Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-10
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY

A meeting of the city plan COM
m~issioners will be held tonight at the
City Hall.
At the meeting of the Caledonian
Club Saturday. the memorial COM
mittee presented a proof of the tab
let to be erected to the memory of
departed members which is to be
placed in the club rooms. The proof
was accepted.
The reception committee reported
through the chairman. C. Stark, that
a good program had beer arranged
for Friday night. October IA.
The feature of the meeting or.
Saturday night was the pipe playing
of Donald Buchanan.
Park Supervisor James Tooker
rad his workers busy on the flower
patches IN 'front.' of the police sta
ton In city hall park this morning.
The blooms have been torn up and
the beds spaded and fortified in
preparation for next spring.
Mr.. Tooker has also been busy
on Washington Park OF late. The
ground has been graded and the
| W IlOlc QlOI put III HTSl class SnaDe
The commissioner has done little to
Washington Park so far this year
because of the attitude of certain
users of the grounds. Drinking
fountains have been destroyed and
benches fastened in concrete were
torn up out of pure malice. and as a
result, Mr.. Tooker was not inclined
to spend money on renovation.
However, things seem to have turn
ed for the better and the commits
| sioner has decided to take another
chance and fix up the park once
again.
The American Legion drive for
members will close tonight at s
o'clock when all captains will meet
in the Y. NJ. c. A. to make final re-
ports.
The new branch of the National
Association for the Cure of Cancer.
" hich was formed here last week
under the Craftsmanship of DR..
George w. Fithian will meet again
tonight at the nurses home.
The first window frame was erect
ed in the new wing of the high
school this morning..
/ The City Democratic Committee
will meet tonight at the Democratic
Headquarters at 30S Maple street.
Arrangements are being made for
| the first annual meeting of the Sixth
| Ward Democrats. This meeting will
be held in Kozusko's hall at the COR
ner of Hall avenue and Catherine
street on the night of October II.
The regular weekly meeting of
the Slovak Club was held last night.
John Kozusko, Democratic candi-
date for the sixth ward alderman
ship; Joseph Powers, defeated DEM
ocratic candidate for the sixth ward
nominations; Morgan Larson. Repub-
lican senatorial candidate, and Ben
jamin Riedy, Republican sixth ward
alderman, and Mike Lakomski were
the principal speakers. 1t IA de-
cided to hold the next dance of the
Slovak Club on October 80.
The attention of a motorist driv-
ing down Smith street last night
was called to the presence of a
chicken on the roof of his car. The
| pedestrians were of the belief hat
if the chicken belonged anywhere 1t
should have been seated in the car,
| close up to the driver. That's where
chickens usually sit, but this chicken
was of the fowl variety.
For twenty-four hours starting at
Sis o'clock tomorrow evening a
day of atonement or Yom Kippur
will be celebrated at the Beth Nor
decai synagogue in Hobart street.
There will be services at Sis o'clock
tomorrow evening and at s o'clock
Wednesday morning. Rabbi Eugene
Kohn is in charge.
Ever hear of a man admitting
| that some one else gave him a black
eye? We always understood that
the recipient of such a decoration
blamed it on a door or a fall on the
| stairs or some similar mishap, but
Officer William Petersen found a
man Saturday who actually owned
UP to the beautiful skinner" adorn-
ing his face. A New Brunswick
avenue man reported to the officer
that he had been struck in the eye
and demanded an arrest. The cop
agreed that an arrest would be the
thing to do but when he conducted
an investigation into the source of
| the discolored eye it was discovered
| that the New Brunswick avenue
man had fallen while holding a bot
| tie in his hand and that the bottle
was the cause of the eye. The bot
| tie was not arrested. Neither was