The Penn's Grove record., 1920-09-03
News of Local Interest

pound in Penns Grove.
Educator and other standard lines
OF school shoes for both boys and girls.
W. S. Leap. a
Johnny get your gun. Reed birds
and rail birds can legally be shot if
you know how to do it.
See the prizes for Labor Day sports
in Poland's show window at Union
Corner.
The two last days of summer were
the hottest. The two first in Septem-
Der were cool and breezy.
The Board of Freeholders will meet
in the Court House at Salem on We'd
nesday next 9Th inst.
Late tomatoes are being marketed.
For those sold on the market the
growers are getting only 20 and %
cents a basket from Gamers.
! The annual convention of the New
Jersey State Firemen's Association
will be held in Atlantic City the sec
end week in September.
Chief Marshal Houseworth reports
that there were sixty arrests in Penns
Grove during the month of August,
mostly for offences of a trivial nature.
Harvey Johnson on VIM. C. Leaps
farm raised the biggest water melon
in this region. 1t is in Dolbow q
Bro meat shop window and weighs
81 pounds.
H. Fellman, haberdasher, 8 South
Broad street, is continuing his remov-
al sale and cutting prices to the bone.
He is making a special offer on w. L.
Douglas shoes.
Summerill & McCloskey have Sc
cured the contract TO install the cleo
trical equipment in a handsome new
bungalow in Wilmington, owned by
Harry Davenport.
DR.. NJ. R. Faulkner, a former med
zeal director of Penns Grove schools,
accompanied by his wife and four I'M
married children, sailed for Venezula
last week. They will make their per-
manent home there.
Bress' new store on South Broad
Street has put on real Metropolitan
airs and is one of the show places of
the town. 1t is also attracting a
splendid clientele for this enterprising
firm.
Mrs. Lillian Trumbull Justice has
been appointed one of the Democratic
members of the Election Board, 1st
district, Penns Grove. So far as we
know she is the first woman to be
given this distinction in New Jersey.
Every housewife should buy all the
tomatoes of farmers to can. 1t helps
the farmers who will make no profits
and supply the table with the most
wholesome food with the largest
amount of vitimines.
The athletic meet of the South Jer-
sey American Legion which was
scheduled for last Saturday at Alcyon
Park, and postponed IN account of the
stormy weather, will be held tomorrow
the 4th inst, at the same place.
Salem's new 600 gallon motor driven
pumping engine is expected to arrive
from South Bend, Indiana, this week.
Their combination hose and chemical
truck will arrive a week later. A
housing ceremony and parade is to be
held soon after it arrives.
The fare over the river between
Camden and Philadelphia is now four
cents. Automobiles pay IS instead of
&c cents. The ferry company has got
have its 20 to 80 per cent. dividends
in order to retard the new bridge pro-
ject as long IS possible.
Cantaloupe and water melon crops
in this region were never so small be-
cause of the acreage and wet weather
in August. The price never so high
Cantaloupes sell for from rs cents to
S1.25 a basket; melons from 40 cents
to 81.
Large steamship loaded war mater
ial off Pigeon Point the past week and
this. 1t was material for France who
are sending aid to Poland to drive OF
Russian Bolshevika who repudiate the
nations debts contracted by the Car.
They forget they are national debts,
not personal.
Poland's Department store launch
ed a novelty for Penns Grove this Fri
dav morning when they started a
"Dollar Sale" for the day only. The
offerings made are very enticing, m
bracing a large line of goods. The
store will be open until 9 o'clock to-
night.
George W. Blyler, ST., Of Penns
Grove lodge of Elks, as the guest OF
Philadelphia Lodge, No. 2, spent Wed
neSQdV ana lnuTSQdS VI 4dSC WIN
their State convention in Allentown,
Pa. The music in the big parade was
fine and the costumes of the paraders
gorgeous. George certainly had a
good time.
A delegation of Penns Grove Moose
will attend the anniversary banquet OF
+ Atlantic City Lodge, L. 0. 0. M, at
the Blackstone Hotel, on Thursday n
18th inst. Many of the National OIL
/ GERS viii be present. Judge John H.
Patterson, of Philadelphia, who ranks
high in the order, will be the principal
orator.
The "Westy Hogan" shoot which IS
an annual affair at Atlantic City will
take al place during the third week Of
September. The "Westy Hogans'
furnish all the prizes. Robinson F.
Willis, Calvin Phillips, F. Straughn'
and other members of the dupont Gun
Club of Penns Grove will participate
in the event,