Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-21
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LOCAL ITENIS.

Mr.. and Mrs. T.. h. QuackenbOSS,
of Broadway. are the happy parents
of a little daughter, born Saturday
night.
notwithstanding opposition the
Swan Hill Ice Company appears to be
busy.
The Chinese Wisteria vines on
Broadway, etc. look handsome. G.
~'traub has a beauty of a vine and
Mr., Wallis also.
The Broadway and Main street
light has a new globe and it shows 1t
when burning. Some of the residents
had complained of the light. saying
that If the globe was cleaned it would
be much brighter and the new globe
seems TO prove it.
The open trolley ears carried a
large number of passengers Sunday
who enjoyed the fresh air and the
sight of the green fields and woods
as thoy passed through them.
Little Liz of Morgan, is very
busy these days catching h~orsefeet
on the beach and she is quite an
adept at the business according to
the number she had piled up on the
beach the day we saw her.
Charles Stratton and daughter.
Mrs. John Taylor, and grandson, of
Broadway, were Keyport visitors
Sunday.
Some of our local fishermen have
caught a small number of weakfish
in their nets.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Brown and
Master Harry DeGraw enjoyed a
trolley ride out of town Sunday.
Mr.. Holman, of Princeton. a form
er resident of this borough. spent
Sunday in town with friends.
The Misses Bloodgood and Grover.
of the Heights, were Keyport visitors
Sunday.
Miss Bessie Mundy, of Catharine
street, was a Keyport visitor Sunday.
Mrs. Mont Willett. of George
street, was a Matawan visitor Sun
day.
Quite a number of launches put in
at the creek yesterday.
Mrs. Rebecca Stratton and daugh-i
ter, Mrs. j.. Compton, spent Thursday
in Newark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Meinzer. of
Broadway, were out of town visitors
Sunday.
Miss Blanche Sutphen Compton. of
Atlantic Highlands. is visiting her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Comp
ton. of David street.
Miss Mae Compton. of Church ,
street, entertained her cousin, Miss
Alva Compton. Thursday night.
1t is reported that two of II
Broadway merchants are going !
abroad in the spring.
Miss Gertrude Petty, of Second
street. was a Perth Amboy visitor
Saturday.
Mrs. Oscar Mundy was seen attend
ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Reh-
fuss bakery, Saturday evening, for
the first time in several weeks. Mrs.
Rehfuss is not enjoying very good
health.
Miss Eta Sullivan, of Keyport,
spent Friday as the guest of her sis
ter, Miss Nellie Sullivan, of Broad
wav.
William Selb, of Church street,
was a New York visitor Saturday.
Edward Hacket and daughter, of
Maxville, and Carl Straub, of Broad
wav, drove to Matawan Sunday and
on Mrs. Robert Higgins, at
Browntown.
Mr.. and Mrs, Joseph Tice and
daughter, of Perth Amboy, spent Sun
day with relatives in this borough.
Bertram Longstreet, of Borden
town, spent Sunday with Rev. and
Mrs. J.. Y. Irwin, at the Baptist par
sonage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe A. Sexton and
son William enjoyed a sUin in their
automobile Saturday to Bordentown
where they visited relatives until
Sunday afternoon.
Very few automobiles were seen
in town Sunday and the place seem
ed remarkably quiet, with one excep-
ton, that of the boys on Bordentown
and ~Boardway, who were
noisy towards evening.
Sometime after midnight Saturday
young people were heard going
along Broadway, near Bordentown
avenue, talking and laughing and in
4 short time several rifle shots were
heard in the same vicinity, after
which eight men in one party passed
DOWN Broadway towards George
They appeared by their
speech to be foreigners. Whether
hey had done the shooting could not
De told, but it was thought that some
where in that vicinity some kind of
celebration had been going on.
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