The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1902-12-17
Buy your coal of Geo. W. Massey.


Mrs. Hannah Joiner has returned home
from two weeks visit To her son, Chas.
s. Joiner. of Trenton.
Henry c. Savage, proprietor of the
Belemont House, was the first person TO
appear here this season in sleigh
--somerville is decreasing in population.
Ii Is said that there are now over one
hundred vacant tenement houses In the
town.
The widow of Capt. Elisha Holcombe.
late of Mt. Airy. died at her residence
there on Friday a week. to the deep re-
greet of many friends.
AT a meeting held in Trenton by the
State Grange Patrons of Husbandry OF
New Jersey, Auetioneer Henry f. Bodine.
of Locktown, was elected secretary.
The 7S-acre farm belonging to the es-
tate of Godfrey Meiok. situated near
Locktown. was sold recently to Edward
Richards for 81 600. A lot at Baptisttown
was sold TO George Leonard for $500.
Wary Mclaughlin who pitched for
the Pennington A. A. during the season
of 1896 has signed to play with the Pitts
burg (Pa.) National League team next
year at a salary of $1,000 for the season.
Some idea of the Importance of Col.
town of Pennington may be obtained from
the fact that he paid for labor last year
the great sum of 100000 or about $1,000
per week.
An unknown man, while wandering N
the vicinity of the canal Thursday even
ing made a misstep and fell Into the wa
ter. Harry Curtis, a resident of Elm
street arrived just the stranger was
sinking for the last time and rescued the
hit
-orpheus Lodge No. 1871. +. & A. NJ. OF
Stockton, have elected the following ofll-
GERS for the ensuing year w NJ, Egbert
T. Bush; S. w. c. Smith; j. w, $. l..
Dilts; Treasurer. DIR. George N. Best; Sec
rotary, 8. d. Van. Cleve s. d. f. b. Hunt;
J. D., Gideon Moore Tyler, J. NJ Dilts.
The following officers were elected at
the annual meeting of the Pennington
Firemen's Relief Association: President.
William S. Kline: vice president. William
A Abbott; treasurer. Henry b. Green;
secretary, John L. Comet; trustee, John
B. Case.
The Frenchtown Independent states
that John II. Sinclair, of Everittstown
vicinity is the champion corn husker of
the season. He has cut ten hundred and
sixty-eight shocks of corn and husked
seventeen hundred and sixty-three shocks
in five weeks and never remained in the
field after shutdown.
Former Assemblyman James j. Willie
yer died at his home in Bloomsbury on
the 9Th inst. He had been Ill for about
two weeks, but he had about recovered
when he was taken suddenly worse and
died in a few minutes. He represented
this county in the Legislature of 1S65-lS66.
He Is an uncle to our present Assembly
man-elect. James Fl. Willever.
The Bellemont House. In this city,
owned for number of years by Christie
pher +. Rockefeller of Philadelphia, has
been purchased by Mrs. Susie Dobilnski,
who will make extensive Improvements
and conduct the same on and after April
LIST. The purchase price was SIS 900. Henry
c. Savage has occupied the hotel for the
past seventeen years. lie expects to rent
a private dwelling for time at least.
VIM. j. Brewer, native of Ringoes,
died In Trenton on Sunday a week. He
was the oldest employe of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad freight station in that city.
He entered the company's employ in 1881
and rose to the position of head of the car
service clerks. His age was 81 years, and
his death resulted from an abscess which
formed upon his left lung in August last.
-Auctioneer Riley last week sold the
Fred c. Durham farm and personal prop
erty, on the premises near Ringoes. The
farm, containing about Jas acres. was
bought by Peter Polhemus, of Clover Hill.
for $40 per acre. 1t is an excellent one with
the best kind of improved buildings About
forty years ago the late Nathaniel Hig-
gins paid Sis per acre for the property.
and II has been greatly improved since
then 1t is considered that Mr. Polhemus
has secured a bargain.
Harry Robinson. of Frenchtown, is
victim of the banana shuck Some care
less Individual dropped 1t upon the pave,
with never thought of its possibilities.
and along came Mr.. Robinson. with firm
tread and head erect, and his heel fell
plumb upon the slippery rascal. In the
twinkling of an eye those feet were reach
Ing towards the second story of the ada
cent house, and when the stars had ceased
shooting from his eyes and he had gather
ed himself up, he found that he had sus-
tained q broken shoulder blade. The ba-
mana shuck and dynamite are near of kin.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS