The Lambertville record., 1900-08-22
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WEDNESDAY. AUG. %, 1900.

company 'contemplates buying new
steamer.
-Workmen finished painting the
depot on Saturday last. It presents
fine appearance.
The employees of the railroad
shops are working eight hours a day
with Saturday half holiday.
"A new flag stone pavement has
been put down in front of j. X. Trim
mer's residence on Bridge street.
Thousands of little white bugs re-
sembling mosquitoes annoy at nights
the people living along the river front,
"A handsome sawed fagstone
pavement has been laid in the rear of
Frank Phillips residence ON Clinton
street.
Liberty Band played for a Sun
day School picnic at Wismer, near
Point Pleasant, Pa, ON Saturday
afternoon last
Buy Mathushek piano of o. c
Holcombe. He will give you the best
terms and sell you an instrument of
the highest reputation.
q. p Wilson has begun shipping
peaches to the city markets. The
first shipment of twenty baskets was
made on Thursday last
The Pennsylvania Railroad ran
another excursion to Ocean Grove on
Thursday last. About fifty tickets
were sold at the station here.
A special train carrying the body
of the late Judge Greene, passed
through here on Friday last on its
way from Atlantic City to Easton, Pa
While working at Hoffman >
bridge above Prallsyille, ON Sunday
last, Jointly Dilley had his right foot
injured by having a heavy timber fall
on it.
Three or four wagon loads of
people from the country arrived here
on Saturday morning last and took the
12. 45 train from New Hope for Willow
Grove.
Several ladies and gentlemen of
this city held watermelon cut in the
grove above New Hope ON Thursday
evening last. They report a very
pleasant time.
-Enos Weiss is the boss fisherman
of these parts with hook and line.
He is out almost every day and always
comes back with mess of nice fish
from the river.
'Lambertville Puil's" are still GO
ing up in smoke. Kline sells them.
-Mischievous boys take much de
light in emptying on the pavement |
the waste paper boxes on the several
street corners They should he caught |
in the act and taught lesson.
A harvest home was held at the |
Rock NJ. +. Church, about four miles
from here, on Thursday afternoon and
evening of last week. A number from
this city were in attendance and had |
a good time.
John Knowlan, of the First Ward,
is said to he the champion quot |
pitcher of Hunterdon county. We are |
told that he can give any one points
and beat them out in twenty-one |
point game He claims to be able to |
beat the man that invented the game. |
Miss Catherine Cairns, of Cottage |
Hill, left here on Wednesday morn
where she will enter the order of the |
Sisters of Mercy. Miss Cairns is |
recent graduate of st. Johns school, |
standing high in her class. She leaves |
a host of friends here who will always |
be interested in her welfare.
Helen II Parker, ten year old
daughter of Mansfield Parker, died at
her home at the corner of Elm and
Main streets, on Friday evening last |
from peritonitis, The little girl had
been suffering with appendicitis and
was too weak to undergo an operation
The funeral was held on Monday after
noon last. Interment in Riveryiew
cemetery.
Society Umberto, an Italian society
of Stockton, held picnic and dance
in grove near Prallsville on We'd
nesday afternoon and evening of last
week. In the morning the society,
headed by Liberty Band of this city,
paraded through the streets of Stock
ton, after which speeches were made
in Italian at the grove. There was
dancing in the afternoon and evening.
Cigars at all prices, and the best
in each grade, at Kline's.
There is nest of swindlers in
Spain from which letters are written
to people innumerable in this country,
with view to swindling them. One
of their schemes we made public some
weeks ago. Another of our citizens
has received from Valencia a letter
which shows that the writer has some
knowledge of his family This letter
holds out a scheme for securing some
riches on different plan from that of
the other The Phila. Inquirer of two
weeks ago showed up similar attempt
on Philadelphia parties. There must
be some profit in this fraud, or it would
not continue to be worked as It has
for two or three years.
The Domestic Cat.
The prominent attention lately be-
slowed upon the domestic cat by the
fashionable society, and the great sue