The Penn's Grove record., 1920-05-28
News of Local Interest

A half million dollar shoe plant is
being talked of in Salem.
One Dollar will make you an as
sociate member of the Boy Scouts.
Prosecutor D. w. Beckley expects
to begin housekeeping at Salem in
about a week.
Jersey Strawberries came into mar
ket this week. The prices are 50 and
90 cents a quart.
Summertime weather arrived on
Wednesday. The heat is making veg
citation jump from the ground.
Bishop Joseph F. Berry has been re-
assigned to the Philadelphia area of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Owing to scarcity of help and high
cost of materials the S~trause-Baer Co.
have closed their MILDLY blouse factory
in French's grove.
The Boy Scouts will be treated to a
chicken pot-pie supper in Emmanuel
social room this Friday evening by the
Chamber of Commerce.
Riverview Beach, Pennsville, will
have its official opening on Saturday.
This will in no way interfere with the
usual Memorial Day exercises on Mon
day.
While working at the Dye Works on
last Monday, Herber Howell, of Quin-
ton, had the misfortune to have a
heavy weight fall on his foot, MASKING
his toe.
The catches of weak fish, or bay
trout, have been very heavy in the
Bay this week. Some weigh nine
pounds. Crackers are running large
in size.
Miss Ethel Petit has resigned as
cashier in Poland's Department Store
and accepted a position as telephone
operator with the DUPONT Company at
Carneys Point.
1t costs more to be pieous. Since
sugar went to 20 and 30 cents a pound
restaurants charge Is cents for a piece
of pie. 1t was 10 cents and a year
ago five cents.
The Coney Express Company on Oak
Street has added another big truck to
equipment. "Ship by truck" is the
real thing nowadays, and the business
is making rapid strides.
After a successful financial exis-
tence, the charter of The Penns Grove
National Bank has been extended by
the U. S. Comptroller for another
twenty years from May 22nd.
The Ordnance Department, L. S.
Government will sell a large quantity
of logs and small wood at public sale
at the Delaware Ordnance Department
at Perkintown on Thursday, June 3rd.
Figures gathered by the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce
show that one person in every four
teen in the United States own a motor
car. The 1919 registration was 1885,
S4S cars. No complaint about the high
cost of automobiles and gasoline, only
necessities.
D. Harris Smith, in Salem, has been
appointed deputy State Comptroller, to
assess the valuation of the estates of
deceased persons for the inheritance
tax assessments. He succeeds the late
Elmer H. Smith.
Captain James Y. Young, Sc years
old, last of a line of river pilots, n
of the ~best-known river men died in
Wilmington on Wednesday. For az
years he had been in charge of the
fleet of the Charles Warner Company.
Dr.. n. S. Hires has been appointed a
Special Agent of the Bureau of Census
and is now engaged in visiting the
!. manufacturers, printers, garages, etc,
to ascertain the volume of business
! done. He has been assigned Salem
! and Gloucester Counties.
. The South Jersey Republican Club,
: of Penns Grove, at a meeting last week
: endorsed former Mayor W. A. w.
Grier, of Salem, for Congress in the
First Congressional District and for
mer Freebooter Charles L. Smith of
Penns Grove, for State Senator.
Owing to continued illness Cooper
Sparks has sold his interest in the res
%taurant on West Main Street, opposite
Franklin Street, to his son-in-law,
, George J. Morris, who has been as
ISOLATED with him in operating the
!. business. Mr.. Morris is now the sole
owner of the business.
Paul Scott, who has been n of the
sanitary engineers on Carneys Point
for five years, and conquered all the
, world of bad microbes in Upper Penns
Neck, will leave here for Detroit soon.
At his sale of household goods on
Tuesday big prices were received as
money is still plentiful in Carneys
Point.