The Penn's Grove record., 1921-03-25
News Of Local Interest

DR. Baxter has discontinued his
office hours on Saturday and Sunday.
Charles Norton has moved into the
house at 157 West Main Street which
ne bought Of Clement B. Lanning.
After a visit to North Jersey, DR..
c.. +. Baxter has reopened his office in
the post office building.
Penns Grove Lodge Of Elks will in
stall their newly elected officers at
their first regular meeting in April.
Auctioneer David A. English will
hold a cleanup sale at Main and Oak
Streets tomorrow afternoon, 18th inst.
Dandelions are being gathered for
greens by the Italian women. Amer
leans go to the doctors and pay for
their blood medicine and tonics.
Today, March 25th, is the legal NOV
ing day in New Jersey, but every day
has been moving day in Penns Grove
and Carneys Point the past few years.
The base ball season will open April
list when Penns Grove High will go
70 Clayton. Harmon Bell, the captain,
is selecting the best players to make
a winning team.
Owing TO bad weather the saw teeth
guessing contest at r. F. Willis and
Bros hardware store on Oak Street.
will be continued through the coming
week. There are some fine prizes for
the winners. See the window display.
Drs. Israel j.. and Pauline Ellis
Cramer, the chiropractors, who are
doing such remarkably good work in
Salem, wish to extend their services
to the afflicted people of Penns Grove
and vicinity. Their announcement is
IN another column.
Councilman Alfred Gillison, whose
woodworking plant is on Oak Street,
has received the contract for all the
millwork for a new Presbyterian par
sonage to be built at OIney, a suburb
Of Philadelphia. This is a big job and
in securing it Mr.. Gillison shows his
business ability for competition in his
trade.
A brand new cornet has arrived on
Denny Avenue and the circumambient
air in that vicinity will now vibrate
nightly with the tintinabulations of a
young and ambitious aspirant for
musical fame. "Music hath charms
to sooth the savage" and hanks back
to the time when Fabius Tullius
caught snipe in the Pontine marshes.
Summerill and McCloskey started to
install a temporary fire alarm at the
Borough hall on Wednesday. The
tower at the old fire headquarters
will be transferred to the rear of the
Borough hall and a bell hung in it that
will answer the purpose until the new
electric siren whistle is put into COM
mission. It is expected to arrive with
in the next two weeks.
The Wildwood Poultry Farms Com
pany filed articles of incorporation at
Bridgeton last week. Benjamin F.
Shrimp, Of Canton, was made treasurer
and Allen J.. Davis, of Woodstown,
secretary. The plant of the concern
will be located at Cape May Court
House. The object of the Company is
to fatten poultry for the dressed
chicken market.
The two weeks of warm weather
with the temperature ranging from
40 and so at night up to IS and rs
during the day brought out the blooms
on plum and peach trees last Sunday
and Monday. On Wednesday morning
TIE temperature was QONn 10 OZ anu
went up to A. Thursday, 80 to 50.
This Friday morning, So. Spring
time showers fell on Thursday.
Last Sunday afternoon, on South
Broad Street, at Beach Avenue, John
Layton, in automobile 136,497 attempt
ed to pass a trolley car by turning to
the left and crashed into John Her
ODDS car, 1922. Herold's car was
badly damaged, but not so badly but
that it was pulled away on its wheels.
The statement in the Philadelphia
/, papers last week that the State High
way Commission had approved the
building of the Salem-Woodstown Sec
ton of the State Highway Route No.
r g., under the reimbursement plan, was
Z premature. The matter was laid over
| for consideration at a later meeting,
The Commission will convene again on
Wednesday next.