The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-05-11
NEW HOPE AND BUCKS COUNTY, PA.

Robbins has made complete change in
the appearance Of the New Hope drug store.
Call and see him.
The Lutheran and Reformed Tohckon
Church, in Bedminster, is to be altered aud
improved this summer.
Miss Maggie Bowers had tho misfortune
to have a needle broken off in her hand few
days ago.
Anonymous letter writers seem to be
carrying on a pretty brisk business. Sign
your name next time.
1T is estimated That about 700 RATS have
passed down the Delaware river this season,
aud there are still more to follow.
The next fair of the Doyestown Agricul
tnral and Mechanics Institute will be held on
the 4th, 9th, 9th and 7th Of October next.
AT public sale Of chestnut raft rails on
the Delaware shore at Point Pleasant they
brought from nine to ten dollars per hundred.
MIR. Chas Stackhouse, former resident
of New Hope, now ills good position in
Phila. He has been in town on a visit for the
past few days
The election Of Superintendent of Public
Schools took place in Bucks county, on Tues
day of last week. w. w. Woodruff, the
jority of 81.
The Methodsts will hold another camp
meeting at Simpson Grove this summer, com
mencing on July 28th, and it is expected that
the Methodists of Philadelphia, Trenton, and
other points will turn out in force.
Mr.. John Gilbert of New Hope who for
a number of years has been foreman in the
rubber MILL al Lambertvle, win remove 10
Bellville, N. l., some time during the present
week.
I'D. Wynkoop McNair, who this spring
moved from Buckingham to Northampton,
the other day visited his farm in the former
township, and while engaged trimming out
tree he accidentally fell TO the ground and
was severely injured.
The best writing ink in the market at the
ment of Stationery. May IL.
Gen. w. w. II. Davis, of Doyestown,
has received from the French government
handsomely engraved certificate, expressing
the acknowledgement of that government for
his services as vce-president of one of the in
ternational committees during the exposition
of 1878.
MIR. Edward M. Cox, who for the past
month has been confined to his home in New
Hope with inhammatory rheumatism, has
again resumed his duties in Stockton, where
be has been carrying ON the barber trade for
the last year, and has now added to his es-
Enlistment stock of cigars and tobacco.
--Lukens Thomas and wife, Of Lumber
vile, expect to take a trip West next week,
to visit their son Joseph, Mt Homer, Cham
paign county Illinois, Reuben, at Newman,
Douglass county, Illinois, and Jonathan, at
Topeka, Kansas. They expect to be gone
about two months.
AT the annual meeting of the Centre
Bridge bridge company on the 25th ult., a
dividend Of one dollar per share was declared
The rate Of toll on the bridge Is two cents a
trip for foot passengers, or one dollar a
month. This is regarded as entirely too high
a rate Of toll by those who are compelled to
cross daily, but it pays the company, and
large dividends are what ali stockholders
yearn for, = Doylestoon Mirror.
During the past year there have been
made and sold in Bucks and adjoining coun-
ties 100000 cheese boxes. OF this number
the Democrats Qnakertowp correspondent
says Thomas g. Co., Of which Senator Thomas
is the head have made at the Quakertown,
Doylestown and Perkiomenville factories
27O, O00, while Harvey Stoneback has made
100000. Estimating SO pounds Of cheese to
each box, there would have been packed in
these $4,000 boxes, 1899, 900 pounds, or o.
go tons Of cheese.