Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-18

The young people Of Shiloh made
$50 from a Strawberry festival.
Levi Ayars. of Marlboro, had an
arm broken by the kick of a horse.
A dramatic club has been formed
in the st. Paul's Lutheran church,
Millville.
The president, Wednesday, APP
pointed j. b. Vausbeck postmaster
at M%anasquan.
Jacob w. Walsh was appointed
fourth-class postmaster at German
Valley Wednesday.
John Whitall, of Woodbury., ship
ped 700 lunches OF asparagus to
Boston on Tuesday.
The new Elmer Baptist church will
be dedicated on its second anniver-
sary, May 81.
one of the biggest forest fires eve
known in thesvicinlty is raging south
of Toms River.
Supreme Court Justice Jonathan
Dixon Is seriously III at the home OF
a daughter in Englewood.
A new camp of the Patriotic Order
Sons of America will be organized in
Elmer Saturday evening.
Farmers around Marlboro, Cum
berland county, have lost all of their
early potatoes and tomatoes by frost.
Foreign tomato buyers are now in
Salem county securing wharves and
as many acres Of tomatoes as posi-
Bile.
Wal veterans from Pitman Grove
and Glassboro held a reunion at the
home of Frank w. Coull, ut Glass
boro, Wednesday.
The annual meeting of the Camden
District Stewards will be held in st.
Georges M. e. church, East Camden,
next Tuesday.
The Grand Lodge of New Jersey,
Order of Odd Fellows, held a session
in P~leasantville, and enjoyed a ban
quet Wednesday night.
A summer school will be establish
ed in Shiloh Academy under the man
agement of Professor Walter b.
Davis, with efficient teachers.
Colonel Lewis Perrine democratic
candidate for congress in the fourth
district in 1902, has Joined the Tren-
ton Republican Club.
Mrs. Catherine Smith, flfty-seven
years old was found dead on the
floor of her home, in Trenton, by her
son Wednesday. County Physician
Rogers found that death was due to
natural causes.
The first convention OF the South
ern Dental Society of New Jersey
opened Wednesday in the Temple
Building, Camden, and was continued
yesterday.
The Eleventh Ward Patriotic AS
ISOLATION, of Camden, has engaged
the West Jersey Band for the Fourth
of July celebration at Reservoir
Park.
A special school meeting Will be
held at Williamstown on May rs to
vote on an appropriation of $1,000
to erect and furnish a new eight
room school building.
Several Philadelphia people have
been in Clayton looking for homes,
which, together with a previous de-
mand for properties, has caused a
boom in real estate.
Elmer public schools will close
May 25. There will be no graduates
this year, because of a raise of the
grade, and not a few of the pupils
are greatly disappointed. -
Mrs. David Crowley, daughter OF
John Garrison, who was married AT
Millville a week ago, was stricken
with appendicitis and removed to II
County Hospital in a critical condi-
ton Wednesday.
Young America was seen disport-
ing in the cooling waters or m
lake Wednesday. What they re-
ceived on returning home Is said to
have warmed them" up so they did
not catch cold.
Responding to a remonstrance
signed by over 200 people. the ex-
else board of Bordentown on Tuesday
night refused to grant the license APP
plication of Stacey Donovan for the
American House.
For stealing $40 worth of c~elluloid
harness rings from the stables OF
David Baird, in Camden, Frank Lit
tie, aged thirteen years, and Albert
Carr. aged twelve years were held
for court by recorder Stackhouse
Wednesday.
The Burlington County Board Of
Freeholders Wednesday reelected
Joel Homer director, and Ernest ID.
Holman. clerk. The annual budget
includes $500 as the county's reward
for the capture of the Atkinson MUIR
derers.
jealousy over n woman caused a
light between Benjamin Pruitt and
Charles Ryan, both colored, in which
RYAN had his head split open with a
beer glass in Camden Recorder
Stackhouse held Pruitt in $500 bail
for court.
At the second trial of the damage
suit of Frederick Schafer against the
Camden & Suburban Railway Com
pany a jury in the Camden court
Wednesday Topped off just $1,000
from the verdict given by the jury at
the first trial, the verdict being for
$3.50.
At the spring institute of the Cum
berland CountysW. C. r. u, in Cedar
willie. Wednesday, the address OF vel
come was delivered by Mrs. Joseph
inc Garrison. and the response by
Mrs. Laura w. Gibson, of Bridgeton.
The county president, Mrs. Francis
f. f. Downing, the state president,
Mrs. Emma Bourne, and others
spoke.
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