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Perth Amboy Evening News from Perth Amboy, New Jersey • 14

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TEACHERS AT TRADE SGHOOL Assigned by the Board of Education. Sptctal to the KVKNIKO Tottenville, Sept. followin teachers have been assigned by the Hoard of Education of the city of New York to teach in the Tottenvillo evening trade that is to open in public school No. 1, Tottenville, next Monday night Carpentry and joiner work, Harry T. Booth, of City Island; common I branches, Miss Alice Rhines, of West New Brighton; electricity and wiring, Edward A.

Taylor, of Smith, of West Now Brighton; 1 automobile and gas engine, James A. Woodburn of Tottenville; mechani' eal drawing and machine designing, William H. David, of Tottenville; plumbing, Thomas Cunnigham, of Tottenville; stenography and typewriting, Solomon Safran of Manhattan; sewing and dressmaking. Miss R. A.

Shields of Manhattan; terra cotta clay modeling, Deander Weipert, of Tottenville; model making, George Copeland, of Tottenville, and terra cotta architectural drawing, Erenst Dabhs of Tottenville. All those who have not registered will be given an opportunity tonight before the opening the first of the week. PARISH GUILD EUCHRE WAS HELD YESTERDAY Tottenville, Sept. euchre for the benefit of the Parish Guild of the Church of St. Stephen at the home of Mrs.

Rudolph iloehn in Amboy avenue, Tottenvillo, yesterday afternoon, was a most successful nffair. About thirty wero present, with six tables playing. A feood jum will be the resu't. lose awarder the prizes Mre. Hector Monroe, apron; Mrs.

Georgo B. Webb, caster set; Mrs. T. O. Simoneon, towels; Mrs.

George Hoehn, half dozen glasses; Mrs. W. Wincapaw, writing paper; Mrs. C. J.

Rogers, centre piece; Mrs. William Robedee, towel; Mrs. J. F. Bedell Dutch plate; Mrs.

William Bloodgood, cake plate; Mrs. William Hoy, Dutch plate; Mrs. C. M. Winant, half dozen butter plates; Mrs.

Edmund Cuny, teapot; Mrs. Mollis Cooley, necktie; Mrs. L. Hamilton, plate, and Mrs. James Hodge, glass dish.

r. KURD, PETEKSON ttueoeeeor to WflSlamiB Fetfraoc street Grading, Concret Walke. Curbs, Etc. lei JL T. Perth Atnboy Hal" PRIMARIES TO BE TUESDAY Polls Open From 3 to 9 O'clock at Night Special 10 the EVHXINO NEWS.

Tottenville, Sept. for the various state, city and county offices will be nominated at the primaries that will bo held throughout the city next Tuesday. The polls will open from 3 until 9 o'clock p. in. At this time all enrolled voters will have a chance to vote for who should be placed In nomination at the coming general election In November.

Unlike the primary held the time the delegates were selected for the last national convention, when a ballot ten feet long was used, the ballot will be small and will nia the names of candldiatea for city, state and county offices. In addition to these the voters will select county committeemen. Thi3 will be the first time ho Progressives will take part in the primaries, as a party. The following are the Democratic primary polling places in the fifth ward: Thirty-ninth and fortieth election districts at Huguenot engine house, Huguenot; forty-first and forty-second, at Orlando hall, Rossvllle; forty-third and forty-fourth, Tottenville Athletic Club house, Tottenville; forty-fifth, vacant store, Arents avenue, Tottenville. The Republican, National Progressive, Socialists, Independence league and Prohibition will vote as follows: Forty-first and forty-second at Amicltia Pleasant Plains; fortythird and Vrty-fourth, vacant store, Richmond Valley, and forty-fifth district, Aquehonga Athletic Fortieth district will vote at Great Kills.

SAMUEL SAFRAN TO ERECT HOTEL IN BROADWAY Special to the BVENinO NEWS. Tottenville, Sept. Safran, wholesale and retail wine and liquor dealer In Amboy avenue, Tottenville, has filed plans with the building department of the borough of Richmond for the erection of a hotel in Broadway, Tottenville, near the Atlantio station. William L. Vaughan of Fisher avenue will do the carpenter work, and Depew and Jensen, of Tottenville, are the genaral contractors.

The building will be a two story frame structure, forty-five feet front and seventy-flve teet deep. It will contain seventeen rooms and will be thoroughly up to iato with all Improvements. Ground was broken on Monday and work ot the structure will be rushed as fast aa the weather will permit. AMICITIA ASSOCIATION PLANS FOR BUSY SEASON Special to the KKWB. Tottenvllle, Sept.

for a busy season were made by Amicitia Association of Pleasant Plains at a meeting of the association Tuesday night at its club house In Amboy avenue, that place. Committees were appointed to arrange a bowling tournament, pool tpurnament and a billiard tournament between members this winter. A schedule will be arranged for each tournament which will probably start some time next month. The bowling alleys at the club house have recently been planed and put In first class condition and were opened to the members this week. Other forms of entertainment are being talked of by the members.

The monthly ladles nights will again be Inaugurated shortly and the bowling alleys given over to the fair sex during one afternoon of each week. PLEASANT PLAINS. Mrs. L. Erlckson and daughter, have returned from a visit In Rockville Centre, Long Island.

Miss Elizabeth Wilburn visited in Tottenvllle Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Charles McDonald have returned to Jersey City. Miss Mattie Miller has gone to her home In Manhattan after a visit here.

John C. Maddon, of the Bronx, vitited in Prince Bay yesterday. George A. Wood was a Perth Amboy visitor yesterday. Mrs.

Robert Nagel has returned to Brooklyn after a visit in Rossville. Miss Belle Craig has returned to Jersey City after a visit here, Charles N. Green, of Great Kills, Is home from a trip to Boston. Stephen Slover came up from Old Bridge this week for a visit to his place here. John Garretson, of Annadale, has returned from a visit at Bay Shore.

Mrs. D. 0. Mersereau, of Great Kills, has returned from a visit in Flatbush. Mrs.

Frank Bogardue is able to be about after recent illness. Miss Mildred Meakim has returned from Nutley, N. J. Miss Nellie Jackson has returned to Freeport, L. after a visit with Mrs.

J. Wasserman. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Paten have returned to College Point after a visit with Mrs.

William Dullahan of Hugunot. Richard Wix has moved from Great Kills to Toronto, Canada. Enrly of Tobacco. I have heard my grandfather say that one pipe was handed from man to man round about the table. They bad first silver the ordinary sort made use of a walnut shell and a straw.

Tobacco was sold then for Its weight in silver. I have heard some of our old yeomen neighbors say that when they went to Malmesbury or Chippenham market they culled out their biggest shillings to lay In the scales against the tobacco. Sir W. standing In a stand at Sir Robert Poyntz's park at Acton, took a pipe of tobacco, which made the ladles quit It until he had Lines Set Down by John Aubrey," 1009-06. IMPROVEMENTS BY RAILROAD Tower at Pleasant Plains Nearlng Completion Special to I EVENING NEWB.

Tottenville, Sept. at the railroad station on the Amboy division of the Staten Island Rapid Transit at Pleasant Plains are being rapidly completed. The new switch tower erected on the site of the former station in Amboy avenue, will probably be ready for use the first of October. The building is two stories high and will control the automatic interlocking system being installed between Prince Bay and Pleasant Plains. It will be thoroughly up-to-date and will have electric lights and steam heat installed.

Three telegraph operators, with a shift of eight hours each. The station has been entirely renovated both inside and outside. Electric lights are to be installed in the station and on the station platform according to the present plans of the officials of the company. The interior of the station has been painted and a metal ceiling and side wall have replaced the old plaster walls that was put on when the station was erected fifty yars ago. When everything is completed the station will be one of the best on the line.

Camp Fire Girls' Social Special to the EVENING NEWS. Tottenville, Sept. sociable under the auspices of the Agna lia Camp Fire Girls at the home of Annie Cole In Johnson avenue, Tottenville, was attended by many members and their friends. The program Included tableaux, vocal and instrumental selections. The affair was held on the lawn and was a success.

Refreshments were served. Big Dry dork. Tottenville, Sept. fifth section of the big dry dock being built at the Cossey ship building plant in Front street, Tottenville, for the John N. Robins Company, of Erie Basin, Brooklyn will bo launched this afternoon from that place.

When completed, this will be thei largest wooden dry dock in this section of the country. WOODROW CHURCH PLANS FOR FAIR ON OCT. 23-24 Special to the EVBXINO XBWB. Tottenville, Sept. annual fair of Woodrow Methodist Episcopal church will be held in the hall adjoining the church, In Woodrow, Thursday and Friday, October 23 and 2 4.

At a meeting of the Ladies Aid Society of the church, held at the home of Mrs. Israel Bedell in Pleasant Plains, Wednesday afternoon, the dates for the fair were selected and plans for the event were discussed. The ladies will serve one of their famous suppers during the fair. There will be fancy and useful articles for Bale at the several booths to be erected in the hall, besides ice cream and refreshments that will be on sale. Right and Left Handed Plante.

That there ore right handed plants and left handed plants has been reported to the Cambridge (England) Philosophical society by R. Compton. In an examination of eight varieties of two rowed barley the first leaf was found to twist to the left in 58 per cent of more than 12,000 seedlings, and an excess of left handed growth was found also in millet and in oats. In corn there seemed to be no marked tendency either way. No evidence of hereditary peculiarity appears to have been obtained.

FRECKLES Don't Hide Them With a Veil; Remove Them With the Othine Prescription. This prescription for the removal of freckles was written by a prominent physician and is usually so successful in removing freckles and giving a clear, beautiful complexion that it is sold by Barnekov Petz under an abif it fails. solute guarantee to refund the money Don't hide your freckles under a veil; get an ounce of othine and remove them. Even the firet few applications should show a wonderful improvement, some of the lighter freckles vanishing entirely. Be sure to ask the druggist for the double strength othine; it is this that is sold on the money-back guarantee.

TOTTENVILLE. Misses Alice and Mary Wentz, of Camden, N. are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. G.

Dissoway, of Riverside avenue. Mr. and Mrs. George Penhallow, I Mr. and Mrs.

C. A. Thrall and family, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. W.

(J. Derickson and family, are home after a week's automobile trip to the Berkshires. Supreme Court Justice Leonard Giegerich who is spending a short vacation at his country home in Central Avenue, had as his guest yesterday, Judge Duffy, of Manhattan. Russell Murphy, of Boston, i3 the guest of relatives here. Captain and Mrs.

Reuben Androvette are home again after a vacation at Buffalo and Niagara Palls. Harry Wood and Frank Skidmore will leave Sunday for Georgetown, Del. Lieutenant John L. Bergman, tempdrarily assigned to the 99th precinct, returns today from his anj nual vacation. Lieutenant Charles Aikman, who has been here, has returned to the 89th precinct at New Dorp.

Richard A. Irving, of Main street, who was sent to S. R. Smith Infirmary the first of the week, has been taken to a private sanitarium. John Allen, of Arents avenue, has received his new Michelin touring car.

John Penny, of Broadway, is recovering from a carbuncle on his face. The degree of work master was conferred by Staten Island Chapter No. 196, Royal Arch Masons at its opening convocation last night in Masonic temple. Court Tottenville, Foresters of America, met last night in K. of P.

hall. A meeting of United Council Jr. O. U. A.

M. was held last night in Mechanic hall. Welcome Council No. 30, D. of A.

meets tonight. St. Paul's cadets held a preliminary meeting last night. His Inference. Robert bad been dutifully listening to tha conversation of his parents.

They wore discussing a certain Mrs. Smith who was tagged in their talk as a grass widow. "I say, pa," said Robert after some reflection, "is a grass widow a woman whose husband died of hay fever?" Nothing Like II for Corns As One, Two, Throe? TVo No Pain, by Usine "GET8-IT." Just take two seconde to put lit' tie "GETS-IT" on that corn. That cori is "done for" as sure as the sun rises. The corn shrivels up, vanishes.

I See How Quick "OETS-IT" Will Re more That Corn and Stop the Corn-Pain I the surprise you get by using this newplan corn cure. There's nothing to to the stocking or sock; your corn pains stop. You're saved tho bother of applying plasters that make the corn bulge out from the core. You're saved salves that eat Into tho healthy flesh and "pull no more fussing with bandages. You don't have to help by picking and dragging out your corns, or cutting with knives or razors.

is safe, painless, stops pain, never hurts healthy flesh. It is guaranteed. Try It on Warts, calluses and bunions, too. "GBTS-IT" Is sold at all druggists' at 25 cents a bottle, or sent direct by E. Lawrence Chicago.

Sold In Perth Amboy by BarneTcov Petz, Crown Pharmacy. The Water Bottle's Shape. Throe useful probably many more than served by making the familiar water bottle of such a distinctive pattern. In the first place the narrowness of the neck prevents the entry of much dust that would inevitably settle on the water were the entire surface exposed. In the next place the same narrowness prevents excessive and rapid evaporation of the water, and In the third place the shapo of the neck makes It a capital handle, thus doing away with the necessity for a separate handle fastened to the body of the bottle, a course that would render It much less convenient and more liable to be EAT 269 SMITH ST.

A H. 9 AND FISH MARKET The Leading Butchers 269 SMITH ST. particular ad. has an immediate Cash Value to You by purchasing Meats anil Poultry at this Market (luring this cut price sale. Sale Ends Monday Night.

Fancy Sugar Cured Cal. liarns All Weights. Lb. Fresh Hams Cut from Jersey Pigs Pound They Are Ham Not Shoulders 1 2 Strictly Fresh Legs of Lamb Just as gocd as others get 18c for 14 2 3 lbs Tripe 25c 3 ibs Pigs Feet 25c 2 Ibs Spare Ribs 25c Legs of Canada Mutton VERY SPECIAL SAUSAGE Our own make in link, Pure Pork. Pot Roast Tender, lb.

1 2 up Rib Roast Prime Native Beef eprlng I rorequirter ill Of Limb 13 9 1 2 Fresh Killed CHICKENS For fricassee or Soup Lamb for Stew, 3 Ibs 25 Beefs' Liver, lb 10 Legs of Veal Very fancy, lb. il We also have a full line of Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Chickens and all kinds of Provisions at very low market prices. Broilers, Squabs and all kinds of Liver Greenspan Bros. Cor. Smith and Elm Streets Telephone 224 SEPTEMBER CUT PRICE SALE Last week we made a new record in food selling for September.

This is not due to the greart values alone, because it may be possible that every item was seemingly parallel at some other store in the city; but there was no assurance, as here, of plenty. And another factor is the service. Thus theso are three factors quality and service. They are interdependent and are of the Greenspan vja crUr0 hpinw nnr budget- fiverv item has some feature in value or otherwise and are really roestablishment. We give below our weekly budget, every item has some note mark able.

SALE KNDS MONDAY NIGHT. SUGAR Standard granulated sssgsr, for Salarday only, per lb 5 BUTTER Best Elgin Creamery Butter, none better at any price, per lb 17 Gold Medal Flour kJ i Per lb bag 33 Princess Brand Coffee, guaranteed Moca Java Coffee, the best there is on the market sold in cans only, 20 Stamps Free, lb can COCOA Famous White Rose Brand lb can only 16 EGGS Large selected eggs, our lamous Red Seal Brand, per dozen 32 OATMEAL Pure white Rolled Oatmeal. large pkg, per pkg 21 Baked Beans Campbells Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce, 3 cans for 25 Tail Cans Pink Salmon par can 10 Jello or TryphosaQC 3 PkSs Fairy Soap per cake 4 Cream of Wheat pkgs for 25 Square Brand Condensed Milk 3 cans for 25 Coffee free with lb best coffee 32 JAM Old Virginia Pure Jam 2 jars for 25 Mackerel Fancy White Mackerel each 5 Olive Oil Pure Olive Oil, in qt cans, per can 70 Mustard Sardines cans 25 BAKING POWDER Purity Brand, no free with a large can per can 45 PEAS Early June Peas per can Salad Oil Large qt bottle per bt Asparagus Laige cans reg. 25c per can Enamaline Stove Polish 3 cans 10 22 21 10 Fancy Tea 70 stamps free with lb tea; any flavor, pound 50 Bonny Best Ketchup 3 bt, for 25 Self Raising D. C.

Flour Best on the market, 3 for 25 Old Dutch Cleanser or Babitts cleanser, 3 cans 25 2-1 Shoe Polish 3 cans for 25 Best Tea 100 free with 1 lb. tea, all flavors; 60.

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