The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-04-11
Hunterdon County Notes

| buried on Saturday at Rosemont.
About $179 was cleared at the
chicken supper and minstrel show OF
the Sergeantsville Y. M. c. A., held
in that village on Saturday evening.
Califon borough is stoning the road
leading from the center of the town
to the Lower Valley church, where it
connects with the stone road to Hieh
Bridge, and other points in Hunterdon
county.
Rev. William S. Clergyman, pastor
of the Oldwick M. E. Church has re-
signed his charge, and preached his
farewell sermon on Sunday.
Sheriff Samuel D. Skillman is one
of the latest tractor converts having
placed an International on the farm
occupied by his son, Chester A. Skill
man, at Dreahook.
A Parent-Teacher Association has
been organized at the Centerville
school, with Mrs. Clarence Hoffman
as president, and Mrs. Howard Huff,
secretary. i.
Miss Marjorie Stryker, local girl
who has completed her course at the
Newark Normal School, is now teach
ing the third and fourth grades in the
Whitehouse consolidated school, sue
ceeding Mrs. Clarence VanFleet, who
was substituting.
Miss Nina Rowland, of Clinton, we'll
known in this city where she has
spoken several times, filled the pulpit
of the Presbyterian Church of that
borough in the absence of her father,
Rev. S. j. Rowland, who was taken
suddenly i'll.
F The ladies' auxiliary of the AMMAN
dale Reformed church will hold
harvest home on July IL.
About $4,000 worth of tires and
automobile accessories were stolen
from the garage of Walter Eick, at
Lebanon, on recent night, and the
thieves have not been apprehended.
The dwelling house of Mrs.
Augustus Holtberg, near Allerton,
narrowly escaped destruction by fire
few nights ago, the trouble starting
in the chimney. A local bucket
brigade extinguished the flames.
A movement is on foot to secure
stone road between Clinton and Pitts
town, and another fight is on to have
the road from Quarkertown to the
Flemington-Frenchtown road stoned.
Both are township projects.
An auto truck driven by James
Cawley, of High Bridge, was blown
over by the high winds a few days
ago, near Dorland's Mills. The Misses
Lulu and Helen Cawley, and two small
brothers, riding in the car, were cut
and bruised.
Gilbert L. Everitt claims the dis
tinction of being the first gardener
this spring at Jutland, and has set
out fifteen quarts of little onions, for
household use.
Recent high winds partly blew, away
the sidewalk in Clinton leading to the
public School.
Larry Covert is resting in the
Pennington Jail charged with stealing
horse and wagon from Levi Hoff-
man, at Farmersville, near Califon.
The rig was recovered.
There is much comotion in Little
York as its only barber, Firman
Carrot, has sold out and gone to Tren-
ton. Little Yorlkites will have to
grow whiskers or travel four miles
for shave.
Albert Haganan novel from Little
York to Bloomsbury last week, but
COW which he was trying to move on
foot got homesick and attempted
suicide in a pond en- route. She was
rescued, however, and taken to her
new home.
Butler Girard, who recently died at
his home near Woodgfen, at the age
of 83 years, had been lifelong
cripple, but despite this was always
hard worker.
Now that the war and food conser-
walton are both over, Oscar Ritten-
house, surrogate of Hunterdon county,
is having the pantry at his Clinton
home enlarged.
Leon Carpenters Clinton Democrat
joyfully announces a rapid increase
in Clinto;,'s population, John Edmonds
and his family of eight children and
three dogs having moved over from
Annandale.