The Penn's Grove record., 1919-02-28
News of Local Interest
What Is Occurring and Being
Talked About In The Borough
and Township

White potatoes are getting cheaper;
now 80 cents a basket wholesale and
81 to SIPS retail.
David A. English will open his new
restaurant on Main Street, opposite
Oak, tomorrow, with an elaborate din
ner.
M. D. Poland is having five feet
added to the front and fifteen feet to
the rear of Cooks corner store.
Alderbert Simkins will conduct a
restaurant on Penn Street in the
building vacated by David A. English.
The temperature this week has been
between spring and winter. Sunday
morning "A, Monday, Tuesday, We'd
nesday "a, Thursday "a, Friday 80.
The latest report as to Penns Grove
post office is that former Postmaster
Thomas E. Hunt viii take charge
March L.
The new revenue bill has caused a
stiff advance in the retail prices of
cigars, cigarettes and all kinds of to-
bacco. Booze is still going down, al
though the price has gone up.
Cooper Hospital, Camden, offers un-
usual opportunities for young women
who desire to become trained nurses.
There are now 40 there. At least one
year high school education is required.
An entertainment and dance under
the auspices of the Altar and Church
Guild of Our Merciful Saviour will be
held in Community Hall, Monday
evening, March 3.
Squire McAdams and family have
decided to go to housekeeping in Penns
Grove and will occupy the bungalow
on Penn Street recently vacated by
David A. English.
Sweet potatoes are so scarce that
they are worth 81 a basket. Less
were grown last year than for forty
years in this region and very few were
stored.
All members of Nokomis Tribe,
No. 72, are requested to be present
next Thursday sleep, March 9th.
Business of Importance to attend to.
W. Montgomery, Secretary.
A class of four were initiated into
the Eastern Stars, Penns Grove Chap
ter, on Thursday night of last week.
Twenty-Five members of the Whining
ton Chapter were guests of the local
chapter.
The City Point, Va, powder works
have been entirely shut down, but
many families continue to reside there.
Walter johnson, formerly of Penns
Grove is now in the dupont office in
Wilmington.
Gen. Peyton C. March, Chief of
Staff, has selected a design which will
be used for a button to be worn by
discharged soldiers. The button will
be worn, however, only with civilian
clothes.
Valencia Augustine, a Mexican, fell
from a motor truck at the Delaware
Ordnance Depot on Tuesday and had
his leg broken by falling under the
wheels. The leg was later amputated
at the Delaware hospital in Whining
ton.
The Hospital drive ends March
9Th, but owing to Penns Grove and
Carneys Points slow progress, Mon
day and Tuesday, 10th and 18th, will
be observed as Tag Days. This has
been arranged thru the schools. Be
on the look out. Every patriotic citi-
zen should be wearing a Tag.
George Washington, of Pedricktown,
called at the Record office last Friday
and paid his subscription for the Penns
Grove Record some months in advance.
We are pleased to have a George
Washington today who keeps his cred
it good, altho the immortal George
was so short of cash at times that he
could not pay his taxes at the legal
time.
Two men were discovered acting in
a suspicious manner at the residence
of Lewis w. Cook on South Broad
Street last Friday evening. They
were noticed by Mrs. Cook upon re-
turning from an entertainment, one
at the front and another at the real
of the house peering through the win
dows. The police were notified, but
the men took alarm and fled.
Penns Grove Lodge, 1853, B. P. o.
of Elks, has a large class of new mem
bers awaiting initiation and they will
be shown a good time by having the
ceremony performed in some other
Elks' home where they have facilities
for such work which the home lodge
does not possess yet. Camden will
probably be selected, although Phila-
delphia and Atlantic City have offered
their services.
Members of the new Order of Sons
of Italy met in Odd Fellows Hall last
Sunday. The Deputy Master of Will
mington Lodge and Mr.. Pignato made
addresses. The organizers chosen +
A. L. Colantuono, John Clemente and
Fidelo Di Paine. The lodge will hold
regular meetings on the I'd and 4th
Sundays of each month, and the char
ter will be open a short time for new
members.