The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-08-24

High crown hats and hoop skirts
for women's wear are said to he fash
ions fall and winter edlet.
A fifteen per cent. solution of
Kerosene is recommended as an effect
i've remedy for the maple tree pest.
Did You ever stop aud figure ont
how some cheap things are cheap and
other cheap things are pretty expen-
sive.
When our friends speculate and
win we call it an Investment; when
they lose We call it throwing money
away.
Economy does not mean stinginess
but the art of making the most and
best of the means aud materials at
hand.
The Phillipsburg Board of Educa-
ton has selected truant officer to
look after the children who do not
attend school. His salary is fixed at
$500.
Wild carrot Is very prolific in some
fields. Thereisa law against allowing
it to grow on ones premises. Thrifty
farmers pull it up before it goes to
seed.
The Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey has declared quarterly
dividend of five dollars share This
Is the same rate that was paid this
time last year.
Fishermen find encouragement in
the fact that Warren, Hunterdon,
Somerset and Sussex counties are to
receive another consignment of fish
for the waters of those counties.
The largest sturgeon ever captured
in the vicinity of Atlantic City was
taken in pound net there last We'd
nesdny morning. The fish was twelve
feet long and it is said to he worth
5000 1t will he taken to the st. Louis
Fair.
One night last week while Cap
tain Charles II. Stanley of the Saliva
ton Army was singing hymn at a
meeting in Asbury Park large bee
tie flew down his throat and almost
ehoked him to death before it was
dislodged.
Report says the John A. Roebling
Sons Co. will move their rolling mill
now employing about 100 hands from
Trenton to Kinkora, below Trenton,
whore the company recently purchased
200 acres of land. The mill will he
enlarged 80 as to employ about LOCO
men.
There are six candidates in the field
for President of the United States.
They are Roosevelt, Republican;
Parker, Democrat; Watson, Populist
Swallow, Prohibitionist; Debs, Social
Democrat; Corregan, Social Labor,
and the colored people named William
b. Scott at st Louis.
There il no actual Inv on the sub
ject, but there is IN unwritten law to
the effect that It is not desirable for
the President of the United States,
while holding such Office, To visit for
eign countries. No President of the
United States has ever left the country
during his term.
The new steel and iron bridge
over the Delaware at Belvidere is
practically completed and was thrown
open to public traffic Wednesday the
day of the big annual farmers picnic.
The bridge replaces the wooden
structure washed away by last Octob-
er's flood and contains five spans be-
ing csc feet in length.
The regular Democratic caucus to
elect delegates to attend the county
convention Mt Pennington, on Thurs
day, September, 18th, will be held in
this city on Tuesday, September 18th.
The First and Second Wards are en-
titled to two delegates each and the
Third Ward, three.
The records in the automobile Ii
cense department of the office of the
Secretary of State show that G, 99S ma
chimes have been licensed under the
automobile law of the State. OF this
large number the greatest per centage
this year are licenses issued for tour
ing cars. Fully 90 per cent. of the
licenses of 1904 are for touring cars.
Paper is now used for many things
where it was once thought out of the
question. Car wheels are made of
paper and many vessels for containing
liquids can be made of paper pulp. A
Vermont man has now invented pm
per milk bottle which the consumer
opens by pulling a wire which cuts off
the neck, as the bottle can be used
but once.
Lieutenant Commander John l..
Purcell, u. s. N, has been ordered to
report for duty on the warship Balti-
more. He will sail from New York on
the steamhip Germanic next Saturday
for England, whence he will proceed
to his quarters on the Baltimore, one
of the ships of the European squadron.
Lieutenant Commander Purcell will
be the Executive Officer of the Balti-
more.
An exchange tells of the three
stingiest men on record. THE first
one will not drink water enough m
less it comes from his neighbours well.
The second forbids his children writ
ing anything but small hand, as it
wastes ink to make large letters The
third stops the clock at night to save
wear and tear on tho machinery.
They all refuse to take q newspaper
on the ground that it is too much
strain on the spectacles to read.
Over grave in the Presbyterian
cemetery at Succasunanna, there is n
plain granite stone bearing these
words, 'In memory of Charles II. Sal
mon who was born Friday, Sebtember