The Penn's Grove record., 1919-01-17
News Of Local interest,"
What Is Occurring and Being
Talked About In The Borough
and Township

anu ilSitIp
A springtime slogan-"Keep the
home soil turning"
Buy a farm, grow more grass, cows,
hogs and corn.
q. W. Smith has moved from Car
neys Point to Elmer, his former place
Of residence.
Fayette Richman, of Elmer. has
purchased the late Thomas Burt farm
near Pole Tavern.
Many men are being discharged
ed daily at Carneys Point. Some are
leaving for other places, others seek
other employment.
Jacob P. Holzapfel has rented the
blacksmith shop on Delaware Avenue.
BARRIERS old stand, and is ready for
any business in that line.
David A. English occupied the pull
pit of Bethel NJ. P. Church last Sun
day, the pastor, Rev. S. J. Dorlon, be-
ing zoo i'll to perform the service.
The Walter J.. Callahan who me.
with an automobile accident from
which he died was from Atlantic City
and not the Walter Callahan who lives
in Penns Grove.
The traffic department at the pow
der works has been transferred to the
Deep Water Dye Works. All the men
had to have new photographs and
numbers.
The L. S. largest dirigible balloon,
the CT, in the second leg of its flight
from Rockway Beach to Key West,
Fla, passed down the river past
Penns Grove on Monday.
Salem county trappers say that
muskrats are more plentiful along the
streams than for several years. The
high prices for pelts has induced many
of the natives to engage in tbs in
dustry.
Wilmer A. Hastings, general fore
man in the mechanical department of
the powder plant, has resigned to ac-
cept a position as maintenance engi-
neer with the Virginia and Carolina
Navigation Company. He will be sta
toned at Baltimore.
Penns Grove Lodge of Elks had a
brief service last night out of respect
to the memory of Theodore Roosevelt.
There were remarks of sympathy and
eulogy by several members and the
entire lodge stood in silence and dark
ness for one minute as a token of
their respect and sympathy for his
bereaved family.
DUPONT Lodge, No. 20, F. andA NJ.
of Wilmington, Delaware, recently
gave a reception to Right Worshipful
Grand Master, Victor A. Hughes, of
Delaware. Guests from Penns Grove
lodge included Herold Kelly, Master
of DUPONT Lodge, Robert R. Pearce, J.
NJ. Weldon, Otis Spencer, C. E. Bailey,
Mr.. Sessions, Clayton Tuohy, and
George Ham.
A number of Penns Grove gentle
men members of the local lodge of
Masons made a visitation to the Penn
sylvania Lodge in Masonic Temple on
Tuesday evening. Those in the party
were Robert M. Walker, H. H. Cramer,
Elwood Johnson, Curtis E. Bailey,
George Ham and Mr.. Sessions. All
Pennsylvania boys.
Paul Kidd, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Kidd, on Delaware Avenue,
in writing home from France, states
that he recently received the first
copy of the Penns Gorve Record out
of the many copies that had been sent
him. "Talk about a treat, it was all
that and then some. | read every
word in it, advertisements and all, and
then started all over again"
A record of seventy years in bust
ness. Think of it! W. S. Leaps store
at the corne of Main and Penn
Streets, is the place. Doing business
under a strict guarantee of satisfac-
ton to the public has given the store
a high standing in the community,
This week Mr.. Leap says in his at
tractive advertisement, eve are not
going out of business and we are not
selling everything at half-price." 1t
is worth your while to read it.
A most gratifying indication OF
normal business and labor conditions
in Penns Grove is the constantly in
creasing circulation of the Penns
Grove Record. While there have been
many removals from the vicinity since
the cessation of hostilities abroad il
has not appreciably affected business
in any particular, at least this is the
opinion expressed by business men
who have been interviewed, and so fan
as the Record is concerned it can sub
stantiate every word of it.
Frank Herbert Moore, the well
known Delaware Avenue Beau Brum-
mel, had an exciting experience at the
D. O. D. plant according to his own
admission. While passing from one
building 10 another Frank said brick
whizzed by his head. He cannot mag
inc, who would present him with the
Irish confetti in this manner. For
tunately for the would be assassin
Frank was unarmed. From uncon-
frmed sources it is said that Frank
was carrying $4,000 to the Pay De
partment and that it was a bullet and
not a brick. He quickly shot in the
direction from which the missile came
and when the guards ran up they
found blood on the ground. Frank,
however, shrinking violet as he is, de-
MES this version.
Burned To Death
Frank Dudack, aged % years, was