The Penn's Grove record., 1919-11-21
News OF Local Interest
What Is Occurring and Being
Talked About In The Borough
and Township

Eggs are $500 a dozen in New york
Wholesale price $102.
Next Thursday will be Thanksgiving.
Advertisers and news writers Will
oblige by sending copy sooner than
usual.
A greater sugar shortage than at
present is predicted by the refners. and
the shortage viii continue throughout
December.
Because Of miners strike and the in
creased cost of coal, the fire CRATES
under the boilers Of the Dye Works
are being changed to burn oil.
Joseph s. Flanagan has been elected
Vice President Of Penns Grove Ma
tional Bank. J. Milton F~eatherer has
been elected cashier to succeed NIr.
Flanagan.
Eggs 80 cents a dozen. Buy hens.
raise chickens. Chickens and hogs
are grazing animals. Never Gid so
much grass go to waste in this region
as this year.
Many canvasbacks and redhead ducks
are being seen along the river. It is
unusual to see these ducks along the
Delaware. most of them being found
along the Susquehanna.
BY the installation Of sterlizing ap-
paratus for his tools, towels, etc. Earl
Walker now has all the improvements
TO his barber shop completed. The
place looks fine in its new dress.
DR.. c. f. Baxter will move his office
from his residence, II South Broad
street, to rooms 8 and 7 Post Office
building, Penns Grove. on Monday. the
10th. 11-7-tf
A new ruling went into effect Nom
Fd1N on the enaEn-I4anf DaTIpCal 4La4
q party with a carload of material
must sign for the car before opening
same.
Warren w. Brown. proprietor of the
Oxford Hotel. has bought David a.
English's restaurant at No. 3 South
Broad Street. He took charge last
Monday.
The road builders have been in the
Borough limit for a week on East Main
Street. Supervisor Frank J. Gavanta
hopes to have the asphalt top all fin
ished mex week.
The Sheriff's sale of the Denny wharf
property in Penns Grove on the suit of
Captain NJ. Denny against Penns Grove
Navigation Company, did not take
place last Saturday. 1t was adjourned
until December 18th.
Waste of stale bread may be avoided
~ 80 - - ~ L IL
~ moistening the loaf and placing for
a few minutes in a hot oven-or by
drying it and using the crumbs in place
of ffour or starch in recipes.
The homestead farm of the late
David A. Fogg. in Quaker Neck, that
has been tenanted seyeral years by c.
Milton Fogg. has been sold by the heirs
to Samuel Stewart, of Lower Penns
Neck township, for $4,000.
Andrew Colantuono has decided to
become a true citizen of Penns Grove
having bought the Gibson house and
lot at the corner of East Main Street
and John Street of Gardner Boyer. He
is having improvements made to the
property.
While the robberies are going on
there is great fear in Penns Grove that
the Borough marshals may get robbed
or kidnapped. Go home at some early
hour in tn emorning and you may see
one marshal guarding the other on the
street corner.
Comparatively few men are employed
at the Delaware Ordnance Depot now.
The buildings are nearly filled with
loaded shells. Empty shells are being
stood up on the ground. There is a
rumor that several more buildings will
be erected next spring.
DR.. John Handley's lecture on his
Experience as an Army Chaplain in
France in Emmanuel Church. next
Tuesday evening, 25th, at s o'clock will
be one of the best in Emmanuel's lee
ture course. He is not only an enter
tanning speaker but instructive
Thomas Washington, with deputies
from Salem, raided a joint near the
Lower Canal Bridge. u by a man
called Dynamite" on Wednesday night.
| Fifteen men engaged in shooting crap
Were captured. They were taken be-
fore Squire Cable who fined them So
and costs each.
More than a ton of California rapes
arrived into Penns Grove this week to
be made into grape juice by u Italian
friends who have a thirst for their old
native drink, vino. If it sets stale
and sour it is not wasted. So much
the better for their digestion of spa
ghetti and dried peppers.
There are nearly IT'S members Of
Penns Grove Lodge of Elks and it is
an to them to make the masque and
civic ball. to be held in Rumsey Hall,
Salem. next week. a great success. The
committee has worked hard over this
big event n should be given full en-
couragement.
Turkeys are roosting high. The re-
tail price for this Thanksgiving VIII
be from As to SIS cents a pound;
chickens 50 to As; geese. SO to AZ;
! ducks. 45-4S: rabbits are s1.35 a pair.
The only cheap article at old time
price is ~cranberries, 10 cents a quart.
but there is no sugar TO sweeten them.
Among the exhibits at the Salon.
which opened at the Hotel Commodore
in New York on Monday was the "du-
Pont." an automobile manufactured by
the duPon Motor Manufacturing Com
pany. of Wilmington. The car is one
of the newest contributions to the au-
tomobile world and is said to be a
beauty.
w. S. Leap has one of his character
istic announcements in the Record this
week. This ol~d-established concern
has a reputation for selling the highest
grade standard makes of goods and
this fact alone protects the public. Mr..
Leap INDUCES in some plain talk and
there is no doubt but what he is pre-
pared to stand for it. That's his way.
Thanksgiving is an American religi-
Gus holiday in recognition of the bene-
fcent favors of Divine Providence.
The turkey is the American bird TO