The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-12-12
Brief Mentioninrs.

Brief Mentionings.
The 21st inst. will bring us to th
shortest day of the year.
Local gunners report that there ar,
very few quail to be found.
Company G, of this city, will be in
spected by Colonel D. B. Murphy mex
Monday evening.
You will find a choice lot of brant
new holiday presents at Miss Gardner
store, Masonic Hall.
The fair is now open in the building
corner of Union and Coryell streets, un
der THE RECORD office.
The 1872 acre farm of the late @. @
Polhemus, at Clover Hill, has been solt
to Thee. Polhemus for $40 80 per acre.
Wilson Muirheid's farm of about on,
hundred acres, in Delaware township
was sold to William Holcombe, few
days ago. 1t was purchased severa
years ago for $94 so per acre.
A nine-year.old boy in Newton has
developed a homicidal mania through
smoking cigarettes. He will be sent tc
an asylum for treatment, and yet there
is law forbidding the sale of such ar
ticles to boys.
Rev. @. H. Woolston, formerly of this
city, preached his annual sermon to the
kindergarten children of the East Bap.
fist Church, Philadelphia, on Sunday
last. There was a very large attendance
of children with their parents.
The one sure way TO prevent being
swindled is to patronize people you
know. Our columns contain the names
of solid and reliable business men. II
you give them call they will treat you
we'll and give you good bargains,
The fiftieth anniversary of the dedica-
ton of the Sergeantsville Methodist
Episcopal Church will occur on Decem
Der 22d There will be special services
on that day. including a short history
and sermon at II A. NJ. and also SER
vices at night.
The time for the organization of the
next Legislature will be the earliest date
it can ever occur, under the present Con-
stitution, which fixes the time on the
second Tuesday in January. As the LIST
is on Tuesday, the meeting for organiza-
ton will occur on the 9Th.
The County Board of Agriculture will
meet in Bonds Hall, in Ringoes, on
Saturday, December 10Th, at 10 o'clock,
A. M, when the regular business of the
Board will be transacted. In the after
noon there will be addresses by J. b.
Rogers, of Essex county, and f. Dye, of
Mercer county.
The annual reunion of the Twenty
third New Jersey Regiment-known
during the war as the Ya-boos will
be held at the residence of General E.
Burd Grubb, at Edgewater Park, to-
morrow Thursday. Lieut.. Reuben
M. Hartman, of this city, was the young
est member of the Regiment, and he
and Adjutant Van Solver will attend the
re. union.
The Hunterdon Democrat says: A.
H. Hoagland. who for the past twenty
five years has kept hotel at White
House Station, dropped dead in his bar
at o'clock last Thursday afternoon,
just after waiting upon two customers
and refusing two others. His hotel had
not always been licensed, but for the
past two years was licensed house.
He never married. His age was SO
years.
The New York Board of Health has
decided that the prevalence Of diphtheria
was to be attributed to the fumes of
kerosene from lamp turned low, more
than to any other single cause. This
disease usually makes its attack at the
season when days are short aud nights
are long. The Board says that ga
turned downed kerosene lamp is mag
azine of deadly gas that the strongest
lungs cannot be safely exposed to-
The Hibernia Fire Co., No. 2, of this
city, will hold grand sociable in Hol-
combe Hall, on Christmas eve, Deem
Der Oath, to which the public is cordially
invited Music by first class orchestra.
Grand march at $50 O'Clock. Tickets,
so cents. AS it has been q long time
since the Hibernia Fire Company has
made an appeal to the public for assist.
ance, it is to be hoped that there will be
liberal response to the call. The Com
mittee of Arrangements promise plea.
SAINT time to all who may attend.