The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1902-05-07

Spring house cleaning is going on
Some trees leafed rapidly last
week.
Counterfeit postal cards are
around.
Fast men, strange to say, never
get ahead.
Endless chains against the Beef
Trust have been started.
The fields and woods are putting
on their lovely suits of green.
Cheapest Wall Paper in the
world at Holcombe's, 81 Main street.
Where shall we spend the sum-
mer?" will soon be the leading ques-
ton.
The hardest work in connection
with political nomination is getting
elected.
Frogs and peppers give concerts
every night without any collections
asked.
Fruit crop ought to be immense,
Judging from the looks of the trees in
bloom.
when the roses bloom AGAIN.
$50, all together before your eyes.
Holcombe Hall, May 10,
DO you wish New Lawn Mower?
If so, you will do we'll to call at Helms
Hardware House, on Coryell st.
wall Paper as low as &c., 4o.,
and sc. piece. 80 styles to pick from.
Holcombe, 81 Main street.
The Hopewell baseball team will
play a series of four games with the
Pennington Athletic Associations
team.
= The 17-year locusts will soon be
feasting on nursery stick and small
fruit trees. They will appear towards
the last of May.
The congregation of the Presby-
terrain Church of Dayton, N. j., has
extended call for the pastoral SER
vices of the Rev. J. B. Clark, of Mount
Airy, which he has accepted.
Augustus Reading, who has been
employed as a telegraph operator at
Philadelphia, has returned to his
home in this city and has secured a
position on the Belvidere division.
-Four hundred and fifty shares of
stock were subscribed for in the new
series of the Centennial Building and
Loan Association. AS there will be
only four hundred shares issued, those
who subscribed for five or more will
be cut down so as to bring the number
within the limit.
Mrs. Mary j. Simpson died at her
home, on Main street, above Delevan.
on Thursday last. Her funeral took
place on Monday morning, Inter
ment at Nutley, N. J. Mrs. Simpson
was sister of Rev. Henry M. Brown,
of the New Jersey M. Il. Conference.
Her husband died some years since.
VIM. Angel, formerly of this city,
who has been living in Trenton for
many years in the employ of the Penn
sylyania r. r. telegraph department,
has been transferred to the main tele-
graph office of the railroad in this city.
He expects to take up his residence
here as soon as suitable quarters can
be secured.
"A fire destroyed the barn and shed
of George Johnson, about two miles
from this city, last Sunday afternoon.
The horses were gotten out, but some
farm machinery and lot of hay and
grain were burned. There was small
insurance on the buildings. The fire
originated, we are told, from m atch
which had been dropped in the hay
and which was stepped on and ignited.
The surveyors of highway of the
townships of East Amwell, West Am
we'll and Delaware, with l.. II. Ser
geant, Esq, of this city, as counsel,
met at the Lambertyille House Friday
afternoon and afterward visited pro-
posed new road in Delaware township,
commencing at the north end of Union
street, at the limits of the city, and
running through lands of J. V. G. Bar
Der and ending at the road leading to
Stockton, along lands of Mr.. Barber.
The granting of the applica ton for
the new road was unanimously agreed
to and work thereon will be commenc-
ed at once.