The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1902-02-12
FROM THE FIRST WARD.

-Lambertville is a beautiful little
city, situated on the Delaware, Is
miles above Trenton. The inhabitants
number about 5000. The Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad connects with Philadel-
phia direct. Time-one hour and ten
minutes. We are blessed with several
factories and railroad shops. Other
factories are about to locate, in fact
ono is already to start building, and
others are to follow A little encour.
! agement from our merchants and bus
mess men would do wonders towards
building up our city. There are as
fine localities for factories in the First
ward as any one would wish for.
In the LAMBERTvILLE RECORD of
Jan. Goth there was printed lot of
bills before the legislature. First,
bill abolishing the fee system for sur
rogates, county clerks, and sheriils.
Such bill should have been passed
years ago. What is the use Of the people
of Hunterdon paying seven or eight
thousand dollars per year to county
clerk, to surrogate, or to sheriff?
Another wise bill is to reduce the
membership of boards of freeholders.
Three in Hunderton county, at sal
airy of $1,000, could do all the work,
at great saving to the County.
Clarence Pidcock, who came so
near losing his life at Slatington, Pa,
few weeks ago, and who was removed
to st. Luke's Hospital, at Bethlehem,
where he had his foot amputated, has
so far recovered rs to be taken homo,
OF the young man is notcured, or
the amputated limb healed, but owing
to the crowded condition Of the Hospi-
tai, as soon as patient is able to DO re-
moved, he ia at once sent home to
mako room for others. MIR. Pidcook
has to go to Bethlehem twice a week
to have the amputated member dressed.
His mother was up to see him last week,
and reports him doing very well under
the circumstances. He is expected to
visit his mother as soon as the doctor
will permit. which will be perhaps this
week.
Now comes st. Valentines day.
This particular day was handed down
from our ancient and early times, in
fact, so early that We can't trace its
history. 1t lisa sort of lovers tradi-
ton, handed down from enc genera
ton to another, like colored coon in
the hay-loft handing down fat pullet
to his comrade in the feather business.
Valentines day simply gives the love-
sick youths the liberty to send soft,
sweet messages of love to each other,
and ask for the privilege of becoming
their favorite suitor. One time away
back in my plastic age Dutch family
from Bucks county came to Mount
Range, and amongst the large family
of children was the prettiest Dutch
girl l had ever seen. She fairly daz-
zled my eyes with a dazzle of bedoo-
element, and on the first st. Valen-
tines day after she came to Mount
Range, sent her one of my beautiful
tintypes, enclosed in letter written
in scarlet ink, in which begged to be
her yalentine-her Roman -nosed, vel
Ter complexioned, sweet blue -mouthed
valentine. Then l stood up, fgura
: lively speaking, and waited for her an
, swer. During the next two days
: viewed myself in the glass about 30
| times and pulled at the strugglin;
I and struggling hair on my upper Ii
Q and tried to coax ont a moustache
= and sleeked down my hair, after lnbr
q eating it with new lard, scented wit
sassafras bark, apd burned the wart
off my hand with punk, and scoure
my teeth with chalk and sand, ant
creased my shoes with tallow, ant
visited the post office three times day
in a state OF anxiety and misery TIM
would better become murderer wait
ing for the fatal morning to take his
final swing at the end OF rope. Or
the third day the answer came, writ
ten in her own hand-sled writing and
worded in cold mongreI, alf-breed,
Pennsylvania Dutch and iaybird En-
glish. Looking back now to that day,
| cannot refrain from saying that the
letter was corker to the full meaning
of the word cork. II ran along in n
sort of potpie daub like this tank
you fur dat kindness, but you cain t
neffer took poor Valentines place.
He vas me sweet-heart-me own toot-
sey wootsey ; but fadder hanged him
cause he sooked aigs. Mono, you
can't neffer took his place in me poor
leedle hart. 700 don't look like me
poor dear leedle Valentine. He had
sweet green eyes and a tail dat curled
like dem hair springs on watch but