The Penn's Grove record., 1917-07-06
ABOUT HOME.
What Is Occurring And Being Talked
About In The Borough and Township

The abundant warm rains has made
tile frogs croak merrily.
Buy a lot, build a home. become de.
mestlcated aud not a bird Of passage.
There is a great demand for dwellings
IN fenns Grove, especially with COZ
veniences
Cabbage, beets, string beans and sudasl :
es are plentiful. A few white potatoes
are being dug.
Some wheat has been cut and some is
still standing. Harvest is from a week
to ten days late.
Mrs. Maria Duggsn prides herself on
oeil'g the first backyard gardener to
pick ripe tomatoes.
Cabbage is plentiful. 1t is now sold
by the pound at 81 cents, instead of by
head as IN former years.
Garden sass is luscious. Never so MANY
are enjoying the fruits of their labor in
Their garden or back yard.
Weak fish, called in this region tay
trout, are abundant. Parties who go 10
Fortescue make big catches.
The most interesting column in to-
days Penns Grove Record is the Cent
a-Word column. Look it over.
Keep in mind that the Record Print
shop Is fully equipped to supply your
needs without going elsewhere.
st Paul's Sunday School will picnic at
Klvervlew Beach, Pennsville, on We'd
nesday, July 18th. They will go by
trolley.
stores and more stores. There are now
thirteen business places in Penns Grove
either being enlarged or in the course Of
erection.
Anything published in the Record un-
true, we Will gladly welcome the true
statement OF facts. But keep in mind
the principle at Issue and not the per-
sOnal interest.
The Record prints the local news first.
Ask your borrowing neighbor whether
Tie record Is not worth paying for if it
be worth reading.
The voters Of Glassboro have voted
down twice the proposition to have a
bono issue OF S62, 900 with which to erect
a new grammar school.
Two Sunday excursions from Penns
Grove to Atlantic City will be run in
August by the Pennsylvania Railroad at
S1.00 for the round trip.
During the ram Oh Monday IL inches
OF water fell. So much water will not
only damage the wheat starding and that
cut, but crops in the ground.
Only a few early tomatoes have been
picked in this region. The crop is two
weeks late. 1t is feared the heavy rains
will damage the fruit especially on low
Lands.
The Republican Club chartered the
Palatial steamer Qneen Anne and took
an enjoyable ride with refreshments on
wednesday evening. Because of tile
damp, chilly weather the party was small,
Fruits from Georgia are plentiful but
costly. Peaches are selling at 70 cents a
dozen and 20 cents a carrier, six to a
crate. CantaIoupes are from 5 to 10
cents each, water melons from 90 to GO
cents.
tiG'fCt dud JDI1u AIdTDHn
began shipp ny produce on Thursday
when 235 crates We're seIt to JERSEY CITY
AID New York. For tomatoes they paid
IS 10 ! crate, for peprrrs 50 cents. A
crate holds ~ quarts
IT,. A. llu~ltd 81 Yeas old. was taken
10 - hospital Ia Wilmn pton on Monday
suffering liom II put ctnIed chest and
burns caused 10y the br, aking of
machine at the powder works. The
man resides in Bridgeton.
The DUPONT Company has about I5(
ares i'll white potaIoes and abont ISL
acres in corn on different plots not cover
ed by the buildings and surronl dinps
The land IN early white potatoes will b.
sowed IN Wheat in September.
IIermon A. and Charles L. Day hay,
bought the automobile business OF w. II
thns, who Will devote his time TO man
aging the real estate OF his father, Hud
son ;. Titus. Messrs. Day will confirm.
to repair cars and sell supplies and acces,
series.
The amieslte top has been put on til,
stone road from llant = to Justices cor
er, or to what MAS called the Shei
Ro d. Since the shells have disappear
ed, the road will lie called South Stree
to the White Oak. This extends very
nearly north and south.
Joseph Lyon, ef Atlantic City, who
bought the Susan ID Shannon house NJ,
south HrOad Street below Main Street,
is having the honse raised eleven feet SC
that apartment for stores can be made
with floors level with the street. This
will become a four story house, the high,
est IN Penns Grove.