The Penn's Grove record., 1919-06-13
Carney Point Chronicles
Workers Doings, Enter
tainments and Enjoyments

IL neetors' Aid Society Of the
Church of Our AIercif4I Saviour held
a strawberry t~ectival IN Community
Hal on Friday night. \ large crowd
VS. IN attendance and a goodly sun
vas realized for church purposes.
The r PabIicans Of PIPER Penns
Neck Township held q rally al their
a~@&d4gar-ers a Carneys Point on
friday night last. Frederick \.
Gentfeu, Honorary President Of the
Club, was guest Of honor and
was presented with a beautiful
diamond s-ickpin. President James
4. Wat;ns gave q brief sketch
)t tie history Of the Club and how Mr..
Hcntteu had stood By them and was to
d gfeas extent responsible for their
success. Nr. Gentieu responded in a
very touching manner, dismissing from
himself anything he had done but
praised the organization for what it
had done for the saIvat.on of the
County and thanked the donors for the
manifestation Of their affections. Ser
geant Hall, of the 29th Division. of
salem; Sheriff Mifflin, Charles P.
Robinson and Mayor Grier were
among the other speakers. Members
furnished the entertainment and re-
ITeshments.
Mrs. F. VI. Scout is visiting her for
mer home in New York City.
Miss Ethel J. Scout, the popular So
prano soloist of the Episcopal Church,
IS driving a new Maxwell "Chummie
Roadster
The Mothers Club held a very sue
-esstul strawberry festival on Thurs
day night in Community Hall.
The special feature of the COM
n1encement program was the patri-
cite singing and recitaitions. The
tableauX of How the Flag was made"
especially impressive of the
American spirit. All schools should
make the teaching of Americanism a
special feature.
Mrs. James A. Watkins is spending
two weeks with relatives in New York
City.
Carneys poet (the poets eyes with
Wild-frenZy rolling says Shakespeare
gives Carneys Point people a rap in
the last issue of his advestising circu-
ar by stating "The population hasn't
enough pride to support a sheet that
IS vitality interested in their well
fare, printed for them by a member
Of their own community at a loss"
As they did not support it on free dis
tribution he purposes charging rs
cents a year. To make up the deficit
The publisher announces himself as a
candidate for the Assembly. If not
appreciated as an editor, undoubtedly
he will be as a statesman and law
maker.
A good law to be made would be to
put a penance on every mar and wo-
man who does not pay for and read
free advertising sheets issued by a
poet.
When a man takes his printing out
of his own town OF nearest town what
claim has he for home patronage?
But then we read that old poets and
prophets were not appreciated in their
own country, and sometimes law
makers turn out the same way.
People now sit up and take notice
when passing down the Shell Road
(that used to be- since Judge Cable
has had a bold sign municipal
Court put in front of the old Law
renee house. Undoubtedly this will
have an influence for good like u
two ministers.
The new correspondent to the
Record is like the local poet. When
81, 900 can be raised at a fashionable
card party and dance in the name of
religion he believes it should be spent
at home and not out of town. Carneys
Point surely needs more churches and
ministers to teach higher morality.
Would it not be wise for the poet
to aspire TO become a preacher as well
as a statesman
The Mothers Club has discontinued
meetings until September. While the
club will take a vacation few mothers
will get one.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Denny, a ma
tive of Penns Grove, who took in the
wal boom wage for two years in
Carneys Point, took a run down in an
automobile from New York last week
and greeted old friends . Many will
look back to Carneys Point as their
Garden of Eden during the World