Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-04-15
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WELCOME HOME? /?
Celebration Committee Met
Last Night---No Change in
Plans for Demonstration

The Celebration Committee of the
city of Perth Amboy last night decid-
ed to extend the drive of the finance
committee for funds for the welcome
home to Perth Amboy's warriors un-
til Saturday night and to employ the
services of large woman's commit
tee to do general canvassing and SOL
letting and collecting. The schools
will probably be canvassed for funds
from the teachers and from the chill
dren. The, suggestion was made that
each child in the schools be asked to
contribute five cents at least to the
fund and in this way it is estimated
that $3.50 would be turned in.
While the reports received from
the finance committee canvassers are
good, the committee feels that it
should get more money and to. that
end the first effort of the finance COM
mitteemen will come to an end Satur-
day to enable the Victory Loan work.
ers to have free sway from the start
to the end of the loan campaign.
Reasons for Longer Drive
The reasons for extending the drive
were numerous, inclu Ing the fact
that the surface has only been
scratched, several of the factories
have not yet had paydays and large
number of organizations have not
held meetings since the drive started.
firemen will be requisitioned that they
may carry on street drive Saturday
night such as they carried on for the
Red Cross during the course of their
fund drive.
Chairman F. William Hilker. of the
finance committee, will soon name a
woman's committee who will work to
add large sum to the total.
Encouraging Report
The factories report that they will
have fine reports when their hands
are paid off. The committee on So
cieties reported that when all the or
ganizations had met they would ex-
Murray, for the police, reported that
the plans for their ball on April "a
were fine and things were Going
Strong!" There are $500 tickets for
the event out and only eight have
been returned. This would mean an
income of about $1,225.
The secretary reported that up to
last night he had turned over to the
treasurer, d. p. Olmstead, a total of
$3,191.35, which, with the $4,000 ap-
portioned by the city, makes grand
total of $5,191.35 in the fund.
Bills were ordered referred to the
finance committee. They were: La
Roe Press, a total of $96.50 for print
ing circulars. letterheads and envel-
OP6Sr EtILH k1nlOOy OOAh-
pany, for receipt books, $17.25;
Whitehead G. Hoag Company, for
buttons, a total of $265.73.
Those who attended last nights
meeting were Chairman William C.
Wilson, Secretary Arthur e. Graham.
Chairman of the Finance Committee
F. William Hilker, John Pfeiffer. w.
Guy Weaver, Ira r. Grouse, Chris
Anderson, John J. Clark, Albert
Waters, John Murray, Frank Tooker,
Thomas Patten, Nels Christianson,
Benjamin Reidy, Rasmus Hansen,
Ferd Garretson, David Preacher and
Jacob Kreielsheimer.
Money received yesterday from SUBJ
scriptions in the welcome home drive
amounts to about $500 bringing the
total up to $500. The subscribers
and the amounts follow:
Carpenters and Joiners $50
Charles NJ. Peterson ............ 20
Polish Sokol 81 .............n.. 10