Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-10-19
CITY BRIEFS



The beams over the second story
of the siX-room addition to school
No. l are in place, as are also the
frames for the windows.
A little boy who was standing
near the break in the pavement at
Smith and King streets, yesterday
afternoon, would have been run down
by the careless driver of a carriage
had it not been for the presence of
mind of a bystander who lifted the
youngster out of harms way.
A complaint has been received
by the police of boys building bonfires
neal the barn on Kearny venue near
Market street, They have built them
so near, it is declared, hat the frame
structure might easily have caught
fire from sparks and dire punishment
is threatened if the offense be re-
peated.
A rehearsal for the Raritan
Yacht Club minstrel show will be
held next Tuesday night at the club
house.
The Marion A. c. met last night
and planned to hold a ball in Braga
Hall December Is.
The Perth Amboy Terra Gotta
Company has purchased a new wagon
which arrived yesterday and which
was used for the first time this morn
ing. The wagon attracted consider
able attention and admiration at the
Central depot this morning and
Frank Chase, the driver, is justly
proud of the new conveyance.
The Central Hotel is being re-
furnished and Leon & Roessler have
the contract of c~arpeting and furn-
fishing twenty-five bedrooms, besides
furnishing all the linoleum used in
the hotel.
Andrew Anderson & Co., cleo
trical contractors, have hired the
building at $40 State street.
Plans are rapidly being COM
pleted for the entertainment and
turkey supper which the members of
the local order of Stationary Engin-
GERS Association. Corliss No. 10. Will
hold in Columbia Hall October 81.
A special meeting of the Cheese
brough Vaseline Works ball commit
tee has been called for tonight.
Three small boys were reported
to the police authorities this morn
ing as being truants from their class
es at school No. l..
Street Commissioner William
Fullerton is a happy man today for
last night he was awarded a piano.
The money cleared by the contest
will be used to purchase artificial
limbs for j. j. Dalton.
A steamer is due at the plant of
the Barber Asphalt Works some time
today with a cargo of crude asphalt.
"A concrete walk is being laid in
front of the new Goldberger building
on State street, and fixtures for the
store have arrived.
The old Lincoln reel is at Dew
eny's.
Because it cannot come up be-
fore the December term of court the
case against the New Jersey Terra
Gotta Company to compel the remov-
al of the building, which extends ov-
er the line of Catharine street, has
not been started by City Attorney
Hommann.
1t is hoped to end the condem-
nation proceedings or the city against
the Independent Polish Catholic
church and the three adjoining prop
critics, for the extension of Easton
street, tomorrow.
&C. c. Hummann, Jr., of this
city, a freshman at Rutgers, is one of
the members of the college choir.
When Commissioner William p.
OHara vent to the meeting of the
water board, last night, he had with
him q bottle in which a large eel
which he declared came from the
house pipe at the grocery store OF
joan Seaman, in State street.
North Amboy liquor dealers met
yesterday in August Mussigbrodt's
hall and organized an association of
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