Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
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LOCAL ITEMS.
LOCAL ITEMS.

stopped for a few days with her
brother, Rev. j. r.. Mason, of Col
linswood.
Miss Charlotte Cowell, of Phila-
dclphia, is spending her summe va
cation at the home of Mrs. NJ. Gifiin,
OF Broadway.
Mrs. Sophia Peltier, of Newark, is
visiting Charles Stratton, of Broad
way.
Miss Annette Kerr has gone to
Elizabeth to spend her vacation.
Mrs. Charles Bennett, of Borden
town avenue, was a Perth Amboy
visitor yesterday.
Miss Elizabeth Morgan. of Broad
way, is reported seriously i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. C. Perrine were
out of town visitors Saturday.
Mrs. Robert Thorp and children
and her mother are out of town visit
oTs.
Miss Mildred oliver, of First
street, is visiting relatives out OF
town.
Mrs. Theodore Bloodgood, of
Perth Amboy, visited her mother,
Mrs. Mccartney, of Second street,
yesterday.
The foundation for DR.. Meacham's
house Is nearly completed and ready
for the stills.
Mrs. Mary Smith, of Bordentown
avenue, is entertaining a lady guest.
Mr.. Smith, now of New York, spent
Monday with his mother.
Harry Parisen has just sold anoth-
er piano. He will move the contents
of his music store into the store for
merly occupied by George Scully, on
Broadway, where he will carry on the
business in future.
Mrs. b. r. Ravens and children, of
Broadway, will spend two weeks as
the guests of Mrs. Ravens sister,
Mrs. V~ersfelt, of Jersey City.
Yesterdays heavy showers played
high jinks with the Bordentown ave-
nue. curve, corne of Broadway and
kept the trolley men busy as usual
in rainy weather.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. s. Walsh, of Cath
arine street, are entertaining d gem
tleman friends from New York city,
among several other guests this week.
Mrs. Joseph Jackson, Sr., of Cath
arine street, and her guest, Mrs. Will
liam Thorne, of Elizabeth, spent
Tuesday as the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Campbell, of Perth Am
boy.
Miss Florence Parisen, of David
street. has returned home from a four
weeks visit with friends at Freehold,
and is now entertaining Miss Maria
DAWSON, of that town, who accom-
panied her home for a visit.
Master Harry De Graw, of Cathar-
inc street, is spending part of his va
cation out OF town with his mother.
Mrs. A. Behne and daughter Lii
liam are going to Sharon, Conn, for
a visit with friends. Willie Behne
will return home after a four weeks
delightful visit there on their arrival.
Mrs. Harry Parisen spent Monday
and Tuesday with her sister at Free
hold and returned home in time to
take in the Keyport carnival. She
reports a very enjoyable time.
Mrs. August Behne. of Stevens ave
nue., spent yesterday in New York
City and Antrim, Long Island.
Miss Sarah Brophy and sister, with
a party of friends, went to Lawrence
Harbor for an outing yesterday after
noon, and were caught in the fierce
showers which came up so suddenly.
Three Italian men working for the
Raritan River railroad company. were
brought home on Tuesday Frustrated
by the heat.
Will Green and a jockey made
three trips to Freehold in Mr.. Green's
automobile, where they superintend-
ed the shipment of some horses one
day last week and on their return to
this borough from the third trip the
steering gear broke and the machine
ran into the stump of a tree which
had been blown down in n severe
storm in front of William MaXfield's
house, on Bordentown cenue The
machine turned upside down, but 1t
was not learned that either of the
men were hunt. and the machine was
righted and taken away later on.
On Sunday morning a party started
for Bordentown in their automobile
about six o'clock. A fog was raising
at the time, and they supposed it
would lift before they reached their
destination; but not so. 1t was there
to stay, and became heavier and hea-
vier. until water ran down the faces
of the occupants of the auto and off
of the chauffeur's gloves and even
off the wheels of the machine, and
the fog was still dense when they ar
rived at Bordentown. On their return
trip in the afternoon the fog had dis
appeared, but Old Sol just gave them
n sun bath all the way along and the
heat was almost unbearable. So
Sunday proved to be anything but an
ideal day for automobile trips.
One of our local residents, while
ont of town in his automobile, came
near colliding with a trolley car. The
motorman did not ring his bell on
nearing a curve and only that the
auto was going slow saved a general
smashup. AS it was the front of the
car ran between the lamps on the
front of the auto just as both stop
nod Had there been an accident,