The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-03-31

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RECORD office for price, &c.
We have received the frst and second
numbers of The Leader, a neat and interest
ing paper just started at Milford, IN this coun.
ty, and published and edited by John G. Rit.
tenhouse. We wish the publisher well in his
new undertaking, but we cannot predict rich
es for him.
The new Odd Fellows Hall, in this city,
will be dedicated on next Monday evening.
The Grand Officers of the Grand Lodge of
New Jersey will be present and the Grand
Master will deliver an address. At the close
a collation. will be served. Only invited
guests viii be admitted.
THE SHAD SEASON. The present week is
the beginning of the shad season along the
Jersey shore. The aggregate length OF fish
nets reported to the Commissioners in 1878 as
being used on the6Legsey shore was over 284
miles. The size OF shad caught has decreased.
At Gloucester City in 1920 the weight of the
fish averaged seven pounds now the usual
average is four pounds. Ten pound shad were
common then, and an eight-pound fish is now
rarity. The number has. also greatly de-
clined /; thousands were taken twenty years
ago where only hundreds are taken now.
There was disappointed audience at
Lyceum Hall, on Friday night. The Rev. w.
d. Roberts, of Solebury, who had previously
been announced as the speaker at the temper
ance meeting held under the auspices of the
League on the above named night, was sud
denly called from homc by the sickness of his
father, and the meeting was left without an
address, the committee being unable to pro-
cure another speaker in time. Shortly after
eight, Chaplain Mcbride opened the meeting
with some devotional exercises, which we're
followed by the reading of the minutes of the
previous meeting. President Gandey then
announced that the gentleman whom they
had expected to address them was compelled
to break his engagement. Noticing in the
audience, Rev. III. G.. Williams, who had en-
tered the ball with w f. Herr, ESQ, he re-
quested him to come forward and occupy the
platform. Mr.. Williams, however, declined
on the ground that he, like the audience, had
expected to hear Mr.. Roberts and was not
prepared. Mr.. William Lauer asked for
report from the Executive Committee Mr..
Jos. Smith said the Committee had not as yet
organized but had made some efforts in the
line of business. He reported monthly sub
scriptions to the amount of five dollars, and
Mrs. Sarah Laubenstine, another member of
the committee, names of those subscribing
sums amounting to nearly nine more. Mr..
Asa Miller also reported an effort made to-
ward procuring music. An invitation was
given to all to come forward and sign the con-
stitution. But as few responded, a motion
was made by Mr.. Jos. Sproat that commit
tee of two be appointed to solicit names in
the audience. Quite number were obtained
by the Communicable. Sproat and Miss Sy-
billah Huntsville choir of ladies, drafted
for the occasion, furnished the music. The
meeting then drifted along until it finally ad-
journed with the doxology--to meet again
the last Friday evening in April, or at the
call of the Executive Committee.
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