Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-29
SOUTH AMBOY
NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. John Lewis, of Mount Holly,
has returned homo after a visit with
her son and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Lewis, of John street.
G. straub was a New York visitor
Wednesday.
Willis Fisher, of John street, is still
on the sick list.
Robert Thorpe, Of Broadway, went
to Philadelphia to attend n very grand
wedding of friends, which took place
Wednesday.
Mr.. Nixon, of Parlin, was a borough
visitor Wednesday.
X. of P. Hall had a crowd large
enough TO fill every seat Tuesday
night ana the audience was said to
have been an unusually fine one.
Mrs. Yep Christianson. of Maxvllle,
who was reported as improving, is
again confined to her room by illness.
E. b. Bostwick has been having
steam heat placed in his house on
Main street.
Mrs. Forman is able to bo down
stairs and getting along nicely since
her fall.
The father of Mrs. Charles Clumpp,
formerly of this place, died recently
at his home at Gutenberg.
Mr.. Deatz has been having his new
house, on Main street, papered, and is
making preparations for moving into
ii.
Leonard & Jensen, blacksmiths,
have dissolved partnership and MI.
Leonard has o position elsewhere.
Miss Mary Cleveland, of Elizabeth,
has returned to her home after a
leasant visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
Sunuel Locker, of Broad way.
There is fine skating on Conovcr's
pond and quite n number are enjoying
it.
1t is said that the Swan Hill Com
panv are through cutting ice and that
the houses are all full.
Messrs Burkhard and Porlund, Of
Mechaniosvllle, have filled their ice
houses with ice twelve inches thick.
Mrs. Wilhelmina IIoff, OF First
%street, Is improving.
Charles Smock is said to be i'm
proving.
Mrs. John Reynolds, who was taken
sick while visiting her mother who is
ill, at Jersey City, improved enough
to come home, but has again returned
10 her mother.
1t is d rare thing to see August lilies
bloom in winter. Mrs. Henry Thomas
has one in n pot with four great red
| lies OH. 1t is handst me.
When the storm of snow and rain
struck this town we thought we were
in for another seigo of Slipping and
falling down. 1t was quito slippery
Tuesday night, but Wednesday sun
cleared it all off and dried the side
walks, making walking a delight in
comparison with that of the last few
weeks. II the people had continued
practising the style of walking that
has been in vogue of late they would
have become everything but graceful.
1t is n glorious change and welcomed
by all but the girls and boys who have
been enjoying coasting.
Adam Hendricks son was taken to q
hospital by Rev. H. M. p. Pearso and
had an operation performed for appcn-
dicitis, last Saturday.
Mrs. Hause. Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Dey
and Mrs. Woodward will attend the
Installation of officers of the Pythian
Sisterllood at South River, Tuesday,
as representatives from the Pythian
S%isterhood No. 2, of this borough.
Mrs. Preston King, of John street,
has been quite i'll with tho grippe,
but is improving.
A New York professor gave q very
excellent lecture on physiology and
phvsioenomy TO the public school
children appeared to be delighted with
it. He collected quite q sum Of money
from the scholars, who gave accord
Jag to their own Judgment.