Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-17

The excavation work on the
property of Harris Cohen, in upper
Smith street, is progressing rapidly.
When this building Is completed 1t
Will contain the clothing store of
Harris Cohen, now situated at $40
Smith street, and their dwelling will
be above the store.
james Mcfarland. of Sherman
street, formerly an employe of the
DUPONT Powder Company, a Sc
cured a position with the Raritan
Copper Works of this city.
The Jolly Rover Club members
will hold their regular weekly dance
urday night. Coco music has been
secured.
The Franklin Social Club, newly
organized with about twenty-five
members, will open their clrrbrooms
on lower watson avenue In the near
future. President Kuhn is fast Sc
curing new members and hopes to
have twice as many members by the
end Of the month.
The Mcclellan Engine Company
held a special meeting in their rooms
Monday night, when they decided tt
give a banquet to their members who
served in the Army or Navy during
the war. The banquet is to be given
on November 9Th, in Frem Hall, ON
Lehigh avenue near Prospect street.
Preparations have been made by
Middlesex Council, No. 63, Jr., o. U.
A. M, for the initiation of q number
of candidates at its meeting at Odd
Fellows hall tonight. The first. sec
ond, and third degree of the order will
be conferred at this time. A number
of out of town visitors are expected to
be present to witness the class inlt1a-
ton.
Seventeen one dollar member
ships were received today by the New
Jersey Intra-Coastal Canal Associa-
ton. A So membership was ais re-
ceived from the Federal Terra Gotta
Company Of Woodbridge.
The regular semi-monthly meet
ing of the Board of Water Commits
sioners will be held in City Hall to-
night.
The Pioneer Sporting Club, who
have their clubrooms in upper Smith
street, will hold their regular weekly
meeting tonight. The question OF
membership fee will be taken up and
a decision made as to whether they
will have a basketball team for the
coming season.
In order to make room for a
store building. two houses. corner OF
Madison avenue and State street have
been moved from their sites relocat-
ed on another property. 1t Is under
stood that work on the new stores will
start at once.
Due to the breaking down of an
engine on a Central Railroad of New
Jersey train yesterday afternoon no
trains over this line reached this city
after 5:26 o'clock until a few min
utes before 7 o'clock last night. Many
persons living out of the city in the
towns of Monmouth county were de-
layed at the station here waiting for
the trains, as there are no Pennsyl-
vania trains going south after the
one at 1925 o'clock in the afternoon
until the S:24 at night and the COM
muters have to depend on the trains
of the Central to get them home.
A meeting of the local post OF
the American Legion will be held to-
night in the War Camp Community
Service rooms in, Smith street. In
view of the fact that the present
rooms of the War Camp Community
Service will be closed up, the question
of obtaining a meeting place for the
Legion will be discussed and acted
upon at tonight's meeting.
The Middlesex County Medical
Society it meeting today at the nurses
home at the city hospital here.