The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1902-05-14
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Buy your coal of Geo. w.Massey

Buy your coal of Geo. MASSEY.
The p. O. S. of A. of this city will
parade on Decoration Day with the
G.. A. r.
e. r. Kukler has purchased the
Gervas Ely lot in Idell, and has CON-
menced improving it.
Washington Camp, No. /, P. O.
S. of A., will celebrate their 14th an
niversary at their rooms on Bridge
street, on Friday evening, May %.
Cheapest Wall Paper in the
world at Holcombe's, 81 Main street
The Governor, we are told, is 60
ing to call special election June 18th,
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
death of Congressman Salmon.
DIR. o. II. Sproul, of Pennington,
lost his handsome road horse recently.
The animal had shown no previous
symptoms of indisposition, and had
fed well the evening before.
-Rutan Heath, of Barbertown, dur
the month of April, received /, 1916 eggs
from 100 white leghorn hens, an aver
age of SO $40 eggs per day. They
sold for $a5 IS, mainly for incubator
purposes.
Two horses attached to farm
wagon from Bucks county, Pa, ran
away Saturday and at the Delaware
bridge each attempted to take differ
emit wagon road. A sudden halt and
broken wagon was til e result.
1T is reported that the neglect of
the Election Board of the Second
Ward to certify the election of William
Lyman and Benjamin II. Joiner as
Justices of the peace, to the Secretary
of State of New Jersey, as required by
law, is likely to prevent these officers
from receiving their commissions.
-Adjutant Sprague and Captain
Newman, of the Volunteers of Amer
lea, have left this city for Philadel-
phia, where they will take rest. Their
places have been filled by Captain
Totten and wife, of Trenton. The
members and friends of the Volun-
teer post gave the retiring officers a
social farewell Mt headquarters last
week.
The Hunterdon County Teachers
Association will hold an annual I'M
ion meeting in the court house at
Pennington on Saturday next. SEES
sions morning and afternoon. An in
teresting program has been prepared.
On Friday evening, lecture will be
delivered by Prof. E. L. Kemp, of the
Stroudsburg Normal School. S u b.
ject-"Abraham Lincoln. ="
Farm Implements of all kinds at
HOOKER & STINTsMAN's,
New Hope, Pa.
Robert Thatcher Hanson, son of
the late George Hanson, Esq, of
Pennington, died after one weeks ILL
ness with pneumonia at his residence
in Perth Amboy on May 5th. He was
q brother to funeral director Davis
Hanson and deputy Surrogate George
F. Hanson, of Pennington. He was
81 years old, and is survived by wife
and two children. His remains were
inferred in the Pennington Baptist
Church cemetery last Thursday after
noon.
Edith M. Insley, of Milford, filed
in the Court of Chancery at Trenton,
on Saturday, suit to have anulled
her marriage to Joseph G. Osler, who
claimed to be Philadelphia broker,
and who was last week given seven
years in prison for bigamy' Miss In
sley is 10 years old, and school
teacher. She sets out that she mar
ried Osler in October last, and subse-
quently discovered that he was mar
ried to Blanche Belle Harvey, in Phil
adelphia, in 1894, and that his wife was
still alive.
Hart Moore, one of the old-time
hotel keepers of Pennington, died at
his home in New Brunswick on the
goth ult., in the S7th year of his age.
In the thirties he established a stage
route between New Brunswick and
Lambertville, distance of thirty-two
miles, making the distance one day
and returning next. This he contin
ued until the railroads made the bust
ness Improbable. In 1880 he took
charge of the County Hotel in Somer-
vile and from there he moved to Mon
mouth county, finally locating per-
manently in New Brunswick.
Matthias Abel, M. D., died at his
home in Providence, Rhode Island, at
list. DIR. Abel was brother to the
late George w. Abel at one time
Clerk of Hunterdon county, and an
uncle to Mrs. Bergen FL. Berkaw, of
Pennington. He was born in this
county in 1881. In early life ne was
school teacher. He studied medicine
with DIR. John Blame, and graduated
from the New York College of Physi-
clans and Surgeons in 1856. He prac-
ticed medicine at Quakertown, where
he remained for twenty-five years.
In 1888 he removed to Providence,
where he remained until the time of
his death.
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