The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-05-17
NEW HOPE AND VICINITY

Mrs. Annie Peaker, a colored wo-
man, who died near Lahaska, on
April %, at the age of 80 years, WAS
the mother of twenty-one children,
nine of whom are now living.
The firm of Hooker X Stintsman
have dissolved partnership. Mr..
Hooker has taken the hardware bust
ness and Mr.. Stintsman is engaged in
the newspaper business. The hard
ware store is being re-stocked.
Undertakers in boroughs and town
ships hereafter will be required TO
register with the State Board of I'm
dertakers and take out license, by
the terms of the bill signed by the
Governor.
A number of fine cows III the herd
of DIR. G.. NJ. Marshall, in Solebury,
have been condemned as being affect
ed with tuberculosis. Ten of them
were killed last week and three more
of them this week.
DIR. John n. Jacobs, president of
the Doylestown National Bank, has
returned to this country from his re-
cent trip to Japan and other eastern
countries. AT present he is spending
some time in Kansas.
AT sale of stocks held in Doyles-
town ON Wednesday, Doylestown Ma
tional Bank stock sold for $1t7. 50 aud
$ll9 a share. The latter figure is an
advance of nearly $i6 ON what share
holders were required to pay in on
their stock at the time of the reorgan-
ization in October, 1908.
A lighted match thrown to the road
side by careless smoker one day
last week was the cause of forest
fire in Solebury township, which de-
stroyed about fifty acres of valuable
timber. Through the efforts of those
living iii the vicinity about thirty
acres of other timber was saved.
Among those who suffered losses are:
William w. Hurley, William l.. Ely,
Ridgeway Ely, John S. Williams,
Richard f. Ely and others.
Marie, the bright ~ year old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin NJ. james,
of Doylestown, has had unique com
pliment paid to her by the wellknown
author, Kate Douglas Virgins. Like
thousands of other children, Marie,
two years ago, then only 10 years of
age, was charmed with Mrs. Virgins
book, 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm"
work that has taken great hold upon
youthful minds. Marie was not en-
tirely satisfied with the way the story
ends and frequently asked her mother
whether there would not be any more
of the story. At last the little girl
herself wrote sequel of the story as
she thought it should be, and en-
closed it in letter to Mrs. Virgins,
asking her at the same time if she
would not write sequel to "Rebec-
ca" The letter was addressed to the
author at her country home in Maine.
Some time later Marie received n
reply from Mrs. Virgins, in which
she thanked her young friend for the
letter and enclosed her photograph,
saying that she would let her little
Doylestown correspondent sequel
stand as a substitute for one of her
own. This was nearly two years ago.
In an illustrated article on "Kate
Douglas Virgins as she Really Is"
by Adele Marie Shaw, in the May
number of the Ladies' Home journal,
the Marie James sequel to "Rebecca"
is quoted entire and the circumstan-
ees under which they are written are
related, though the name of the
writer is not given. Marie has many
friends in Doylestown who would be
pleased to see the writer of the sequel
become some day as noted an author
as the writer of "Rsbecca.