The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-10-07
NEW HOPE AND BUCKS COUNTY, PA.

NEW HOPE AND BUCKS COUNTY, PA.
The population of Bucks county is
about u, 900.
John L. Riegel, of Riegelsville, has
about eighty acres of buckwheat ready to
harvest, and promises an excellent crop.
The big tank at Heist's cider manu-
factory, at Doylestown, sprung leak,
and 5000 worth of cider ran out and was
lost
The Frenchtown IN. j. Independent
says We learn that drilling for oil in the
vicinity of Revere, Pa, is to be resumed
in short time.
"A post office named Tinieum has
been established at WormAnsville, in TIM
cum township, and w. H. Wolfnger APP
pointed postmaster.
Herbert Mcintosh, former Doyles-
town boy, but now practicing law in
Worcester, Mass, has been nominated by
the Peoples Party of that State for At
torney General.
Constable Oliver Fisher, OF New
Hope, took Kate Whitehead over to the
Bucks county Jail, one day recently, she
having been committed by Squire East
burn on the charge of being drunk and
disorderly.
John O'Brien, strolliug musician
from Philadelphia, in attendance at the
Doylestown Fair, has been committed to
prison on charge of furnishing liquor to
Patrick Campbell, person of known in
temperate habits.
Joseph ]. Thompson, of Newtown
township, has presented to the Bucks
County Historical Society good speci-
men of an erolite that fell in that section
some years ago. This piece was picked
up.from the farm OF Isaac Thompson,
Newtown. In appearance it looks not
unlike petrifed honey comb, and has the
smell of birthstone about 1t.
-Eastburn Reeder, President of the
Doylestown Agricultural and Mechanics
Institute, has been appointed by the Uni
ted States Agricultural Department
special agent to select and forward to the
Department at Washington, samples of
wheat, corn, oats and other grains exhi-
bitcd at the Fair and raised in Bucks
county, for the use of the department.
Superintendent Slotter is busy ar
ranging for the annual Teachers Institute,
to be held in the Court House, Doyles-
town, October 1928. Among the in
structors engaged are DR.. q. G. Croft,
Lewisburg, Pa. !; DIR. George w. Hull,
Milersvile S. N. s., Pa. DR.. G. M.
Braumbaugh, Huntingdon, Pa. ; DR.. G.
NJ. Phillips, West Chester 8. N. s, Pa.
Prof. Thomas A. Smith and Prof. Frank
II. Green, West Chester, Pa, and DR.. A.
Il. Horn, Allentown, Pa.
Barclay Hlllborn, OF Newtown, is in
Jail at Allentown, charged with abducting
and afterwards marrying the 13-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Clara Ritter, residing in
that place. Barclay, while employed in
the Bethlehem Iron Works, boarded at
Mrs. Ritter's, where he met the girl.
Elizabeth Wambold, who has also lately
lived in Newtown, is held as his accom-
plice. The woman charges that Hillborn
paid her TO abduct the child from home,
take her to Easton and thence to Bucks
county. The wedding was contaminated
in Trenton, N. ].
"A Grand Army Post, No. AIT, was
duly organized at Newtown, one night re-
Gently, by Assistant Adjutant General
Samuel P. Town, and Department Mus
tering Officer, Col. Charles A. Suydam.
Twenty six charter members are enrolled,
with total list Of about forty 10 the post.
Officers were elected and installed as fol-
lows Commander, Captain William Wyn-
koop s. V. c., Captain Thomas p.
Chambers j. V. G., franklin Cornell
Chaplain, Joseph Stout; Adjutant, Jas.
L. Dillon; Quartermaster, Geo. c. Wor-
stall o. d., John L. Janney; Surgeon,
j. Charles Burrill
Elk State Treasurer William II. KEN.
bic, the well.known financier and street
railway magnate, died very suddenly late
Saturday night week at his magnificent
summer residence, Maryawn, near Glen
side Station, on the North Penn Railroad.
He was attacked with heart disease while
10 bed and died ten minutes after making
known his condition. Mr. Kemble was
born at Woodbury., N. j., on April 10,
1928. He was well.known in Bucks
county. He owned the stone quarries at
also The farm belonging to
the late Isaac II. Worstall, in Solebury,
and the Robert Lear saw mill property,
on the Cuttalosa. He also built several
houses in and near Lnmberton for the
workmen in the quarries.
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Union Veterans TO Meet Mt Reading-HaIE-
Rate Tickets on the p. and Il.