Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-17
JAMESBURG

Courtney P. Brown, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Courtney Brown, OF Rhode Hall,
arrived home Saturday from a three
weeks trip to Tampico, Mexico.
Courtney has many interesting incl
dents to recite of the trip hat IA
taken as a vacation outing, having a
position in the captains suite. Very
little time was spent in Mexico, ow-
ing to some disorders that were be-
ing supervised by the officials.
Fire Chief Harry Lokerson was
host to nearly a hundred of his
friends on Friday night, at fire head
quarters, when he installed his ra-
do receiving apparatus and made
possible the reports that were taking
place at the Polo Grounds, at the
Dempsey-Firpo bout.
Unusual activity is being shown by
the Jamesburg Deer Hunting. Ang-
ling and Protective Club, prepara-
tory to their week to be spent in the
woods during the deer hunting sea
son. A committee spent Sunday at
the place where the local club will
camp and made final arrangements
for the renting of the shack, fully
equipped, with guides, chef, etc.
Seven deer were seen by the local
party. On September 20 the club will
hold a pigeon shoot, a sweepstakes
affair, on the Gatzmar avenue
grounds that is free to all.
Russell Duncan, machinist Of the
Forsgate Farms, near here, is under
the Doctors care as a result of an
encounter with one of the large trac-
tors on the farm over the weekend
and like Firpo was counted out in
the second round. when two ribs
were badly fractured. The driver of
the tractor, Christopher Kilbourn be-
ing unable to crank the machine,
called on Duncan and after several
attempts succeeded in turning over
the crank but with disastrous re-
suits, the twelve-pound handle flying
off the connection and striking Dun
can full on the right side rendering
him semi-conscious. The body was
badly discolored and the attending
physician is of the opinion that Dun
can would have been seriously in
jured IL the crank-handle had come
In contact with the left side of the
body. Duncan will be under the doc
tors care for six weeks.
The annual meeting of the Middle
sex County School Association will
be held in the Jamesburg Methodist
church, in october, on a date to be
selected. An all-day program will be
provided.
A large number OF students were
present at the r%e-opening Of the Sun
day school of st. James Catholic
church, on Sunday morning. The
sessions had been omitted during
July and August.
John M. Currie, Of Franklinville,
N. Y, was a guest last week of Mr..
and Mrs. William Fl. Brooks, having
but recently returned from Cairo,
Egypt, where he had been a member
of the American College Faculty. Mr.,
Currie is a member of the 1922 Glass
Princeton University and was one oil
the youngest members to receive
honors in an American College sc
shortly after graduation. Miss Mary
K. Marquis, of Sharon, Pa, who has
been a summer guest at the Brooks
home, has also returned home.
Walter Makowsky, a student at the
Rochester Theological Seminary, who
has filled the pulpit of the First Bap.
fist church so ably for the past foui
months, will resume his studies a
the New York College. this week.
mr.. and Mrs. John r. Hugg re
turned Sunday from a two-day out
ing spent at Lake H%opatcong, where
they enjoyed a reunion of the Al
bertson family, OF which they arr
members. The trip was made b.
auto.
Addison Conover has returned
from an auto trip Of more than S0i
miles. into Maryland. on business foi
hie extensive lumber interests