The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-11-27
WEDNESDAY,. NOV. 81, 1889.

the house and lot of Levi Ham, ii
Frenchtown, for s., 250.
Tomorrow, Thanksgiving day. th,
stores, banks, pos;-office, &C., will be
closed.
Stacy G. Sherman, of Kingwood, ha!
sold his II acre farm 10 Samuel Cowdrick
for So, 900.
The young men of st. Johns parish
will give sociable tonight, at Holcom be
Hall.
Corporal Schnapps, with his raw re-
cruils, will sing Of his woes at the Band
Fair
MIR. Ashbel Welch, and family Of
Wichita, Kansas, are visiting relatives in
this city.
&C. II. w. Van Solver is prepared to
do house painting and papering in con.
nection with sign writing.
Citizens of Milford are considering
the subject of lighting that snug little
town with electricity.
The 24o acre farm of John Bosen.
bury, deceased, near New Germantown,
has been sold by the administrators to
Benjamin Van Doreu, for $l2, 600.
Keep look out for counterfeit two
dollar notes. They arc numbered b TO-
sos, ia, and bear the portrait of General
Hancock.
1t is easy enough 10 acquire reputa-
ton rs a weather prophet now -a-days.
All that is necessary is TO predict five
rainy days week.
After the present green two cent post
age stamps are used up, the public will
be given smaller ones Of carmine color
and Gerent design
The sensible farmers will do well 10
keep their poultry in doors, us half the
Nimrods who go forth can't tell farm
yard hen from quail.
The Central Railroad has given John
P. Brothers, proprietor of the steam saw
mill at White House Station, an order to
saw one million feet of lumber.
-Mcssrs. Taylor & Kachline, of French
town, bought 10 acres of woodland on the
''Pickei farm" between Frcuchtown and
Evcrittstown, recently, for $4s per acre.
The ladies of the Mount Airy Church
will hold Crystal Anniversary and an
Oyster Supper in the Chapel, on Wednes-
day and Thursday evenings, Dec. 4th and
9th. All are cordially invited.
We have just received at the Grand
Depot some very Choice Novelties in Fine
Millinery-the very latest out.
RICHARD II. VAN HORN.
The executors of Joseph Smith, decd,
late Of Kingwood township, sold the old
homestead on Tuesday of last week, pro-
pcrty containing l16 acres, 10 Edward
Priest for S43 per acre.
More umbrellas have been worn out,
lost, strayed or stolen this year than in
any two or three previous ones, for much
of the time when it has not actually rain
ed it has threatened TO do so.
"A meeting to organize a State Poul-
try Association will be held at the State
Street House, Trenton, on Wednesday,
Dec. 20, ut 1890 A. NJ. All persons in
tcrested in this, are invited TO attend.
Tomorrow, Thanksgiving services
will be held in the Baptist Church of this
place, the Presbyterian and Methodist
Churches uniting in the service. Rev. ].
II. Boswell, of the NJ. E. Church, will
preach. Services will begin at 1880 A. M.
MIR. John G. Moore, of this city, has
been nominated by his friends as men,
Der OF the Advisory Committee of the
Penna. II. r. Relief Fund for the I'd Di-
vision. There are two other candidates
one from the Newark shops and another
from Philadelphia.
WIN. johnson, formerly of this city,
and his son VIM. NJ. johnson, of Chicago,
have formed partnership as attorneys
and solicitors Of patents and mechanical
engineers. Their offices are 637 F street
N. W., Washington, D. c., and 70 Dear
born street, Chicago.
Assistant Attorney General Tyner, O
the Post Office Department, has decided
that the printing of advertisements close
ly resembling United States money orders
is a violation of the spirit of the law, and
has ordered that their publication and dis
tribution be discontinued at once.
The farm belonging to the estate of
Alex. B. Holcombe, decd, near Mount
Airy, was not sold on Wednesday last, as
advertised, there appearing TO be no per-
sons anxious to buy. The farm is a very
desirable one and any person wishing TO
carry on farming can find few better
ones.
The use of Ayers Sarparilla purifies
the blood, stimulates the sccretions, and
imparts new life and vigor TO every func-
ton of the body. For nearly half CEN
fury, 1t has remained unrivaled as the
best blood medicine ever discovered. Be
convinced by trial.
The real estate of Lewis V. Salter,
deceased, near Frenchtown, was sold last
week. The farm, containing 80 $500
acres, was sold to Alice NJ. Saltcr, for
$44.50 per acre, subject TO dover. The
house and lot to Isaac Huffman for 5000,
and wood lot containing ] $500 acres
TO Moses w. Lear, for $27 per acre.
Miss Catharine Hunt, who has resid-
cd near .Rosemont for some years past,
died on Monday of last week and was
buried at the Sandy Ridge Cemetery last
Friday morning. She was 70 years old.
Rev. W. w. Bullock, of this city, preach
ed Tie funeral sermon. Her mother, who