The Penn's Grove record., 1919-08-01
News of Local Interest
What Is Occurring and Being
Talked About In The Borough
and Township

After four days fair weather half
an inch of water fell Thursday night.
Walter P. Simmerman, of Penns
Grove, has purchased a home in Pauls-
boro.
A marriage license was issued in
Philadelphia on Wednesday to Carl
Banke and Mary, Savidge, both of
Penns Grove.
Freight service by boat between
Salem and Philadelphia has been dis
continued by the Trenton Transporta-
ton Company.
The Commencement Number of Red
and White, the High School quarterly,
is on sale at Sickler's News Agency.
Single copies 20 cents.
The Riverside theatre was closed
from Monday until Thursday on ac-
count of the death of Miss Ida E.
Craig, niece of George H. Elkinton,
the proprietor.
The Public Library committee met in
Odd Fellows Hall last Monday ven
ing. After a welfare discussion they
adjourned to meet in the High School
building next Tuesday, August 9Th.
George Davis touring car while
standing at South Broad Street and
Maple Avenue on Tuesday was run in
to by an unknown party and consider
ably damaged.
F. H. Elliott has been busy this
week pumping out cellars in the Bor-
ough that were flooded during the re-
cent heavy rains. Henry Johnson
operated the pump.
Clarence T. Fisher, former chief of
police, has given up his jitney BUSH
ness in Penns Grove and accepted a
position in Philadelphia with the Prov
idence Steamship Company.
The 10th annual camp meeting at
Pitman Grove began July 23d and will
continue until August 9th. Next Sum
i! day, August Sd, will be the big Sunday
when the largest number will be
present.
A uniformed band of co1ored boys
from an orphanage in Charleston, s..
c., spent all day Wednesday in Penns
Grove playing popular airs along the
) streets and soliciting contributions for
the institution.
Are you reading the entertaining
, advertisements of Summerill & Nc
Closkey. They are educational in
telling of the comfort, convenience
and gx,nomy of electricity for many
household purposes.
, James E. Hitchner, Undertaken, of
Salem. N. j., has just received from
the Michigan Hearse and Motor Co.
, a handsome new automobile hearse of
; the latest design and furnished with
all the new accessories.
There was a slight fire IN a mouse
on Cumberland Avenue about 7 o'clock
, on SaturdaNnight which was-extin-
> guished by the neighbors before much
damage was done. The fire company
, responded to the alarm but their SER
vices were not needed.
The Court of Chancerv has just
granted a final decree of divorce to
' Mrs. Caroline w. Davis (nee
, Straughn) of Penns Grove, from her
. husband, J. Summerill Davis, upon the
ground of desertion. Attorney James
Mercer Davis was the solicitor of Mrs.
, Davis.
, Salem's united Sunday Schools who
were disappointed on their eXepected
, excursion down the Bay by the Sylvan
, Dell sinking in Salem river, went to
River View Beach, Pennsville, last
Tuesday and had a delightful time.
, Eight trolley loads went in the morn
ing and more in the afternoon.
!. The hurkleherrv crop in Bear
swamp and in the woods near Wilev
, school house have been greater this
xza. Ill., e.. ~ 1o-- 4 Mar+ af
the bushes have been stripped. They
sold for 25 and 80 cents a quart. The
rains caused losses amounting to many
thousands of dollars.
The improvements and finishing
touches to Poland's big department
store at Union Corner are almost COM
pleted and the store will soon blossom
ont in all IFS departments for your in
spection. Getting ready for this event
a clearance sale has. been inaugurated
and many bargains are offered in
goods that must go to make way for
new stock.
It is a yearly custom with w. S.
Leap at this season to close out GER
tain lines of goods as room must be
had for Fall and Winter stocks.
consequently tltIe dfe SOIHc SpeCldl
values in mems wear to be offered
during the present month. Any offer
of a reduction in price at Leaps has
the backing of 70 years continuous
business back of it.
Occasionally items of interesting
news are sent to the Record with no
name of the writer and are not pub
lished. The names is not wanted for
publication but to show that some one
is responsible as to its truth. The
publisher is responsible for everything
in the newspaper.