The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1908-11-18
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
BY A. Trauger.
Society Notes.

tor is making new department in the
paper which he calls "Citihed Frills. "
He was once the local editor of the
New Hope News, and had great deal
to do with society notes, and discover
ed that an appeal to persons vanity,
made that person lifelong friend to
the literary fountain that spouts spon-
taneous flattery and laudatory pap.
Last week the Alvacade editor engaged
my services on the reportorial staff,
giving me the special duty to write up
all the public events and social blow
outs with Instructions to go into details
in describing the costumes Worn by the
leading citizens and their visiting
friends.
| assured him that Mount Range
had no leading citizens, no fashionable
ssfour hundred" no fairs, no horse
shows, no grand operas, nor grand balls,
but in their place We had only country
danes, public sales, funerals, Sunday
school picnics and calathumpian seren-
AIDES. "Well," he said, 1--WE must take
such as the country affords and do the
best we can. If it is not vulgar to
write up the fashionable people who at
tend the horse shows and fashion,
able balls and grand operas and
goliing parties, then it is not vulgar to
write up the country dance and public
sales. All the difference is the cost of
clothing worn by the people. The
country people are just as good as the
city people from the skin in. And fine
feathers never did make fine toads.
The Avocado is published for the ben
eft of Mount Range society and no. for
the city people. Go out and write up
the people as you find them, and may
the Lord have mercy on us all"
Well, the first public function in our
neighborhood was the vendue at the
Hon Silas Hopkins farm, our veneer
able school director and ex-censtable
and the late defeated candidate for
poor overseer. Hopkins is selling off
his farming implements and stock in
GLIDING a hay press and cider mill and
10 milk cows and SIX draught horses
and dog eburn.
The above was published as a sort of
introduction to the first batch of society
news and the regular notes continued
on in regular city horse fair style.
MIR. Hooter, from Rocktown, was
the FIRST man upon the scene dress
ed in a brick colored suit of Kentucky
jean that was once blue The collar
was of royal grease stain, with a rip at
each shoulder where the sleeves threat
ened to go on tear, one tail had been
improvised as paeiher by the red
calf, they are raising by hand, the coat
having been left hanging on the garden
fence while Mr.. Hooter was engaged
IN chopping off the head of tat hen
the day before the minister paid the
family pastoral visit.
Mrs. Anna Minker, the pretty wild
ow from huntsville, came to the sale
in yellow cart drawn by her late hus-
bands huckleberry colored horse closely
followed by a one-eyed brown. She
wore gown Of dark green cotton fan
mel foulafd dotted in white and yellow.
The skirt was short and plain. The
bodice had yoke of heavy smear case
of Irish lace edged with shallow ber-
tina of dark green that was hidden in
front OF a rosette mended with black
patent thread. Her hat was wide,
flat trimmed affair of buckwheat straw
trimmed with several large rooster-tail
feathers and the fluffy tail of a gray
squirrel.
Bill Bolster was there, dressed only
in his heavy grey flannel shirt and win
ter suspenders with overalls drawn over
his summer trousers, and his wife wore
her ancient mantilla and fascinator,
with wine colored frock of cotton ma
terial with 1916 yoke and runabout
skirt. Bill had no ruffles on his pants,
and his stockings hung down over his
shoes in slobbing sort of manner,
leaving narrow hemisphere of skin be-
tween the dropping socks and the fray
ed end of his overalls.
Miss Reba Sholes, daughter of Road
Supervisor Lumbago Sholes, arrived in
her fathers blackboard and bob-tailed
horse, wearing silver-handled umbrel-
la, pug dog and her store teeth. Be-
sides these irills she wore fashionable
gray serge. The skirt was plain and
smelled Of soft soap. The coat was
extremely loose Eaton, slashed at the
side seams. The rounding sailor col
lar that formed large notched reveres,
was bordered with two one-inch stitch
ed bands of black broadcloth, cut from
her grandfather's wedding coat, while
the folks were at market the previous
week. Her hat was of plain oat straw,
the last years grease spot carefully
toned down with ink to the proper
shade. She wore her fathers linen