Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-24
STATE NEWS.

Farmers fear that If copious rains
do not come soon many crops will be
wholly lost.
The diphtheria scare in Millville
has again subsidized. and the nublic
schools reopened yesterday.
Postmasters appointed Tuesday:
Theodore Groll, Poetzburg; Mary e.
Mccormick, Stone Harbor.
The Westville M. P. church, which
has undergone considerable improve
ments, will be reopened on Sunday
next.
The members of the First M. E.
church, Bordentown, at a meeting on
Monday night decided to merge with
the Trinity church.
Appropriate Memorial day exer-
cises will be held at Mount Holly,
Medford, Vincentown, Pemberton and
other towns near those places.
Falling from the roof of a wood
shed in West Millville, Tuesday, Wes-
ley, the eight-year-old son of Thorn
as Huff, had his collarbone fractured.
A handsome flag won by the
Clarkesboro Fire Company at a re-
cent festival will be raised with APP
propriate ceremony after a parade
Saturday.
The glass companies of Bridgeton
have installed electric fans in their
factories, so that blowers may work
until the end of the blast, on June
80.
The "B. G. t." a club composed
of young women of Franklinville,
entertained a number of young men
at the home of Miss Name Young
Tuesday evening.
Pleasantville is to have a police
force, consisting of a chief and three
men, two on duty at night and two
during the day, to be ready for duty
by May 80.
The Board of Education of Glou-
cester township, Camden county, has
reelected Curtis j. Lewis supervising
principal, and all the teachers for
the next year.
Struck in the head by a falling
chain at the Camden Coke Works,
Tuesday, Isaac Hughes, twenty-five
years old, of No. 95S South Ninth
%tsreet, was badly hurt.
Professor G. A.. Herrick, of the
Philadelphia high school, will be the
speaker at the annual commencement
exercises of the Mount Holly high
school on June Z.
The crusade against Sunday SELL
ing at V~incentown resulted in the ar
rest of James Nixon, James Debow
and Samuel Estelow, each of whom
was fined 50, with costs.
Game Warden Avis, of Woodbury.,
watched the greater part of Monday
night on Mantua Creek and finally
caught Elmer Clement working a
staked net for catfish.
The sum of $l,3OO.6S, Mount Hol-
ly's contribution for the San Fran
cisco sufferers, but not including
special contributions sent direct, has
been sent to the Phelan Committee.
To succeed Justice of the Peace
Schmitz, resigned, Special Agent Will
liam McNeir has been elected secre-
tary of the Society to Prevent Cruel
ty to Animals in Camden.
The formal dedication of the Mary
H. Dobbins Memorial Home, in
Mount Holly, established through
the efforts of Edward T. Dobbins, de-
ceased, and Murrell Dobbins, of Phil
adelphia, will take place Tuesday
next, May 20.
The Cape May County Board of
Freeholders on Monday awarded to
former Senator Robert e. Hand, the
lowest bidder, the contract o Dulld-
ing the county road from Seavllle 10
Sea Isle City. His bid was $~26,964.-
So.
The graduating exercises of the
Beverly public schools will be held
Thursday, June IA. The graduates
will be Amelia Marshall Dubinsky,
Annie Holland, Ella Powell steven
son, Warren Scott Painter and Rob-
ert Ranken.
Proceedings were Tuesday insti-
tuted against the Columbia National
Life Insurance Company by Lawyer
William C. French, counsel for Mrs.
Caroline Mcneil, of Camden, to re-
cover $1,000 on a policy on ner late
husbands life.
Camden police are looking for a
colored bicyclist who ran into Mrs.
A. Garwin, at Broadway n Mechan-
ic streets, causing body bruises.
When he saw the woman fall in the
street he disappeared without offer
ing assistance.
The first formal action in the or
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