The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-09-24
NEW HOPE AND BUCKS COUNTY, PA.
Joseph Pickett has opened a shooti


palm" on raising fine potatoes9
Apples are falling from the trees.
Some fine varieties are going to waste.
Corn cutting has occupied the attSn-
tion of some Of our farmers this week..
The Doylestown Fair will open on
Sept Both and continue to Oct. Sd incsu-
sive. Fl
"A. 3. Stockton attended the FSe-
mems Convention, held at York, Pa, last
week.
There will be pole raising at
Mathews Corner, to. morrow Thursday
evening. 5C
The steople of the NJ. E. Church, is
being nicely painted by our artists, Col
ton and Werts.
The improvements at the Eagle en-
CINE house, still continue; the doors have
been arranged to open outward.
The trip taken by T. o. Atkinson,
of Doylestown, to the far west, was, ao-
cording to all accounts, very interesting
one.
Tho fruit festival Of the M. E.
Church, at Langhorne, Pa, will be held
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
this week.
The Blame and Logan Junior Club
of our borough, have received their new
uniforms, and anticipate parading on next
Friday evening.
Tho Bucks County Bible Society,
will hold their annual meeting in the
Presbyterian Church, at boy lestown, Pa,
tomorrow Thursday.
Our friend, G. S. Atkinson of the Ag-
ricultural Works, intends to have fine
exhibit of agricultural Implements, 60,
at the Pennington Fair.
Theodore Devinney visited some old
friends and acquaintance here last
week. He has been a resident of Phila-
delphia for some time past.
William G. Ryan, graduate of our
Academy, has finished his law studies
and was recently admitted to the Doyles-
town bar, to practice his profession.
An employee of Thomas Corners, at
his quarry at Limeport, was severely
burned about the face, on last w ednes-
day. His injuries are not dangerous.
John Hartman, an employee at the
Union Mills, nearly met with severe ac-
cident, on Tuesday morning, by falling
down a cellar in tho mill, bruising his
body and spraining his hip to some extent.
Miss Belle Cunningham was united
in marriage, to John Scott, of Carvers-
vile, Pa, on last Wednesday evening.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
George Reed, the pastor of the M. e.
Church. T.
Tho members of the New Hope Cor.
net Band, regret that they could not at
tend the peach festival and fair Of the
Doylestown Cornet Band, at that place
last week, having been prevented by D
previous engagement at Lambertville.
The base ball club, of Doylestown,
were to have gone to Lambertville, OF
Friday afternoon last, to play the Lam
bertville club there, but the match wal
postponed by dispatch from the latter
stating they could not play at the tim,
mentioned.
There win be n large Republican
Mass Meeting, held at Lahaska, on Satur
day evening, by clubs from DJylestowi
and New Hope. The New Hope Corne
Band will furnish the melodies" for th,
occasion. Messrs. II. B. Eastburn and w
G. Ryan, speakers.
There will be Republican Mass Meet
ing, held at the headquarters of the Blain,
and Logan Club in our borough, at th,
store property of Miss M. A. Lambert, OF
next Friday evening. The speakers APP
pointed for the evening, ale Hugh Il
Eastburn and William O. Ryan, Esqs., o
Doylestown, Pa.
--On the night of June 9Th last, Mr.
Oliver r. Kugler, of Frenchtown,s while
returning from Uhlertown, Pa, to hi.
home, was stopped on the highway by
one William Pfeiffer, of Tinicum town
ship, Pa, who robbed him of all the
money he CHANGED to have in his pocket,
which was but few cents. The highway
man was arrested, and last week his trial
took place at boy lestown. He was found
guilty and tho Court gave him nine
months in the Bucks county Jail TO think
over the folly Of the Dick Turpin or Claude
Duval sort of life he is entering upon.
AS the recent hot spell Of weather
has been fortunately succeeded by a
pleasant wave of fine cool weather, our
citizens should avail themselves of the OPP
portunity for cleaning up their premises
and the surroundings. Bad drainage,
and the emptying of slops, refuse matter,
decayed vegetables, So, on the grounds
around dwellings, has caused numerous
attacks of severe and dangerous illness.
Ali drains should be cleansed, and
lime freely spread in unhealthy spots;
cellars if not previously cleaned, now re-
quire attention. bitches leading from
dwellings, and passing by them alongside
the public roads, must be kept clean, and
not allowed to become choked, or theiI
beds filed up with debris, or earth. This
being the season of the year for malari
Gus affections, it is important that these
points be looked to and not neglected.
There was runaway IN our borough
on Monday last, which babe fair at frs
to result seriously. The horse attached
to Joseph Stockton's coal wagon, having
been frightened by a stone thrown by
boy, while the team was standing in from
of Charles Kitchin's store, ran away, ant