Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-29
STRTE NEWS.


Work has been started on the
$4,000 public school to be erected
at Moorestown.
Al a test the new water plant at
Pennsgrove supplied 100000 gal
Ions of water every twenty-four
hours.
Millville, Wednesday, Charles Car
son had a hand badly mangled in a
CIRCULAR saw.
been appointed a master painter at
Panama, and will sail for his post on
January /.
The annual Christmas entertain
men of the Moorestown M. p. Sunday
school will be repeated tomorrow by
request.
Ralston Green has been awarded a
diamond pin for securing the largest
number of votes for the Salem high
school in a piano contest.
In a collision with a trolley car at
Pleasantville, Wednesday, j.. w.
Cash was thrown from his carriage
and severely hurt about the head.
The Alcott Literary Association
gave a holiday soiree in Millville
high school Wednesday night. Near
ly 200 members and their guests
were present.
Rhe promoters of the proposed gas
plant at Clayton, Pitman and Glass
boro assure the people that gas will
be flowing by The middle of June.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. d. Wireman cele-
brated the silver jubilee of their
wedding at their home, in Westville,
Tuesday night. Many guests were
present.
Professor E. Presson Miller, of the
Met .opolitan Conservatory of Music,
New York city, gave a recital in the
Presbyterian church, Millville, We'd
nesday night.
The city council of Woodbury. met
last night to consult with representa-
tives of the trolley company for the
adjustment of existing troubles.
Attempting to board a fast freight
train in Burlington, Tuesday night,
John Burke was hurled to the ground
and his ACE and head were painfully
lacerated.
The Vineland high school class of
1900 held its annual reunion and
banquet Tuesday night. An address
was made by Superintendent of
Schools j. J. Unger.
The Moorestown Board of Educa-
ton has decided to stop truancy, and
has appointed Caleb Wright truant
officer. with power to make arrests OF
school children.
At the Christmas entertainment in
the Pleasantville Presbyterian church
Tuesday night the pastor, Rev. Roll
and e. Crist, was presented with a
fine gold watch and chain.
The Ninth Ward Republican Asso-
citation, of Camden, has elected for
mer Councilman Louis Ligh as presi-
dent. A banquet followed the cleo
ton at Turner Hall.
Frank Oberhardt, of Camden, a
carpenter, broke an ankle by a fall
from a scaffold Wednesday.
Mayor Millett, of Cape May, has
recommended the appointment of
five additional policemen to meet the
conditions arising from the large in
crease in the population due to i'm
proYement work.
John Andrews, of Camden, cut a
severe cash in his head Wednesday
night by stumbling down a stairway.
His injuries were dressed at the West
Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.
William Emery, a prosperous
young farmer of Sykesville, near
New Egypt, was stricken with spinal
meningitis Tuesday, and died. The
Board of Health ordered immediate
burial.
Az a meeting of the Woodbury.
council on Tuesday night the clerk
was instructed to notify the West
West Jersey & Seashore Railroad
Company to see that Glassboro ave-
1ue, a busy section, Is kept clear of
freight trains.
The rendition of the cantata, I'm
the Palace of Santa Claus" written
by William A. Williamson, by the
Presbyterian Sunday school, in the
Opera House, Clayton, Monday night,
was such a success hat it will be re-
)e1ted tonight.
While assisting in trimming a
Christmas tree at the Union M. e.
:hlreh, Burlington, for the Sunday
cool entertainment Tuesday night,
Miss Carrie Donahue, a young wom-
IN. slipped from the top of a high
ladder and was severely injured
lbout tao head, striking against the
sharp corner of a table in her de-
scent.
The Americas Club, the leading
democratic organization in Camden
county, has elected these officers:
President, Charles c. Old; vice presi-
lent. Ben Meloney; treasurer, George
R, Bogarth; financial secretary, w.
J. Haw; recording secretary, Charles
Gordon; trustees, B. F. Alcott,
George BOgarth N Lewis HermeS.