Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-16
STATE NEWS.

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A Woodbury. contractor will lay
II 20, 900 feet of concrete walks and
curb in Paulsboro.
Barnegat Bay was alive with blue
fish as far north as Cedar Creek Point
Wednesday.
j. Hampton Moore, of Philadel-
phia, will deliver the Fourth of July
4 Grafton at Pitman Grove.
The Loyal Temperance Legion of
Hancock Bridge has been distribute
ing flowers to aged citizens.
The extension of the trolley line
from Almonesson to Blackwood is
expected to be completed by July 4.
The body of an infant was found
in an clubhouse in the rear of No. 706
South Second street, Camden, Thurs
day.
Life-savers discovered the body of
an unknown mar in the surf opposite
the Melrose Inn, Belmar, Thursday.
Frank Holdcraft, of Bridgeport,
received $145 spot cash for one wag-
onload of Strawberries at the Ped
ricktown station.
Judge Hildreth of Cape May coun-
ty, Thursday presided over a short
session of the Cumberland County
Orphans Court.
Falling out of a chair Thursday,
Robert Smith, aged seven years, of
No. 32S North Thirty-ninth street,
Camden, broke his left arm.
Several fishermen around Penns-
vile, Disguised with the shad season,
are selling their boats and outfits for
anything they can get.
Following a Flag day custom. Jer-
sey Blue Council, Jr. Mechanics, of
Clayton, decorated the graves of dead
members Thursday evening.
The members of Company A,
Third Regiment, held their last
dance of the season with a prize waltz
in Burlington Thursday night.
Several East Camden butchers and
grocers have agreed to close their
stores at noon every Wednesday to
give their clerks a h~alf-holiday.
William Sockwell is lying critical
ly i'll at his home In Clayton as a re-
suit of a fall from a cherry tree. The
limb on which he was standing broke.
Many sections of Burlington coun-
ty are afflicted with a plague of rose
bugs, which are ravaging fruit trees
and vegetation in an alarming man
ner.
The Hope Steam Fire Engine Com
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invitation to participate in the fire.
mems parade at Elizabeth in October.
Plunging twenty feet from a scat
fold at the coke plant in Camden,
Thursday, William Bolton, twenty
two years old, of Philadelphia, es-
capped with bad bruises.
Rev. George G. Foley, of Philadel-
phia, has been appointed rector of
Holy Trinity p. e. church, Ocean
City, and will enter upon his duties
today.
Seven additional! warrants were is
sued in the Camden police court
Thursday for the arrest of as many
storekeepers chargebawit selling
cigars on Sunday.
A large number of people Thurs
day night attended the annual lawn
fete of the guilds of st, Mary's par
ish on the lawn surrounding the
guild house, in Burlington.
George H. Parker, who has been
an engineer on the Salem branch cf
the West Jersey & Seashore Railroad
Company for twenty-three years, has
been assigned to 1.-THE Cape May
branch. M,af l M
So that he would be nearer home,
Engineer Henry Harris. of No. COS
South Fourth street. Camden, who
was. injured in a wreck at Eatontown,
was taken to Cooper Hospital, Cam
den, Thursday. 40
j. B. r. Smith, state commissioner
of automobiles, Thursday announced
the appointment of William l..
Evans, of Bridgeton, as a license
agent for Cumberland, Salem and
Cape May counties.
Coroner Fithian, of Camden,
Thursday, issued a certificate that
Mrs. Mary e. Cliggett, of No. S36
Newton avenue. died from paralysis.
1t was stated that Mrs. Cliggett had
not had medical attention.
On a charge of cruelty treating her
ten-ycar-old daughter, Mrs. John
Kcnney, of No. 244 Walnut street,
Camden, was Thursday committed
to Jail for a hearing last-night before
Justice of the Peace Thompson.
While Ralph Stafford, "a Bridgeton
boy, was watching a baseball game
last week, he was struck in the eye
with a bat. He was hurried to a
Philadelphia hospital, but returned
Thursday, having lost the sight OF
the eye. 2
Rev. Levanus Myres, of Alloway,
VIM Woo plii4Sipol vi thO Oo
schools last year, has been elected
supervisor of the Cape May county
schools, and his son, tanning, has
been chosen to succeed him at Wild
wood.
Great anxiety is felt concerning the
whereabouts of Raymond Powell, a
fifteen-year-old South Millvflle lad,
who strangely disappeared from his
home on Saturday, last. He had
about $40 which he had saved for
his summer vacation.
Flower Mission day was observed
by the Beverly w. C. T. U. on Wed
nesday, and Charles f. Richardson
was given a vote of thanks for his
generous work in distributing bou.
quets through the slum district o
Philadelphia.
The improvements to the Toms
River Presbyterian church are aDou'
completed, and dedicatory services
will be held next Sunday morning
Rev. e. B. Hodge, d. D., OF ths
Presbyterian Board of Publication
Philadelphia, will preach. lf.4