The Penn's Grove record., 1916-09-08
HAPPENINGS ABOUT HOME
What Is Occurring And Being Talked
About In The Borough and Township

lhe. farmers received 10 cents a basket
Tor tomatoes this week.
The jtneys have reduced the fare 10
live cents to and from DUPONT Villages.
A cnt-rate drug store has been opened
opposite Carney Point post office, on S.
NJ. Justices land.
The ground has been 20 dry and hard
that blowing could not I've lone to prepare
Tor sowing grass seeds.
Spiros Liacouras and John Ponlits have
opened a new restaurant in the Denny
block at Union Corner.
Fewer Jersey folks attended the Will
mington fair this week than in former
years. All are too busy.
The foundation and floor for the new
Catholic church. adjoining Carney Point
Post Office, has been laid.
F.. j. Phillips, who is a member of the
stoneman's Fellowship, is forming all
organization in Penns Grove.
M. j. Doolittle, Mayor OF paulsboro.
has resigned because the increased duties
OF the office interfere with his dental
business.
Tie Penns Grove BARRIERS have united
to have their shops open from Z a. m. to
5 p. m each day, aud until IL p. m. on
Saturdays.
The tealner Queen Anne made trips
from Philadelphia to Pennsville last Sun
day and Monday. bringing a large NUM-
Der each day.
The residents of Fenton Beach have
erected a school house there and asked
the Board of Education of Lower Penn's
Neck to employ a teacher.
Penns Grove scientists have been study
ing the Ethics of the Dust. Notwith-
standing the flying bacteria, Penns Grove
citizens emaln without c~ontagion.
Hydroplanes are amphibious objects for
attention OH the river. Those in the
traiiing-school at Essington make fire.
quent flights to Carney Point and return.
j.. II. Coombs' Lumber Co., which has
yards at Wildwood and Penns Grove, has
bought a block OF land along the rail
road at Paulsboro and will establish a
lumber yard there.
John Corson and Homer Wright de-
INK ~ oBpOl1lllbCub W VI Tie DEDlO-
cratic election officers in Upper Penns
Neck Township. David G. Sailor and
Edward Wilson have accepted.
According to the Elmer Times, John
Scnade, OF Pittsgroye, N. j., received
S646 for white potatoes raised on about
two and three-quarter acres of ground
this season, not counting second size.
The ground has been used continuously
Tor the past two years Tor potato growing.
The dupont Powder Company declared
a dividend OF % per cent. for the quarter
Oh the new dupont common stock, the
dividend being the regular II per e
and an extra oil 233 per cent, payable 81
per cent. cash and 1873 per cent. in Anglo-
French bonds at 973 per cent.
The following steamships cleared from
Deep Water Point with powder the past
week: September LIST, Titania; Ind,
Stort Point; 3rd, Manchester; 9th, Dix
Albania; TN, Manchester Trader. Most
OF them sailed for Archangel to supply
Russians with powder before the ice
closes that port OH the White Sea.
Since the starting of trains on the Della
ware Shore railroad from Woodbury. to
Penns Grove, III August 1876, Thorough
fare has been a platform flag station until
last week. Building oil homes nearby
and increase OF travel has caused the need
Of a station house there. Charles Myers,
OF Woodstown, is III charge.
At the Gloucester County Board of
Agricultural meeting at H~arrisonville,
the question was debated, in the gem
eral agitation for an eighth our day, is it
practical for housewives? p" When wo-
men get the eight-hour work day, most
men will need two wives-one to get
breakfast, the other to get supper. OF
course, tile men whn threatened to sand
bag if not granted an eight
hour day, give their wives an eight-hour
day.