The Penn's Grove record., 1917-09-14
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What Is Occurring And Being Talked
About In The Borough and township

The grape crop is fair in this
region.
Liberty Fire Company viii start
their carnival on Saturday, 22d.
Cabbage worms destroyed much Of
the late cabbage in this region.
Farmers are peddling white pota-
toes for from rs to IS cents a bas-
ket.
Seats have been erected in the new
Broad Theatre. The interior finish
ing is being rushed.
Salvatore Dako was arraigned be-
fore Squire McAdams on Monday,
charged with carrying a concealed
deadly weapon.
George Watson has received word
that his son Thomas is on the bat
tleship Mississippi which is bound for
the Pacific ocean thru the Panama
Canal.
Hollis F. Ashcraft, who was with
James ID. Torton for three years.,
passed the examination required
by the State Board last July and will
conducted by Mr.. Torton for many
years.
"The eight-hour day is nothing
new" said an old Penns Grove farmer,
I'VE had it when | was a boy, eight
hours in the morning and eight in
the afternoon.
The members of st. Georges P. E.
Church will hold their annual chicken
pot-pie supper on Thursday evening,
September 9th, in the parish build
ing near Church Landing. If the
weather should prove stormy it will
be held the next evening. Supper
35 cents.
Prof. VIM. Moskowitz, the popular
dancing master that he
will give the closing dance for the
season at Riverview Beach, on Satur-
day evening of this week
Mr.. and Mrs. Dumoff were held
der bond to keep the peace by Squire
McAdams OIL Tuesday night. They
had threatened the lives of their
neighbors and were otherwise unruly.
Stetson hats are sold in Penns
Grove by this store only. w. S.
Leap. adv.
A family on East Main STREET has
two goats which milk abundantly.
AlIO lt0O SO1NCd IllC1l llllk DIODl6Il.
There is an abundance of coarse sue
culent grasses which the goats live on.
The cool weather following the
rains last week made fires and over
coats very comfortable, for some
days. On three mornings the tenn
perature vas near SO. Wednesday
was the coolest at "A. Warmer
weather arrived on Thursday.
Peaches were so abundant last Sat
urday in Wilmington that fine ones
sold for fifty cents a basket. The
cool weather has kept them from
ripening and the price advanced from
81 to $1.25 this week.
The price of canhouse tomatoes the
latter part of last week was 25 cents
a basket, because the largest picking
of the season was made and the short
age of labor in Baltimore canneries
made a glut of perishable fruit. The
cool weather hindered ripening this
week and the price went up to so
cents a basket.
George M. Pyne, superintendent of
the gas supply in Penns Grove has
done c~ommendable work the past few
months getting owners to connect
their properties before the amiesite
tppris put on the street. Every lot
should be connected with water as
we'll as gas.
The first Italian Independent Club
held their second benefit at the Riv-
erside theatre on Wednesday evening
and the house vas packed. They
presented the best Italian opera com
pany that eve came to Penns Grove,
which rendered the beautiful opera
'Cavaleria R~usticana." The presi-
dent of the club, Andrew I. Colan-
tuono, desires to thank all for their
generous patronage.
Penns Grove is certainly taking on
Metropolitan airs and big city con-
veniences. w. w. yesterday & Co.
announce in this issue that they have
opened IN ~up-to-date stock brokers
Office in the Post Office Building
with direct private wires to New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash
ington and elsewhere. Mr.. J. L
Veiser is the local manager and he
extends a cordial invitation to invest
ors to visit the board room, where
continuous quotations on all stocks
are posted daily.
We have the exclusive sale for
Penns Grove of the famous Schoble
hats. W. S. Leap. adv.