The Penn's Grove record., 1919-05-09
News of Local Interest
What Is Occurring and Being
Talked About In The Borough
and Township
STOP IN PENIS GROVE
Beside The Beautiful Delaware Rive

DesIue Inc Beautiful "a River
Moose charter opens for another
membership drive on Monday.
The pig roast supper advertised for
May % by w. C. T. U. has been post
poned indefinitely.
Frank Summerill has bought the
Sarah Kaighn Summerill house and
lot at the Cove and will move there
next week.
The first anniversary of the insti-
tuition Of Elks Lodge, No. 1858, in
Penns Grove, will be celebrated on
June 18th.
Herman j. Brown, of Carneys Point,
and Clara l.. Anderson, of Penns
Grove, were married at Elkton, Md,
on Saturday.
Frank Durham, who has been living
at the corner of South Broad and
Beach Avenue, has moved to Wild
wood. Walter Edgar will succeed
him.
Benjamin Patterson, of Woodstown,
, spoke last Sunday ~zealously in En-
manuel and st. Paul's Churches for
the Centenary Fund to be raised for
World Evangelism.
Peter Hill, of Woodbury., was arrest
. ed in Penns Grove on Sunday and
taken back to that city where he was
' given a hearing upon the charge of
desertion. He was ordered to pay So
a week to his family.
A box party will be given in the
: Moose home next Friday evening.
, Everybody is expected to bring a
package to be auctioned off. There
: will be some fun.
: After July LIST a lot of men in this
. burg will start to notice how little
frankie and Ethel are doing at school,
= how they have grown, and so many
! other little things around the house.
Walter Edgar now represents R. F..
: Willis & Brother, the coal and lumber
: dealers, at Carneys Point. He is also
Secretary of the Red Cross and Penns
: Grove Chamber of Commerce.
; Two new Justices of the Peace have
= been indicted into office in the Bor-
. ough. Stanton B. Cole has his office
in the post office building and William
: Shoemaker is at his home, % w. Peal
. Street.
j. w. Lawney reopened the base
ment of French's Hotel last Monday
for the sale of soft drinks and con-
fections. He is preparing to accom-
= modate the travelling public feliciti-
; ously in the old caravansary.
; Alfred Gillison received seven or
ders from the DUPONT Company on
Tuesday for mill work to be done at
his planning mill on Oak Street. 1t is
the largest order he has ever received
, from any source since he has been in
business there. This is no idle rumor
Mitchell Lattos and Stephen Sapo-
lilo have been held for court upon a
= charge of keeping a disorderly house
in Perkintown. They ran a pool room
; and it is alleged that gambling was
= allowed in the place. The case was
heard before Squire Smith.
Lewis H. Friedberg, who conducted
Lewis toggery on Main Street, has
: shut up and moved his goods away.
. Two other stores closed last week, the
Bon-Ton and New York Bargain
Store, both under the same manage
> ment.
. Frank Moore, a well known and
! popular young man about town will
! open an ice cream. saloon and confec-
: tionery store next to Clemente's Meat
: Market, corner of Main and Oak
J Streets. Don't forget Frank when he
: gets started "for he's a jolly good
. fellow"
Roy Cole, nephew of Stanton B.
Cole, has sent him one of the Kaiser's
famous iron crosses. No information
. was vouchsafed as to how the kid got
Al 1%%l4 ro0va0-@ H,,k 49, l4%
: he got it legitimately, sticking some
Hun in the gizzard and probably TAX
ing the gewgaw away from him.
! In answering advertisements in the
Cent-a-Word column. in the Record
|. readers are asked to follow the in
: structions given in the advs. When
: an adv. says address a certain letter,
. do not call us on the phone. We
know nothing about the matter. Get
. busy and send a letter to the address
. given q '
. The Elks will give an entertain
ment and dance in the pavilion in
: French's Grove on Wednesday even
. ing, May 21st. They have engaged
.. Browns famous jazz band of Philadel-
: phia, the best in the country for the
occasion. The tickets will admit lady
and gentleman and refreshments will
!. be served.
If you read the advs. in the big
Metropolitan dailies you will always
see advertised by the exclusive shops
straw hats from Bonar-Phelps, Blum
& Koch, New York, Bingham-Hop-
kins, Baltimore, and Heath, London,
= Ecuadorian Panama Hat Co. and
Italian Leghorns. Look through w.
S. Leaps attractive adv. in this issue.
You will find he carries all these fam
GUS brands in stock. Don't get the
idea that you must go out of town to
get high-grade goods.
Last week, it will be remembered a
terrible accident occurred on a Phila-
delphia ferry boat, when an automo-
: ;, bile went overheard and several per-
= IL