The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1906-08-01
Buy your coal of Geo. W. Massey.
Read the RECORD to get the news.
The old reliable MACKAY's bread.

WIN NtbS.
There's satisfaction in smoking
Lambertville Puffs.
For Sale Cheap-A good lawn
mower. Ga Bridge street. ct
Satisfaction must go with every
baI of Cream of Wheat Flour.
Fine assortment of calendars for
1907 Call and see our samples.
-Lambertville Puffs, are ever
growing in public favor. Kline < Son
sell them.
For monumental work, go to
Harry X. Kramer. Corner Bridge
and franklin streets.
Ask for and insist on having Lam
bsrtyile Putfs Best cigar made any
where for the money.
Sergeant George IL. Sharpe has
been elected Second Lieutenant of
Company f, National Guard.
First class Fire Insurance only,
in the leading companies OF the world
at the old established agency in the
Solliday Building.
f II. HoLCoMBE.
The ladies' of the Mt Airy Pres
byterian Church will hold their an
nual harry est home in the grove of
VIM. f. Holcombe, near the church,
Wednesday, Aug. 90. If stormy, next
fair day. Everybody come.
People who watch the coming and
the going of birds predict an early
fall. They say martins are leaving IN
large numbers for the south, and
other birds that spend the winter In
warmer climates are also turning IN
that direction.
Margaret Otis formely of this city
died Friday night after an illness OF
two weeks at the home of Thomas
Fahey in Trentonwhere she had lived
since last October She was 81 years
of age. The funeral was held Tues
day morning at $50 o'clock from the
residence of Edward Sweeny. Inter
ment in st. Johns cemetery.
-Mahlon II. S,henck, for many
years agent for the Pennsylvania
Railroad at Pennington, died at his
home ON Main street Sunday, July %,
after brief illness. He is survived
by wife and one daughter. The
funeral services were held at 10
o'clock Wednesday morning at the
NJ. +. Church. Mr.. Schenck was II
brother of tax collector William J.
Schenck, OF this city.
This paper is endeayorins to give
its patrons the best service that is
possible to give and all that the pa
tronage will permit. Our paper Is
being frequently complimented on its
appearance and the amount and kind
of matter it contains. Our citizens
can make the paper still more effective
by liberal patronage, both III sub
per will always endeavor to merit the
patronage.
The late William T. Srope, of
Frenchtown, by his will bequeath ed
his scrap books, about thirty in mum
Der, to the Hunterdon County His
torical Society. The books cover the
past forty years pretty efiectually,
faithfully bearing record of all i'm
portant happenings in his home town
and county, and we take 1t that the
ACQUISITION is valuable one to the
Society. The late Mr.. Srope had a
remarkable taste for the collection of
histor zeal events.
BY the will of the late DIR. Will
liam II Bartles, who died al his
home in Elem ington last week after
a brief illness, the Pennington Pres
byterian Church will receive S., 600
and the town $1,000 OF the amount
left to the church 50, 900 is to he used
for new steam heating apparatus,
81 900 for carpets, $500 for new
piano, $500 to enlarge the choir loft
and 81 900 to defray the expenses Of
decorating the Sunday School room.
With the money left to the town,
So, 900 is to be spent in erecting pub
lie library binding and 81. 900 to fur
nish it.
If you know of an item or piece
of news, tells us about it That =
what we want. But newspaper
man sometimes experiences more diff
ficulty in gathering news than one
would imagine This was the case
when a reporter in a neighboring
town, who, few days ago was sent
to write up a fire in a residence. Go
ing to the door he inquired for the
lady of the house The maid said she
was out. "Are any of the family at
home? inquired the scribe NO,
they are all ont" was the reply.
"WelI, wasn't there fire here last
evening? eyes. ;" said the hired girl,
"but that's out too"
William WilmOt, division operator
of the Belyidere Division of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, has
moved his offices from Lambertville
to Trenton, so that the principal Of
flee of the division operator is now es-
tablished in the old Relief Associa-
ton Building on South Clinton av-
enue. This is one of the series of
changes by the Pennsylvania Com
pany to remove the headquarters OF
the Belvidere Division from Lam
bertville to Trenton. The office OF
Division Superintendent Gest and
those of several other heads OF de-
partments have already been estab-
lished there. Mr.. Wilmot has been
division operator of the Belvidere Di-
vision since 1864, when he had head
ouarters in Tlenton. In that year