The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-12-22
ACROSS THE RIVER.
NEW HOPE AND BUCKS COUNTY. PA.

NEW HOPE AND BUCKS COUNTY. PA.
The New Hope NsWS has been sold
by DIR. Glasgow to Il Mr. Kitchen, of
Princeton, " j. Heis now in posses
sion.
The work of laying the tracks of
the Doylestown and Willow Grove
trolley is nearing completion. But
half n mile between the Turk and
Bridge Point, remains to be laid The
poles have also been planted almost
the entire distance, and wires are now
being strung from the Willow Grove
end of the line The power house nj
Frog Hollow is we'll under way and
some of the machinery has been placed
i'll position,
Judge Nerkcs' refusal of Il dis
tiller's license to the Doylcstown Dis
tilling Company, manufacturers of the
Horne cold distilled brandy. because
necessity was not shown. has been
reversed by the Superior Court. and II
license ordered to be issued by the
Quarter Sessions Court rs prayed for.
The Superior Court found that the
lower court erred in requiring neees-
sity to be shown, for the application
was for II distiller's license only and
not Wholesale license, President
Judge Rice and Judge Beaver dissent
ed from this opinion.
For his refusal or failuret To comply
with the Judgment of the Bucks coun-
ty court i'll the recent case against him,
Rev. $. 4. Risca Cocker, formerly
pastor of the Doylestown NJ. L. Church,
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Kelly
ut Scranton about midnight ON Tues
day and they arrived in Doylestown
last Wednesday afternoon. Cocker il
now in Jail
The wife OF John $. Williams, of
Solebury, died on Wednesday of last
week. aged 63 years. She was II most
excellent woman, and will be greatly
missed
Hutchinson ~ Lewis, the renowned
eXtractors of stumps, by use of dynN-
mite, have completed their contract to
remove the stumps from the twenty
acre field on ex-Chief Justice Paxson =
Bycott farm. Nine hundred dollars,
worth of dynamite, six thousand caps
and ten thousand feet of fuse were re
quisite for its accomplishment.
In addition to that large expenditure
(nbout 81 ,000) il To be added the cost
of the exploders labor of seven to ten
men, who We're engaged ut moving
down and burning briars and bushes J;
others, with team of horses extrnct-
ing roots, and others still filling MP
the large cavities in the earth, made
by dynamite explosions, others haul
ing the stumps to hemp and burning
them, besides weeks of labor yet To be
employed in preparing the ground
rendy for corn planting i'll the Spring,
which the Judge says he will have
done This will run the cost of pre-
paration of the field for fnrm purposes
up TO ~, 000 an average cost of 800
per acre.
"Not one real estate owner IN five
hundred, says the venerable lawyer
and real estate possessor, would hive
ever undertaken the Job TIA the
biggest thing of the kind ever entered
into. However, | do not bcgrudge
the enormous outlay, ms the field, with
its stumps, hrinra and bushes, wns of
no value, nnd mn eye-sofe to look upon
Besides, II realize enough of of TINT
rich, bacl, soil in two years time To
reimburse me. don't expect to de
rive much benefit thcrefrom, but those
who come after me, will. The r., 900
expended will be TINT much less for
others to invest in horsesnnd carriages
To ride around in. " And right he is.
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