The Penn's Grove record., 1919-05-02
News of Local Interest
What Is Occurring and Being
Talked About In The Borough
and Township

Buy a Vic-You understand.
V-Y-V-Buy Victory Notes-V-V-V
Southern strawberries are 80 cents
a box.
The passage of airplanes are as fire.
quent as that of birds used to be.
Spring weather returned on Tues
day. Vegetation is on the jump.
The milkmen of Quinton have re-
duced the price to 10 cents a quart.
1t is still II and Ia cents in Penns
Grove.
The Society of Sons of the Revolu-
ton in New Jersey, will hold their
spring meeting at Salem on Saturday,
May 24th.
A heavy rain fell on Thursday all
day on a temperature of So. 1t hin
dered work and flooded low lands, but
made vegetation jump.
The school property at Churchtown
recently sold at public sale brought
$500. 1t was bough by VIM. Sander
lin, of Carney's Point.
Those who have asparagus beds
are getting big prices, so cents a
bunch. This grass is high enough for
kings like Nebuchadnezzer. The first
, sold for so cents.
The Hustled property below Penns-
Wills has been sold at private sale for
} a consideration of $1,000. It consists
of a large dwelling and six acres of
, land.
The annual session of the Great
Council of Red Men of the State is
meeting today in Asbury Park. There
is much business this year and South
, Jersey Tribes are well represented.
Next to the bonds of matrimony
. Victory Bonds are the best possible
investment for any young man of in
, dustry and Enterprise. Verbum Sap
. nuf ced!
! Even when a fellow is satisfied to
take things as they come he generally
: finds that some one else has grabbed
: them frst.-Exchange. Is that so ?
. How about cooties =?
!. Max Freedman, who conducted the
New. York Bargain Store and the
: Bon Ton Shop on West Main Street
. has removed with his family to Farm
vile, Virginia, where he will open UP
= in the same line of business.
: Penns Grove Troop No. 1 Cir
Scouts will hold a social in Odd Eel
lows Hall this Friday evening, there
will be dancing and singing. Re
> freshments served free. Admission
. 10 cents.
. Penns Grove Lodge, No. $50, Loyal
; Order of Moose, has again opened its
charter and will make a big drive fol
. new members. The present officials
and committees of No. $50 are GER
' tainly some hustlers.
Samuel Turner, Jr., arrived home
, last Saturday after being in foreign
waters for one and a half years. He
. narrowly escaped drowning in a sub
!, marine chaser and is one of the re-
turned heroes of the World War.
Penns Grove Boy Scouts defeated
Carneys Point at baseball on the
YMCA diamond at Camp 2, by a score
of 80. They will play again next
Monday at 4.30 when the Point boys
hope to win.
Penns Grove Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will hold a pig
roast supper on May 23d for the BEN
eft of Salem County Memorial Hos
pital. The novelty of pig roast will
be as tasteful as that to the Chinese
who burned his house down to have
roast pig.
Shad fishing has been only fair this
week. The highest catch was 40, and
from 10 to 20 for the best. Some did
not get a shad in two tides. The
prices were wholesale S27 for roes,
and S23 for bucks. A few herring
have been caught and sold for twenty
five cents a dozen.
Fred W. Hamlin has written Squire
McAdams that he will sail from Mar
settles for home this week, after
twenty-five months spent in France.
"Marseilles is some town." he writes,
regular Southern California climate.
Regards to all the boys"
Some miscreants who should be ap-
pretended and punished have been
destroying property along the river
front neal Beach Avenue, with no
other purpose than pure deviltry.
The other night they tore down the
porch from in front of T. J. Petite
bones house and did similar damage.
to another house nearby.
Officer Harbeson brought an "ossi-
fed specimen of humanity to the lock-
up on Saturday from the boat wharf.
He was so thoroughly "spifflicated"
that officer Harbeson had to use the
freight truck to convey him to his
destination That Wilmington booze
certainly does its work proper.
The Spring Institute of the Salem
County W. C. T. q. will be held at
Pennsville on May 21st, and every
local union is expected. to send delega-
lions. The State President, Miss Es-
Their H. Elfreth, is to be the guest of
the county throughout the day and
the county's women should be in at
tendance to greet and welcome her.
VIM. NJ. Fleming and c.. Norton
have sold five Briscoe Autos during
the past week. Their advertisement