The Penn's Grove record., 1919-02-14
News of Local Interest
What Is Occurring and Being
Talked About In The Borough
and Township

n early tomato growers have
started fires in their hot houses to
prepare seed beds.
Penns Grove has a military guard
at nights. Some might be of use dur
ing the day time also.
-Four submarines passed by Penns
Grove on Saturday on their way up
the river to League Island.
In a recent list of casualties. Private
John q. Shurter, Of Penns Grove, was
reported as slightly wounded.
Asher B. W~addington, of Pilesgrove,
a been appointed a member of the
ADVISORY farm committee of the Board
OF Markets Of New Jersey.
A sailor from the naval recruiting
station IN Wilmington was in Penns
Grove on Thursday. All out of work
can lind employment in the navy.
There are a few oldtime shad fish
ermen left who expect to have nets
the coming spring. Their minds have
begun thinking of coming shad.
Ammon Raine and brother have
opened a grocery store at 90 E. Main
Street. They will also sell fruit, veg
etables, cigars and tobacco. Both men
are well known in Penns Grove.
To close out certain lines We are
Offering some very special values in
every department-Clothing furnish
ing goods, hats and shoes.
w. S. LEAP,
Cor. Main and Penn SITS.
Some have had hard knocks for
Penns Grove because they had old
brain ruts, but when they came to
leave their fat job they realize that
Penns Grove has been a garden of
Eden where they never earn so much
nor live so highly.
W. S. Leap, the old reliable mems
furnisher, at Main and Penn Streets,
has an announcement today that will
interest all who are looking for really
fine shoes. He is now handling the
Johnson-Murphy shoe for which he
has the exclusive sale.
The trial of the Penns Grove police
officers for alleged graft in protecting
s~peakeasies and other disreputable
places in the Borough was moved by
Prosecutor Summerill in the Court at
Salem this Friday morning after sew
eral postponements.
The new houses on the Summerill
tract are being occupied by foreign
laborers. Penns Grove experienced
very little trouble with this class of
her population, but as there have been
several hold-ups in that section recently
extra police protection should be de-
tailed there.
Mildred, daughter of DR.. and Mrs.
Harry Blitzstein, was taken sick on
Saturday and a serious case of pneu-
monia resulted, but with prompt at
tention a crisis was averted and the
little one is now in a fair way of re-
covery. For a short time, however,
the parents were seriously alarmed.
Real Estate Agent Cole says he
could rent Is or % houses at from SIS
to $24 a month + he had them. Some
who have lived here for the past four
years have become attached to our
Borough and have just begun to get
acquainted and feel at home when they
have occasion to move away.
The inquest in the matter of the
death of L. F. Butler, who was. re-
Gently killed at his home in Penns
Grove, will be held by Coroner B. Noel
Gross this Friday evening. 1t was
postponed from last Friday night on
account of all the evidence not being
ready to present. Five mel and one
woman are being held as witnesses.
We have had winter and spring
weather this week. The temperature
was on Sunday %, Monday %, Tues
day 20, Wednesday %, Thursday %,
this Friday morning so. Light snow
falls made the ground white on Mon
day and Wednesday and soon melted.
A moderate rainfall Thursday evening
was followed by a southern wind and
grey cloudy weather this Friday
morning.
V. G. Camp, the manager of The
American Railway Express Company,
in Penns Grove, is working to improve
the service for the public. A hundred
packages are turned over to the mo
mark bureau" monthly. The package
was not tied securely, tag lost and
only an old mark visible and no mark
to indicate from whom and where the
package came. To get better service
better are is being urged not only by
shippers but by the carriers.
Henry L. Miner has been sent to
Paulin to manage the chemical de-
partment of the dupont factory there.
About ten years ago when the Carneys
Point works began using the cotton
lint on cotton seed hulls, Mr.. Miner
came here from Maine as an expert
chemist and was one of the foremost
chemists al the powder works. He
was a valuable member of the Board
of Education and the many friends
which Mr.. and Mrs. Miner made here
regret their removal.
We have just put on sale several
hundred pairs of Women Shoes at eX-
tremely low prices. Women who can
wear sizes 21a to 4 can secure eXcep-
tional values.
W. S. LEAP,
Cor. Main and Penn SITS.
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