The Penn's Grove record., 1921-12-09
News of Local Interest

' PAlA+B|4 d gwen q LIIdL
inns afternoon at the foot Of Oak ST.
Penns Grove Chapter Easter star
Will hold q bazaar Saturday after
noon, 18th.
Thursday morning opening Of
me Library IN the future will be from
II A. NJ. TO 1 2. NJ, instead Of from
10 to y.
George Hodges, who has worked at
the Powder Works for some wears.
a bought Erwin Jeker's farm in
Upper Penns Neck on the road to
Auburn.
The chicken potpie supper in St.
PauIs Church was largely enjoyed
thursday evening. The men Of the
church ia white jackets served as
walters. The old fellows were as at
tentIve as before marriage.
The thirty-ifth annual reunion of
the IWenty-fourth Regimental Asso-
citation will be held at Glassboro on
December 18th. The session will
open at 10 A. NJ, and dinner is to be
served by the ladies Of the G. A. R.
Walter A. Lashno, employed at
Dolbow's Bakery. met with a painful
accident on Thursday. He got too
near the mixing machine while hold
ing a knife which cut a cash in his
arm. Several stitches had to be
taken.
Councilman Gillison has received
contracts for the millwork for two
large stone houses in the suburbs of
Philadelphia, one in Germantown, the
other at Chestnut Hill, the latter a
twin house.
Carl Fuch was the first State
Policeman on duty to arrive in Penns
Grove on a motorcycle Thursday
morning. His headquarters is at
Netcong, Morris County, but he is
putting up at a hotel in Woodstown
and making tours in the surrounding
country to get acquainted.
Andrew Hunter, on South Broad
street. picked strawberries from his
garden last week and this. There are
several green ones on the vines, some
turning red.
Harry S. Barber, having his coal
brought by railroad and the bin be-
SIDE the ice plant and his creamery
at the ice plant, has moved his office
from the foot of Harmony Street to
the Sparks building, 124 West Main
Street, at the foot Of Franklin Street.
The equipments at the Delaware
Ordnance Depot are offered for sale.
Possibly there the new Uncle Sam
will get money enough to pay the
farmers for their land. They should
be allowed to catch muskrats (Hud-
son sables) to get some interest on
their money owed.
Mrs. Title Smith has received post
cards from her nephew, Stephen
Smith, who has been a Methodist
Missionary at Cochabama, BOLIVIA,
for the past five years, teaching in a
school. He has been travelling in
Beunos Aires the past month and
viewing the handsome buildings the
cities have. He states that the Ger
man merchants are returning and the
Americans are losing trade.
Washington Camp, No. At. P. o. S.
of A, is conducting a membership
campaign. Twenty-Five pledges have
been secured to date, and it is planned
to double that number within the next
three weeks. Two teams, captained
by ]. Milton Featherer and George
Watson, are managing the drive. On
December 30 a big class initiation
will be held. z~
The Salem County Councils of the
Junior Order of United American
Mechanics will hold a conclaye at
Pennsville, on Tuesday, December Is.
State officers of the Order will be
present and deliver addresses. County
officers will also be elected.
At the New Jersey Fruit Growers
Association, in Atlantic City, Howard
Mcconnell, Superintendent of the
County Farm, at Smiths Landing,
caused a sensation by exhibiting a
new variety of sweet potato, with an
almost white skin.
AS it is taxpaying time, some are
comparing what they pay now and
years ago. One house and lot at the
Cove paid SHIT tax in 1896, and this
year 1920. Like property rented
for Soto S. a month in 1895; now for
$40 to $50, but the same person lives
in the same house now as then. Why
should they not feel richer now in
their mind?
The gasoline tank of a small truck
u by two out-of-town Italians,
caught fire on South Broad Street,
Thursday morning. The fire company
arrived with the small chemical en-
CINE in five minutes and the flames
were put out before the truck was
damaged.
All kinds of poultry, dairy and mill
feeds for sale by H. S. Justice & Co.,
Railroad and Pitman Streets.-Adv.
Good Work, William" a Christmas
cantata, will be given by the Sunday
School of st. Paul's NJ. E. Church, on
Friday evening, December 23d, at
7.30, assisted by the Charles Compton
orchestra. Silver offering at the
door. All welcome. Mrs. Harry n.
Johnson, director.-Adv.