The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1908-02-26
IT'S about time for the annual kill


A Newark man dropped dead while
shoveling snow recently. Judging
by the records there is no danger OF
any immediate additions to our local
mortuarv conditions.
Balls and chains are to be purchas-
ed by the High Bridge council, the
purpose being to use them on tramps
who infest the neighborhood.
Governor Forts Inauguration cost
the State only So, 150,45 which is con-
siderably les than the usual expendi-
lures for a similar purpose.
The fish and game commission Is
stocking Lake Hopatcong with small
mouth bass. More than 1000 of these
fish have been placed in the lake this
month.
Nearly $4,000 was spent i'll the
United States during 1907 for motor
cars, according to the estimates made
by the Association of Licensed Auto
mobile Manufacturers.
Rev. D. G. Loucks has resigned as
pastor OF the Locktown Christian
Church to take effect April LIST. The
Church has extended call to Rev. Il.
c. Hall, former pastor.
The Maine was blown up in Havana
harbor ten years ago last Saturday
The events that have followed that
explosion have helped shape the
worlds history.
Ash Wednesday, the beginning of
Lent, falls this year on March 4th,
and Easter comes April 18TH. Good
Friday, which is now legal holiday
falls on April nth.
Assemblyman Cattell's anti-cigar-
cite bill was passed by the House re-
Gently by vote of Al to l. 1t pro-
vides that cigarettes shall not be sold
to boys under IS years of age. The
present age limit is IA years.
BY the will of the late Rev. d. NJ.
Matthews, the Frenchtown Methodist
church receives the income of $500
and the Eyerittstown Methodist
church receives $500, the cemetery adj
joining also receives similar sum.
The Sussex county clerks office.
which is now run on a salary basis, as
is also the clerks Office in Warren
and other counties of the State, pro-
duced a net profit of $2l2 during Jan
nary, which has been turned over TO
the treasurer.
February is the shortest month in
the year, but glance mt the calendar
for 1908 shows five SATURDAYS. This
occurs only in leap year, and then
only every seventh leap year. The next
time for such an occurrence will be in
1896.
President Roosevelt was overridden
last Wednesday by the house COM
mittee on eoinage, weights and meas
ures, when by unanimous vote it was
agreed to report favorably the MeKin
ley bill, requiring the restoration to
gold and silver coins of the national
motto, "In God We Trust.
Philadelphia, according to the deal
ers, is being over-supplied with milk,
and they are striving to lower the
price set by the Milk Shippers Union.
In the face of these conditions the
price of feed remains high and the
| Union feels justified in holding out.
Next year it will he the centennial
| celebration of Abraham Llncoln's
birth, and it will he more than per-
| functory celebration. The South and
North will then, no doubt, unite in n
fitting demonstration in memory of
the man who kept them together.
The rural mail carriers have had
bad roads to travel this winter, owing
to snowdrlfts and frequent freezing
and thawing Carrier Case has been
compelled in some instances to cut
out part of his route, while at times
the conditions were snch as to pre-
vent him from starting ont. In such
cases the patrons are under obliga-
tons to excuse the carrier, as they
know how it il themselves.
In the State Laboratory of Hygiene
under the direction of the State Board
IF Health, number of analyses have
been made during the past month of
food and drugs There were SO speci-
mems of milk and l2 of them were be
low the standard. OF the 10 samples
of butter submitted 10 were below.
The specimens of cocoa, lard, molas-
SEES, oleomargerine and pepper, all
showed up we'll, and as for olive oil.
all of the l3 samples were up to the
standard. But one sample of sausage
was offered and 1t was below the re-
quired mark.
The State Board of Health will ask
the present Legislature for $3.50, 200 as
sum to be mt 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 and the
State board has only $1,000 in its
treasury for the use of the sanitary
officers to clean up the sources of in
fiction. The board wants to be in
shape to go into community and de-
| termine where the sources of infec-
tion are and then to get rid of them
A few years ago there was an cpl
demic among the girls Just entering
upon womanhood to study for trained
nurses and the hospitals were 40
crowded with students that it requir-
ed pull to get into many OF them.
Now things are different, and the hos
pitfalls are unable to secure enough
students to properly perform the