The Penn's Grove record., 1919-06-06
News Of Local Interest
What Is Occurring and BEING
: Talked About In The Borough
and Township

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water tankers.
Bathing and boating in the river is
now an enjoyable pastime.
The first alfalfa crop has been cut.
The rains in May were a great help.
Edward Justice, Clarence Smith and
Warren Shultz have each caught one
sturgeon.
Many Of the stores have commenced
closing at noon on Wednesday for the
summer months.
Contractor Burk has begun work re-
building the road from Plant 2 gate
to Penns Neck Canal.
Do not fail to hear Matt Gallagher
in the Tablenacle from June 18th to
22d. Bring your neighbor.
Some did not finish planting corn
in Lower Penns Neck until this week.
Shortness of help caused delays.
Gun Club prizes for Saturdays
shoot will be on exhibition in ". S.
Leaps store window until noon Sat
urday.
The siren whistle on the ice plant
reminds all at noon that Penns Grove
continues to have steam up and is pro-
crossing.
a few continued to fish this week.
A few shad we're caught. Three stur-
geon have been caught off Penns Grove
this year.
Strawberries are delicious. The
crop is not very abundant in this re-
gion. The retail prices are from 20
at % cents.
The June meeting of the Board of
Chosen Freeholders will be held at the
Court House, Salem, on Wednesday
morning next.
Amos Gaunt, Of Upper Pittsgrove,
has seven little opossums taken from
the pouch of their mother, killed in
Gaunt's henroost.
All Church folks will join the united
evangelical efforts in the Tabernacle
under the leadership of Matt Gala
CHER, the Peoples Evangelist.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of st. Paul's
NJ. E. Church will hold a Strawberry
Festival and Cake Sale in Odd Fellows
Hall on Saturday evening, June 18th.
Sweet potato plants were set in the
fields the past two weeks. Compare
lively few sweets are grown in this
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years.
The Railroad Company is erecting
safety gates at Main Street crossing.
Councilman Edward H. Keen, Jr., has
been agitating this great need for over
a year.
Purchase of the Wallace farm, adj
joining the Lawnside Cemetery,
Woodstown, will make possible in the
future a 35-acre addition to the burial
grounds.
The w. C. T. L. will observe Flower
Mission Day at the County Home near
Woodstown, June 18th, at 3 P. NJ.
Members of the w. c. 7. I. and
friends are invited.
At a recent meeting of Lower Penns
Neck Township Committee a resolu-
ton was passed to pay 10 per cent. of
he. cost of building a concrete road
between Pennsville and the canal
bridge in 1920.
The Salem Council has awarded the
contract for the reconstruction OF
several strets to the Joseph F. Burke
Company, of Plainfeld, for S~78,256.98.
Asphaitic cement will be used.
Rumor of Ford automobile plants
spring up like June bugs. Penns Grove
had one last week. This week the out
break is at Perryville, Md. Wonder
if it is not a scheme to get free ad-
vertising?
David A. English is having a con-
crete sidewalk laid in front of his
restaurant and bakery on Main Street,
opposite Oak. Contractor Samuel L..
Raine and his force of men are doing
the work finely.
The suit of the Marshals' cases in
Penns Grove has been postponed until
the November term of the New Jersey
Supreme Court: Printers were unable
to compile and print the testimony
for the June term.
Did you see the fine physical drills
at the school commencement? Have
your boy join the Scouts. Then be-
come an associate member by paying
81. Better still pay $3.50 and get a
helpful magazine for your boy or girl.
Swedesboro will vote Tuesday, June
10th, on the question of buying
the water plant of the Woolwich
Water Company. The service has
been anything but satisfactory for two
years, and at times there was barely
enough for household purposes.
Ralph E. Greenleaf, the Whining
ton pool expert, with Young Morris,
of Penns Grove, will play 400 points
at the Palace pool room, Perkintown,
on Tuesday, June 10th, at 3 and 8 T.
NJ. Bill Middleton, who is also some
pool shooter, is managing the affair.
The strawberry festival held last
Friday evening by the Pennsville M.
E. Church was largely attended. The
sum of sos was cleared. A large and
beautiful cake, donated by the David
A. English Bakery, at Penns Grove,
was auctioned off and brought S13.25.
Commencement exercises of the
Woodstown High School will be held
June 10. and DR.. Thomas Blaisdell, OF
State College, Pa, will deliver an ora
ton. The baccalaureate sermon will
he delivered by Joel Borton, the