The Lambertville record., 1903-07-15
Buy your coal of Geo. W. Massey.

-"Iambertvllle Pulls are still 60
ing up in smoke. Kline sells them.
The Mount Airy Presbyterian
church will hold its annual harvest
home on August IL.
The Lambertville Rubber Com
pany expect to resume work on Thurs
day of this week.
J. b. Kline & Son have an attrac-
tive new sign on their tobacco and
cigar store on Bridge street.
Mrs. William Lair, of Buttonwood
street, stumbled over brick on We'd
nesday last and sprained her left foot.
The latest idea is that all fireworks
wounds are poisonous, and that inn
mediate and thorough aseptic treat
ment may prevent lockjaw.
Samuel Hartpence, of Rosemont,
died on Thursday afternoon. He had
been engaged in the undertaking busi-
ness at that place for fifty years.
While playing ON the canal bank
last Wednesday, Hugh. the son of
Herbert D. VanSciyer. fell into the
water. A younger brother threw him
a rope and pulled him to shore.
Andrew Reilley, while taking the
weather boards off the side of his
dwelling on Brunswick avenue, found
swarm of bees therein and large
amount of honey.
From now on no building and loan
association in this State can legally
expend more than per cent. of its re-
ceipts in salaries for officers and cleri-
cal help.
Arthur Smith, former employee
of Ryan, Akers x Smith, is lying i'll at
his home at Rosemont, with typhoid
fever, and is in very serious condi-
ton. Two of his sisters are similarly
afflicted.
Willie at work at Trimmer and
Barcroft's coal yard Monday afternoon
Kirk" Walton struck the back of his
hand with an AK, seyering two arteries
and making an extremely painful
wound.
We are under obligations to Thee
+. Orner, of Topeka, Kansas, for
book entitled "The Overlooking Wa
ters. 1t contains II description of
the recent food at Topeka and num-
ber of photographs taken at the time.
Harry Wharton, son of William
Wharton, a former resident of this
city, has been promoted as operator
from the Bridgeport office of the New
York. New Haven and Hartford rail
road to the main office i'll New Haven.
The boys who broke into S. AM
drews hall at midnight of July Sd and
pulled the bell out of position, were
brought before n meeting of the yestry
and each signed an agreement to pay
the cost of repairing the damage.
Miss Cora O'Daniels was taken to
the Mercer Hospital, Trenton, on
Tuesday of last week, suffering with
appendicitis. On Wednesday an opera
tion was performed which proved sue
cessful and the patient is getting on
very nicely.
Thomas Mehan, who, it is said,
stabbed Thomas Finan during quar-
rel on the Fourth of July and then
disappeared. returned here Friday and
was arrested. He was locked up in
the Jail over night and taken to Flem-
ington Saturday by Constable Hurley
to await the next term of court.
The monthly report of the En-
ployees' Relief Fund for the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company's lines east
of Pittsburg and Erie, shows that the
payments of benefits to its members
and the families of deceased members |
for the month of May, 1903, amounted |
to $50, 970.04.
The boys who stole about fifty feet |
of tie rope from the furniture wagon
at the barn of r. III. Van Horn Il Sons, |
were very fortunate not to get their |
names on the docket of the Justice of
the Pence. Once there it is black |
mark for life. Other boys should take |
warning.
List OF letters remaining unclaim
ed in the Post Office at Lambertvile, |
N. j., for thirty days ending July IL:
Miss Susie II. Pegg, Miss Mary Spen-
Ger, Miss Alice Wood, Joseph Fitzger
aid, Peter Francis, Franklin Kneass
CHAs. A. SKILLMAN, p. NJ
District Deputy Select Comman d
er White, of Harmony Castle, French
town, n. j., installed the following
officers of Evening Star Castle, No. Is, |
X. of NJ. c., on last Wednesday even
ing Past Commander, NJ. J. Hol-
combe Commander, H. S. Kroesen !;
Vice Commander, John Kilmer /;
Chaplain, Chas. II. Fallon Marshall,
Elwood Emerson; Inside Guard, Hugh |
Fox Outside Guard, Edward Kroe
sen Recording Scribe, w. p. Thorn
ton Financial Scribe, John Sebold
Treasurer, Chas. Linsley.
Thomas r. Hunt, of Lambertville,
a grower of fancy berries for thirty
years past, installed some years ago
an effective irrigation plant.
Ample rain falls in recent years have
made this affair snpertluity. but this
year just as plants and fruit began to
suffer from drought, Mr.. II set things in
motion with the intention of irrigsting
few blocks of the best berries. The
effect was immediate and marked and
the work was continued on all the
fields. These facts are stated in the
current number of the Rural New
Yorker and Mr.. Hunts irrigation sys
tenn is there described.
A very essential factor is the never