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Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-03
PRELIMINARY WORK ON new
KEyPORT BOROUGH ROAD

KEYPORT, May 3.-Work of ex-
cavating Front street for the laying
of the lead water laterals began
Monday morning under the super
vision of Engineer William II.
Byrne, Sr. During the past week
the Jersey Central Traction Com
pany had the poles reset on the
south side of the street to conform
with the new sidewalk width. All
the trees have now been removed
and the sidewalks in many instances
have beer taken up prior to receiv-
ing the new grade when they will
be relaid and the curbing reset.
The new road to be built will be
of cement and the work will be di-
rected by Engineer Gary. The troll
ley track will be removed from its
present site and placed in the cen
ter of the road. A section on the
north side of this street is now
closed to traffic.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-03
ToTTENvILlE

Mrs. H. C. Ellis and Mrs. Frank
Valentine. of Woodbridge, visited
here yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. r. Dexheimer and children.
of South Amboy, have been visiting
Mrs. William Clark.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. William Sher. of 245 Wood
avenue, Friday.
Miss Eleanor Cougle. operator at
the Perth Amboy telephone ex-
change, has returned to duty after
q weeks vacation.
julius Meersseman, Sr., carpen-
ter's mate or the steamship Poto-
mac, of the L. s. Shipping Board,
who was home for a few days with
his family in Wood avenue, sailed
again today for another trip over
seas
Beauvais Post No. 1926. American
Legion, will meet tonight to make
further arrangements for Memorial
Day.
,Fhe monthly meeting Of the Tot
tenville orchestra was held last
night for rehearsal at the Masonic
temple.
Bentley Lodge No. $40, Odd Eel
lows. held a social session last night
following its meeting in celebration
of the 1O2 anniversary OF the found
ing of the first lodge of Odd Eel
lows in this country, April 26, 1919.
A meeting of the Aquehonga Ath-
letic Club will be held at, the club
house tonight.
At a meeting of Richmond Tenn
pie Pythian Sisters to be held
Thursday night at Amicitia hall,
Pleasant Plains, plans will be made
for the district convention to be held
here on May 10.
A business meeting of the w. C..
T. U. will be held tomorrow after
noon at the home of Mrs. Aversion,
Butler avenue.
Ruel Quensel, of st. Nicholas ter
race Manhattan, and Fred Hum
phrey. of 1913 East Polk avenue,
Corona. L. l.. were fined $25 each in
the second district court yesterday
on a charge of speeding by Magis-
trate Fetherston.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-03
HEARING FOR
GARBAGE BILL
Senator Smith and Other
Staten Islanders to Urge
Governor to Sign Measure.

fBy Evening News Stan Correspondent
TOTTENVILLE, May 3-A hear
ing on the garbage bill by the recent
legislature to prevent the opening of
the garbage reduction plant on Stat
Ell Island will be held at the exec
utive chamber in Albany tomorrow
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Governor
Miller has given notice of the hear
ing through w. Ward Smith, the
governors secretary. Stuart l..
Ritz, president of the Tottenville
Branch of the Staten Island Civic
League. received a telegram to that
effect last night asking his attend
ance at the hearing. State Senator
C. Ernest Smith, of New Brighton.
the representative of Staten Island
in the state senate and who had the
bill passed in the senate, Is going
Up to the hearing. He will proba-
bly, be accompanied by a number
from Staten Island to urge the gov
ernor to sign the measure.
The bill as passed by both the
senate and assembly is a state meas
ure and is an amendment to the
public service health law and pro-
hibits the transfer of garbage from
one county to another In the state
without the consent of the local au-
thorities. II it becomes a law it will
prevent Manhattan, Brooklyn and
the Bronx from bringing its garbage
to the reduction plant at Lakes
Island In the Freshkill creek near
Greenridge. Health Commissioner
Copeland of the city of New York.
Is said to have asked the governor
not to. sign the bill. The garbage
pIant was closed two years ago and
there has been a strong feeling on
Staten Island that the plant which
was declared a nuisance at that time
would be opened again by the Met
ropolitan B~y-Products Company,
which concern operated 1t before as
a rendering plant. The present adj
ministration closed the plant and
1t is not likely that they would allow
it to be opened again, but the bill,
If signed by the governor, would be
a safeguard until 1t could be re-
pealed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-03
BABY CONTEST DURING CHILD
WELFARE WEEK, so. AMBOY

SOUTH AMBOY, May 3.-During
Child Welfare Week a baby contest
will be held and a prize of So will
be given for the baby who comes
nearest to meeting the requirements
of the committee. This prize is Of
fered by the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance Company through its local rep
resentative. A. Steiner.
In addition prizes will be awarded
for the best composition written by
any pupil in any school in this city.
A prize of SO will be awarded fot
first prize and for the second best a
prize of 50 will be given. The sub
jects will be:
Cleanliness as an aid to health.
Education.
Good Citizenship.
How to make and keep a beauti-
full city.
These prizes are offered through
the Chamber of Commerce and the
Woman's Club.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-03
JAMESBURG

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Held are the
parents of a baby daughter, born
this week, their second child.
A committee from the high school
will give a dance in Lange's Hall
Friday night. Cortelyou's orches-
ira, of New Brunswick, will furnish
the music.
Owing to several of the orchestra
taking their degrees as odd Fellows
at Camden, Saturday night, there
was no dance held in Lange's Hall.
The committee expect to continue
the dances through May. with one
on May Z.
As has been their custom for
many years, the Ladies Aid Society
of the JameSburg Methodist church
have announced the first strawberry
festival of the aso to be held May
10.
William r. Emmons has sold his
two-family tenant house on Willow
street to Joseph Pergola and pur-
chased the double dwelling on Rail-
road avenue adjoining the building
he recently purchased.
Announcement has been made of
the holding of a religious revival in
the Methodist church in the fall.
The Rev. r. A. Conover, of Camden,
q r~eNlVdilSt OIL Stale-Wlue idme, Will
be in charge.
The annual dance given in Lange's
Hall Friday night, under the aus
pices of the Jamesburg Concert
Band, was attended by nearly two
hundred people from Helmetta,
Spotswood. Cranbury, Midtown,
Hightstown and other adjacent
towns.
A bad leak in the main line of the
water supply. on Franklin street, of
the Jamesburg Water Company. has
| caused quite a flow of water from
the break in the main caused by an
uto truck overloaded sinking into
the ground and striking the pipe.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-03
RECTOR is GRANTED
VACATION BY VESTRY

fBy Evening News STAFF Correspondent
TOTTEtNVILLE, May 3-The
monthly meeting of the vestry of st.
Stephens Episcopal church was
held last night at the rectory in AM
boy road. Several matters We're
discussed and it was decided to give
the rector, Rev. Andrew Harper, a
months vacation this summer. An
invitation was received for the re-
ception to be rendered to Bishop
eject Manning and Mrs. Manning,
to be held May II, at the Cathe-
/ dral of st. John Divine in Manhat-
)tan. The invitation which calls for
the attendance of three vestrymen,
wac accepted. The reception is
given blythe dean of the cathedral.
1t will be held in the afternoon. A
diocesan convention will be held at
Che cathedral at the same time and
representatives of the church will
be there to take part in the ses-
sion.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-03
PLEASANT PLAINS

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Barrett ard
son, of Jersey City, were visitors
at Prince Bay Beach Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. +. Wakeman
are home after a trip to Washing
ton and Hot Springs, Va.
c. A. Shea, of Amboy road, was
a visitor in Manhattan yesterday.
James Fry, of New Brighton. has
been visiting friends at Huguenot
Park.
Mrs. David Wares was a visitor
in Perth Amboy yesterday.
Henry Johnson, of Brooklyn,
spent the week enc at Little Farms.
Mrs. Thomas Carroll of Hugue-
not Park, visited in Tottenville yes
terday afternoon.
A meeting of the entertainment
committee of the Amicitia Associa-
ton will be held tonight at the club
house in Amboy road.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-03
FURTHER MEMORIAL DAY
PLANS AT SESSION HERE

Enrtbnr arra for The Me-
mariaI Nav narode and decoration
Of the graves of departed comrades
ar tho various cemeteries of the city
on Dacoration Dav. Monday, May
"a wnre made last night at a meet
no no nf The committee of the various
W. veteran organizations at City
Muaa i
Past DEPARTMENT Commander
Iant r. GnrcatSnn of The Grand
nIn 40 pennhI;c of the state
nf NJ Jersey cbairman of the COM
wittaa u,as in the chair and John
~RniiwintIe IT. secretary. was at
Ne s]tation Two hands of music
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-03
GRAND JURY FAILED TO
INDICT; MAN LET GO

(By Evening News Stan Corrospondent.1
TOTTENVILLE, May 3.-James
Macoy, twenty years old, colored, of
1897 Woodrow road, Sandy Ground,
near Pleasant Plains, has been re-
leased from custody on a charge of
stealing thirty-two chickens valued
at $50 on December 20, last year. at
ter a grand jury failed to find an in
dictment against the young man.
Macoy had been out on bail since
the time of his arrest and now his
bondsman has been released. Macoy
told the police at the time of the ar
rest that Fritz Mitchell, whom he
worked for. stole the chickens and
hat he assisted him. Mitchell was
indicted and pleaded not guilty.
When. it came time for trial he was
discharged because of lack of evil
dence, it is said.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-03

firehouse.
Messrs. Carl Froelich, Peter John.
son, Arthur Olsen, Thomas Stevens
and Heinrich Moog, of Fords, attend
ed the regular meeting of Protection
Fire Company No. l last night.
Mrs. Charles Lipka entertained
out-of-town relatives at her home
yesterday.
Mrs. John Bertram was an out-of-
town visitor yesterday.
Mrs. l. Jensen and daughter. OF
Fords, were local visitors yesterday
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Fesler anN
children motored to Elizabeth LAST
night.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-03
KEASBEY

Mrs. James Lawless of Metuchen,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Fullerton of
Fords and Mrs. William j. Fullerton,
of town, motored to Philadelphia
Sunday where they visited Mrs. Will
liam Clark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Halbert and
son, of Perth Amboy, visited Mr.. and
Mrs. James Quish last night.
Mrs. William Romer was an out
of-town visitor yesterday.
keasbey Junior Fire Company is
scheduled to meet tonight in the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-03
NOTICE

To Whom II May Concern
Pursuant to the provisions of an Act or
the Legislature of New Jersey entitled
IAN Act to authorize persons to change
their names" approved February 24th'
1876 and an amendment thereto approx
ed April 9th. 1911 notice is hereby given
that I shall apply to the Court OF Com
mon Pleas of the County of Middlesex at
the Court House at New Brunswick, New
Jersey on Friday the sixth day of May,
1921 at 10 o'clock in the forenoon or as
soon thereafter as | can be heard for an
order to authorize me to assume another
name to-wit:-WILLIAM V. ELkONlCs
WHARTON.
WILLIAM V. ELKOVGCS,
ia Rector Street, Perth Amboy, n. J.
THOs. A. CHRISTOPHER,
Attorney.
Dated. April 4th. 1921.
lS2s-4-5-12-19-26-5-2
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-03
Hospital Governors to Meet

The Board of Governors Of the City
Hospital will meet on Tuesday, May
10. at the City Hall. for the election
of seven governors. The meeting is
set for s O'Clock and will convene in
the Offices of the Water Department.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-03
To Give Comedy at Jamesburg

JAMESBURG, May 3.-The three
act comedy-drama, "A Hoodooed
Coon" under the auspices of the
Loyalty Bible class of the Methodist
church, in Lange's Hall tonight, pro-
misses to be the best effort of the dra-
matte club of that church in some
time. Mrs. Cleveland WINS is direct
ing the play which will De for the
benefit of the Bible class. The cast
of characters follows: Misery Moon"
a hoodooed coon, Arthur Brown;
Gideon Blair" a millionaire. How
ard Applegate; tom Rissle," as
slick as a whistle. Walter Jennings;
Hiram Tut" an awful nut, liner
~Jorgenson; Patrick Keller" a ticket
seller, Grandon Cole: Samantha
Slade," a poor old maid, Mrs. George
Dock; Rosebud Reese" her char
ming niece, Miss Marion Reid; Pau
la Maleck." a Bolshevik, Miss Elsie
Reid; Lulu Pearl" a Jazz-time girl.
Miss Florence Brown; Rosebud
Guests" Miss Margaret Christie, Miss
Elsie Vanderhoef.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-03

This is the latest invention design
ed to save policemen's lives. 1t is a
bu~llet-proof steel screen 10 feet high
and 4 feet wide. set on rollers and
hinged in the middle to form a cor
ner." 1t has small windows through
which police nay shoot. 1t is in
tended for use in creeping up on
outlaws who barricade themselves
in houses and fire or pursuers from
sheltered positions.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-09
ABBEVILLE BOYS MAKE GOOD

The many relatives and friends of
Sam A. Williams, son of Mrs.
Jim Williams of the Lebanon section
and brother of Miss Ellie Williams
at Peoples Bank, and of J. R. Swet-
enburg, son of Mrs. B. F. Sweten-
burg, will be glad to learn of the hon.
or conferred on them by Clemson
College. Mr.. Williams has been made
Cadet Major of a battalion. This
shows that his work at Clemson has
been good. There are only two higher
ranks that could have been conferred
on him. Mr.. Swetenburg has been
made Cadet Captain and will be in
charge Of a company. The appoint
ments are based on the record made
during the past three years, and
these boys are to be congratulated on
making good" and keeping up the
record of Abbeville. "You can't
keep an Abbeville boy down. The
Medium.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-09
THE WONDER STATE"

In the Hollomon dispatch from
South Carolina today The Constitu-
tons correspondent calls that the
"Wonder State" for the reason that
she depends almost entirely upon a
property tax for revenue; takes in,
all told, only about S6,ooo,OoO a
year; and yet it is matter of Off
cial record that the state is actually
leading the south in school support,
in proportion to her per capita
wealth, and white population.
South Carolina has population
of only 100000, or more than a
million less than Georgia. She has
no private property. She 10 in debt,
b. bccerowing each year to pay her OBJ
legations, hut she "pays" as she goes,
absolutely; and furnishes support to
her great agricultural college at
Clemson Of around $5OO,O0O a year !;
to her industrial normal $400,00O; to
her University S250,0OO, and to her
military college around $500,00O.
She leaves the responsibility of
common school maintenance to the
counties but appropirates $1,0OOO0O
a year to encourage consultations,
long terms, attendance, efficiency
etc., through various state aid bonus
es. :.:y
South Carolina, like Georgia, is
looking around for more modsrr
rahd adequate revenue system; but
South Carolina, unlike Georgia, il
not letting any of her institutions
educational or humane, suffer in ths
meantime. She appropriated, to il
Illustrate, in 1921, $7S4,OOO to he
state hospital.
! Indeed, it is a "Wonder State! ?
She never has a deficit" If sh
needs money she borrows it. Sh
makes business proposition out o
it.-Atlanta Constitution.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-09
SUNDAY SCHOOL INSTITUTE
FOR ABBEVILLE DISTRICT
A. M. E. Church Host to Delegates
From All Sections of the State
Last Week.
(By D. H. j..

The above named meeting was
held in St. James church, this city !;
Rev. D. A. Christie, pastor, who with
his people rendered a reception to
the institute Wednesday night. The
Rev. ]. E. Thomas, D. D., of New
berry, presiding elder of the district
presided over the sessions, which ex-
tended from Aug. "a to %.
There are twenty seven Sunday
Schools and fourteen pastorates,
mostly situated in the. county of
Abbeville; with few in Greenwood
and Mccormick counties.
The work of the institute compris-
ed instruction in Sunday School
management, discipline, methods and
Bible readings, the use of the cate
chism. The Question Box was used
to advantage. Essays, orations and
recitat:ons were heard; some of the
subjects were: "Christianity the
Panacea for Human Ills;;" 1.-THE Pow
er of Sentiment;" "The Tragedy of
Indifference" "Social Unrest and
Its Causes"
Sermons were preached by Rev. j.
B. Smith, "What is TRUTH" Text
John 1888. Rev. Geo. w. Bradley,
"Scriptural Ground for Infant Bap-
tism," Mat. 2s:19. Rev. j. E. Thomas,
"B;ble Perfection" Mat. 5:48. Mrs.
Mary Sullivan, Sowing and, Reap
ing" Gal. 6:7. Rev. J. w. L. Duck
EFT, Newberry, Rev. j. w. Washing
ton, Cokesbury and many others.
Money received during the session
amounted to s423.6s, divided as fol-
lows: education, $274.60; missions,
$34; contingent expenses $115.0s.
Rev. D. H. Johnson had charge
of the institute work. Presiding eld-
er Thomas was pleased with the work
of the institute and the entertain
ment of the people by Abbeville peo-
pie. Pastor DR.. Christie and people
did themselves grandly in service and
entertainment.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-09

stantial offer very soon in order to
turn the road that way. Colonel
Swift is a member of the Good Roads
Commission in Georgia, and it would
'e good idea for the people in Alb
oeville and Calhoun Falls to get in
touch with him, as he has some val
sble ideas on the subject.
AS he walked away Colonel Roche
Called back to say that Colonel Swift
is a big man. .'He rides in a Cadil-
lac Ly-mooze,'", says Colonel Roche,
"and doesn't fool with Fords at ALL"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-09
GENERAL SESSIONS COURT
LASTS ONLY THREE DAYS
Few Cases of Importance Come Up.
Docket Cleared Except For
Prohibition Cases.

The court OF general sessions ad-
journed Wednesday afternoon after
the docket had been cleared of all
cases of Importance. A few prohibi-
ton cases remain to be tried, they
being held over pending accumula-
ton of more evidence. The jury was
discharged and paid off Wednes-
day afternoon.
Thursday morning Judge McIver
heard number of appeals and is
sued orders in certain incompleted
previous terms. He issued an order
that the supervisor furnish the sher-
iff with Ford automobile "from
funds not otherwise appropriated,
provided there be any such funds" "
This order was in accordance with
the grand jury report. The judge al
so called to the attention Of the
county officers such parts of the re-
port as concerned them.
Brian Richey was sentenced at a
previous term of court, on convic-
ton Of violating the prohibition law,
to serve six months and pay fine Of
$500. This sentence was to be sus-
pended upon the payment of $3.50
and service of 20 days. Appeal was
taken, but never perfected. The
court dismissed the appeal and order
ed Richey to begin serving SEN
tence.
Joe johnson was tried and con-
victed two years ago. He appealed
but the appeal had not been per-
fected. He was allowed 80 days, af-
ter which he may be required to en-
ter upon the sentence.
!. IT. sandrs failed to pay fine Of
$50 imposed upon him at the pre-
vious court. He must pay by Novem-
ber 1 or he will have to serve six
months, according to the court.
Tom Logan took an appeal to the
county court after he had been fined
$75 in the Mayors court for selling
liquor. Testimony showed no evil
dence that he had sold liquor. A po-
liceman found pint of liquor on
another negro and when asked where
he got it he pointed to Logan. Logan
was fined and the other negro re-
leased. The judge sustained the ap-
peal and the case was dismissed.
Dennis Lindsay was fined $3.50
and 20 days by a previous court af-
ter he had been convicted of violat-
ing the prohibition law. He paid the
fine but neglected to serve the days.
He was ordered to serve the time.
w. C. Sharpton's counsel was al
lowed until November 1 to perfect
an appeal from a decision of the
June term of court, at. which time,
if appeal is not perfected, defendant
must enter upon fulfllment of his
sentence.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-09
COLONEL PAT ROCHE
AT SHUCK PEN EDDY
Go to Old Stamping Ground to Fish
And Find Modern Atlantic
City.

Shuck Pen Eddy on the Savannah.
He went over with his old friend,
Gen. A. W. Jones, of the tax commits
sion and Frank B. Jones, the live in
surance man of Abbeville. They went
over Ito do little fishing" Colonel
Roche tells US, and didn't know that
"Shuck Pen Eddy" had grown to be
kind of Atlantic City.
But when they got there they
found that "the world do move" The
good people in Georgia, and especi-
ally around Elberton, have turned
the place into an up-to-date resort.
"Rapley's," says Colonel Roche, "is
not in it." A number of pretty cot
tages have been erected along the
river front, and there is a fine club
house, with a dancing pavilion, card
room, a victrola, and all kinds of
decks Of cards to play anything
from smut to poker" if you want to
said the Colonel.
By far the most important part of
shuck Pen Eddy, however, according
to the Colonel, is Col. Jim Y. Swift,
and his charming wife. Colonel
Swift is no newspaper Colonel" said
officer Roche. "He is one of the most
prominent men in Georgia." Colonel
Swift, who still has a fondness for
people in South Carolina, opened his
summer home to the Abbeville visit
ors, and Mrs. Swift did what was nee
essary to make them have all kinds
of a good time, because she fed the
brutes. Sleeping quarters were pro-
vided for them in the club house, and
the keys to the cottage turned over
% them when the Elberton hosts de-
parted for their home. "You talk
about Southern hospitality" said
Colonel Roche, talking to the Press
and Banner man, "well, it amt all in
Abbeville; most of it is over in El-
befton, and it's name is Col. Jim
Swift"
The Colonel says that General
Jones knows all about taxes but that
he is not much on society. While Col
onel Roche was sitting on the rocks
on the side of the river watching the
pretty girls do their swimming stunts
General Jones was off talking about
good roads. And Colonel Roche says
that his companion, who can't hear
as well as he, once could, insisted on
calling their host "Mr. Smith," in.
stead of Colonel Swift" He tells us
too that he wasn't any good about
talking to the pretty girls, and that
when their party was invited to take
part in the dance at the pavilion,
General Jones said he was too deaf
to dance, and as Frank was crippled
there was no one in the party to do
the proper thing except himself, "and
they called my bluff" said the Colo
mel.
But talking about good roads, Colo
mel Roche tells US that Colonel Swift
is very much interested in the road
from Abbeville by Calhoun Falls and
on to Elberton (The Calhoun High
way.) He thinks the road should by
all means be built by Calhoun Falls,
but he says the people in that Sec
::'on must get busy if they want the
road built by their place. It will take
money to build the bridge, and Colo
'el Swift expects to hear the people
about Bowman's Ferry make a SUBJ