The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-05-10
The time for taking the census of
the school children is at hand.

posed that the factory viii be rebuilt
The Board of Directors Of the Hun.
teTdon County Agricultural Society have
resolved to hold the next Fair, OH the
Goth, 27th and esth Of September, al
Pennington.
"A list of the signers of liceLse petit
tons in Hunterdon county has beer
printed at the Home Journal Office in
Paterson, for distribution, as approved by
Ne Temperance Alliance.
&C. W. Hetzel, Baptisttown, N. j.,
sells more instruments than any dozen
ordinary dealers. He buys low and sells
at bedrock prices. Write to him fol
prices, &c.
Garden tools of all kinds at Gandey's S.
The Ringoes correspondent of the
Hunterdon Republican says that sixty
years ago farms sold in that vicinity for
$40 per acre fifty years ago they sold
for $50 per acre /; twenty years ago they
sold for over 800 per acre. and now they
sell at an average of about $40.
Our wheat crop, that looked SO I'M
favorable in the early part of Spring, has
with the recent sunshine and shower,
much improved, and on some fields will
yield fair crop where little was expected
The promise for the oats crop never
looked better, and the average sown is
much larger than formerly.
You will find full line of dry goods,
boots, shoes and slippers at the Cottage
Hill Store. m3,3t.
Our Spring time of bud and blossom
is somewhat later this year than last. but
1t has come with greater prospects of a
good crop of fruit of all kinds. Peaches,
cherries, apples, pears, &C., are all in full
bloom, and the refreshing showers of the
past few days seem to have added much
to the prospect of fine yields.
We have received from the publishers,
The Henry Bill Publishing Co., Norwich,
Conn, a copy of the best steel engraving
of the late President Garfield yet issued
1t was engraved from a photograph taken
in the Treasury Department at Washing
ton, and proofs were examined by Mrs.
Garfield as the work progressed. 1t has
just been issued, and agents are wanted
to sell it.
The best Condition Powders are Dr.
Mitchellis. For sale in Lambertvile by
Shamala, the Bridge street druggist
a5,tf.
The Frenchtown Enterprise says
The Committees on Excursion of Home
Lodge, No. 90, of this place, and Lone
Star Lodge, No. 10, of Lambertville, held
a conference in this place on Tuesday
evening, to make the preliminary arrange
ments for an excursion. The place of
destination has not been determined upon
as yet.
Attention is called to the new adyer-
tisement of Baumgartner & Tindall, II
E. State street, Trenton. Any state
ment made in thoir advertisement in re-
gard to goods, prices, &C., is to be
depended ON, and their stock of dry goods
is believed to be the largest in Trenton.
At any rate, is unequaled for quality and
price.
The wonderful Engle Clock, built by
s. d. Engle, of Hazletcn, Luzerne Co.,
Pa, and said to be more remarkable as a
mechanical Continuance than the world
famed Strasburg Clock, win be exhibited
at Lyceum Hall, during next week. The
clock operates forty eight moving figures,
and a pipe organ and mechanical fife play
at intervals The admission fee is low,
and every one should see this remarkable
piece of clockwork.
Mr.. Tunis Ten Eyck Kroesen has
been confined to his bed with severe
cold for the past two weeks, but there are
hopes of his recovery. Mr.. Kroesen has
reached the advanced age of Ss years, and
during all that time has generally en-.
joyed good health 1t will be remember
ed that he is now the oldest resident of
our city, coming here with his father in
the year 1905, and he has lived here ever
since.
"A correspondent of the Hunterdon
Republican says: Mr.. Vail, of Quaker
town, has an Indian boy, 10 or IA years
old, in his employ, who can hit a five
cent piece with an arrow shot fifty yards
distance. Oftentimes he brings with him
from the woods pocket-full of birds.
Sometime ago, he broke colt in few
minutes by simply mounting the back of
the filly, without bride or halter, and
sailing around the field several times,
when the animal meekly submitted.