Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-03
JAMESBURG

Fred Perrine continues to make
his presence felt Is a member of
the Freehold baseball team of the
Three-M League. On Saturday Per-
rine had three hits and played a
star game in the field. He is the
only local player who Is making
good with outside teams.
The Jewish holiday on Monday
was generally observed by the own
ers of business houses in town of
Hebrew nationality.
William c. Crosby was the guest
Saturday afternoon of John Leon
ard Merrill, president of the ALI
American Cables, Inc, at a lunch
con at New York, followed by a
meeting of the executives Of the
Huguenot Society of New Jersey.
The New Jersey Society has only
been recently organized with Mr..
Merrill as its first president. MIR.
Crosby is for two years a member of
the executive council and his claim
for recognition in this society is an
unbroken line for eleven genera
tons to one Wallerand de Condo of
Artois Condo and Hainaut, previous
to 1850 and from there to one God
frey de Condo, who about 1900 was
in possession of part of the barony
Of Condo in the department of Nord
and it was from this family that Mr..
Crosby gets his middle name.
A report a made to police
headquarters that some unknown
persons had made an attempt to
give Fire Chief Harry Lokerson a
chicken shower over the weekend
but that he did not agree with the
supposed friends. A bag of chick
ems were left in front of the Locker
son home on Gatzmar avenue and
when an investigation was made by
| Special Officer Charles Petty it was
learned that the fowl had been dead
for some time and were of 10 use
to anyone.
G. ]. Fil1hower spent Sunday Wis
iting relatives at Paterson.
Chicken thieves visited the home
| of Van de Hart over the weekend
and managed to enter the hennery
| and take, unheard, sixty-eight full
sized chickens. No report of the
| theft was made to the police and no
trs ce of the thieves has been found
by the owners. Mrs. de Hart was
alone at the place at the time, her
husband being in the city.
The local fire department re-
| ceived a call on Sunday afternoon
from the Rhode Hall section and it
was found that a large barn on the
Henry Sigel place was on fire. Com
bined with the Cranbury apparatus
the two companies by good work
managed to save all the surrounding
buildings and grain. The barn was
destroyed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Pullen. of
Hooker street. are the parents of a
baby boy.
Workmen are engaged in raziag
the large icehouse at lower James
burg that was used for storing the
ice harvested at the local lake in
wears gone by. Owing to the scar
eitv of labor when needed, the use
l~ezsness of handling their product
50 many times and other overhead
charges made it necessary to cut
out this expense to make the ice
business a paying one. The ice will
be cut from the local lake as here
tnfore. shipped to Asbury Park AMI
reshipped to points in the summer
when needed. Over thirty-five years
ago the Jamesburg Ice Company
established their plant here AMI
have harvested about -four thousand
tons each winter when the crop was
available. James Wilson has been
superintendent of the Jamesburs
Ice Company for owe thirty years
and for the past few years the bust
ness has been in charge of his son
William Wilson.
Mrs. Laura Conover, of Philadel-
phia, spent the weekend with hsi
parents, MI. n Mrs. George DID
lin.