The Penn's Grove record., 1917-12-21
Happenings About Home
What Is Occurring And Being Talked
About In The Borough and township

tiddledewink.
Buy in Penns Grove to build up the
town and keep it prosperous.
Milk has been reduced from ID to
II cents a quart by some dealers in
Penns Grove.
A woman in Penns Grove aged ".
has the w%hooping cough, having
caught it from her small grandson.
VIM. F. Yeager, Registrar of Vital
statistics, reports "a births, 6 deaths
and D marriages during November.
No p~ostmaster's pay will be in
creased during the war, according tn
an order by the Postmaster General.
The Grand Jury on Tuesday in Sa-
lem Court found % bills of indict-
ments against 80 last December. We
are growing better.
The ice jam in the river and Chris
tiana creek was so heavy last Satur-
day, Sunday and Monday that all
boats were delayed.
All subscribers may have their
Record extended beyond January / at
the rate OF SIPS by paying before
A0y hOA.
Send the Penns Grove Record to a
distant friend for a Christmas pres
emit. 1t will be a weekly reminder of
good will and sav letter writing.
While it is Christmas and winter
time yet u citizens are relishinp let
tuce and celery shipped from Los
Angeles, Cal. What a great country.
The 94-acre farm a mile above
Penns Grove, owned by the heirs of
the late j. Pedrick Sparks, was sold
last Saturday at public sale to Asa G..
Justice for $4,000.
The temperature continued below
freezing until Wednesday afternoon
when the ice and snow began to 90.
It was % this Friday morning and
frost was in the air.
Jere P. Hayes, who has had a GRO
Gerry store on Penn Street for some
years, has sold out his stock and fix
lures to Long & Holton and will re-
tire because of failing health.
The price of Christmas poultry is as
follows: Turkeys, $3.50; geese, 35:
ducks, 35; chickens, 1923; guineas.
pair, $1.35. The high price of turkeys
is causesd by delays in shipments.
How to economic? Save time and
fare by buying in Penns Grove where
the stores and goods are as fine and
cheaper than in cities. We are a CITY.
Keep it so by keeping profits at home.
Felix dupont recently presented
one thousand sweaters to the soldiers
at Fort Mott, Fort Delaware and Fort
Mifflin. There were only nine hundred
men at the three forts, so the balance
was made good elsewhere.
In sending postage stamps to pay
bills, send only 1, 2 and Scent denom-
nations. Few persons have use for
larger denominations. Stamps are
not legal tender money and are taken
only when they can be readily used.
Few sweet potatoes were stored in
this region. The crop was short be-
cause of dry weather and the price
was high at digging time. The sweets
stored in Gloucester County are now
being sold for from S. to SIS a barrel.
They r not keepink well.
Former Surrogate Bloomfield n.
Minch, fuel administrator of Cumber-
and and Salem Counties, has appoint
ed as his assistants George S. Bacon,
of Millville, former Sheriff Charles V.
Marshall, of Vineland, and former
Senator William Plummer, of Salem.
A posse of officers from the Sher-
ifs department made a raid on four
alleged speakeasies along the river
front at Penns Grove on Monday
night. The men arrested were Jack
Palmer, Eugene Gamill, Donald Ring
Ter and George D. Ravens. All are
held for court.
Owing to delay in receiving mater
ials to finish the repairs and improve
ments to his newly acquired restaur-
ant on Penn Street, David A. English
was not able to have his opening on
the goth as expected. He hopes to be
ready for business Immediately after
the first of the year.
Last Saturday morning shortly be-
fore 8 o'clock fire broke out in Mar
conf Hotel on Griffith Street and two
buildings were burned to the ground
with the household goods. Both small
buildings We're owned by Domenic Di
Marcello. Liberty fire laddies did
valiant service in the freezing air at
IL and saved the adjoining buildings.
The newly organized Nest of Owls
have secured permanent quarters on
Tyrone Avenue, the building being
formerly known as the Richmond
House. The meeting night has been
changed from Thursday to Tuesday
night. On January 9Th the members
will have a banquet among themselves
at their new rooms. The order is
thriving.
About 8 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing when a trolley car stopped at
South Broad and Beach Avenue Mrs.
William Gerber stepped from the curb
to get on. Just then Joseph Picken
came down in Samuel M. Hunts auto.
As o o as he saw Mrs. Gerber leave
the curb he put on the brakes, but the
car slid on the ice, knocked her down
and bruised her badly, but not danger
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