The Penn's Grove record., 1917-06-01
SUBSCRIPTION SI.25 A YEAR
DUPONT VILLAGE DOINGS
Social Happenings and Com
munity Welfare Doings

The newly arrived city bred kiddies
are having the time Of their lives fishing
for tadpoles in the nearby puddles.
A linen shower was given Miss Han
nah King at the home Of her friend.
Miss Klawyer last Thursday evening.
Her marriage to Mr.. Fisher will soon
take place. Someone should not forget
to bring a box of fish food with other
gifts.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Linwood Snyder and son
motored TO Clayton on Decoration dav.
John Flynn and Mr.. Mcclellan have
moved their families from Washington
Street to the new village.
The Mothers Club sent four tele-
grams to Washington last week to the
President, War and Navy secretaries and
our Congressman TO give war protection
measures 70 our men and boys in army
camps and stations so they may be as
clean and clear from disease and bad
habits when they return as when they
left home. The return answers and the
same sort of articles in the newspapers
assure US of we hope for.
Mrs. Lyons. president Of the hremens'
auxiliary; Mrs. Peyton and daughter,
Mrs. L. c. Hires, were among the Phila..
visitors on Friday.
Goodbye woods, trees, beautiful green
vines and sapling fence separating vii
liage from county at the East End. 1t
is now the gray roads and house walls.
Beautiful green we miss you.
One Of our city bred mothers, a mem
Der of the Mothers Club. was told one
morning, Nov dear, soak those lima
beans. / want to plant them tonight"
After having been planted three weeks
hubby inquired about the soaking and
learned that they had been cooked awhile
to make sure of their sprouting. We
Will know more about back yard farming
after the war.
Mrs. McColley, kindergartener. enter
tanned all the teachers at tea Thursday
evening.
Because of SO many new arrivals,
typewriter suggestions and warnings
regarding fire protection, have been left
at each dwelling. While we have been
blessed with few fires. an ounce of
caution is better than weeks of s0bs.
June 9TH the Mothers Club will have
their first birthday party. Mrs. Spen-
Ger and assistants will give a short
play. The Women's Club of Penns
Grove and the Community Clubs have
been invited.
The audience in Community Hall was
given a good laugh ON Tuesday night by
the young people of Old Swede's Church.
Wilmington. who gave The District
School," 1t was well done and net
over done. The proceeds were for the
Girls Friendly Society of the Episcopal
Church.
Mrs. Emily Hampson gave a birthday
party and dance in Community Hall,
Monday evening in honor of her daugh-
ter. One hundred and fifty invitations
were issued.
Paul Hires. of H~addonfeld, ]. n.
McCurdy, supervisor of Woodstown
schools; Mrs. A. Aver Fry, president,
and Miss Banks, general secretary of
Camden Y. W. c. A., were visitors at
Mrs. l.. c. Hires last week. The last
two ladies came in the interest of or
ganizing a Y. W. c. A. One is needed.
The boys and girls are working hard
in their truck gardens, which the dupont
Company allotted them with the farm
knowledge of school supervisor Joseph
\. Wright, who is a live product of the
sod of Upper Penns Neck Township
and acquainted with the way bacteria
works here. We expect some big crops.
Master Earl Hackman posed as a
drowning substitute for the nurses
training class last Monday when DIR.
Dodge explained the hse of the pull
motor.
Herber Hires and friend Morton Bell
spent Wednesday in Philadelphia.
Morris Newton, of Woodstown, who
has many teams working on the DUPONT
plant. is seriously i'll in a Wilmington
hospital. One large c%arbuncle has been
taken from the base of his brain and
another is growing.
The Woodstown Commerce Minstrel
show will be given in Community Hall,
next Monday evening, June 4th. 1t has
twenty-five local hits and has furnished
lots of fun in other towns. They come
in the interest of the Mothers Club
who desire a crowded house.
Next Tuesday. patriots registration
day, all men in Upper Penns Neck be-
tween y and 81 will report to the
Board of Registry and elections in Com
munity Hall.
Not to be outdone by the boys patrol
all guards have been ordered to salute
every boy who saIutes them.
There will be an exhibit of hand work.
drawing and other school study work
by the eighth grade of Carney Point
school next Thursday and Friday. All
parents are requested to be present.
School will close next Friday.