The Penn's Grove record., 1917-02-02
HAPPENINGS ABOUT HOME
WHAT Is Occurring And Being Talked
About In The Borough and Township

February 9.
Ground hog day.
The sky was clear. He saw is
shadow. Six more weeks of winter
weather begun.
signs With the names of the streets in
fehrs Grove were nailed at the corners
this week.
Township Committeeman David W.
wright has been rebuilding his residence
near Wright school house.
Last winter, during bad roads. some
paid as high as S. to get all auto ride
from Penns Grove to Salem.
The trolley line having been COM
pieted to Penns Neck Bridge, a large
force oil men are now laying the track in
Salem.
AT a fire in the gun cotton at Plant
last Saturday, superficial burns were
received by w. II. Brown and Joseph
Oteerizio.
The trolley wire broke on "wednesday
and was OH the ground on South Broad
Street. The cars could not run between
IL and 4 o'clock.
Eugene McAdams has been appointed
agent OF the State Department to issue
automobile licenses for the northern end
oil Salem County.
Thieves visited the home of Mrs. Lois
Justice, next to st. Paul's parsonage Snn-
day and Wednesday nights and took all
except five OF her chickens
Matthew Mitchell & Son announce that
they will open their new store at Union
Corner on Thursday of next week and
will carry a complete line of meats.
poultry, butter eggs, fruits aud vegt-
tables.
Grow wheat, corn, hogs and chickens.
Farmers may get rich ON war prices.
similar to our civil war. Wheat has
touched 81 q bushel in Chicago. Corn
ls III a bushel here.
Merritt Jenkin, who has been elected
supervisor of Penns Grove school, has
sent word that he will arrive i'm thirty
days II the Board OF Education at Medford
cannot release him sooner.
Frank d. Munyan left last Monday for
Georgetown, s. &. Word has been re-
ceived from there that a few sEad are
being caught. Roe slad are selling for
$3.50 and So each in New York City.
Members OF the Republican Club have
been invited TO take part in a bal quet
in hotel DUPONT on SATURDAY. night Mt e.
a plate. The Democratic yearly steer
having been consumed beef has gone
up.
Contractor Bader is paying 80 cents an
iionr for carpenters, 8 hons a day, to
erect the new "Swamptown" below the
Cove school hOnse. Carpenters in Penn
Grove charge As cents an hour for a 8
hour day. Business is dull. Few are
building because OF high cost.
The body of William Twiddy, who
died in Delaware Hospital last week from
the effects of failing from a pole at Lower
Canal bridge while erecting a trolley
wire, was unclaimed for burial and was
inferred at Farnhurst. Mrs. Twiddv
lived at Norfolk.
w. d. Snyder took up his new duties
as agent for a publishing house here this
week, greatly pleased with his new posi-
ton and relief OF trying school affairs.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, Uneasy
lies the head OF those who rule. tut most
OF all whose kingdom is a school,"
The family men OF Penns Grove, who
are interested in the proposition to esiab-
fish q cooperative store here, will hold
another meeting in Odd Fellows Hall
this friday evening, when a perman-
ent organization will be effected. The
manner of conducting sucll an establish
ment will be explained in detail and fur
ttler subscriptions to the capital stock re
ceiyed.
Peoples Bank WAS moved last Saturday
from Matthew Mitchell's building at
Union Corner into the new brick build
ing at the southeast corner, where form
eriy stood the residence occupied by
Josiah A. Kidd and his daughter, Abb
gail l.. Kidd, for sixty years. The new
bank building is the most beautiful
architectural addition to the Borough
since the boom.
The new wharf exclusion at Penns
Grove made by Capt. Horace Wilson lie
the best on the Delaware River. The
end is %oetagonal 30 the concrete corners
will break tile ice. Two large boats can
land at the two ferry slips and boats can
tie mp at the sidee. Because OF the in
crease in materials and imposslbility to
get labor the first contractor failed. Tie
company Of his bond completed the
wharf at a loss Of 81, 900.
While bread, meat and potatoes are
high IN price, because of the great for
eign wal demand, the price OF rice is
only ten cents a pound. There is as
much nourishment in a pound OF raisins
1T 10 cents a pound as In a pound of
beef at so. A pint of peanut butter at
% cents has as much nouristlment as two
pounds OF beef. Olive oil can be had at
Toe. teN$l y quart. 1t is as rich in nour-
ishment az butter. Italians prefer it and