The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-03-18
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LAMBERTYILLE, N. J.
MARCH Is, 1908.

MARCH IS, 1908.
Grape vines need cutting.
Trees are beginning to bud.
The roads are drying off nicely.
-Hoboes are ON their annual tour.
Buy your coal of Geo. w. Massey.
Daylight for II hours and growing.
April weather for the past few
days.
-" Close to Cost, " the Grand Depot
motto. See adv.
Mrs. William Thatcher is visiting
relatives in Milford.
Parents do not visit the schools as
often as they should.
The grass looks extra green on the
lawns about town for March.
It's more polite to call it nervous
prostration than Spring fever.
The choirs of the several churches
are rehearsing their Easter music.
The person who agrees with no.
body thinks everybody else is wrong.
Some people don't care what hap
pens so long as it doesn't happen to
them.
-Shad from South Carolina are
plentiful and of fine quality in the city
markets.
The coolest hour in the day, year
in and year out, is o'clock in the
morning.
Smoke ''Lambertville Puffs. Take
no other on the statement that they
are just as good.
-Gervas Ely will serve as United
States petit iuryman during the term
commencing March "a
In changing the address of your
paper don forget to send the old adj
dress as we'll ms the new one.
A handsome new iron fence has
been erected in front of the Presby
terrain manse by j. b. Bratton.
1t is said that the new two-cent
stamp is unsatisfactory, and a new
design for it has been ordered.
Carr Brothers, who recently pur-
chased the grocery business of S. M.
Wolfnger, has taken possession of the
store.
To the People who want cheap
Wall Paper, we have lots of that good
sc. and Sc kind. HoLcoMRE' S, 81 Main
street. m11-tj.
Every time a doctor or scientist
discovers remedy for some hitherto
incurable disease some other scientist
discovers new disease.
Samuel Stockton, of this city, has
purchased the undertaking business of
Director Paxson, of Centre Hill, Pa,
and has established the business in
New Hope.
The Rev. o. P. Gilbert, of Augusta
Ga, will preach in the First Baptist
Church next Sunday. Morning, 1920,
"The Loneliness of SIM" evening,
7:3O. "The Kind of Men Christ Makes"
At the close of the Tuesday even
ing prayer meeting at the Centenary
NJ f. Church the pastor, Rev. S. q.
Pitt, was presented with one hundred
dollars by the members of the congre-
CATION.
Several focks of wild geese have
been seen passing northward over this
vicinity within the last few days. The
weather sharps consider their move
ment as an indication of an early
Spring.
Sam Wong, the laundryman at 81
Church street, opposite the Bellemont
House, has already established large
trade by his excellent work and prompt
ness in waiting upon the public. See
his new adv.
Mrs. Elizabeth Strickland Weed,
daughter of the Rev. John H. Boswell,
formerly pastor of the Centenary M.
j.. Church of this city, and John God
frey Candy, of Ocean City, were mar
ried February 26.
The robins are here; blue birds |
and warblers are on the way. There |
is a pleasant reminder of Springtime
in the cerulean overhead, base ball
sprinters are out and coal is down in
price. There is something to live for
yet.
CLERK of the Board of Freeholders,
John Shurts, was elected Township |
Committeeman of Clinton township |
last Tuesday. Director of the Board,
George L. Opdycke, was elected JUS
tice of the Peace of Bethlehem town |
ship.
john +. Hurley, of this city, has
re-enlisted in the United States Army.
He was formerly a member of the
Forty-third United States Volunteer
Infantry, which did service in the
Philippines. He will now do duty in
the field artillery.
The Lambertville High School
base ball club has organized for the
coming season. The officers elected
are: President, Alex. z. Kerr; mana
ger, Egbert J. Price; captain, A. Ely
Cooper; treasurer, Norman Conoyer;
secretary, Paul G. Scarborough.
For many years writer's have dis
agreed as to whether it was correct to
say "the United States are " or the
United States is" Congress recently
decided the correct form to be "the
United States is. We presume the
question is now settled definitely.
Old farmers state that the coming
season will be good one for fruit,