The Penn's Grove record., 1917-10-19
Personnel Mention SOgiQ Notes
The Whereabouts and Doings
of Good People You Know

VIM. Hewes, Jr., spent Saturday and
Sunday in Philadelphia with friends.
j. K. Duffy, Esq, and wife, left on
ida.
Mrs. Chas. l.. Smith and son Boyd
are spending a week in Washington,
ID. c.
Richard Rowe, of Haskell, was in
Penns Grove this week renewing old
acquaintance.
Mrs. Edgar A. Miller, Jr., of Bridge
ton, and Mrs. Albert Garrison, of Di-
viding Greek, have been visiting at
Linford L. Hurff's.
Gilbert Compton, wife and sons
Joseph, Paul and Eugene and Emma
Norton, spent Sunday at Somers
Point with her sister, Mrs. George
Norton.
William A. Sack, who has been buy
ing fish at Long Branch the past sea-
son, was home on Wednesday. He re-
ports the catch of sea food the past
season large.
John Brewer, a veteran and sea
captain, after an absence of nineteen
years, has been visiting his nephew,
Vincent Biddle. He was accompanied
by his son, H. A. Biddle.
Mrs. Frank Summerill entertained
on Monday Mrs. Edgar A. Miller, Jr.,
of Bridgeton, Mrs. Albert Garrison, of
Dividing Creek, Mr.. and Mrs. Linford
L. Hurff and daughter Vera, of Penns
Grove.
JOS. ]. Summerill, wife, daughter
Gertrude and son, Charles S, spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Ford
Thompson. The last heard of their
son, Jos. j., Jr, who Is a lieutenant in
artillery, was that he was in London,
England, on his way to France.
Joseph s. Diver and William H.
Rogers arrived in Penns Grove last
Friday night to visit their parents.
They had a ten days trip from Jack
sonville, Fla, in their automobile.
William r. Diver accompanied them
home.
Relatives and friends in this region
have received invitations that Mr.. and
Mrs. John F. Davenport, at Richmond.
Ind, will celebrate the fiftieth ami
versary of their marriage on Sunday,
October 21st. They were natives of
this region and went west many years
ago, but have been visitors here in
late years.
Former Sheriff James Newell, of
Salem, the Democratic candidate for
Assembly, was in Penns Grove on
Wednesday, renewing old acquaint-
ances and waking new ones. Every
generation in Salem County for a
hundred years has elected Newells
to office and never had reasons to re-
greet it.
Frank Mccarthy, of Brooklyn, who
worked at the powder works for some
months, would not be accepted by the
United States last spring, SO he went
to Canada and in the Goth Royal Fly
ing Corps. His friends here have re-
ceived word that his airplane fell $50
feet and turned upside down. He
escaped with n leg and three broken
ribs. He Is now in the camp hospital
at Lensick, North Toronto.
Prof. j. Harry Smith and wife NOV
ed to Parkside, Camden, on Tuesday.
Penns Grove loses an excellent edu-
Gator and local preacher. A native of
Franklin township he has been a pub
lie school educator for A years and
is now on the State retired list. He
came to Penns Grove twenty-eight
years ago and taught for eleven years
after which he was appointed County
Superintendent of Schools for over
three years. He taught at Pedrick-
ton for ten years until he was put on
the retirement fund two years ago.
AS a grammar school instructor he
put pupils in the Penns Grove High
School at a younger age than normal,
because of his efficient drills IN gram
mar and arithmetic.