The Penn's Grove record., 1917-09-28
DUPONT VILLAGE DOINGS
Social Happenings and Com
munity Welfare Doines

WI anu MIS-. wesley A. Elliott ar
rived at their home, % Delaware Az
enue, last Saturday after spending
some weeks with relatives near
Boston.
Carpenters are rushing work On the
four apartment houses for the bloom
er girls between Riverview and the
river. Each will have forty-eight
rooms and accommodate ninety-six
women. A lunch hall and kitchen is
also being built.
George Grossman has lost his bull
pup. Too bad, when dogs are so
plentiful as to be a nuisance. He
can probably get half a dozen from
Penns Groves pound.
Seats for the new Lafayette school
arrived this week and are being erect
ed. Children are on half time in
other schools until Lafayette school
opens.
Next Sunday will be Rally Day in
Union Sunday School. 1t wiz be the
last Sunday for Rev. C. A. Farna-
taro pastor of the new UMon Presby-
terrain Church. He has done excel
lent work in being instrumental in
organizing the Union Sunday School
and Church. His genial social uuak-
ties and his clear gospel sermons will
be remembered with pleasure.
Mrs. Lillian Hires was unable to be
present at the reception and supper to
the retiring officers on the 18th, be-
cause she has accepted a position with
Gimbels in New York as instructor of
knitting. Mrs. Hires having got the
Mothers Club in excellent working or
der the past year, Mrs. Henry Sturgis
now presides with grace and e~fficien-
cy. The luncheon prepared under
the direction and with the skilled
culinary art of Mrs. Yoke, was en-
joyed with zest.
Mrs. Leon Seminar entertained the
Pollyannas Wednesday afternoon.
Raymond, the 14-year old son of
Frank B. VonCulin trod on a nail last
Friday while playing. He is recov-
ering nicely under DIR. Davidson's
care.
Mrs. Hackman's sunday school class
has become a sewing circle and are
known as the BUSY Bees" While
they do not make honey they are al
ways sweet girls and make others
happy with their work. The presi-
dent is Alice Dilks; secretary, Irma
Roberts; treasurer, Ruth Miller. They
met at the home of the president on
Thursday night,
Mrs, Charles Miller entertained a
number of ladies at her home on
Thursday evening last, including the
committee who prepared the luncheon
for the Mothers Club. The evening
was pleasantly spent with music after
which refreshments were served.
The guests included Mrs. William
Thompson, Mrs. Harry Sturgess, Mrs.
Robert Morton, Mrs. Lobe, Mrs. Har-
ry Lyon, Mrs. Arthur Johnson, Mrs.
Sarah Lands, Edna Miller, Gladys
Miller and Helen Morton.
Samuel H. Sayre, who was very
active in Brotherhood work while here
writes his friends that he likes his
position in the Hospital Corps in the
navy very much. He hopes to be
present at the Brotherhood Conven-
ton in Philadelphia, and pay his old
friends at Carney Point a visit.
Samuel j. Scott, secretary and Jas.
Brown have been elected delegates to
represent the Jr. Brotherhood of St.
Andrew to attend the National Con-
vention in Philadelphia, October 10th
to 14th.
Four of the one-story apartment
houses have been built in the field
adjoining the Russian Church. Three
more will be built. Each will az
commodate 8 colored families. Upper
Penns Neck and Penns Grove have
had more than a dozen colored
families. The colored children have
attended the schools, played and
wOr-ed with their iuhho Tho
arrival of many colored families dur
ing the past few months has made a
now school problem. The dupont
Company has granted the use of a
room e this new village. Miss
Matte Pierce, of Gouldtown, now has
charge of the colored children. The
Company has notified Jos. M. Wright,
supervisor of schools that a two-room
school house will be built in sixty days
to accommodate the colored school
children.
The first meeting of the Parent
Teachers Association was held last
Friday afternoon. Hereafter a bust
ness meeting will be held the second
Monday afternoon of the month and a
social on the fourth Monday. On
October 22d a reception will be given
the teachers in the auditorium of the
new Lafayette brick school building.
Ii is hoped it will be finished and fur
nished by that time. The dues is
ten cents a month. All parents are
urged to attend the meetings so there
will be cooperation between the home
and the school.