Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-29
JAMESBURG

lNO e. 41GltlptIS Va e al AloliAify
dead and two others. lying at the
point of death is the tale at the home
of Mrs. George Apologize Of Harri-
son street.
On Sunday night George A~pplegate
died after a short illness from influ-
enza and a daughter, Eveline, died
on Monday evening of the same ILL
ness. A double funeral for the
father and daughter will be held on
Thursday of this week. The whole
Apologize family have been Frustrated
with the influenza for two weeks. On
Thursday last the head of the family
went out for q few minutes and suf-
fered O relapse, causing his death on
Sunday. The other members of the
stricken family are seriously i'll.
Private Charles Johnson of Head
quarters, Camp Dix, has resumed his
position as clerk at the First Nation
al Bank, this place and has started
housekeeping at Helmetta. Miss
Grave Voorhees,, who substituted for
Johnson, has resigned her position in
the bank and has ujSt returned from
a weeks vacation spent with relatives
in Philadelphia.
Common Council met at the home
of Mayor Elmer Patten Monday night
in order to secure an estimate of the
! needed budget for the coming years
"A tAS o6AAS
burg fire department were guests of
the council and presented the needs
of hat company. The meeting was
held at the home of the mayor, owing
to the Borough Hall being without
heat and incidentally the gathering
was q sort of house-warming to the
mayor in his newly-occupied residence
John. Haas of Camp Upton, Long
Island, was n weekend guest at the
hnnan nf Mr. and MrC Willard SnRd-
eker.
The name Of Andrew Kolbush, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Kolbush of
this place appeared in the casualty
list published on Tuesday of this
| week as being Slightly wounded
The only information that the par
| ents of this local boy have received
| has been q letter from the Depart
ment at Washington, d. G. telling
that Andrew was gassedr early in Oc-
tober and that he would be shortly
in service again. Andrew Kolbush
was one OF the first Jamesburg men
selected for service In June 1917, he
was sent to Camp Dix IL attached
to Machine Gun Battalion, number
800. He remained at Camp Dix un-
| til May, 1918 when he went to Eng
land and later to France and into ac-
| ton with the Seventeen Division,
| containing many local boys. Kolbush
was in his twenty-fifth year and made
his home with his parents IL man.
| aged the farm at HIS home.
Private Daniel Malan, who a been
| stationed at Camp Meade, has been
| given his honorable discharge and has
resumed his position with Perrine &
Buckelew of this place.
John II. Baremore is i'll with the
influenza.
Miss Francis Stout of Dayton was a
weekend guest of Miss Alice Voor-
hees over the week end.
Word has been received from
France from Warren Patten contain
| ing the information that he expected
| to he home this week.
Relatives of Charles Richards, Jf.,
have just had several letters from him
telling of his experiences with the
army of occupation in Germany. These
| letters are the first received since
early In December.
Miss Jennie Bayles has OF exhibi-
ton in her windows one of the most
innroved samples of German gas
masks that has been received by Mrs.
George II. Crum of this place. from
her husband, who secured the trophy
when he went over the top some
months ago. Many people have view
ed the souvenir with unusual curios-
ity. Mr.. Crum was INDICTED into the
service from West Grove and was at
tached to Headquarters Company No.
80 and is well known In this section
of the state and Monmouth county.
Impetus was given the movement
to secure a more up-to-date fire APP
paratus at n special meeting of the
committee handling this project held
in borough hall Sunday afternoon.