The Penn's Grove record., 1922-03-03
of Local Interest

Mayor and Council show little faith
in the firemen and efficiency of a fire
engine when a large premium is paid
for insuring the Borough Hall and
fire engine with a Waterman on hand
at a salary all the time.
The stock and fixtures of the G. G.
w. meat market, run by Charles
Glassman and Jacob Weiss, at Main
and Oak Streets, the past three
years, was sold at chattel mortgage
sale on Thursday afternoon, by d. A.
English, auctioneer, to John Nocon,
who conducts a grocery store on Rail
road Avenue, for S765, subject to $172
rent and 81 on an adding machine.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Club will be held in Borough Hall next
Tuesday evening, 7th, at $50. 1t is
the time for the annual election of
officers.
Senator Aliens biz to change the
bobolink back into a reed bird has
passed the Legislature and been
signed by the Governor. The law
permits killing reed birds as formerly,
before the Audubon (bird protecting)
Society got the Legislature to stop
killing them. Reed birds bring hun
dreds of dollars into Salem County.
Sugar has become so cheap that
merchants are giving it away. See adj
vertisement in another column.
Another shack on South Street was
burned Tuesday night. Some an
nounce it a big valuable fire at $4,000.
If a man bought all the shacks in
South Street for that amount he
would have a poor bargain.
Winter fingers in the lap of spring.
Only a few, about half a dozen
nets, will be fitted out for shad fish
ing at Penns Grove.
When the frost came out last week
some wagons and automobiles got
stuck. This week the ground settled
and dried up much.
The early tomato growers in this
region are watching their seed houses
closely. More will be grown this year
than last year.
The way to make a town prosper
Gus is to spend your money with your
home town merchants. They help
pay taxes, support your schools and
Churches and benevolent institutions.
While there are a few needy, per-
sons who are acquainted with the con-
ditions elsewhere, say Penns Grove
folks in general are better off than in
Wilmington and elsewhere.
Read our advertisements for bar
gains.
The wise merchants plant seed adj
vertising now help reap spring profits.
The game of marbles which comes
with spring the boys have started.
After a week of s~pring-like weather
with the temperature ranging be-
tween 35 and so, March LIST brought
a winter snap. The temperature was
down to 20 Wednesday. At 7.30 snow
began falling and by 10 o'clock a
white blanket an inch deep covered
the ground on Thursday morning
when it soon evaporated. Thursday "a
to 80. This Friday 80.
1t is understood that fire on South
Street on Tuesday night vas in a house
where booze was distilled. The fumes
took fire and the booze joint went up.
AS some placed the loss at $4,000, un-
doubtedly the value was in the still
and booze which is valued so highly,
because that would be a big price for
all shacks in that village.
Fire broke out this Friday at IL
o'clock in a cottage, number 119 South
River Walk, owned by Reba Sack and
occupied by Tony Whitaker. The
tide being low and no water nearby,
the flames soon spread to the other
cottages, numbers 121 and 1923, the
former being occupied by Harry Gal
Iagher and the other one empty. The
Whittakers were out at the time of
the outbreak and it could not be
ascertained just how the fire got
started. Chief johnson with his men,
assisted by Chief O'Connor, with the
Village fire company, were on the job
in a short time and put the fire out.
Water was pumped from a ditch.
The Broad Theatre has for next
week a program to suit the curiosity
for big ideas in "Big Came on Mon
day and "The Millionaire" on Thurs
day" While the comedy on Monday
will be "Don't Marry" most will en-.
Joy wedding Bells" IN Friday and
Saturday evenings" Tuesday will be
shown "Sheriff in Hope Eternal" and
the "Oath' on Wednesday.
Our own make of Bran and Mid
dlings for sale by H. S. Justice & Co.,
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