The Penn's Grove record., 1919-03-21
News of Local Interest
What Is Occurring and Being
Talked About In The Borough
and Township


vacated by Furman Raine.
Fred Campo has sold his Meat Mark
ct at 81 South Broad Street and will
retire from business.
A few shad have been caught at
Bayside and P%ennsville. Roe shad are
40 and buck 35 cents in the seafood
market.
Charles McNally succeeds Samuel NJ.
Green as manager of the Regal Shop.
Charles has lots of friends and is max
ing good.
Sheriff William T. Mifflin has been
reelected Grand Secretary of the New
Jersey Grand Lodge, Independent Or
der of Mechanics.
A bill has ben introduced in the
Legislature making 500 the minimum
schools of New Jersey.
Salem cunty is pressing the Glou-
cester county Board of F~reeholders for
assistance in rebuilding the Swedes-
boro-W oodstown road before the farm
traffic begins.
The one inch of snow which fell last
Friday, 18th, made all think that win
ter had come. AS the temperature
was 80 it soon melted and was gone
by Saturday morning.
To-day friday is Naturalization
Day in the Salem County Courts. 1t
is understood there will be about 30
applicants, a number of them from the
Delaware Ordnance Depot.
Patrol No. 2, Girl Scouts, will have
} cake sales tomorrow, Saturday at
Long G. Holton's store, corner of Penn
and Harmony Streets, and at S. R.
Leap & Sons store on Main Street.
William Farnum, the famous actor
and moving picture star, was L Will
mington over weekend. He met many
friends, among them Sam Green, man
ager of Poland's new Market Street
Store.
Coal dealers are already booking or
} ders for next winters use. Instead of
a reduction in price this summer, as
many had expected, it will advance
, slightly each month according to prices
} sent out by the operators.
Francis DeBuona, who was recently
arrested in the post office while at
} tempting to have a money order
cashed to which he had forged a name,
and who later sawed his way out of
the lookup, is still at large.
Albert B. Layton's Buick car was
stolen from the sheds of st. Pauls M.
E. Church, Franklin Street, on Mon
day night. Later it was recovered in
Riverview Cemetery, evidently left
by the thief who took it for a joy ride.
Eden Lodge, No. 10, l. o. o. F., will
attend divine service in Community
Hall, with Union Presbyterian Church,
on Sunday night. The members will
meet at their lodge room at 6.45 P. NJ.
o. Bell Close, pastor, will deliver the
sermon.
A car driven by James Hennessy
ran up on the sidewalk at Union Cor
ner on Tuesday night and struck ]. E.
Fish, who was standing on the curb.
His foot was mashed and he was
slightly hurt otherwise. DR.. C. F.
Baxter attended to his injuries.
On Tuesday, April 9Th, Washington
Camp No. AT, P. o. S. of A., will have
a class initiation. The work will be
done by Camp No. 6, of Wilmington,
with a fully uniformed degree team
and an orchestra. Luncheon will be
served so there is no doubt there will
be a good attendance.
A district meeting of all the Camps
of the Patriotic Order Sons of America
will be held in Penns Grove on Tues
day evening next. The full staff of
State officers will be present and par
ticipate. Rev. J.. w. Zimmerman, of
Florence, N. j., one of the most noted
orators of the Order, will also be
present.
Last Friday Judge Washington SEN
fenced the following prisoners from
Penns Grove, Nelson Rivers, keep
ing a disorderly house, $500 fine and
costs. Joseph Glisper, assault and
battery, $50 and costs. William Sisco
alias "New York Red" illegal sale of
liquor, 3 months in Jail and 500 fine
and costs.
Alvin Croft, who was recently ar
rested for driving an automobile in an
intoxicated condition, appeared before
Squire McAdams on Saturday and was
sentenced to the county Jail for 80
days The Judge" certainly put the
boots to him good and proper. A
drunken man at the wheel of an au-
tomobile is a dangerous proposition on
the public thoroughfares.
Twenty members of Salem Forest,
Tall Cedars Of Lebanon, visited Bran
DIVINE Forest, No. 20 at Wilmington,
on Monday night. After a parade
the met in the Century Club where
SO new members were INTRODUCED into
the mysteries of the Forest. Promi-
nent among them was Senator Ball
and the Lieutenant Governor of the
State.
Poland's new Mems Wear Shop at
III Market Street, Wilmington, was
opened on Saturday under the man
agement of Samuel NJ. Green, who
had conducted the Regal Shop in
Penns Grove for several years. There
was a big crowd in the store all day
and Sam was right in his element;
amid a riot of flowers sent him by his
many friends in Penns Grove. The
Record wishes Mr.. Poland success in
his new venture, and this includes the
Manager.
Delightful Wedding Anniversary