The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1898-11-30
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 80. 1898.

Days are almost at their shortest
now.
It's fact, Geo. W Massey sells
the best coal.
Advertising pays if done properly
in the right place.
Happiness is mental, not a
monetary product.
The endeayor to do right is the
true sunshine of life.
Christmas carols are being rehears-
ed in the churches.
Lambertville Puffs" are still GO
ing up in smoke. Kline sells them.
Dealers expect Spanish curios to
figure largely as Christmas presents.
Indoor sports are returning to
favor with the waning of the football
season.
Bangles are once again to become
the rage This is hint for Christmas
buyers
NO Trepass" cards, warming
gunners and others, for sale Mt THE
RECORD Office
Some men seem to enjoy wasting
a dollars worth of time on a nickel's
worth of business.
With some folk the rule in life's
success is to obtain something for
nothing, but it don't always work.
If you have any job printing to do,
don't take it to an outside office, but
give your newspaper the first chance
Nearly every place of business in
town was closed Thanksgiving Day
and practically all business was sus-
pended.
All forms of scrofula, sores, boils,
pimples and eruptions, are quickly and
permanently cured by Hoods Sarsa-
parilla.
Heaters, Stoves, Ranges good
as the best in the market, at low
prices, at Helms Hardware House,
Coryell St
The hotel at Hampton, lately oc-
cupied by Richard HOLES, has been
taken possession of by George Myers,
Of Baptisttown.
-Patronize first your home paper,
which does much to aid your town,
then extend your patronage as far as
You can afford to among the other
papers desired.
The public schools of this city are
closed to enable the teachers to attend
the teachers institute at Pennington.
1t began this morning and will con-
tinue tomorrow and Friday.
BoARDERs WANTED. Two gentlemen
can have pleasant room and board
whore there are no other boarders.
Main street, above York Address
p o. Box III.
The first snow of the winter fell
on Thanksgiving day According to an
ancient saying, the first snow falling
falls of snow will occur during the
winter months.
j ohm Banahan, an employee of the
Centennial Paper Mills, had the mis-
fortune to have the end of one of his
fingers on his right hand cut off by be-
ing caught in one of the rolls on the
paper machine.
Willard c. Smith, of Plainfeld,
n. j., has been appointed assistant
superintendent of the Prudential In
surance Company in this city, in place
of II. d. Woodland, who has been
transferred to Pennington.
An enormous land slide, carrying
immense rocks, occurred on Sunday Of
last week in Myers cut along the Cen
trail Railroad, between High Bridge
and Glen Gardner 1t delayed train
service for several hours.
Next week we shall publish an
interesting sketch of the Holcombe
Family. As the Holcombes and their
descendants of other names are hume
rous in this section, no doubt the
sketch will be read with peculiar in
terest.
The snow storm ON last Saturday
blocked the n. J. Central road. Pas
sengers for New York from Fleming
ton and vicinity came down on the
Pennington road on Monday in order
to make sure of reaching their des
tination.
Lieut.. II. o. Rittenhouse tson OF
ex-sheriff Rittenhouse, of this county,,
who some time ago successfully passed
an examination for promotion, was last
week promoted to the position of
Lieutenant Commander. Lieut.. Rit-
tenhouse has been acting in that ca
pacity for some time.
Stoves, Ranges, and Heaters
latest patterns-at Helms Hardware
House.
The funeral of Jonas J. Warman
occurred from his late residence on
Ferry street on Thursday afternoon
of last week The Union Steam Fire
Company, of which the deceased was
member, attended in body. A
number of Freeholders from different
parts of the county were also in at
tendance
The Pennsylvania Telephone
Company have connected this city by
spanning the river with two wires. A
pole was set at the foot of Coryell
street and another on the opposite side
of the river near Scarborough's fish
cry. The span is about eleven hun
dred feet in length and is one of the
longest in this section of country.
While turning the corner at Bridge
and Main streets on Monday afternoon