The Penn's Grove record., 1916-09-08
VILLAGE D0INGS
Social Happenings and Com
munity Welfare Doings

day at Riveryiew Park.
Ihe yards that gained the money
prizes recently for their beauty. have
been designated by wooden signs a foot
or more square naming prize and for
what painted on it.
hlyeryiew grocery store have a SPLEEN
did new auto truck out on the street
for service.
One hundred and twenty window panes
have to be replaced in the public school
building. Some malicious mischief. but
the small boys. window glass and a stone
are three bad things to simultaneously
meet, for something must happen if
they all hit.
Mrs. Jos. NJ. Wright. wife of the
school principal, had the misfortune to
badly cut the feshy part of her thumb
whle trying to tighten a jar of peach
es. The jar broke in the middle.
Miss Sahda, of Sellersville, Pa, a
newly elected public school teacher, ar
rived here on Monday and will make her
home with the principals family. Miss
Salada had been sent a letter not to
come until a later day, but crossed the
path of the letter. She will at once
leave town for a further fortnight's va
cation.
Miss Bruner, supervisor of music and
also grade teacher, met with the same
condition and will also return to Phili-
delphia until later.
The name Of Mothers Club has been.
changed to Woman's Club, of Carney.
Some do not like the change. but tie
young women and matrons who wee
not mothers thought they were out
classed and could not be admitted to the
club. So ladies, the bar IS down and
the gate-wide open. Come in.
The little kiddies are not allowed now
to cross the shell road and go to stores.
What next?
The DUPONT Company are as Jealous
for the welfare of the families of their
employees as of their own. An out Of
town dealer in merchandise, in the alb
sence of the man and wife. went into
his house and removed some leased
goods. The company got wise to the
doings and made the party replace them.
pay money and pay for the moving. The
dealer gained some unenviable free adj
vertising. Nothing irregular goes down
here.
The man had at that time ceased to
be a DUPONT employee too, but the du.
E1nt care had not ceased.
A local doctor gave his opinion on IT,
Increase of infants in Carney as thirsy
births a week on an average. If Il
n sees Colonel Roosevelt, repeat this
to him and then see to it that he bows
low, very low, and lifts his hat to Car
ney mothers. No race suicide'' for
Carney. The many little kiddies go
barefoot, look hardy and get the bles-
sed sun and air and the feel of the
electricity from the touch of mother
earth, such as no child can get in the
cities with hot asphalt and not an inch
of earth.
We may be quite proud and much
lifted by the trolley cars in our town,
but let me say right here, our Carney
men are heads and shoulders above
Philadelphia men in their street car
manners. Not a lady enters the cars
and sees no seat but what men pop up
out of their seats like popcorn and be-
lieve me, it is mighty pretty to behold.
especially when you have been so used
to seeing ladies stand before a man and
holding on to a strap, swaying and some
times falling into his lap and all over
his feet. Does he see you? Oh, no.
He has that newspaper spread out TO
its entire length reading. The larger
the newspaper the more it hides the
women standing and the more it hides
the little shrimp of a man too. 1t is 70
be hoped that as our trolley becomes an
old story that our men will not become
calloused and forget their gentlemanly
manners. There are three classes Of
women that get seats in Philadelphia
cars-a woman with an infant. a very
gray haired woman and a pretty, very
pretty, young girl. Get me? Also
when a lady who is not tired and not
going far. refuses a seat.
One of our good women had occasion
to do some soliciting through the vii
lagos for a worthy cause. She said af-
terward, Il thought 1 was the only nice
woman in the town, but l found plenty
of them" If you want to find many,
many more, come into the Woman's
Club and see them. They are thick as
huckleberries and we want you.
This week l saw a boy running after
an ice wagon. The horses were going
pretty fast. ] held my breath, looking
for trouble of some kind. The boy, in
stead of jumping up on the step, kept
near the back wheel. Very soon he came
running back. His face was all aglow
with supreme pleasure. l looked for
the cause. He had a stick with some
black stuff on the end of it, which re-
sembled taffy on a stick. He ran to his
~improvised soap box wagon on wheels
and there was one wheel off. I got wise
at once. He had been stealing the ice
wagons axle grease to grease his own
dry hub.
Prescott %Stoughton, DUPONT employee,
has returned from his vacation after
visiting Riverton.
Some jitneys eager to get their pat
ronage back are offering fare into Penns
Grove at 3 cents. but nothing doing.
C~arneyites too well remember the form
err leecings, when they had US by the
throats and didn't hesitate for a minure
to stick a knife into our pocketbooks.
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