The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-04-24
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL "a, 1889.

Next tuesday viii be legal holiday.
Constable Skillman has been sworn
into Office and is now on duty.
Iron ore is being dug on the farm Of
Edward Hunt at Little York.
Frank A. Robbins circus has left
Frenchtown for its Summer tour
About six hundred shad were caught
at the fisheries in this city last week.
Tho Street Committee advertise in
another column for 500 tons of stone.
The new Board of Freeholders Of
this county viii stand Is Democrats to
Republicans.
An adjourned meeting of Common
Council will be held next Monday ev-
ening, at o'clock.
Ben Butler advises young men who
wish to get rich to invest their money in
improved real estate and Tulip Soap.
Arrangements are being made by
Major O. A. Angel Post for the proper
Observance of Memorial Day in this city.
William Ellis has opened flour and
feed store at the N. W. corner of Union
and Buttonwood streets. See advertise.
ment.
Justice William It. Srope, Que of
Frenchtown's most active and useful cti.
zens, received 1888 of the PSI votes cast at
the recent election.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment of Geo. F. Keller, on the fourth
page of THE RECORD Iu addition to
other bargains offered, big reduction
has been made on glassware.
Eggs are likely to be dear in mid
summer, as the hens are at present over
doing the business. Poultry raisers say
they never knew hens to lay SO freely and
eggs 10 be so cheap at this season of the
year as now.
1T is oil very we'll to boom your town
and induce manufacturers to locate in it,
but booming company in Easton came
near being taken in by bogus clock
company, who was working the bunco
game on them.
AT big parade Of the Knights of
the Golden Eagle at Allentown. Pa, on
Monday of this week, Franklin Castle, of
this city, was represented by John Sproat,
and Delaware Castle, of New Hope, by
Samuel Stockton.
George w. NORMAN, of the State
Model Glass of 'S6, and recent gradu-
ate of the q. of P. Law School in Phila-
delphia, has been selected by George b.
Mcclellan Post, G. A. r., of French
town, TO deliver the Memorial Day ad-
dress lie that town.
The New Jersey State Homeopathic
Medical Society viii hold its next regu-
lar annual meeting at Trenton on Thurs
day, May 18th, at the Board of Trade
rooms. The morning session will begin
at II o'clock. Dinner will be served at
the Hotel Windsor.
The Salvation Army has once more
been routed and the commanding officer
driven outside the lines of our city. A
big row ended in breaking up the army
ono night last week, and the captain was
given his choice of leaving the city or be-
ing taken prisoner. He left.
Colonel Richard A. Donnelly and
the officers of the Seventh Regiment,
N. G.. N. j., are invited to make use of
the headquarters OF Brigadier General
Louis Fitzgerald and staff, at Broadway
and Forty-first street, New York. during
the centennial celebration OF Washing
tons Inauguration.
The Board of Health, at it's meeting
last Thursday evening, appointed Mr..
Robert II. Dilts Inspector, and he was
directed to begin at once general in
specton of the city. Instead of treating
the call OF the Inspector as an intrusion,
he should be welcomed by every one in
the interest of public health and comfort.
The Glen Gardner Aoatanche says:
While Nelson Mowery was making gar
den for G. B. Hildebrand one day last
week, he discovered hole in the ground.
On close examination he saw the head of
snake protruding from the hole. Mr..
Mowery went for his snakeship with a
club, and before he got through he had
slain eleven.
Rev. W. w. Bullock, Pastor of the
First Baptist Church, will complete the
second year of his pastorate next Sunday.
In the morning, at 1890, he will preach
an appropriate sermon, "The Voice
Which the Preacher U.s. and in the even
ing, at 7:30, on Future Recognition. !"
Prayer and conference meetings on Tues
day and Thursday evenings, at 7:45. All
are cordially invited.
Persons who have gardens to dig,
or have other outdoor work to do, will
perform charitable act by employing
Benz. Mitchell, who has large family
to support, but is out Of employment
and in destitute circumstances. He is
sober, industrious man. and willing to
work Orders may be left at Stockton's
undertaking establishment, So Coryell
street, where they win receive prompt
attention.
Road machines are coming into pref
ty general favor. There is law COM
pelling every township to have one, but
it has not been put in force. A good ma
chine does more and better work at less
expense than men with shoyels, picks
and hoes. The machine cleans out the
cutters and gives the road a regular slope
from center to gutter at any desired angle;
fills up the depressions and levels off the
uneven places so that the road is left with
perfectly uniform grade when finished