Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-18
PORT REApINe.



Leesport. Pa.
Mr.. Wilbur Turner is spending ten
days vacation at Asbury Park.
Engineer Joseph r. Nevill has re-
turned t day after ten days vacation
at Atlantic City and Philadelphia.
Mr.. Harry Eckenroth and family
have moved from Forth Reading
Elizabeth.
1t is reported by the local fisher
men that crabs are running great.
They claim they can't pull them out
fast enough-this from very good
authority.
Fireman John Reynolds, it is re-
ported, was killed by a Pennsylvania
train at Woodbridge Friday morning
and was identified by his sister, of
Woodbridge. Mr.. Reynolds was well
thought of at Port Reading and it is
understood he was a member of Camp
81, Woodmen of the World. 1t is
not known what train hit him but
ii happened between Main street and
Spa Springs.
Mr.. George Bylickie, formerly a
brakeman for the Reading, accepted
a position as dropper on the local
coal dock.
Port Reading is certainly a very
dry place on Sunday, and the boys
are not at all satisfied, as the law
looks too blue.
The Port Reading shipping news
will be printed later. The EVENING
NEWS correspondent has arranged
to get all news along shore, the ar
rival and departure of all vessels.
Mr.. Robert Lowe is working for
the Philadelphia & Reading. Mr..
Lowe recently arrived from Denmark
where he went several years ago. Mr..
Loves father and family are expect
ed later.
The twelve-year-old son of Michael
Superior has been missing from home
for a week.
The Port Reading baseball team
will 90 to Philadelphia Saturday with
Mr.. L. j. Barrett, their financial sec
Rotary, to play the Reading Terminal
boys. There will be a special train
for the boys.
Mrs. Fitzpatrick has two boys Ill
with diphtheria. They are improv-
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Speak are
the proud parents of a baby boy.
Mr.. Howard Penrose is looking
good after his two weeks vacation.
ar James Zuelo was a Sewaren
visitor yesterday.
Mr.. David Overhoult has returned
to his dukes as engineer in the local
yard, afteN spending a few weeks
vacation with his parents at Dolling-
ton. Pa. a
Mr.. Parker Brown, engineer in the
local yard, has returned to duty after
ten days vacation.
Mrs. Parker Brown visited hel
daughter. Mrs. G. w. Pennypacker
OF Elizabeth, yesterday.
The Presbyterian church excursion
Roosevelt to Asbury Park stopped
here yesterday and received a numbe'
of passengers.
Joseph r. Newell, engineer in tn
local p. & r. yard, is spending hi
vacation in Atlantic City and will
visit parents in Philadelphia befor
returned home.
Mr.. Harry Koonse has been pro
noted to Waterman of the new pier
No 8.
William McGettigan has given u
his position as assistant yard maste
and accepted a position as pier fore
man.
The score of the Port Reading bas'
ball team and the Reading Termina
boys will be published later.
The st. Michael's Roman Catholic
church will give an excursion by boa
from Port Reading to South Beach
The boat will stop at Roosevelt, Sc
warren and Perth Amboy. This !!
for the building of a new church. A
grand time is expected.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Burke have re-
turned home after a week in Port
Richmond, Philadelphia, with rela'
tives.
Mrs. James T.. and Mrs. r. A
Brown and Miss Annie Larsen were
Perth Amboy visitors yesterday and
returned to Boynton Beach, where
they spent the evening.
Port Reading Fire Company No.
had fire drill at $40 last night.
Engine 1913 is back in Port Read
ing yard, after being repaired in the
Philadelphia shops.
The steam shovel used by the con
tractors constructing the new railway
at Woodbridge cut. came to Porr
Reading yard last night en- route &c
West Virginia for repairs.
Engineer Harry Vernon, of thC
Reading department, is off on a two
months vacation.
Mr.. Thomas Earl, of Perth Amboy
dispatcher for the Philadelphia &
Reading, is off on a two weeks vaca-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Brown are
spending a few months at their par
ents', Mr.. and Mrs. Parker Browns
Mr.. Brown recently made a good
catch of crabs.
The Port Reading baseball team
had a game scheduled with the Mar.