The Penn's Grove record., 1916-08-18
DUPONT VILLAGE DOINGS
Social Happenings and Com
munity Welfare Doings

Quite a little excitement was about
all day ON Sunday due to the guards
stopping all the autos having children
in, that came in on the back road. Some
times the children would be taken ont
and kept there till the return of the
auto and, some times one of the guards
would get in and take the party to the
quartermaster for permit.
Castor Brothers coffee house truck,
Of Camden, whose driver brings his boy
with him for his help, had the boy taken
from him from 1 p. M. until 5 p. M,
Friday and again on Saturday. But an
ounce Of prevention is worth a pound of
cure. Salem county is said TO be the
only county not to report a case. Clean
bill Of health SO far.
A little three-year-old boy, Pierce
Banning, coming from the playground on
Thursday fell on a broken beer bottle
and severely cut his arm which neces-
STATED Or. Underwood taking eight
we have beer bottles on the public high
way? If we cannot save the fathers,
we certainly should keep the roads clear
Of the glass for the little bairn's feet.
\ very strict quarantine has been
placed on Garney's. Two guards are
placed at all roads coming into town.
At one road a g%rocer's delivery auto
truck came along and a small boy was
in riding with the driver. The guards
took the boy out and made him wait
there in the road till the auto returned.
which had to do so quickly, and the boy
sent back to PennS Grove. One of the
Bulletin paper boys went into Penns
Grove and couudn't return and the other
boys who had their papers brought out
had some delight in selling to customers.
Guards delivered the typewriter regu-
l%ations. two sheets direct from the com
pany and they were left at every house,
so no one can plead ignorance of the
quarantine. 1t is all done for the good
Of Carney citizens and their families. 1t
is said that children taken through
towns in automobiles are hid under
seats. blankets, etc. trying to evade the
law md inspectors; pretty hard on the
Riddles just at the end of their brief va
cation days. but it is a good deal bet
ter than the parent hearts to spend
years in sobbing out their grief over
graves in the cemetery of their loved
ones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Loren spent a
few days in Philadelphia visiting her
mother and sister. Mrs. Loren's young
est sister had her baby to die in her
arms while taking the little one to the
hospital on Tuesday and the physician
was unable to diagnose the cause.
The trolley cars were started on Fri
day, 11.20, two of them and run from
Penns Grove to the plant in order to
test the roadbed, sidings and rails and
everything went along fairly well.
Housewives hurried the dinner all along
the line and had no time to 90 eat when
the noon whistle blew. You could hear
the women say. Il never expected to see
trolley cars run in Penns Grove in my
time" One old lady cried ont. $50 get
father; where is father" Back of the
house as fast as he could hobble with the
aid Of a cane, came father struggling
along as fast as he dare, which wasn't
very fast, grey haired, no teeth, but a
mouth wide open with smiles, and too
amazed for speech at the car. The curb
was lined everywhere with men and
boys, gaping in amazement. Well, it is
great and we who nave been so merci-
lessly prosecuted with the jitney say.
"fhank God for the trolley cars and
iiNttAl .AtNNItllAN lObs Every worn.
On Friday noon after the explosion
that took three lives and perhaps two
more, when the night shift came off. /
got my first glimpse of what it means to
find ont who is here and who is gone"
In the event of an explosion the neigh
bors com home. rush in the house on
a jump, saving breathlessly and with a
fearful heart: rs Frank here 90 "Nhere
is Harry" How is Hugh?' and so on
until all are accounted for. We could
all say, "Thank God, ours are safe"
But how about those that are not? lat
er on you could see clusters of men
standing abort talking seriously. No.
one knows how it happened. We're
there any brains in that place befogged
with the beer. that they might have tax
en- and because of that clouded brain.
been careless and foolhardy? How can
we have perfect safety in the works
with such copious drinking. Wilmington
empties tons of that stuff over here. 1t
goes into the mouths and not sewers.
One drink brings efficiency down to %
when handling powder needs 100 per
cent.
The contemplated union Sunday school
picnic, which was to go to Riverview
Beach, has been called off by the sup
%erintendent until the quarantine IS
lifted in our village.
Tuesday at noon, the screams of a
distressed child were heard coming from
the woods near the old school house.
Two guards came running as fast as
they could. Every mother who heard
the cries came running too, but the
guards were the first to reach the place
where the cries came from and found
John Flynn. . years old, lying across the
top of the briars that skirt the woods
and could not get up or down. He had
fallen out Of a large tree and landed
on the briars and thankful he might be
too. as that landing might have saved
him from a broken limb.
Ii is said that larger boys catch
small boys and keep them for hours.