

Sharon Corson. OF Camden, has been
visiting his brother John L. Corson.
Mr.. Rudolph Reckless, of Philadelphia,
spent Sunday visiting in Penns Grove.
Daniel Nelson, of City Point, Va, has
been spending a few days with relatives.
Emil WHIP, of Philadelphia, visited
| his aunt, Mrs. George Munyan last Sun
day.
William G. Peterson, of Philadelphia,
has been visiting his sister. Mrs. Kezla
Layton.
Mr.. and Mrs. James White, OF Mulllca
Hill, were over Sunday visitors with their
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ella White.
Mrs. 1. p. Norton, of Detroit, Mich,
and Mrs. A. G. Black of Philadelphia
have been visiting Mrs. A. j. Diver.
Henry Hates and wife. Of Camden,
returned to Penns Grove. He will tsh
for shad as he has for the past fifty years.
Miss Frances and Pauline Locuson
were entertained over the week end by
their aunt Mrs. William Locuson, in Phil
adelphia.
GLADYS McAllister has returned from
the Philadelphia Children's Hospital
where she underwent all operation Tor
tonsils and adenoids.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Chandler have
closed their home in Woodbury. and Will
remain in Penns Grove to assist in man
aging French's hotel. Mrs. Chandler
will leave in a few days to visit her son
Paul Chandler, in Detroit, Mich.
Mrs. Elma A. Margerum, widow OF Rev.
William Margerum, who was pastor OF
Emmanuel Church in 1865 is expected
to arrive Saturday to visit Mrs. DIR. John
Summerill and other friends for a few
DAYS. She has resided in Ocean Grove
for several years.
James Sparks, who went to City Point.
a few weeks ago to be a manager III M
trating department. of duPonts' new gun
cotton plant there, spent the lore part OF
the week in Penns Grove. He shipped
his household goods and will occupy II
OF the many bungalows the Company are
building for the employees. There are
5000 men employed there, mostly i'll
construction work.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
Are You Rheumatica-Trv sloan.

Ii you want quick and real relief from
Rheumatism, do what SO many thousand
other people are doihg-whenever an at
tack comes on, battle the sore muscle or
JOINT with Sloan's Liniment. No need to
rub it in-just apply the Liniment to the
surface. 1t is wonderfully penetrating.
1t goes right to the seat OF trouble ard
draws the pain almost Immediately. Get
a bottle of Sloan's Liniment for 25c. ofany
druggist and have it in the house-avalpsi
Colds, Sore aud Swollen Joints. Lumbago,
e~ciatica and like ailments. Your money
back if not satisfied, but it does give al
most instant relief. adv.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
WINDOW DISPLAY?

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It will give you new ideas
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AS we are running a Spe-
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pers for this mouth.
We carry a complete line of
new and up-to-the- minute
papers which will please you in
price as well as design.
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The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
Quick Action Wanted

When one is coughing and splitting
with tickling throat, tightness in chest,
soreness in threat and the whole body
racked with a cough that won't permit
sleep-he wants immediate relief.
Thousands say Fcley's Honey and Tar
Compound is the surest and quickest act
ing medicine for coughs, colds, Group and
Ia grippe. Sold everywhere. adv.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26

Many of the little boys of my time are
Leap. Albert Naylor. Fletcher Layton and
others / recall. So progress goes Oh.
Begging your indulgence for this tardy
remittance and wishing you the success
which comes TO all who do business in a
boon town / am
Very truly yours,
THOMAS s. HEWITT
p. s. This is written on the peninsu-
la of Cape Cod about eighty miles south
Of Boston, while waiting for fair weather.
OF course you have read of the Cape Cod
Canal, which cuts off the outside route
around Cape Cod in tempestuous winter
weather for small craft which go to
Boston. 1t is not yet practical for large
vessels. L. S. H.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
Health Promotes Happiness

Without health, genuine joy is impossible
without good digestion and regular bowel
movement you cannot have health. Why
neglect keeping bowels open and risk be,
ing sick and ailing? You don't nave to.
Take one small DR.. Kings New Life Pill
at night. i'll the morning you will have a
full, free bowel mo yemen n feel much
better. Helps your appetite and diges-
ton. Try one tonight. adv.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
In Chancery of New JERSEY

TO WILLIAM CASEY
BY virtue of an order of the Court of Chan
Gerry OF New Jersey. made ON the day of the
date hereof in a certain cause wherein Ella
Strimple Casey is petitioner and you are
defendant, you are required to appear, and
plead, answer or demur to petitioners petit
ton on or before the Fourth day OF May, next,
or in default thereof. such decree will be
taken against you as the Chancellor shall
think equitable and just.
The object of said suit is to obtain a decree
OF divorce, dissOlying the marriage between
you and the said petitioner.
s. RUSHING LEAP
Solicitor of Petitioner
dated March 6, 1915 5N6 Market Street
3 IL Of Camden. N. j.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
Obituary
ANNA A. HARRIS

wife of William j. Harris, died March 20,
1915, aged 80 years, after being ill about
a week with pneumonia. The funeral was
held on Wednesday. Burial was in En-
manuel Cemetery.
EMMA BAKER
at Pennsville, died suddenly on Tuesday.
She was well educated and was a teacher
in the public schools for many years.
ALvAH H. FAGENBUsH
a we'll known tobacconist in Salem, died
last Friday aged 81 years. He made
cigars in Penns Grove for several years.
For the past fifteen years he was in bust
ness in Salem with his son, Andrew J..
%Fagenbush.
JAMES FINNRGAN
of Pennsville, died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Samuel Spear, in Salem,
on the 10th. He lived in Penns Grove
for ONE time.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
This--And Five Cents

DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this slip,
enclose five cents to Foley & Co.. Chicago,
ILL.,, writing your name and address clearly.
You will receive in return a trial package
containing Foley's Honey and Tar COM
pound, for coughs, colds and Group. Foley
Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets.
Sold every where. adv.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
Welcome Information

Most middle aged men and women are
glad to learn that Foley Kidney Pills give
relief from languidness, stiff and sore mus
Giles and joints, pufiness under eyes, back
ache, bladder weakness and rheumatism.
They get results. Contain no harmful
drugs. Sold everywhere. adv.
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-03-26
It Pays to Buy

Good Clothes, Hats and
Shoes; not necessarily the
High Priced Kind, But the
Reliable Kind, which real
ly cost less in the end be-
cause they wear longer
and look better.
Mems Business Suits,
IS to SIS.
Dress Up Suits, SIS to
$50.
Mems Spring Overcoats
$40 to $50.
New Top Coats, $40 to
$25.
New Spring Hats, 81 to
SIS.
new oprlng onlrtS, 81
to S..
New Spring Ties, 25c
to $3.50
New Spring Sox, 25c
to $3.50.
Everything to wear for
Men and Boys, Young
Men and Little Boys.
Every size from 8 years
TO 81 inch extra size chest
Custom Tailoring