The Penn's Grove record., 1921-03-04
Carneys Point
News Items
Dye Makers Doings, Entertain
ments and EnjOyments

Clarence o. Walker, aged rs years,
died at the home of his mother, Mrs.
"A. b. Cotton, 104 L Street on Monday
18th ult.
Joseph NJ. Wright, Supervisor of
Schools, is in Atlantic City this week
attending the national convention of
school supervisors.
John NJ. Weldon, Freebooter and
Superintendent of Maintenance at the
Powder Works, was in Philadelphia
last Monday, at a meeting of the AL
ned Association of Civil Engineers.
The standard House Mrecklng Com
pany has about three acres cleared OF
Houses in front of Lafayette School
at Georgetown road.
The wave have washed into the
river bank at DUPONT Club house4
Junk dealers look for things of
value in the refuse dump below the
Club house. 1t pays them to make
good use of their time; would it not
pay those who throw the articles away
to sort and save, wen tho only a few
cents were received?
The acre of land around which an
embankment was made for a skating
POllu, OClOn Ll1C l. W. -. a. OQl1Q1llSs
has not furnished skating sport this
winter. There has not been enough
rain to make a pond and little freez-
ing temperature to CONCEAL the little
water in the pond.
Sheriff Alfred K. Brandriff has re-
ceived the contract to carry the mails
between Carneys Point and Penns
Grove post Office. Elmer Short runs
the auto truck with the mails.
The auditorium at the Y was beau
tifully decorated with red, white and
blue crepe paper in festoons and flags
with George Washington's portrait
beaming on the merry dancers.
Arthur Harkins, n of the young
men OF Carneys Point, who enlisted in
the u. S. Army last July, has nov
been made a sergeant in the Army.
He is now stationed in Texas.
John Upton, while working IN the
shipping department of the Dye
Works, Thursday of last week, ran a
splinter in his finger. On Sunday IN
an effort to safe his life from blood
poisoning he had his arm amputated
above his elbow.
Elmer Irainon spent the weekend
in Philadelphia with his family.
Lawrence Pennington has returned
home after spending a few weeks in
Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Shaw and family,
of Pink Street, are moving to Massa-
chusetts.
E. H~ockenbury, Secretary Of the Y,
spent several days at Atlantic City
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Whitaker, of
Broadway, entertained at cards.
Thursday evening.
Mrs. Joseph Eckhart, of Fourth
Street, is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
j. Glass, of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Freda Alderman, of Harrison
Street, spent the weekend with
friends in Philadelphia.
Mrs. c. Collision, of Grant Street,
entertained, few of her friends at a
dance given at her home Thursday
Walter Moore, of Oxford, Nd, is
spending the weekend with his
daughter, Mrs. c.. C. Griffith, OF
Fourth Avenue.
Little Mary Smith, of Broadway, is
very much improved at this writing,
but they are still quarantined for
diphtheria.
Mrs. Jane Musser, of Harrisburg, is
making an indefinite visit with her
daughter, Mrs. H. Barnholt, OF Broad
way.
Mrs. Albert Lundberg, has now re-
turned to Carneys Point after her re-
cent illness. She is now staying with
friends on Third Avenue.
Wilbur Barcley was in Carneys
Point for a few days after a several
months visit in Texas. Mr.. Barcley
has now gone to his home in Mary
land.
The ladies of the Parish Guild are
having a gas range installed and a
kitchenette arranged in the parish
house.
Members of the Church are very
sorry to lose their bass soloist, Nelson
E. Blake, who is moving to North
Hampton, Mass.
George H. Day, organist of st
Johns Church, Wilmington, will give
an organ recital at four o'clock in the
afternoon, March 18th, in the Church
of Our Merciful Saviour.