The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-02-21
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Wednesday, Feb. 81, 1888.

"A birds eye view OF Pennington has
been drawn by o. H. Bailey.
The sheep bills of Holland township
this year only aggregate S32.
The Delaware aud Raritan Canal is to
be opened for navigation on March 18th
next
Mr.. n. G. Smith, ex-postmaster of
Flemingtor will remove to Newark in a
few days.
Co. c of this city, will give Re-
ception,' at their armory, on the evening
of Washington's Birthday.
Mrs. Reading NJ. Dilts has sold her
house and lot in Stockton, to a Mrs.
Yawger. of Clinton, for So, 300.
Gov. Ludlow has approved the bin
increasing the pay of Commissioners of
Appeals in townships to three dollars per
day.
The extra meetings in the Milford
Presbyterian Church have closed. Eight
persons professed conversion during the
meetings.
Two Ringoes young men, Mr.. George
Snyder and Mr.. Lemuel Housed, have
started for Jerseyville, Illinois, in search
of employment
DIR. Abel, of Quakertown, in this
county, has sold his residence and
practice to DR.. Skillman. Mr.. Abel will
locate in Rhode Island.
John W. Dil.s, who has been the pro-
prietor Of the tavern at Lumberville, Pa,
for year or two past, will return to
Stockton about April LIST.
Nellie Akers, daughter of Gershom
Akers, Ind leg broken last Thursday,
at the Lambertvlle Rubber Co. 3 works,
by being caught in a belt.
Rev. Robert W. Lands, once pastor
of Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, died
at his home in Danvile, Ky, on January
% last. aged IA years and l9 days.
Tomorrow is Washington Birthday.
People who have flags should not forget
to display them. The day being a legal
holiday, our banks will be closed.
Headquarters for Rubber Boots and
Shoes of all kinds, at Louden's, corner of
Union and Coryell SITS. If.
WIN. Greer, of Rosemont, has Sc
cured situation as travelling agent for
Hutchinson & Son, of Trenton. He takes
the place of Mr.. Dalrymple, of Milford.
The Baptist congregation of Ringoes
gave their pastor, Rev, Fisher Wilson,
surprise party, Friday evening, The 9th
inst, when he was presented with purse
containing fifty dollars.
The Stryker Library Association have
rented the rooms in Masonic Hail. lately
occupied by s. Z. Perry. Esq, and the
library will be removed from its present
location about March list
-We are informed that the prospect
for peaches throughout Hunterdon county
Is most excellent. The buds have been
kept backward by the steady cold weather
and never looked better at this time of
the year.
The Frenchtown Independent states
that several members of Lilly Encamp
ment of that place, visited Pennington
and assisted III the institution CT an en-
campment at that place, on Wednesday
evening of last week.
DIR. II. Reed, homeopathic ply sician,
will soon remove from this city. He is
now making a specially Of the treatment
of hemorrhoids, ETC., and is meeting with
. great success. He will open an Office in
Philadelphia early in March.
Don't forget the entertainment to be
given in the Sergeantsville NJ. E. Church
on Washington's Birthday, Feb. 22d.
Prof. Pearsall, Miss Ida Barrett, and
others will give readings, music, reci,a-
tons, &c. Admission, IS cents.
An interesting revival is being held
at High Bridge, in the NJ. L. Church. 1t
has been continuing for moro than forty
ten conversions. 1t is reported that fifty
to seventy-tive have started for the better
life.
Joshua Hutchinson, the Oldest sur
vivor of the Hutchinson family of singers,
who has often snng in this city, died at
Milford, N. H., on Saturday, the Goth
ut., aged 70. OF the original number Of
sixteen in the family, only three survive
Asa, John, and Mrs. Abby PatteL.
The protracted meetings in French
town NJ. E. Church are yet in progress
Near fifty persons have protested CONVEX
sion since they commenced. Both after
noon and evening meetings have been
we'll attended, and the church has been
greatly blessed in the effort.-Star.
The Board of Officers of the Seventh
Regiment, N. G. S. Nj met in Tren-
ton last Friday evening. The chief item
of interest at the meeting was the adop-
ton of the regulation United States he'll
met, similar to those worn by the New
Jersey Battalion, for the dress head-gear
of tho Regiment.
The Borough Council of Washington,
Warren county, recently passed an ordi-
nance providing that no liquors should be
sold in the borough after 10 o'clock in the
evening. The liquor sellers dispute the
legality of the ordinance, and have had
the matter certioraried to the Supreme
Court. A decision will not be had until
the June term of Court.
The Western Union Telegraph Com.
pany has acquired control of the Mutua
Union Line, and the two companies will
work together in harmony. In Philadel-
phia the offices will remain separate, but
in smaller towns, where both lines have
Offices, they will be merged. We presume