The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-10-27

If you are not registered yon can
not vote.
Halloween falls ON Sunday night
this year.
There is areyival in postage staml $
collecting.
-Tramps and the birds are flying
to the south
Only square dealing brings per-
manent trade
-Chestnuts are scarce even at 20
cants per quart
Hail to the Joyous return of the
buckwheat cake.
Jack Frost will soon destroy the
beauty of flower gardens.
Storm doors are coming ont of
their summer retirement.
Furriers are bringing out their
stocks of capes, caps and gloves.
There is reminder of winter in
the mir of these October nights.
"Lambertville Puffs" are still GO
ing up in smoke Kline sells them.
A new barn has taken the place of
the one recently destroyed by fire on
the farm of Albert Pyatt, near Crotou.
The Seventh Regiment! \. q. n.
j.. has been ordered out for field
day Mt Freehold, Wednesday, NOV.
Il tn.
1t Is reported that Joseph g. Moore
has sold his store business to Mr..
Wright of the State of Delaware, who
takes hold November list
NAN SEWER, painter, paper-hanger
and i'm writer, So Ferry street.
The Pennington Hook 4 Ladder
Company will participate in the big
fremen's parade, which will take
place at Trenton on November 10
Under the auspices of the State
Board of Agriculture farmers insti-
tute will be held in Columbia Hall,
Hopewell. November 16, commencing
at 10. Il. m
If yon want sesar that is Just the
thing. buy .Lambertville Pufis J.
b Kline, Bridge street
This advice is NOW in order Burn
your leaves and help destroy tree
pests Don't sweep them into the
street II does not look well. aud helps
to make mud of the nastiest kind
Sixty days in the county Jail and
costs of prosecution was the sentence
imposed Monday morning of last week
by Judge Herr, upon Martin Apgar, of
High Bridge, for keeping disorderly
house.
e" Pay as you go clubs are being
organized i'll many towns. The mem
hers agree and pledge themselves to
incur no debts, aud to purchase only
such goods as they can pay cash for.
The world should be organized into
one great club of this sort and pros
porous times would come quickly.
The contract for the iron work of
the thirty-foot span Joint bridge be
tween Hunterdon and Mercer counties,
near Ringoes, has been awarded to the
Canton Ohio Bridge Company for
$3.50. The mason work went TO
George W. Cherry, of Rngoes, at
81. % the cubic yard
The Frenchtown Independent
states that a shirt factory is likely to
be established in that place in the near
future Pennington recent expert
ence in the futter of that sort of linen
was such that it can contentedly sit by
aud see Frenchtown gobble like Gin
dustry' without one Jealous pang. ~
Fiemingtoa Dcmocfat 1dCcrGscr.
An exchange puts it strongly and
tersely thus: IF man had a $50
pup he would look after it and not let
it run around all night all over town.
But if he has boy it is different. He is
turned loose at tender age to go to
destruction. At all events the boy
ought to be given equal showing with
the pup Which way does this strike
you, parents ?
A Trenton daily tells of a so-called
business man in that city who thought
ont wonderful advertising dodge.
He attached brand new 1897 cent to
each of several hundred circulars and
the people very gladly accepted the
circulars, tore loose the cents and
pocketed them and then threw the
circulars away unread. If that man
had only cents enough to have adver-
tised in the newspapers how much bet
ter it would have been.
Jonathan Blackwell, for many
years overseer of the poor for East
Amwell township, had his left leg am
putated at the hip recently, at his
home near Rileyville, he being a suf-
ferer from rare disease known rs
elnbolism, the effect of which is to
deaden the part attacked. The disease
appeared about two weeks ago. The
operation was performed by Drs.
Young, of Ringoes, Pierson, of Hope
well, and Cramer Ewing and Sproul,
of Pennington. Mr. Blackwell is 63
years old. The operation was a very
serious one.
Mrs. Sarah D. Manning, wife of
Colonel J. c. Manning, died at the
Commercial Hotel, on East Hanover
street, Trenton, early Friday morning
of last week, after an illness of nine
days. Death was directly due to ner-
vous prostration, which was brought
on by severe cold. Mrs. Manning
was in her 6eth year. She was one of
the first members of the State Street
Methodist Church. She gave freely
to the poor and to churches and chart