The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-09-16
NEW HOPE AND BUCKS COUNTY, PA.

commenced at Doylestown on Monday.
"A colored man at Langhorne was
fined $1.75 by Squire Dufleld for trying
to avoid paying toll.
"A lawn tennis club has been organ
lied in New Hope with thirty members,
and grounds have been rented.
Delaware Castle, No. 1876, X. G. E.,
will attend divine service at the New
Hope NJ. E. Church next Sunday evening.
-Morrisville is preparing to erect
large new Public School building, to con-
tain six rooms, at cost of from ten to
twelve thousand dollars.
Charles Gray, of Lower Wakefield,
fell from sulky pillow, on Tuesday of last
week, and broke his left arm. He was
also otherwise bodily injured.
The Bucks County Historical Society
has been presented with brick from the
old Davis mansion, at Bristol, built in
1908 and recently demolished.
The new building for pork packing
establishment, built on the site of the old
"Aaron Lambert store" in New Hope, is
about completed. The second story is
fitted up for public hall, and is nice
room for the purpose. Hooker 6 Roberts
are the owners.
AT recent meeting of the Carvers-
Vile Grange the question, "When is the
best time to plant trees, both fruit and or
namental9" was answered by William B.
Sutton. His experience led him to think
the Spring, after the ground was settled,
was the best time.
"A post office has been established at
Grenoble, new railroad station on the
line of the New Hope Extension, with the
ticket agent as postmaster. This will
take some of the business away from
Breadysville and Rush Valley, the near
est offices to Grenoble.
The annual meeting of the Bucks
County Bible Society will be held in st.
James Chapel Grew. Johnson Hubbel,
RECTOR, Langhorne, on Thursday, Sept.
Gath, at 10 A. NJ. Rev. w. X. Preston,
Preacher. Rev. T. Asher Hess, of
Hulmeville, Alternate.
The contractor for building the new
freight station at New Hope got the
foundations up last week, but work was
stopped by the railroad company, as the
company Changed its mind" and decid-
ed to put the building on the east side OF
the track. A new foundation will there
fore have to be built.
The wife of Mr.. VIM. II. Murray died
at her home in New Hope, last Thursday.
Mrs. Murray was one of the most respect
| ed residents of New Hope, where she had
lived for great many years. She was
the daughter of the Mr.. Hall who built
the grist mills 10 Lambertville, now own
ed by Lear, Holcomb & Niece.
AT the funeral of the late John Cir
ton, Yardley, on Thursday afternoon, one
of the horses OF A. 8. Cadwallader, get
ting his bride off, ran away, injuring the
driver and striking an aged man from
Trenton, N. j., by the name OF Savage,
| breaking one or two ribs. The horse was
loose when he ran into Mr.. Savage. But
little damage was done to the vehicle.
William Weireck, OF the Warren Pa.
per Mills, N. j., has been on a cunning
expedition through Bucks county, recent
| ly. While he was on the south side OF
Haycock mountain, he came in contact
| with two black snakes and succeeded In
capturing both, one measuring feet,
inches, and the other feet, u inches.
Mr.. Weireck claims to be the champion
snake killer in Bucks county.
The Neaotoa0n Enterprise says: Last
weeks paper gave some account of the
deposit of cement in Solebury. We learn
that some sixty years ago cement was
manufactured there, and largely used.
The locks on the canal at New Hope were
laid with it, and it was ground at the
Union Mills, an old frame structure that
stood on the river bank at Wells Falls,
where the Union Paper Mill now Is.
The Assessors OF the various districts
In Bucks county, made their returns to
the County Commissioners of the sixty
day assessment, on Friday The returns
show that under the new law the Asses
sors had hunted up the voters pretty
closely. The number of names run from
about two to six or seven in each district,
and the total number OF voters added to
the list amounted to only about two hun
bred.