The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1901-09-04
FROM THE FIRST WARD.

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would make nice little deer park. if
fenced in.
The hot weather is now about over
for the season, and the evenings be
gin to feel like fall. The summer
has been rather remarkable one;
there having been one dry spell and
two wet ones The recent heavy rains
have had n tendency to start the new
grass and the prospects for good pas
ture through the farming district are
good, aud in consequence milk and
butter should he cheap.
The opera house question is more
plainly demonstrated ut each success
Iul performance given in the hall. At
the minstrels last Tuesday evening,
the hall was filled to it's fullest capacity
and great many had to be turned
away ON account of insufficient seating
capacity. The performance WAS an
up-to-date affair and all those who
witnessed the show were very much
pleased. When | say all those who
witnessed it, | will venture to say that
only about ono half of those who paid
their good money to see the show can
truly say they saw it, ON account of
the peculiar construction of the hnll.
Quite some confusion was caused
last Thursday evening when the
alarm of fire WIS sounded. The Hi
hernia and Fleet Wing went down
Main street, the llibernia going as far
as Mt. Hope street. and the Fleet
Wing as far as Swan street Then it
was discovered that if there really was
fire, it was in another direction.
These companies turned their ma
chimes around and started up town on
n run. Now if our noble fremen must
depend upon these whistles for their
guidance, they should be regulated in
accordance; and one thing above all,
our alarm system should he revised,
and that at once There is no ne
cessity of blowing n whistle in the
First Ward for an alarm i'll the Third,
or rise refsa
Patrick Callan died Monday
morning very suddenly from heart
trouble. Mr.. Callan was nm old soldier
andseryed in Company II, 9th New
Jersey Vol. tCapt. Birds Company.
He had been resident of the First
ward ms long as your correspondent
can remember. Until recently he Ind
been employed ut the Pennsylvania
Railroad shops, but on account of ago
limit, he was retired last January.
Since then Mr.. Gallan has taken life
easily, and could have been seen
almost any day around his nice little
home whore he generally busted him
self with his garden and poultry. He
was of social disposition, good
natured and well-liked by all who
knew him, and he will be very much
missed by his many friends.
In Just two months our annual city
election will occur. The dnte is
November 9th, this being the first
election under the new law, and all
city officers will be elected Mt this the
regular annual election, with the OK
ception of holdoyers. There will also
be governor elected this full in this
state. The Spring elections were
confusing and caused considerable
mix-up in our State politics, but here
after the Republican party will hold
the lead not only in the State but in
our municipal affairs, and now in only
short time, Lnmbertvlle will be
transferred from the hands of the
Democratic party upon the solid rock
of Republieanism. Then we will see
if there is any need of it dry police
man, which our political opponents
think is mn unnecessary expense. The
stone breaker will he run night and
day, fed from the stones quarrled from
the vacant lot adjoining the Hill
school. The rich man will be given
ten days to curb and flag his side
walk, and all the policemen will be
from the First ward.
FTctioa and Fack. People love to
read stories like that of the burly
burglar who stole his bride from an
upper chamber Of her fathers man
sion, assembled to the roof on the
lightning rod aud crawled up n pillar
of smoke from the kitchen chimney
with his fair Angelina on his bnck
and disappeared from the Mortified
eyes of the lady relatives, but came
back i'll time TO assist in settling up
the estate and claiming his wife's
dowry. Even grown people grow de-
lighted over such hair-lifting tales
and so great is their desire for such
freakish, outlandish whoppers, that
their appetite for wholesome truth be-
comes as fiat ms pancake in pail full
Of butter milk Then we have the old
Indian tales swimming around III q
canal of fiction, filled with blood,
telling how old Eagle-Eyed Xeke and
Buzzard-fa ce Pete, stole into cam
Of sleeping Indians and stabbed 10,00(
with double barreIed corn cob, shot
9. 900 as they rose MP and attempted to
6y cut the buckskin thongs thai
held the fair prisoners, married them
to their lovers on the spot and called
around once month to see how the
young people were getting on. Then
again we read in the daily papers
about some poor, unfortunate, deati
tute, disappointed man or woman
finding life 80 dark and dreary, and
the future so hopeless and loyelees,
that they deliberately open vein and
curse civilization, while life Leaks
away at every throb Of their aching
heart.
Nothing gives such blow 10 friend
ship as detecting another in an un-
truth. 1t strikes at the root Of conf
dence ever after.