The Penn's Grove record., 1919-08-29
News of Local Interest
What Is Occurring and Being
Talked About In The Borough
and Township
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Penns Grove Schools will begin
tuesday, September End.
The Great Delaware State Fair will
be held at Elsmere, neal Wilmington,
next week.
Mangan, third baseman on the En-
glneers' ball team, at the Dye Works,
Ford.
w w. Brown has bought the Hum
phreys-W Wiley farm of 1873 acres at Au-
burn, of Joseph Wiley, thru w. M.
Fleming.
Reed bird eason opens Monday.
runners who have gone over the
shooting territory report the birds
very scarce.
Judge Warrington having returned
from his vacation, regular sessions of
the County Courts will be resumed on
Friday, September 5.
Alvin Lawson, of Street, Nd, has
bought the E. G. Sutton farm of as
acres on the road from Auburn to
Woodstown, thru w. NJ. Fleming.
The Salem branch of the American
Legion has been given the name of
Harry P. Morrison Post, in honor of
a Salem lad who lost his life in France.
Mr.. Merchant, do you want a bar
gain in business cards? We have
something we can offer you in lots of
1000 or more at S1.40 a thousand.
Single thousand $500.
Work was commenced on the new
Union Presbyterian Church at Carneys
Point last week. Parsons & Robin
son, local contractors, will erect the
building and Chew & Sharp will do
the mason work.
The homestead at Swedesboro, of
DIR. Oliver Grimshaw, who committed
suicide a few months ago, has been
sold for S14, $50, while a farm he
owned brought 5000.
Mrs. Queenie McGramm and chill
dfen, Eleanor, Mary and John, have
returned to their home in Atlantic
City, after a very pleasant stay of
ten weeks in Woods Grove, Penns
Grove.
Miss Alma Baker, of Hancock's
Bridge, a graduate of the Mckinley
Hospital, Trenton, has been elected a
nurse in the Salem County Memorial
Hospital.
Charged with sealing a watch and
some money from James d. Tweed, of
Wiliamstown, John Eff Harmigan, of
Wllllamstown, was committed to Jail
in Williamstown in default of bail by
Magistrate Wood.
Confiscaion of s. 500 pounds of de-
composed fish in storage at the plant
Eof the Barnegat Power and Cold Stor-
age Company, at Seaside Heights; was
not opposed by the owners, the Bay
State Fish Company.
While Harry Evan was bringing a
load Of goods on the back road from
Courses Landing to Penns Grove, last
Monday, the small bridge gave way
and his auto truck went into the small
run below Courses Landing road.
The Community Sings at the Ball
Ground Friday night of last week and
Thursday night were attended with
great success under ideal weather
conditions. About 1000 persons took
part and enjoyed the musical diver
sion.
Arthur Sanderlin, of Salem, who
came out of the world war without a
scratch, lacerated his left hand in a
fodder cutter, the index finger being
cut off and the first and second fingers
so badly torn that they had to be am
putated at the first joint.
The P~ilesgrove Board of Education
at a meeting last Monday night, sold
the $16,500 school bonds for the build
ing of the new school house in Bailey
town, to the Security Trust Company,
of Camden, at a premium of $114. The
bonds bear five per cent. interest.
The Penns Grove Record job de-
partment received orders this week
from widely scattered territory. Work
was delivered to a professional man in
New York City and to merchants in
Narberth, Pa, and Gutenberg, N. J.
1t took a considerable quantity of
paper to fill these orders. Penns
Grove is still on the map.
Patrick McCue, a hospital employee
at Plant l, was struck by a trolley car
at Walker Avenue and Shell Road on
Tuesday afternoon and severely hurt.
At first it was thought his skull was
fractured. DIR. Mentzer rendered first
aid and Mr.. McCue was then taken to
st. Joseph's hospital, Philadelphia,
where it is understood he is rapidly
r4ecayering.
"A pafSof horses belonging to M. P.
Newton, and used on his farm near
Couyses Landing, ran into the creek
last week and were drowned. The
hired man was hauling manure to the
field, and while loading the horses be-
came frightened, and before he could
catch them they ran into the creek.
The wagon and harness were recover
ed. The horses were valued at about
$500.
There was some wild shooting along
Ssuth Broad Street about 4 o'clock on
saturday morning. Two automobiles
went through the street in both direc-
tons and a fusilade of revolver shots
rent the air from the occupants.
Whether they We're firing at any OBJ
iect or merely shooting up the town
is not known. No arrests were made;
so the police evidently didn't hear the
racket.