The Penn's Grove record., 1920-04-02
LOCAL
of Local Interest

P@A4oI IN WooQSL0Wn, has come TO
Penns Grove to live.
William B. Shoemaker, Justice of
the Peace, has opened an office at III
South Broad Street.
Bethel Methodist Protestant Church
was substantially remembered in the
Will OF the late David G. Simpkins.
Rev. Eric Osterle, pastor of the
Quinton Baptist Church, has resigned.
to take effect April 18th, having ac-
cepted a call to Chester, Pa.
Roberts G. Riley, the painters and
paperhangers, will remove from their
present location, Main and Oak Streets
to 40 and AZ South Broad Street on
Monday next.
Benz. w. Raine and brother caught
seven shad off Penns Grove on We'd
nesday, the first of the season. They
were sold for 50 cents a pound whole
sale to Shape & Higgins.
There should be no kick from the
DUPONT employees when wages have
been advanced from 9 to 4 cents an
hour. When will the high price of
wages come down.
The fixtures in Robbins Pharmacy
were moved IN Tuesday to Clementon.
Camden County, on the order of
Eugene McAdams, whom it is an
nounced will open a drug store there.
The Senior Glass of Penns Grove
High School will give a dance in Odd
Fellows Hall on Saturday evening.
10th inst. 1t will be under the aus
pices of the merry Maidens."
The Sweet-Orr shop for making
shirts opened last Monday with a small
number Of women A few are en-
ployed as fast as they can be taught
to be efficient. They insist on good
sewing being done.
David A. English has resumed his
restaurant business at No. 1913 West
Main Street, adjoining his bakery af-
ter a rest of six months. Henry l.
Carey, of Millville, will n the
business.
Richard D. LaGuardia, who was
formerly identified with the YMCA
work at Carneys Point, has returned
from similar work for the govern
ment in Italy and is now located at
Trenton.
Better keep up your war garden.
There are fewer men hired on farms
than eve before. Some farms in Up
per Penns Neck do not have a hired
man on them. Others are growing up
in briars and bushes.
Mrs. NJ. Alma Margerum, of Ocean
Grove, and her daughter, Mrs. NJ.
Wood, of Salem, spent Wednesday
with old Church friends at the Cove.
She and her husband, Rev. VIM. Mar
gerum, were stationed at Emmanuel
Church in 1858.
Former Governor EGr Srf6
was chairman of the South Jersey Sal
walton Army 1919 Home Service ap-
peal, has been re-appointed and will
direct this years campaign, which will
be launched May 10 and continue to
May 20.
C. R. Russell, the Penns Grove music
teacher, says "Please discontinue my
advertisement in the Record for
pupils. l received fifty applicants
from the first insertion and since then
l have been overwhelmed. l have
more than l can handle"
The contractor began laying the
concrete foundation for the Borough
Hall last Monday. A foot of concrete
was laid and three strips of light rail-
way track iron were laid to reinforce
the concrete and hinder it from set
ting and causing the walls to crack.
Harry Johnson, Main Street and the
railroad, received a substantial order
for plumbing from a resident of
Penns Grove at present sojourning in
Florida. Saw your advertisement in
the Penns Grove Record" the letter
concluded. 1t pays to advertise. That
is not a moral-it is a fact.
William Ward, who has conducted
the English restaurant on West Main
Street for the past six months, has
taken the restaurant at No. Z South
Broad Street of w. w. Brown and
took possession on Thursday. Mr.
Ward is an experienced caterer and
has made hosts of friends here. He
will conduct a modern up-to-date res
|taurant and no doubt will make a
success of it. Mrs. Ward will assist
her husband in conducting the business
and this knowledge will please many
of their old customers.
Edward C. Mount, formerly with
the DUPONT Co., as chief clerk, traffic
department, Carneys Point, for three
years, later transferred to the Nash
vile plant, where ne held the position
as assistant superintendent until jan
uary, 1919, has secured a responsible
potion with the Merchant Shipbuild-
ing Corporation, in Philadelphia. Mr..
Mount was a resident of Penns Grove
and Carneys Point for three years.
He has just purchased a beautiful
home in Ridley Park, Pa, at a cost of
$4,000, where he will make his home
in the future.
Two heavyweight colored women
came over to Penns Grove from Will
mington on the ferry boat on Satur-
day night and reaching Broad Street
at once began soliciting male compan-
ionship. They were apprehended in
the act and were hauled before Squire
Cole. Upon their admission that they
were in town for no useful purpose