Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-02-25
CITY BRIEFS

Mile Sturek, of $50 Laurie
street, the girl arrested in Plainfield
early yesterday morningand brought
back to this city by her parents, was
this morning held by the local po-
lice to await disposition of her case
in New Brunswick next Friday. The
girl has run away from home three
times. A charge of larceny has been
made against the girl by Mrs. Rae
Swartenberg, the girls employer.
The local police received a re-
port from Chris Howe of 25S Bar
clay street. yesterday in regard to
the theft of ter white chickens from
his coop on Wednesday night.
Independent Order of Odd Fell
lows from the twelve lodges in the
tenth district of the state of New
Jersey. numbering nearly two hun
dred. gathered at Odd Fellows hall
last night. for the district meeting
scheduled to be held here. The oc-
casion was the comforting of the sec
Ond degree on seven candidates, four
of whom were members of Valhalla
Lodge. No. 275. and one from Law
renee Lodge, No. 60. of this city. One
was from Hobart Lodge, of Wood
bridge and the other from Essex
County Lodge. of Railway, whose
degree team put on the work. Dis
trict Deputy Grand Master Schus-
ter and staff composed of members
of Elizabeth Lodge No. ZIG of Eliza
beth, took part in the work.
Noble Grand Marno Hansen, of
Valhalld Lodge, opened the meeting,
after which he turned the session
over to the Essex Lodge degree team,
Of Railway. The lodges represented
in the tenth district at the meeting
were: Carteret Lodge, No. 267, of
Roosevelt; Westfield Lodge. No. 169.
Of Westfeld; Memorial Lodge, No.
165, Franklin Lodge No. 8. Hansa
Lodge No. las and E~lizabethport
Lodge No. 116. of Elizabeth; Plain
field Lodge No. A and Queen City
Lodge No. 226, of Plainfield: Hobart
Lodge No. 27O. of Woodbridge; Es-
sex County Lodge No. 81. of Rah-
way. and Lawrence Lodge No. So and
Nalhalla Lodge No. 275, of this city.
-Wanawah X. X. 1O1 held their
annual contest for a ton of coal last
night in their club rooms and the
winner was A. Smink. of New York
city. John Graham, of Tottenville.
took charge of the contest.
DR.. o. II. S. Mason. recently
returned from Siberia. will be the
cpeaker at both the morning and
evening services in the First Presby-
terrain church at the corner of Mar
ket and High streets, Sunday, FEB.
81. DIR. Mason, chaplain major in
the army during the recent world
war, has an excellent record. He
served for fifteen months with tht
army in France, was wounded while
in service and brought back from
France the bullets which wounded
Archie Roosevelt, handing them per-
sOnally TO his father, Theodore
Roosevelt. In he morning his sub
ject will be "Every-Man's CALI and
in he evening, War or Peace"
One man was fined $40 by Act
ing Recorder stephen Somogyi this
morning, when arraigned on a drunk
and disorderly charge, and another
was sentenced to serve sixty days in
the county workhouse for panhand-
ling. Thomas White. arrested by
Traffic Officer Albert Mcdonald yes
terday. was fined $40 or given the
privilege of serving twenty days in
the county workhouse. John j.
Kinney was arrested by Patrolman
Nels Lybeck in the northern section
of the city last night on a charge OF
panhandling and sentenced to the
workhouse for sixty days.