The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1902-02-05
First day of Lent-Feb. 10Th.


L. Runkle, for 81, ESQ.
The New Jersey Methodist Episco
pal Conference will be held at Salem
during the week beginning March r.
The article about the we'll I" OF
South Main street" in our last week,
issue, should have read "South Unior
street.
r. II. Van Horn and wife left here
Wednesday for a trip to Jamaica
They sailed from Philadelphia ant
will be gone four or five weeks.
-Edmori E. Van Horn was admitted
into the firm of r. H. Van Horn &
Son February 1st. The firm now i.
known as r. H. Van Horn 4 Sons.
WANTED, a woman for general
homework, A middle aged woman
preferred. Apply at residence 81 Gin
ton street. Mrs. JOHN D. Cox.
An iron triphammer, weighing sat
pounds, formerly used in the pulver.
izing of ore in the old Pennington
copper mines, is now owned by James
Green, of Sergeantsville. 1t should
be owned by the Hunterdon County
Historical Society.
Captain William s. Holland, an
old time Philadelphia sea captain,
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
G. B. Jones, at Lewes, Delaware, Fri
day week, aged 20 years. Captain
Hollands family resided in this city
for number of years.
Mrs. John Hill twho is cook at
Rev. Mr.. MacKubbin's on N. Union
street, had stroke of paralysis on
Monday afternoon and fell on the
range, burning badly her forehead
and one side of her face. She was not
discovered until over an hour after
the accident. She has lost the use of
her left side entirely.
Conductor Albert Yos, OF Amwell
Orchestra, was presented with q hand
some leather music case by the or
chestra, on Tuesday evening of last
week. The presentation was made BY
the president of the Orchestra Associa-
ton, Rev. II. S. Smith. The gift was
we'll deserved as Mr. Yos has given
valuable time and effort to the adj
vancement OF the organization.
Agnes W. Cooper, Laura Gordon,
Bessie W. Schulhaus, Nellie c. Kilroy,
Beatrice M. Petrie, Anna M. Reilly,
and Annabel Samsel, all of this city,
graduated from the State Normal
School, Trenton, last Friday. The
following from this county were also
among the graduates Frank Z. Kerr,
Rosemont Elizabeth M. Mack, Glen
Gardner Helen Z Bidwell, Warren
Paper Mills.
Peter B Holcombe, son Of Jona-
than p Holcembe of West Amwel,
was killed in mine in Rossland,
British Columbia, one day 'ast week
A dispatch was received by the father,
last Thursday evening, conveying the
sad news, but no particulars were CIV
en-. The deceased left this section
some fourteen years ago and has been
doing business in various parts of the
northwest since that time.
Alfred Phillips, living about one
and half miles from Ringoes, is
down with small pox, He was taken
sick and a physician visited him on
Sunday, who thought the symptoms in
Dictated that disease, and on Monday
they were such as to leave no doubt as
TO its nature. He had visited Newark
recently and it is supposed that he
caught the disease there, where it is
prevalent. He has been isolated by
the board of health of the township and
it is not likely that it will spread fur
Their.
Later--We hear that Mr.. Phillips
died this morning.
-Jordon ii. Slower, residing in
Bucks county, Pa, about two miles
south of Frenchtown, along the Della
ware river, died suddenly January
31st. Mr.. Slower was born and always
resided near where he died. He was
a son of Henry Slower, deceased, who
was in his lifetime the owner of sever
al farms along the river. The deceased
married daughter of the late Jona-
than Pickel, of Mount Pleasant, Nj.
He leaves a widow and children, one
brothar Isaac s., and sister-the
wife of ex-sheriff John l.. Jones. Mr..
Slower has for several years kept dur
ing the summer season boarding
house for city boarders, having at
times more than fifty OF these boarders.
Funeral on Tuesday last. Interment
at Mount Pleasant.
-"I have used Chamberlain Cough
Remedy for number Of years and
have no hesitancy in saying that it ia
the best remedy for coughs, colds and
Group I have ever used in my family.
I have not words to express my con-
fdence in this dy.-MRs. J. A.
MOORE, North Star. Mich. For sale
by s. W. Cochran.
"A Conference OF the Churches of
the Presbytery of New Brunswick
will be held in the Third Presby terian
Church, Trenton, Thursday, Feb. 10.
The Rev. Henry @. Kinton, d. D.,
Moderator OF the General Assembly,
will deliver an address on twentieth
Century Problems in the Fourth
Presbyterian Church, on Wednesday
evening. Among the speakers at the
Conference will be the Revs. G. A. r.
Janvier, Lewis W. Nudge. D. D. and
D. H. Martin. Churches are request
ed to send five delegates for every
hundred members. The arrange
ments for the Conference are in
charge of the Committee on the Spir-