The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1908-02-12
A move is being made to organize
Board of Trade at High Bridge.

"A move Is belng made to organize
Board of Trade at High Bridge.
The national Prohibition conven-
tion will be held at Columbus, O.,
July Is.
Doylestown Intelligeneer in its
sleanings of SO years ago says: "An
item of interest gives description of
where the Seckel pear was found.
About ITO cattle dealer In Phiadel-
phia known as "Dntch Jacob" found
n tree of pears belonging to the Hol-
land Land Company. Soon after this
the land on which the tree stood was
| sold to Mr.. Seckel, who introduced
the pears to the public and from
| whom they received their name. The
property afterward became part OF
the Stephen Gifard estate. The tree
was supposed to be still standing in
1857.
The Glen Gardner Avalanche says
that there are now between sixty and
seventy patients at the Sanatorium.
n ost of whom are doing well. The
treatment received seems to prove
beneficial in the majority of cases.
OF course there are some cases where
the disease has reached such advanc-
ed stages that the patients have been
returned to their homes, as the in
stitution was not established for that
kind of patients. Only those in the
first stages are admitted, and these
are nearly all young people, who are
being Taught to treat themselves when
they are discharged from the institu.
ton.
The new postal cards, known rs
"McKinley. No. 3" are 3ix5! inches
and bear in the upper right hand cor
ner profile etching OF the assassinat.
ed President. For the first time the
government permits space on the
address side to be used for cores
pondence. This is done by drawing
"a vertical line across the card to APP
proximately one third of the distance
from the left end of the address side
of the card and marked: "rhe space
below may be used for correspon-
dence."
The State Board of Health will ask
the present Legislature for $50, 900 as
sum to be at the disposal of the
board for investigating the sources OF
infection when epidemics break out
in the State. During the present
winter there has been much typhoid
fever in sections of the State aud the
State board has only $1,000 in its
treasury for the use of the sanitary
officers to clean up the sources of in
lection. The board wants to be in
shape to go into a community and de-
termine where the sources of infec-
ton are and then to get rid of them.
An exhibit of historical collections
has been arranged in the rotunda of
the State House at Trenton and the
public is invited to inspect it. One
of the most attractive exhibits is the
wall maps and tablets painted by Col.
VIM Z. Pedrick, of Trenton, for
merly of Pennington under the di-
rection OF Francis b. Lee. They
show the location OF the Indian tribes
in New Jersey upon the arrival of the
whites, the early settlements OF the
Swedes, Dutch and English, the mill
tary engagements during the Revolu-
ton, Gen. Washington's movements,
etc.
There is movement on foot in the
ranks of the New Jersey G. A. r..
posts to have one OF their mber,
Henry M. Nevius, prosecutor of Mon
mouth county, chosen as Commander
Of the Grand Army Of the Republic at
this years convention. This State
has never had q commander-in chief
Last year an effort was made at Sara
toga to elect Charles Burrows, OF
Rutherford, but it was unsuccessful.
The New Jersey delegates were told,
however, that il they placed man in
the field early and he showed strength
he would be supported by many
States, and would have the backing
| OF influential veterans.