Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-23
SOUTH AMBOY

The regular meeting of the Board
or Education will be held in the of
nee of the City superintendent Of
Schools Wednesday night.
thursday night the installation OF
ofhcers of Seneca Tribe, No. 20, I'M
proved Order of Red Men will take
place in the X. of 2. Hall. A large
attendance of the membership is re-
quested as other business of interest
Is to be transacted
There will be an inspection of the
Third Battalion Band Saturday as
well as the inspection of Company +.
The change of orders was received late
Saturday night.
There will be a meeting of Troop
No. 1 Boy Scouts of America tonight
at which time plans for the Welcome
Home Celebration viii be taken up.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Mills and
daughter, of New York City, were To-
cal visitors yesterday.
A huge Welcome Home Banner was
to be placed in this city on Saturday
but the contractor failed to appear.
1t Is expected however thai it will be
placed today.
Professional decorators are expect
ed in town today. All the people are
urged to decorate their homes. If you
cannot do 1t yourselves these profess
Sional decorators will do the work.
They already have contracted for sew
eral business houses besides all the
public buildings.
The far sighted merchants of the
city are laying in a stock of confetti.
sparklerS, colored fire and a quantity
of noise makers for use in the Mardi
Gras Saturday night.
The Liberty Loan Committee has Sc
cured a Victory Medal such as pre-
scented to the members of the COM
mittee. and it will be presented to
Zimmerman, of Keyport, for
his work in the last Liberty Loan
when he few over the city and dis
tributed thousands of Liberty Loan
circulars.
Arrangements are being completed
whereby the local NEWS representa-
tive will make a flight over the city
Saturday in an aeroplane. During the
flights letters of welcome will be dis
tributed to the men who have been
in the service.
Although no active campaign to
raise money to defray the expenses of
the WELCOME Home Celebration" is
being made the members of the COM
mittee will be pleased to receive any
contributions. 1t takes money to run
any celebration and this is the way
the money for this celebration
will be secured.
The interior of Company's F service
club will be ~redecorated this week so
as to be in tip top shape for the Of
fetal opening on Saturday.
The safe of the South Amboy Trust
is being placed in the Pari-
sen building which will be used as
the new bank.
Many local people visited the grad
uation exercises of the parochial
of Perth Amboy yesterday af-
ternoon in the Majestic theatre.
Cecil Buckalew was a Tottenville
visitor last evening.
John Conley OF this city, was a
Perth Amboy visitor last evening.
j. Lee Larew has started work of
wiring Companys F"s Service Club on
David street. The work will be COM
pleted in time for the official opening
on Saturday.
Many attended the closing night of
the firemen's carnival at Keyport Sat-
urday night.
Andy's bus line running between
Perth Amboy and Morgan is the new
est entry in the jitney scramble.
Last night again the trolley service
between the SISTER cities was tied
up for several hours. At the turn
of the county road a J. c. T. car went
off the track and could not be placed
on the rails for several hours.
Mrs. J.. E. Shaw, of South River. at
the baccalaureate service in
M. f. church of this city last night.
Marie Shaw is n of this years grad
yates.
Me- and Mrs. Joseph MILAN. Of
New York city. were local visitors
on Sunday, spending the day with rel
atives.
Now that the bathing scare is at an
end the people of this city are taking
advantage OF the splendid beach of
this city and are taking their evening
din