The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-01-30

The Phunny Phellows will be al
Holcombe Hall this "wednesday evening.
The Great Council of the Imp. O. R.
M. of this State will be held In Trenton
on February 2Sth.
The Phunny Phellows' Base Ball
Club will be new attraction in this city
the coming season.
"A reading room has been opened at
Sergeantsville, which ought to prove a
good thing for leisure hours.
Rev. G. NJ. Owen, of Baptisttown,
was presented with purse of $3.50 last
Thursday evening. at the parsonage, by
his church and congregation.
While chopping wood one day last
week, Edward II. Holcombe, of Mount
Airy, had his instep very badly cut by
the slipping of the axe he was using.
john Lewdrop, blacksmith at Mount
Airy, has purchased house and lot at
Bloomsbury and will move there April
LIST. He will follow his trade at his new
home.
g. w. Opdycke, of Frenchtown, is in
the West buying horses, which he will
sell at public sale on February 9th. He
will arrive home with the horses on Feb
ruary 4th.
Condemns, or ground hog day, will
be here next Saturday, February I'd. On
that day, according to popular tradition,
the ground hog prognosticates the weather
for the following six weeks.
Rev. E. X. Donaldson, formerly of
Ringoes, N. j., has resigned the pastor
ate of the Presbyterian Church at Shaw
nee, Pa, and has accepted call to Stan
hope, N. ]. He will remove to his new
field next week.
AT the recent annual meeting of the
Ringoes Vigilant Society the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year:
President, V. r. Mathews; Vice Presi-
dent, r. II. Fisher; Secretary, Levi Hol-
combe; Treasurer, Ira Higgins.
-Peals of laughter from beautiful bellies
are enjoyable, but peels from oranges and
bananas left on the pavement are the
source of much inconvenience and very
Often result in injury TO the person who
tries to play on them with his feet.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Common Council will be held next Mon
day evening; the Board of Excise Com
missioners on Tuesday evening the Board
of School Trustees on Wednesday even
ing, and the Board of Health on Thurs
day evening.
John Stout, Ringoes farmer, last
week bntchered fourteen pigs that aver
aged 1853 pounds in weight. They were
13l days old, and the heaviest one of the
fourteen weighed 202 pounds. He sold
the whole lot at 81 cents per pound, thus
realizing $l17.sl.
The State Encampmeut of the G. A.
r. will be held in Trenton on Thursday
and Friday, February 7th and 9Th. The
delegates from Post 20, of this city, are
D. Spencer Williams and John II. Chidis-
ter; alternates, Andrew ]. Smith and
William T. Powell.
AT the recent annual meeting of the
Historical Society of New Jersey, held in
Trenton, Rev. Geo. s. Mott, d. d., of
Pennington, was elected one OF the Vice
Presidents, and DIR. II. Race was appoint
ed to represent Hunterdon county on the
Committee on Genealogy.
An Advisory Board, auxiliary to the
New Jersey Children's Home Society, was
organized in Frenchtown last week, with
the following officers: President, DR.. +.
K. DENY; Vice President, Rev. d. M.
Mathews; Secretary, Mrs. Reuben Hill
pot; Treasurer, Mrs. A. P. Williams.
William Goddard, of Milford, has
been appointed boss on the lower section
of the Pennington branch of the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad, and will move to this city
about the 1st of February. Mr.. Goddard
has been rairoading for some years and
has had several years experience as a
track boss.
"A large cancer was successfully re-
moved from Mrs. Lucy Bennett, at the
residence of her son.in lrw,~ Abner w.
Cooper, on Union street, In this city, last
Saturday. DR.. Price, of Philadelphia,
performed the operation, assisted by Drs.
Romine and Closson, of this city, and
DIR. Best, of Rosemont. Mrs- Bennett is
improving very nicely.
-" You have no license here now,
remarked gentleman to another who was
looking at his samples in the way OF trade,
the other day, in this city. " Why, what
makes you think SOL " asked the other.
swell, asked for a little rye few
minutes ago and the man behind tie bal
replied, 1 don't know who you are, and
did not let me have anything.
Thomas Crowley, superintendent Of
the boot department at the Lambertvlile
Rubber Works, one day last week gave
the employees under his charge treat o.
some excellent fruit. 1t is said that one
Young man in the packing room ate ne
less than half dozen large apples, and
then, hiding behind big box OF boots
shouted, "Thanks; come again, Tom
Rev. w. H. Wolverton, formerly 0
Stockton and recently pastor OF the Sec
ond Presbyterian Church of Trenton, ant
who resigned because of i'll health, has re
gained his health. He has accepted cal
to the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church
OF Boonton, in this State, and VIII tax
charge of tho church on February 10th
He has been at Bedford, Pa, the pas