The Penn's Grove record., 1919-04-25
News of Local Interest,
What Is Occurring and Being
Talked About In The Borsugh
and Township

will be attractive. 1
A delightful rain Wednesday night
made vegetation jump and unfold
the strawberry blooms.
The Elks will hold an entertain
ment and dance in Odd Fellows Hall
on Wednesday, May 21st.
The automobile travel thru Penns
Grove to and from Atlantic City was
the greatest yer on Easter.
The Coombs Lumber Company is
busy with a large government order
for the D. O. D., at Perkintown.
Nelson K. Davidson has bought of
Charles Thomas a house and ten acres
OF land in Woodbury. and will move
there.
When in Penns Grove make it your
home by taking home pride. Do not
have your body here and mind else
where.
The Easter services at the Churches
were well attended last Sunday.
of people are here to fill all the
churches and more.
Mrs. Grace Higgins, Mrs. Anna
Johnson, Eleanor Urban and Minnie
Johnson, of Philadelphia, have been
visiting relatives in Penns Grove.
The Pastors of the Churches have
arranged for Camp Meeting services
to be held in the Tabernacle from
June 18th to 22d.
The parents of Earl Fenton, who
has been in France for a year, recently
received word that he is we'll and hopes
to get home next fall.
A barge load of shells has arrived
to be placed on the road above Penns-
vile. This winds up the shell bust
on the road for this year.
S. R. Leap & Son will give a practi-
cal demonstration of Mazda oil at
their store all next week. 1t is claim
ed it is much cheaper than lard.
The leaves on the naples unfolded
this week. The abundant and beauti-
full blooms on the cherry and apple
trees give hopes for abundant fruits.
A final decree of divorce has been
entered between George G.. Titus and
Anna May Titus, of Penns Grove.
Action was brought by the husband
who was represented by j. Mercer
Davis, in Camden.
Official announcement of the death
of T. Evan Walker was received on
Monday by his mother from the War
Department at Washington, confirm
ing the letter printed last week from
the nurse who attended him.
Winter officially ended March 21st
and the average when frosts cease in
this region is April %. We wish to an
nounce that women will be safe to quit
wearing furs and may raise their ear
bobs without getting frost bitten.
After four days of pleasant spring
weather with the temperature at AZ
to so in the morning, a@cAilly north
wind came Thursday evening and
pulled the thermometer down to 30
this Friday morning.
Powell Craig received a letter on
the 18th from his son Powell, Jr.,
written March 10Th, at Pprtet, France,
twenty kilometers (six miles) from
Bordeaux, that he has seen enough OF
army life and hoped to be on his way
home soon.
Warren Homan, whose garage on
East Main Street was burned some
months ago, is having erected a ga
rage of hollow tile, so by 100 feet. He
is acting wisely in preparing a hos
pital for %sojourners and cripples from.
the seashore.
The Penns Grove A. C. which
bought out the Penns Grove Base Ball
Association, will open it's season this
Saturday afternoon, when it will meet
the Keystone A. c., of Wilmington, on
the home grounds. The club was or
gained by the men and boys of Penns
Grove and will present a high class
of amateur baseball to the public.
Mayor W. A. w. Grier and Henry
Burt Ware, Of Salem, were in Penns
Grove on Tuesday night looking after
the interest of clients held last week
for running disorderly houses in the
Borough. The final hearing will take
place before Recorder Duffy on Tues
day night.
William Fl. Chew, Chairman of the
Liberty, Loan Campaign, has been ad-
vised that '"Salem County has been
as the name for the battleship
now building that Salem County is to
the honor of naming for it's ex-
showing in the. Fourth Cam
The ship is at Hog Island and
will be ready to launch about June 1st.
Franklin A. Biddle, at Washington,
c., writes to the Record that there
mas been a good catch of shad on the
Potomac river. From so to 100 to a
Tide have been caught. They are sold
at $1.05 to $1.40 for roe shad and As to
70 cents for bucks. Lots of rock fish
and perch have been caught. Last
Saturday croakers sold for $3.50 al
Louis Solomon, of Richmond, Va,
Who owns land on South Broad Street,
as great faith in the future of Penns
Grove. He has begun the foundation
or six new stores on what was for
nerly known as the Baker lot. There
ire acres of diamonds in Penns
irove. Outsiders have found many.
others are finding them. Others
thould buy land and go in the mining
BUSINESS.