Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-06
SOUTH AMBOY
NEWS ITEMS.

They are about erecting a number OF
buildings at the Powder plant at Parlin.
The foundation of two are completed.
Frank Norris, of ..Nutley, was calling
on friends in town yesterday. u
Edward Frazer, of Perth Amboy, was
a borough visitor Wednesday.
Max Kaufman, merchant on Broadway
has had tile flooring placed in the en-
francs Il lbs store and has two large
flagstones aout seven or eigt feet square
ready to be laid ON the sidewalk.
Mrs. Mont Willett, of George street, has
returned home after spending a few days
with her sister in Brooklyn.
Six young hoboes were panhandling
round town Wednesday and when asked
where they were from, said Elizabeth.
They had come down here for a change
Of grub, but they said they had got very
little had thought they would better go
back hong, which they did on the nex
freight that pulled out.
The boat g.. P. Lang, which was sunk
In the nariows, has been raised again by
Its owner, Captain Lear, and brought to
this port for repairs.
The electric lights on the P. r. r.
docks are again importation, after being
out for some time.
A property owner in. Augusta street,
says there ought to be a light in the
middle Of that street between Broadway
and the shore. He said a lady fell there
last evening and hurt herself quite bad
ly.
The Central Railroad Company has
aiken off their night switchmen at all of
The crossings in the borough.
Mrs. Edward Everett, of Broadway, is
having the sewer tapped aud is running
a pipe from the cellar of Cheeseman's
hotel to carry off the water which stands
there.
Monaghan has completed the new CON
crete sidewalk in front Of his building on
Broadway.
1t was pay day at Scully's dock Thurs
day.
Public School No. / was no sooner
called Wednesday afternoon than the
children were dismissed. A water pipe
burst and several of the rooms were flood
ed In consequence.
Mrs. Pullen's little boy was back with
his mother Tuesday.
Mrs. A. Newman and daughter, of
Mechanicsville, were Perth Amhoy vlsi-
tors Tuesday.
DR.. Long, of New Brunswick, was a
borough visitor Wednesday.
Mr.. johnson and family moved Wednes-
day from David street to Maxvilte.
Andy Donovan has secured a position
rs water boy on the p. r. r. docks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Kabcrsky, of
Broadway, entertained Mrs. Kaborsky's
father from Jamesburg the past week.
Mr.. Samuel Watson, of the firm of
Pearse & Watson, Perth Amboy, was a
borough visitor yesterday.
The wedding of Miss Maggie Ryan and
largely attended by the many relatives
and friends of the bi ide from this bor-
ough.
While Mrs. Charles Compton, of Bor-
dentown avenue, was at New Brunwsick
reviewing the firemen's parade, the hot
water pipe tursted and flooded her
kitchen in Roses cottage, Greycote.
A citizen wants to know where the Re
publican Club is that was to be organ
lied in this borough.
A Cheesequaker with an elegant jag
of peanuts and other things, thought he
would take a ride on the trolley. He saw
it coming and started to run for it when
he ran into a post II Broadway and eX-
claimed, 81 didn't know you was there
or l wouldn't have run into you" The
car went on without him and he went
OH down the street limping.
Quite a number of ladies and gentle
men enjoyed bowling at the South Am
boy Yacht Club alleys Wednesday even
ing.