Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-03-02
State News

suffered as severely from the ice as
vas expected.
VIII Grant and crew recently netted
5000 pounds Of perch from under the ice
Drum Point
The Usher's Union OF the WOODBURY.
II. f church held It's annual banquet at
The Green Tuesday night
There have been no further evidences
Of an outbreak OF anthrax IN the vicinity
OF Bridgeport.
Petitions are being signed for two new
free rural Celivery routes from the VIII
post office.
Mrs. Payne, wife of Mayor Payne, Of
Millville, severely cut her hand whilF
carving meat Tuesday.
a sneak thief got s % in cash from the
nome of I. Milton Shafto, No. al Mon
mouth street, Gloucester.
South Jersey farmers have discovered
that any of their stored sweet potatoes
have been f%rost-bitten.
Frank Trent, 4s years old, was found
dead In bed in his room In a Trenton
boarding house Tuesday morning.
The Alcott Literary Association, of
Millville, has accepted a challenge of the
Fineland High School to a debate.
Postmaster Thomas Graham. of Point
Pleasant, was routed out Of bed by a
burglar alarm, which proved to be false.
George Hankins has the new contract
for carrying the mail from Point Pleasant
to Burrsville and Herbertsville.
The quarterly meeting Of the Orthodox
Friends. of Burlington County and Bucks
County, Pa. was held in Burlington
Tuesday.
The Paulsboro Board of Education may
approve an additional teacher for the ad-
vanced grades, to strengthen the High
School work.
The young people of the Pedricktown
Baptist church will produce the play.
The Village Belle" In Red Mems Hall
on Saturday next.
Before the meeting of the HaddoDf leld
W. c. I. L Tuesday Miss Jane Campbell,
of Germantown, read a paper on Equal
Suffrage"
Max pahm, Of Twenty-fourth and
Washington avenue, Camden, had ~ fin
ger torn off Tuesday, while attempting
to adjust a trolley pole.
Old fishermen at Cape May claim tn a
there Will be a phenombneal run Of era By
next season, since they have been pro-
tected all winter By the ice.
The winters death roll of aged persons
in Gloucester County will outnumber
that of many previous years, and Febru
airy has broken the record.
The large Capitol Hotel, Cape May
narrowly escaped a serious fire, supposed
to have been ignited by a match dropped
by thieves n tire basement.
The Cumperand Gun Club. OF Bridge.
ten. has leased a piece of property Just
north OF Tumbling Dam Park, on which
it will erect a large club house.
Bay Head people were thrown into a
panic the other night BY a strange new
light in the sky, I'll they found that a
lad had sent up Il kite carrying a red
lantern.
The new pipe organ for tie Glassboro
N +. church, which was lost enrout-
fer several days, arrived Monday and will
BE- erected in time for a recital on Friday
evening.
When Thomas Adams, Of Twenty eighth
and Cramer streets, East Camden, had a
thumb cut off recently the usual remedies
were applied. Now blood poisoning has
developed.
One OF the tanks at the Whithall Tatunl
Giass Works. Mlllvile, will shut down
Saturday, and 100 lnen will be thrown
on, Of employment. Lack of orders i:
given as the cause for the shutdown.
Mrs. Anna Berry, mother of Samuel
Berry, president Of the Melville Council.
fell heavily In a fit of vertigo Tuesday
and it Is believed, sustained serious 10.
iuries She is past so years old.
THE Great Heritage Of the Baptlsts''
was the subject of a address delivered
before the members of the Young PEG
pies Union in the First Baptist church
Tuesday night by Rev. Judson Conklin,
Of Trenton.
The class of 1905, of the Burlington
High School, has organized with these
officers: President, John S. Conroy
vice president, May Cline; secretary,
Ina Davis; treasurer, Harry Mooeny. The
lass will be the largest to be graduated
in five years.
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