The Penn's Grove record., 1919-04-18
News of Local Interest
What Is Occurring and Being
Talked About In The Borough
and Township

Good Friday.
Now for Victory over the loan.
Clean up. Make your home beau
tiful.
Have you planted your tree, shrub
OF flowers?
The heavy rains on Tuesday and
Wednesday flooded low land and
hindered farmers from working.
Fish worms were never more num-
erous. The mild winter was favor
able for their life and growth and
their working increases fertility.
One hundred dollars was the tidy
sum realized by Grant Gibbons at
Pennsville one day last week for his
catch of shad.
The employees of the railroad in
this section are receiving their checks
for accumulated increases of back pay
dating from a year ago.
David A. English has his Main
Street Restaurant decorated with the
colors of the Order of Elks, purple and
white, and the tribute to the Order is
appreciated.
The improvement and enlargement
of the Riverside Theatre building is
nearly completed. This will give
much needed room and improve the ia
cilities for entrance and exit.
Fred M. Reilly, Organizer of the
Owls for Salem County and vicinity,
mas had conferred uoon him the Dis
tinguished Service Degree by j. w.
Talbot, the Supreme President, at
South Bend, Indiana.
Quite a number of the $4,000 bonus
checks, to which every honorably dis
charged soldier is entitled, have ar
rived in Penns Grove this week, and
the little voluntary donation to the
boys by the Government has been APP
preciated.
Penns Grove Boy Scouts, Troop No.
1, will hold a cake sale on Saturday
the 18th, in S. r. Leap & Sons and
Long & Holton's stores, afternoon and
evening. Here is an opportunity to
get some fine Easter cakes and help a
good cause.
On Wednesday afternoon a large
ship went down the Delaware river
en- the sides of which in large letters
were Belgian Relief" When did any
lndI1OU S6Iu SuUStdlIllal ihCooQSSo VI
love and friendship like America, the.
nation of good Samaritans?
Gus Lillya, who had a vendue IN
February and expected to return to
Norway with his family for a lengthy
visit, has moved onto the Harbeson
farm below Auburn, because it is i'm
possible to get passage across the
ocean.
While cost of food is high and
some think the farmers are getting
rich, very few are returning to n
farms in this region to get that
wealth. Farms in this region are not
titled to half their food production OF
six years ago.
Rev. H. T. FISHER and wife were
given a reception in st. Pauls M. +.
Church last Friday evening. A large
number of parishioners were present:
The parsonage has been renovated and
newly papered. Electric lights are
being put in.
The latest corporation to announce
! an increase in its rates for service is
the Delaware & Atlantic Telegraph q
Telephone Company. The increase is
20 per cent. except for toll service n
local messages Originating P
telephones. Full particulars IN an
other column.
Louis Rathsmill & Son, the South
Broad Street tailors, are making
spring and summer suits from a blue
Columbia serge, which they claim is
the only blue serge on the market the
color of which is guaranteed to be fast
and permanent. You can TAKE their
word for it.
Building Inspector Thomas P. Nor
gan and his SON James have leased a
large rooming house at 1876 South
Carolina Avenue, Atlantic City and
will open for business on May 1st.
Mr.. Morgan and his son are we'll
known in this community and their
friends will find their place convenient
for accommodation this summer.
Americanism is the freedom of the
individual to think and work for him
self on his own initiative. Those
who claim that right and have no m
ployment should not blame others but
start for themselves even tho it be
only a little garden patch in their
back yard. If there be nothing else
study and work to beautify your
home surroundings.
Next week is Cleanup Week" in
Penns Grove. Get rid of all rubbish.
Clean up the unsightly places. It will
not only make your business and home
surroundings more attractive but will
imrove the health of the community.
Fill up the little wet places and hol-
lows and head off the the mosquitoes.
And don't forget to swat the fly.
Cleanliness is next to Goodness.
In looking over w. S. Leaps adj
vertisements, one of which appears in
this issue, you will always notice that
he handles only the highest grades of
standard goods that can be found any
where. Look up any of the big city
department stores and you will find
that they do not offer anything that
cannot be had at Leaps. But you
would hardly expect anything else
from a store that has catered to the
same community for over 70 years