The Penn's Grove record., 1916-08-11
ABOUT HOME
What Is Occurring And Being Talked
About In The Borough and Township

School will begin Tuesday, September
5th.
The Churches will hold no harvest
ZONES this year. The peoples minds
are preoccupied with other diversions.
Tie clear and hot weather tins week,
with temperature between so aud 81
has been most favorable for growing
crops.
Ralph P. Willis is having a concrete
coping with AN iron fence thereon
erected around his residence at Putnam
Street aud Delaware Avenue.
The dupont Villas, on the summerilI
tract below the Cove. have a 9-o'clock
curlew. When the fire bell is rung all
good people there are presumed to retire.
Farmers nave been unable to get their
wheat thrpslIed in this region. Some
was damaged by the July rains. The
cultivation OF a more CO operative action
will be Of profit TO all.
Rats have been numerous IN some
buildings at the powder works. Traps
were set and several were caught. Won.
derIng what they live on, some were cut
r. NNA - ~ AC6ttAt POndCI
a census taken of the residents of du-
Pont Villages and camps shows that
there are living IN family quarters, 1881
men, lab women, 1872 children and
1905 bachelors in b~unklouses aud hotels.
AT the monthly meeting OF Penns
Grove Board of Education last Monday
night Miss Helen Conover, OF Penns
Grove, and Miss Mabel Lowry, OF Glen
side, Pa, were elected teachers for second
grade.
I. A. F%aranatara, instructor at the
\. NJ. q. A. at Camp 2, supplied the
pulpit OF st. Paul's Methodist Church
on Sunday morning during the absence
OF Rev. j. W. Lynch, who was at Ocean
Grove.
Lemnel Reymer OF Frank J. Gaventa's
farm at PerkIntown, on July 29th sent
S42 baskets OF tomatoes to market. That
ls tile largest II day picking reported
III either Salem or Gloucester counties off
one farm.
The old maple tree, which stood he.
Meen the tracks at Main Street crossing,
has been cut down and a watchman'r
signal tower, II by IL feet, erected. The
frequent trains and t~lolIeys will require
a Waterman.
The excursion rom along the Penns
Grove branch to Wildwood on Wednes-
day was well patrOnized and tile party
had a delightful day at the s~easllore
-Four hundred and ten went, most of
them being from Penns Grove and Ped
riektown.
William NJ. Golf, teacher Of music.
Violin, Mandolin, etc. Boston consel-
vatory method. School will open about
sept. lst. For particulars apply to Phil
sdeIphia ~PhonoKraph Co 1856 w. Main
ST., Penus Grove. s IL Az
Lincoln Park on the Delaware, oppos-
ne Panlshoro is frequentpd by many pic.
nIcs and excursions. 1t has regained
some OF its former popularity since Wash
ington Park was abolished to provide for
the expansion OF Canpbell's soup factor
les. Lincoln Park was the greatest be-
fore Washington Park was started about
twenty-five years ago.
Mosquitoes have been numerous and
ferocious in this region especially at
dusk. Some workmen at the powder
mills have been wearing mask screens to
keep from being tormented. The sani-
tary department has three men going
over the plants with napsack sprayers
putting crude oil on all waters where
mosquitoes are likely to grow.
Four foreign ships took on explosives
from Deep Water Point I'll is week. The
British ship Crown Point which had
other cargoes aboard from Philadelphia
arrived on Sunday. Took OH % carloads
Of Powder and cleared OH Tuesday.
The Russian ship Nonni took on l25
carloads. The Italian ship Stromboli
took Oh picric acid and black powder.
Another ship also loaded.
A meeting of Carney Point Chemi OIL
Society WAS held in the Riverside Clnb
House on Tuesday evening. DIR. w. L.
~Jeffries, research chemist OF the by.
products division of the DUPONT Con-
pany, gave the address Of the evening
and told of the work that is being done
to utilize waste products Tor profit, both
in the publication OF made wastes from
q chemical standpoint and in the max