The Penn's Grove record., 1917-01-26
ABOUT HOME
what Is Occurring And Being Talked
About In The Borough and Township

VI TTtilcl hOtel anQ begun renovation,
Get ready for free mail delivery March
by having your house numbered cor
rectly.
There are 1880 homes and business
houses in Penns Grove. Food is sold in
50 places
Save every bit Of vegetable matter pos
sible Tor fertilizer and grow everything
possible this year.
The first trolley car from Penns Grove
to Townsville made the trip on Thursday
afternoon, 18th inst.
A few shad are being caught in Sonth.
ern rivers. The price OF roe shad in Now
York is " and 81 90 each.
According to the Philadelphia Ledger,
Pehns Grove powder makers wear silk
stockings. Who has a better right2
Ellsworth Strengthen killed 10 chickens
on Wednesday which weighed 100 lbs.
tie received just $32 for them, averaging
$2.46 each.
The x regular shoot OF the dupont
Gun Club will take place on the Clubs
grounds Tomorrow, Saturday, at one
Nv itOOhs
Gardner Boyer has moved from the
Gibson property OH East Main street to
the small farm on tile road to Auburn,
bought OF Gustav Lillya.
Have your stationery printed at the
Penns Grove ] ecord Office with your
h use number thereon to insure the pro.
per address for free delivery.
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Sarantis Peters. acquitted OF a Charge
oil illegally selling lager beer At Carney
Point, will he tried in April on a charge
OF selling 'near beer" there.
Albert Gould, a Workman at the deem
Water plant OF the powder works is at
he Delaware hospital in Wilmington.
suffering IRON acid burns about the face.
A Ford touring car came into Penns
Grove over the rough frozen roads from
Elmer the other day with a big load of
household goods, six children and a
driver.
Jacob +. Shoemaker killed his three
handsome hogs last Tuesday They
weighed 265, 220 and 2l8 pounds. This
Is hne when we consider they were ONLY
eight months old.
A meeting held for the purpose of fea-
turing the annual meeting of the Salem
County Cow-testing Association was held
on the farm of Edgar e. Moore, nea,
Woodstown, on Moneay.
Ii you have business with the Penns
Grove Record office which you annot
attend to during the dav, call in the
evening until 8 30. The Office is usually
open until that hour,
An important deal is said to be under
way whereby all ''chain stores'' will be
merged into n great corporation, which
will include those in Penns Grove and
other places III the county.
February will have four Sundays, Lin
coins birthday on the 18th, st. Valen-
tines day OH the l4th, Washington's
birthday Oh the Cpd. Is the I'd, Bre'r
Groundhog's day, a holiday?
A wage adjustment amounting to an
increase OF 5 per cent. in some instances
a d 10 per cent. in others has Just be-
come effective at the Carney Point liant
OF the DUPONT Powder Company.
A~ntomohilisis who have tried the trio
to Penns Grove over the Woodstown-
Atlantic City road this week say that the
rains and thaws have put the road in
worse condition than it has been Tor
months.
Charles s. Hewitt arrived from South
port, n g, Wednesday evening, on his
way to New York City. lie has been
shipping large quantities OF sea bass from
Cape Fear. They are worth from IA to
Is cents a pound IN New York.
While attaching the high tension cleo.
trio cable to the high poll at Lower
Canal Bridge on Tuesday, a workman
fell seventy feet and WAS fatally Injured.
He was taken to Delaware Hospital in
ALI X. %Braudrig's Car and died hall
hour after arrival.
Several men were burned OH the hands
and lace by a lare-up in Il mixing house
at Plant 2 last Friday night. Less thar
200 pounds of powder was DESTROYED and
little damage vas lone to the building.
On Tuesday morning five other men were
burned bat not seriously at Plant 2,
The annual meeting oil the stockholders
OF the South Jersey Farmers Exchange
was held at Woodstown. Thursday, 18th
inst. net profit of $34, 237, SO was re-
ported Tor the past year, the gross bnsi-
ness done amounting to $l,0S7, 347. 70, a
big increase over previous years. The
membership is no in excess Of 750.
Coal, SO q ton, is what Penns Grove
citizens are now paying. The dealers say
it is being dealt to them in driblets by
brokers. Outsiders believe that British
gold is bursting pockets here and the
people can pay any price. 1t is tougli on
the old citizens whose living expenses
have increased but their incomes have
not.
Childs' grocery store was moved from
MltchelPs building, at Union Corner, to
an apartment of w. P. DeDny's block on
the west side OF the street on Wednes-
day night. The Shur's Chemical Co.'S.
drug store, Edward Livingstone, mana.
ger, will he moved from the Smith
house, opposite Odd Fellows Hall, into
the room vacated by Childs Company.
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