The Penn's Grove record., 1919-06-20
News of Local Interest
What Is Occurring and Being
Talked About In The Borough
and Township

The grass crop Is good IN TINS re-
yion, likewise the wheat crop.
4 sea wall is to be built along the
river front of the Ordnance Depot.
Milk alone will sustain life indefn-
itely, which is true of no other one
food.
A two masted schooner sailed down
the river on Tuesday. Sailing vessels
are rare sights.
Farm labor continues scarce. Some
work a few days and rest until more
money is needed.
An addition thirteen feet wide and
forty feet long is being erected to the
rear of Penns Grove Baptist Church.
The te~legraphers' strike prevents
any messages going out of Penns
Grove.
Few cherries are grown in this re-
gion because the trees die and others
will not grow unless treated to kill
insects.
An aeroplane flew down the river on
Thursday. They are more plentiful
than snake doctors in the meadows at
hay time.
John w. Trumbull has erected a
dozen concrete garages with fire-proof
partitions which are desirable because
each are separate.
Mrs. Anna Torey is building an adj
dition to the Hotel Frances, on Beach
Avenue, which indicates that Penns
Grove is progressing.
The strawberry season did not last
as long as usual this season. The
crop was light and prices high ranging
from Is to 30 cents a box.
Raymond Morris who was born else
where but enlisted from Penns Grove,
after being a mail carrier here, is re-
por-ed to be among the missing in
France.
Mrs. Emily Hampson has bought
the let north rne of Denny
Avenue and New Street of John G..
Began and is having a bungalow built
thereon by Samuel Kits.
The publicity committee of the
Chamber of Commerce is arranging
to have large signs erected at the boat
pier on the river front calling attention
20 Penns Groves industrial advan-
tages.
J. E. Press, Exalted Ruler, Eugene
4. McAdams, Esquire; Robert Motfat,
Lodge, are in attendance at the .Elks'
State Convention in Asbury Park this
week.
The Water Company is to be COM
mended for its promptness in comply
ing with the Councils request to
paint the fire plugs. The work has
been completed and they made a good
job of it. Now for a flush of dead
ends once a week.
F. /. Pietsch, who has conducted an
exchange shop of household furniture
at 7 Oak Street and given all a square
deal for two years, has sold his bust
ness to John Lawless, and has moved
to Brooklyn.
Frank L.. Stetser, of Woodstown,
and Frank R. Burton, of Yorktown,
We're before Squire Smith, in Salem,
on Friday, charged with selling cider
containing more than the legal con
tent OF alcohol
J. Burke & Co., have been laying
the amiesite top on the road in Upper
Pelns Neck for three weeks and is
now rear the Peterson woods below
John Norton's. They left off last fall
opposite the Dolbow farm beyond the
DUPONT pond.
Hollis F. Ashcraft, Recorder J.. X.
Duffy, Charles L. Smith, Postmaster
D. Rosenbloth and VIM. A. CHAT went
20 i'oltescue Beach on Wednesday on
a fishing trip. They reported good
luck and a good time.
Cash contributions amounting to
several hundred dollars were made by
TIE audience at the boxing arena last
friday night towards a home for SOL
diers' orphans to be at Cape May.
Returned soldiers and several ladies
made the collections.
The annual outing of Moose herd,
No. 800, will be held this year on the
10Th inst. 1t is to be a real Moose
hunt in the wilds of Jersey, and as the
Moose COW still gives milk there will
be a good time for all who attend.
The hunt is for members only.
Thre is complaint of shortage of
houses in Philadelphia and Whining
ton. While all the best are occupied
in Penns Grove and Carneys Point
there is room for many more to live
here and work elsewhere. Let every
ore notify those who need a house to
move Or board in PennS Grove.
The work on the Delaware Ordnance
Depot above Penns Grove is about
completed. The farmers whose land
and crops were taken by the Govern
ment officials last fall have received
no pay. The new Congress last Tues
lay voted to cut down the %appropria-
tons for land purchases.
Clifford (ChippyO Baker of Salem,
who won fame as a baseball and foot
ball player at Rutgers College, has
taken employment at the Dye Works
and will play with the Mechanical
team. John M. Summerill, Jr., an
other Rutgers athlete, has taken en-
ployment with duPonts and will play
with the Engineering team.
Titus Garage Robbed
On Sunday evening last Titus Gar
age, on Main Street at the railroad