The Penn's Grove record., 1920-03-26
LOCAL MENTION
of Local Interest

1t pays to deal at Willis's. 3-26-8t
The frogs sang merrily in united
chorus on Tuesday
Farmers around Salem are making
contracts to grow tomatoes for S25 a
ton.
A factory for the manufacture of
dolls has been started on East Main
Street.
R. F. Willis & Bro, Inc, are now
selling plows, ~cultivators, mowers and
other farm machinery. 3-26-8t.
Charles R. Leonard has sold his
bungalow on Elvin Avenue to Thomas
K. Roberts, Jr.
White potatoes are $1.75 a basket.
Plant and grow white potatoes. Grow
grass, corn, beans and tomatoes.
With the opening Of spring and the
fine weather, carpenters and masons
are busy with new buildings, additions
and alterations.
Leon Walbert, who carried the mail
during the war and went to Chester
town, Nd, last year to manage a farm
has returned to be a clerk in Penns
Grove post office under civil service.
Trees and rose bushes are budding,
grass, which was left unusually brown
by the severe winter, is taking new
root and will soon be nice and green
again.
Gilbert Edwards, an incorrigible
school boy, was sent to Jamesburg re-
form school by Judge Waddington last
Friday. There are others nearly ready
to go, says school delinquent officer
Engle Pedrick.
, The Hub store, South Broad Street,
, is offering as a special for Easter
week guaranteed $500 Hart Schaff-
' ner & Marx all-wool blue serge suits
, for $49.50. Better get one while they
last.
Wilmington Lodge of Elks has invit-
' ed Penns Grove Lodge to accompany
. them to Chicago in July to attend the
annual convention of the National
: body. Quite a number have expressed
. their intention to accept the offer.
The Sharpless-Hendle Ice Cream
Company, of Wilmington, have invad-
ed this territory with their well-known
: and popular product. Their ice cream
' is now for sale in several places in
Penns Grove and Carneys Point.
The Baptists of New Jersey have
been assigned a quota of $5,341, 900 as
their share of the 500, 900, 900 New
World Movement fund. Senator VIM.
n. Runyon is financial director of the
New Jersey campaign.
The display of women's and misses
apparel for Easter week at Poland's
department store is a beautiful sight
and crowds are feasting their eyes
upon the lovely goods and making Sc
lections. You will hardly see a more
beautiful panorama of the very latest
styles, no matter where you go.
Jonas C. Raine and son, also BENZ.
w. Raine arrived from Camden on
Wednesday to be the first after the
Delaware shad off Penns Grove. Not
more than half a dozen nets will be
fshed from Penns Grove this year
where there used to be a hundred.
The ticket office at the ferry was
broken into between 9 and II o'clock
Wednesday night while the agent was
absent and robbed of S13.75. A few
weeks ago the pay telephone and
weighing machine were broken open
and a sum of money taken.
When asked what kind of advertis-
ing is most fruitful, Van Camp, the
baked bean man, said he could not tell,
but what he did know was that when
he advertised he got the business, and
when he didn't advertise he didn't get
it, and he proposed to keep on adver-
Using.
Thursday, 18th, was the legal NOV
ing day, but it vas not noticed in this
J 7.aOion ENr-a,-- dow 1o- h0aor,a
ing day among dye makers. The
mode of farming has become so diff
ferent in the past generation from
what it was when the law was made
that most farmers move as soon after
November LIST as possible to be pre-
pared for early crops.
The happiest event of this week is
the arrival of spring weather. The
temperature was 35 last Monday
morning, was in the 40s each follow
ing morning until this Friday morn
ing when it was so. During the days
the temperature rose from So to so in
, the sun on Thursday. All nature is
having another resurrection and wise
people are on the move.
James J. Davidson, post master at
2 Swedesboro, Vas in Penns Grove on
Wednesday and gave the Record a
pleasant call. Uncle Jim is one of the
rock ribbed Democrats of Gloucester
County and believes Woodrow Wilson
is the greatest President who ever
: lived. He says the Swedesboro banks
never %prospered so much as under a
Democratic administration, but they
are too partisan to acknowledge it.
He is looking up Improvements for
Swedesboro post office which he be-
!, lieves are needed.