Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-18
SOUTH aMBoY

The members of the M. L. Sunday
school will entertain tomorrow morn
ing for Asbury Park and Ocean Grove
on their annual excursion. For the
past forty years the Sunday school has
made this trip and it has increased in
popularity each time. 1t has come
to be a city holiday and the most
popular outing of the season. Trains
will leave the Central railroad sta
ton at S:45 o'clock and returning will
get in this city about 1880.
Several men from st. Mary's parish
who made the carnival of h a church
such a success, travelled to Jamesburg
Saturday night to assist the men of
the church in hat place. The local
men made quite a reputation Tor
themselves.
The main topic of conversation in
this city at the present time is ship
canal. Along this subject comes a
proposition of bulkheading the city
out to deep water and thus giving
South Amboy real terminal facilities.
1t is proposed hat the sane and mud
which will be dug out of the Rar1tan
bay be thrown on the shore thus
building it out a considerable dis
lance. With this done it would be pos
sible for the city to acquire municipal
docks and offer inducements to the
several large manufacturing concerns.
No doubt this proposition will be in
cluded in the program of the South
Amboy branch of the Intra-Coastal
Canal Association.
The Luke A. Lovely Post American
Legion will have it's first social event
tomorrow night when the e~x-service
men Of the city and their guests will
be entertained at a lawn party. The
lawn will be beautifully decorated and
lighted. Music will be on and for
those who desire to dance while for
others cards will be an attraction.
While at work in the Raritan River
railroad shops Saturday Edward
Cheeseman, of this city lost the hand
of his right arm. He was at work fix
ing a "hot box and signaled for the
engineer to go ahead and his hand
was on the track. It became neces-
sary to amputate.
The city was once more without
lights for a short while last night.
After the hard rains of the past
few days the roads leading to he
city are in very bad condition.
The storm sewers have proven to be
inefficient once more. They We're
cleaned out on Saturday and in one
instance several wagon loads of sand
removed while again last night the
water was rushing over the sidewalks
at John street the being unable
to carry all of the water.
Residents of B~ordentown avenue
are beginning to ask for action of the
pavement of the street. They complain
of the dust and are urging that work
be started Immediately.
The Monmouth Lighting Company
has practically completed the work
of installing new lights in the distant
parts of the city.
Mr.. n Mrs. George S. Mills, of
New York City, spent the week end
x-s41 r11nffrrna IN fhic n1tU Nn
Mrs. s. A. Mills, of this city, left
Saturday for a motor trip to Smyrna,
Delaware.
All the "old timers that came back
for the Old Home Celebration have re-
turned to their various homes in the
different parts of the country.
Cecil Bukelew. of this city. was a
Tottenville visitor last evening.
Jacob Newmark, of David street,
spent Tuesday visiting with relatives
in New York City.
Capt. and Mrs. Edwin c. Roddy
| were shore visitors yesterday after
noon.
, Steps are being taken to rrange a
rifle tournament between the mem
bers of the American Legion and COD
pany F.
The ton of coal awarded by the Old
Home Celebration Committee to Mrs.
James Let's is now in the coal bin or
another resident of this city, who
| went over the head of the committee
| and notified Mr.. Peterson, the donor,
to send the coal TO his home as he
was entitled to it. Steps to secure
a readjustment are being made by
| the committee.
The carnival hat a held forth In
| st. Mary's grove removed all its ma
terial from this city Saturday night.
The st. Mary's interest closed on Mon
| day night and then the crowds began
| to get smaller so they decided to move
to a better location.
There will be a meeting of the COM
mon council tomorrow night at which
time there will be a public hearing on
the "jitney ordinance"
The service of the M. E. church last
night was well attended notwithstand-
ing the weather. The Baptist and
Presbyterian churches being closed
for the month a number of those
people now attend the SER
vices.
Fred Deibert is making extensive
improvements to his property on Stew
ems avenue. He recently acquired ad-
ditional property from he Raritan
railroad and it is this that is being
improved.
William Roddy, of David street, was
a Perth Amboy visitor yesterday.
A number of men from Company
r went to Sea Girt Saturday TO COM
plete their shooting course. The day
on the range while in camp was spoil
ed by rain. Several good scores were
mazda on SATURDAY..