The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-07-18
FROM THE FIRST WARD.

NbtldSt ieiittu ioI u coupe W NSthNs
Miss Lizzie Trauger spent some days
in Philadelphia, visiting friends.
Geo. w Akers was in Washington,
ID, C., ON the 4th of July.
The weeds on South Main street are
about ready for harvesting and the
crop is immense
We paid visit to the new stocking
or hosiery factory recently, to witness
the process of making these goods and
I was quite interested. The business
is new yet to the girls employed, hut
they seem to be catching ON to the
working of the complicated machinery.
Lots of the rubber mill hands are
seen enjoying themselves around the
town now while tho mill is stopped for
repairs. aud "a these vacations seldom
come, they all try to make the best of
their time enjoying themselves in diff
ferent amusements.
Thomas Mcnamara is making some
/ improvements to his residence on South
/ Main street
Our friend John Akers paid us =
| friendly visit last week John is now
located at Meriden. Conn, and il in
the photo business. He was at one
time head shipping clerk at the Lam
bertvilIe Rubber Company's works,
which situation he gave up and started
in the photo. business with his brother
in law, Mr.. Haley We are pleased
to note that John is on the right road
to fame and fortune
The rubber mill started mp again on
Monday, after two week 3 stop.
Company I, of our city, arrived home
on Saturday evening last from Sea
Girt, where they were encamped for
the week. The boys came home in
good trim and little sunburned.
They SaH That the "hig four is
holding nightly sessions.
That the Democrats are split upon
the silver question.
That Iill will either strike water or
oil, if the machine holds out.
That down in Kentucky they purify
politics with shot gun.
That the click of the cash register
always WAS annoying to the Sultan.
About the best Joke | ever heard
through hole in a fence, happened at
Mount Range few years ago. Mr..
Timothy Maloney kept the Shamrock
Saloon and just over the high board
| fence lived the widow Doolan who
| liked her mug of beer hut preferred TO
drink in on the sly. So, she arranged
with Maloney To have II secret trap
| door cut in the fence about face high,
! through which he could pass pitcher
of beer every night al half -pust eight
q clock, This plan went on for several
weeks, when one night the widow lack
ed 10 cents of the required price. She
suggested that he take kiss through
the trap door aud call it square, The
widow WAS handsome and witty, and
| Maloney accepted the terms with ala
Gritty, even Suggesting that this should
be the price of beer in the future.
Thus the sale of beer and the Illicit
osculatory game went on without any
interruption for several months. But
one moonlight night, after the beer and
kiss had been exchanged through the
hole in the fence, Maloney happened To
look towards an upstairs window and
saw Mrs. Malouey's face haitened NJ
against the glass She couldn't hell
but see all that had taken place III the
| back yard, and Maloney was worried
and felt guilty when in her presence.
She said never word to him all next
day, but she gave HIM such peculiar
glance that he felt very uneasy. She
made several trips over to the widow 4
house during the day and came back
smiling, aud this worried Maloney more
than ever About o clock, one of the
widow = little boys slipped in through
the back way aud handed Maloney II
note from his mother, in which she
told that they had been discovered by