The Penn's Grove record., 1919-08-22
News of Local Interest
What Is Occurring and Being
Talked About In The Borough
and Township

Raise more chickens, pigs and
calves.
The Railroad excursion to Wildwood
this Friday took 397 persons.
You'll find ALL the news in the
Penns Grove Record, not a few short
items and a few personals but all of
it.
Beans and peanut butter are good
substitutes for meats. Peanut butter
thinned with olive oil is a good sub
stitute for butter fats.
During the rain on Sunday one inch
of water fell. Monday night another
inch of water fell and reflled the
ground to the limit of two weeks ago..
Frank Curriden has bought the
stove and tin store of Dolbow & Cur
riden, in j. K. Dolbow's building on
Main Street, Penns Grove.
ANY nice girl who thinks she can
live up to the Girl Scout rules can
join in September, as the charter is
closed at present. Apply to Mildred
Homan for further information.
George w. Davis, the grocer and
fruit dealer started on Monday for a
trip thru the West and thence to Can
ada. He will buy apples and other
produce for himself and others.
The stock of the Regal Shop on w.
Main Street has been removed to Po-
lands Department Store, where it will
be disposed of at a special sale. The
store is closed.
The dupont Colored Village will hold
a Community Social" in the old col
ored YMCA building on Monday, Sep
TENDER 1st, Labor Day. There will
be music, dancing, a pot-pie dinner
and a good time generally.
William D. Hewitt has announced
himself as a candidate for assessor in
Upper Penns Neck Township. Many
OF the friends of Homer Wright, the
present assessor hoped that he would
run for a second term but he has de-
clined.
j. &. Press, who has been located in
the Mitchell building, near Union Cor
ner, disposed of his household goods
at public sale on Wednesday,. We are
pleased to announce that Mr.. Press
will retain his residence in the
Borough.
The Standard Oil Company has an
nounced another boost in the price of
refined oil. In the last ten weeks ker-
osene has jumped five cents a gallon,
and from the reports of those whose
information is authentic, there is no
. excuse for the advance.
: Atwood Hazard, who lives on the
/. Black farm on Salem creek, in Upper
: Penns Neck, has a young cat with two
!. raccoon back feet. A normal cat has
five toes on each front foot and four
toes on each back foot. This cat has
!. six toes on each back foot and the
. foot is circular.
Mrs. William Gerber, of ia State
Street, was seriously injured at Bran
!. dywine Springs Park last Friday af-
%ternoon. A boardwalk gave way and
in her fall both knees We're badly cut
!. and bruised and one of her knee caps
torn loose. She is confined to her bed
!. in a practically helpless condition.
The 31st State Camp Patriotic Order
!. Sons Of Veterans was held in Atlantic
City this week. Penns Grove Camp
was represented by David P. Feather
er, Howard F. Dolbow, George Watson,
Robert M. Walker, Henry Blohm,
Madames Featherer, Dolbow, Watson,
and Blohm accompanied their hus-
bands.
A. l.. Gillison is slowly getting the
. necessary machinery and parapher-
MALTA together for his box and basket
factory, but he is experiencing some
i. difficulty in getting orders filled ow-
ing to the demand exceeding the sup
ply. Veneering machines, one of his
prime necessities, L booked six
months ahead.
You will find ALL the local news in
the Record, not a squib or two about
some folks staying in town over night,
but all the real live p~erlsating news of
a big town. The Record prints the
doings of Penns Grove up to the hour
of going to press. It's facilities, with
:. a rapid-fire typesetting machine of
the latest design, puts it in the up-to-
:. the-minute class.
J. U Layton has a big sale an
nouncement in this issue of a ten-day
furniture sale at his store, So and 81
West Main Street. Mr.. Layton is an
authority on furniture of every kind
and everything he sells you will
be just as represented. Besides
if he says the goods you buy are bar
: gains at the price you a believe that,
too. The sale will only last ten days.
Got His Record .
Phil Holman, who defied the entire
police force and assaulted the Chief
Marehal at the Nentune house row on