The Penn's Grove record., 1922-01-06
Firemen's Holiday
New Engine Housed
Town In Patriotic Attire. Greet
ed Visiting Firemen Who
Were Given Prizes

our new La France fire engine and
compete for the prizes given to the
visitors for coming. The companies
lined up on Delaware Avenue and
Penn Street ard marched up Main,
down Broad to the Cove and returned
past the Borough Hall, at the corner
of Main and State Streets, where they
were viewed by the committee who
awarded the prizes. The line of
march consisted as follows:
Ten mounted citizens.
Mayor and Councilmen in automo-
bile.
Salem Band.
Union Fire Company, Salem.
Fire engine.
Billingsport Fire Company with
engine.
S~wedesboro Band.
Woolwich Fire Company.
S~wedesboro Fire Company.
Carneys Point hose motor car.
Fifteen firemen.
Woodbury. Fire Company with en-
CINE.
Liberty Band, Penns Grove.
Liberty Fire Company. so men in
fine new blue suits and caps.
New La France engine.
After the marching all assembled in
front of the Borough Hall where a
platform had been erected for the
speakers.
Mayor Samuel NJ. Hunt on behalf
of the Borough presented the new en-
gine to David Johnson, Chief of LIB
erty Fire Company, who received it
with expressions of thanks for the
Borough officials generosity, after
which the Woodbury. firemen pushed
the engine into the fire house, the
first floor of the Borough Hall front
ing on Main Street.
Frank J.. O'Connor, Chief of Fire
men of DUPONT Dye Works, welcomed
the visitors and pointed with pride TO
the new engine. Thanks were eX-
pressed for assistance at fires in the
past and # ever our neiphbors needed
assistance ,Penns Grove was fully
equipped and ready to respond.
Rev. c. E. Dubell said he was glad
to be back with old friends and ad-
yised that prevention is the best
against fire now and hereafter.
w. A. w. Gfier, of Salem, extended
congratulations Of the County seat,
Penns Grove has the hest and hoped
there would not be occasion to use it.
S. Rushing Leap announced the
awards for the afternoon parade
After the ceremony the visitors
went to the Tabernacle of the Camp
Meeting Association, IN East Har-
nlony Street, where they were given
sandwiches and lot coffee.
In the evening a masquerade parade
was held.
The parade included the impersona-
tors Of Jiggs and Maggie, of the Tur-
~nervilIe Fire Department, convlcts,
colored im-personators, a Ford bedeck-
ed with flags and weired figures, with
a still and a barrel in the rear and a
busy Individual bottling the products.
of his apparatus was greeted with a
roar of laughter. On the still was a
large placard bearing the inscription
"Mv Moonshine Nell I Love Her
Still" while to add to the reality of
the thing steam gushed in clouds from
the radiator. The Tall Cedars of Leb-
anon the Moose and the Elks had del
egates in the parade also.
After the Mummers' parade a
dance was held in the vacated Bar
gain Store building at Main and
Franklin Streets.
The Housing Day Committee which
is responsible for the success OF the
event, follows: Donald ]. McCloskey,
chairman; David johnson, f. Harry
Elliott. Fred A. Gentieu, George M.
Pyne, Dennis C. Fahy, Frank Rose,
Walter Mckinley, William Adams
Nelson Munyon, Adelbert Simpklns'
and Walter Edgar.
The fire commissioners who WORKED
for the purchase of the new apparatus
in Borough Council were Alfred u.
Gillison, Robert w. Kidd and Dennis
C. Fahy.