Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-03-21
ALL OVER JERSEY

Thorofare Fire Company will be
incorporated next week.
One dealer of Paulsboro has or
ders placed for % motorcycles.
A Chautauqua will be held in Mill
Vile the third week In June.
The tree commission is busy plant
ing shade trees in Palmyra.
Joseph Banks has been appointed
Chief Fire Marshal at Paulsboro.
Bids were opened Wednesday for
new bridge at Malaga, ranging
from s1444 to $4,000.
The powder company Is preparing
to fill in the meadows ad joining the
plant at Gibbstown.
Edward Kiner, of Paulsboro, was
badly burned when he fell against
steam pipe.
An additional mail carrier will be
appointed at Paulsboro owing to the
increase in business.
Miss Katherine Hirsch, OF the Pal
myra high school, has been elected
historian of the senior class.
Wenonah women are packing a
box of clothing and toys for the
Children's Home at Trenton for
Easter.
Charles A. Riggs, of Burlington,
former deputy surrogate, has success
fully passed the bar examination,
Richard Rutter was arrested at
Millville and locked up for a hearing
ON charge of being a walking
tspeak- easy"
To raise funds to place a fence
|around the baseball field the Pauls-
boro Athletic Association will give
"a minstrel show.
Merchantville voters will decide on
April % upon bonding the borough
for 100000 for extensive street i'm
provements.
The employees of the Gibbstown
powder works here will receive their
pay every two weeks, instead Of
every three weeks.
The Millville w. c. T. U. has pc
titioned Congress to close the PAN
lama Exposition, in San Francisco, In
1915. on Sundays.
Ralph Blair, of Burlington, clever
ly captured a runaway horse by rid
ing after the animal on his bicycle
until he could seize its bride.
A supper to be prepared and
served entirely by the men will be
given in the First Methodist Church,
Saturday evening.
Ferdinand j. Potter, whose term
has expired as member of the
Bordentown excise board, will not be
a candidate for reappointment.
The Garden State Diaries, of Cam
den, have taken over the business of
the Harry r. Read Company and the
Camden branch OF the Supplee Dairy
The Millville Gas Company has
asked the State Public Utility Com
mission to approve its franchise for
Minetola, Landisville and Buena
Vista
George Lynn Keiffer, of Gettys-
burg, Pa, delivered an address on
! the battle before the students of the
Millville High School Tuesday after
moon.
Members of st. Mary's Rumanian
Catholic congregation at Roebling
have filed letters of Incorporation
and preparing to erect a church.
Arthur AtherhoIt, of Holmesburg,
Pa, the world-renowned balloonist,
will lecture in the First Baptist
Church, of Collingswood, Friday
might.
| MrS. JdfDeS IL. GeHuy PACKER, OF
Haddonfeld. will address the Col
| llineswood Parent-Teacher's Associa-
tion this afternoon In the high school
uditorium.
| The board OF education has or
dered the graduating class at the
Millville High School to wear caps
and gowns at the commencement eX-
ercises this year.
| The Clementon Springs Water
| Company will build a reservoir at the
summit of Signal Hill of sufficient
capacity to supply Clementon and
nelghbOring boroughs.
A progressive entertainment, with
each of six acts In different home.
will be given this evening by the
Kings Daughters Of the First Baptist
| Church, of Burlington.
Wanted as runaways from the
Jamesburg Reform School, Robert
Alburger, IA years old, of Camden,
and Charles Rump, 6 years old, of
! Hoboken, were found in Camden
| yesterday.