The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1890-06-18
DIR. G. L. Romine is repairing his resi-
dence on Bridge street.

Our city stone crusher has been repair
ed and is now at work again.
Mrs. Frank Foster, of Oil City, Pa,
is visiting her father, Mr.. VIM. McCready,
of this city.
Miss Carrie Flummerfelt, now resid-
ing in Easton, Pa, has been visiting
friends in this city the last few days.
Miss Elizabeth Larue, of Winnipeg
City, Nebraska, is visiting her uncle, tMr.
Isaac Larue), and friends, IN this city.
Rev. A. Westveer, of Stanton, has
been called to become the pastor of the
Presbyterian Church of Amwell Second,
at Mount Airy.
MIR. ]. X. Zeigler, of the Lambert
vile House, is visiting his son George w.
Zeigler, at the Luzerne House, Wilkes
barre, Pa.
Mr. Martin Price, of this city, during
the shower on Thursday evening, June
18th, fell from pile of boards and cut
his head and broke three ribs.
The fiflieth annual commencement
4 of Pennington Seminary will be held June
22d to June 26th. The principal exer-
ciscs occur on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday.
A rich vein of ore has been de-
veloped by ]. d. Ketchem, near Hoff-
mans Mill, High Bridge, this county.
Plumbago has also been found 10 large
quantities.
Our paper mills were forced to shut
down on last Friday and Saturday, owing
to the severe showers on Thursday and
Friday, which made the water too muddy
for making paper.
The Lambertville Bank building is re-
ceiving new coat of paint. Telegraph
Hall, Mr.. A. B. Holcombe's building, has
also been reprinted and has been greatly
improved in appearance.
-Wetherill's best White Lead and Rea-
dy Mixed Paint at HENS. April IT,
The reunion and annual meeting of
the 97th N. ]. ", will be held this year
on June 2Sd, at the residence of its old
Commander, Gen. E. Burd Grubb, Edge
water Park, Burlington county.
The electric lights recently put in at
Clinton are working nicely. It is said
that the citizens are perfectly delighted
with the change from kerosene to this
means of illumination that possesses no
odor or smoke.
Mrs. Jennie Coryell Taylor, daughter
of the late Alexander Coryell, and widow
of the late DR.. Richard g. Taylor, former
Assistant Surgeon in the United States
Army, has just been granted heavy pen
sion, to continue during her widowhood.
Lawn Mowers at HEINs'. Arpil 16.
"A three-year-old colt belonging to A.
V. Holcombe, farmer living a mile east
of Pennington, fell into a cistern on
Saturday evening, and was drowned be-
fore he could be rescued. The horse
stepped upon the platform covering the
cistern, which broke beneath his weight.
w. II. Grant, of Trenton, was thrown
from bis sulkey as he was driving Verona
at the Midway Spring Circuit at Fleming
ton last Wednesday. He was picked up
unconscious, and was taken to the hotel,
but it was found that he was not seriously
injured.
ga "tally-ho" coach from Philadel
phia, containing party of ten people, on
their way to Easton, stopped at the Lam
bertville House, last Thursday evening.
They were out for good time and spent
the evening in jollity and singing.
The farmers say that quail will be
very plentiful next season. They are
already breeding, the season being earlier
than usual. Large coveys have been seen
in various parts of the country and the
sportsmen are directing covetous eyes to-
wards them.
The excursion of the N. J. Editorial
Association to Montreal and Quebec, will
start tomorrow afternoon. 1t will occupy
ten days. Mr.. and Mrs. r. II. Van Horn
and Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac w. Holcomb, of
this city, will be among the guests.
During the heated term that is now
with US householders owe to the public
the duty of absolute cleanliness in every
thing relating to the daily routine of
housekeeping. Cellars well aired and
yards and back alleys kept scrupulously
clean are important factors in modern
sanitation.
"A young Bayonne Prince colt owned
by Hon. j. N. Pidcock, of White House,
was terribly injured on Friday week by
barbed wire fence. The colt fell across
the wire, and was cut open in so many
places that its owner was forced to dis
patch it. The value of the animal was
placed at $1,000.
The editor of the Hopea0eU Herald,
Mr.. P. W. Hartwell, has our deep SYM
pathy in the death of his estimable wife,
which occurred suddenly at the residence
of his father, Mr.. P. II. Hartwell, near
this city, on Saturday last, at 10 o'clock,
where she had been accompanied by her
husband on Friday afternoon. Her age
was twenty years and ten days.
"A Bordentown special to the Trenton
State Gazette of last Friday says:
'Lewis I. Ford, son of Edward Ford,
formerly of this city and now of Ocean
Grove, was united in marriage Thursday,
in Philadelphia, to Miss Sara Ogborn, Of
that city. A number OF relatives from
this city attended the wedding. They
will reside at Lambertville, New Jersey"
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter E. Ennis, of