Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-19
Sill news

Inero are neJe IN the
ing class of the South Jersey Insti-
tute, Bridgeton.
Junior Lowden fell from a tree
and broke his left arm at Riyerton
Thursday.
Paving of Riverton's streets with
asphalt is being agitated by Mayor
Brown.
Ofshore fishermen are finding
large quantities of bass about six
miles at sea
A number of dogs have been shot
as a result of the mad dog scare at
Riverton.
The annual meeting and banquet
of the West Cape May Alumni Asso-
citation will be held June z
Governor Stokes will take his first
degree in Shekinah Lodge of Masons,
in Millviile, on July 10.
The Board of Education has re-
elected Curtis J. Lewis and all the
teachers of the Blackwood public
schools.
A class of twenty VIII be confirm
ed in st. Johns P. E. church, Salem,
by Bishop Scarborough tomorrow.
The commencement exercises of
the Farnum Preparatory School, Bey-
erly, will be held Tuesday evening,
June IL.
The Salem Country Club wnl have
it's opening May 80. The program
for the year will be more elaborate
than ever before.
There was a big Epworth League
rally at Pedricktown Thursday night,
and Rev. j. l.. Howard, of Woodbury.,
was one of the speakers.
Rev. George w. Tomnson, of the
Woodbury. Presbyterian church, will
deliver the address at the public
school commencement June 8.
After an exciting struggle nine
year-old Mauldin Remmey caught a
~two-pound eel in Great Egg Harbor
river at Mays Landing Thursday.
By use of corn-planters most of
the farmers in Salem county, the
greatest corn-growing county in the
state, have their work done.
Mrs. Martha Jane Heisler, ninety
one years old, of near Beverly, has
just comleted, a bed-quilt containing
$500 pieces, and She feels proud of
her work.
Although 1t is claimed there is a
scarcity of good teachers, the Wood
bury Board of Education has forty
applicants for two vacancies.
A number of Bridgeton glasswork-
ers, vino had been employed in a fac
tory at Denver, have returned home,
the plant having been burned
Having apparently recovered from
severe sudden illness, Jesse Hillman,
a foreman at Camden's water plant,
returned to his post Thursday.
Frhn nnnrottcM On Mo-, Dortuit will
be presented by amateur talent I'M
der the auspices of the First Presby-
terrain church, Millville, on May %,
&c and 2S. w
A proposition made to the West
Cape May School Board to abolish
the high school department and to
send high school pupils to Cape May
City was declined.
The Camden police department
was notified Thursday that Harry
Woodward, fifteen years old, has
been missing from his home, No. 80
Beckett street, since HAY 5.
The Riverton Board of Health has
issued q notice that all properties on
the line of sewers must be connected
with them within thirty days, under
penalty of $50.
In the criminal court at Woodbury.
Thursday, Policeman McDevitt,
charged with assault on Gilmore
Simms, pleaded non vult contendre,
and was fined $25 and costs.
The Alloway M. E.. church is well
supplied with organs, as many firms
have been sending sample" organs
on learning the congregation intend
ed to purchase an instrument.
Benjamin Cohen has received SIS
from the BurlingtonlC County Board of
F~reeholders for damages to his wag-
on, sustained by running into stumps
which DISTRACTED the highway near
Moorestown.
The River & Harbor improvement
Company has appealed the verdict for
$4,000 given in the Salem county
courts in April to Everett S. Sparks
for injuries he received while in the
company's employ.
Bridgeport is arranging for an
elaborate observance of Memorial
day. Rev. Charles l.. Seaholes, of
Germantown, will deliver an Grafton,
and the Junior Mechanics will act as
an escort to the veterans in a parade.
OF the next six men, who pass you
on the street, one has some money to
invest-one is looking for another
place to live, and one is anxious to
secure a better job. Naturally these
three men are reading the wants
nowadays. Have you anything to
say to them?