The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-07-18
Bucks County Briefs


The annual reunion Of the Lands
family will be held in Perkasie Park,
Perkasie, on Saturday, August 23d,
when a program of music, speaking,
reading and other attractions will be
rendered
| The Frankenfield family win hold
their third annual reunion at Tohickon
Park on Saturday, August I'd, along
the Doylestown and Easton trolley
line. An effort will be made by the
committee to have everybody register
upon entering the grounds and it is
desired that all bring their family
records to the meeting.
The school board of Newtown town.
ship has reappointed three of last
years teachers Annie G. Scarborough,
Good Intent; Mrs Elizabeth Janney,
Prospect Hill, and Olive Frantz, Silver
Lake. A new teacher in the township,
Margaret j. Styer, of Woodbourne,
will teach the West School
The Lower Wakefield School Board
has taken the first step towards the
consolation of the township schools
by the purchase of a 11a ton Federal
truck, equipped with pneumatic tires,
! the body being a regular school bus
type, made especially to transport
school children, and approved by the
State Board of Education. The route
of this bus will be from Pine Grove
school to Yardley up to the pike to
the East Edgewood road and then to
Edgewood. The pupils affected by
this change will be the three highest
grades at Pine Grove and the town
ship pupils that have been attending
Yardley borough school.
A very large old buttonwood tree
standing ON the lawn near the house
of one of the Tyler farms known as
the Solly farm, near Richboro, was
struck by lighting during a recent
electrical storm. AS no one occupies
the house, it being in the hands of
mechanics undergoing repairs the
old mamouth burned for two days,
when the Newtown Fire Company
and many others reached the scene.
The trunk of the tree was very
much decayed, the large trunk be-
ing hollow many feet from the
ground. For years two owls have
made it their home and nesting place.
A young son of Peter Cogan, of
Doylestown, about six years of age,
while playing with several other Chill
dren on top of the old shed opposite
the Catholic Church, fell off and broke
an arm
A saw mill and lumber yard fifty
years ago at Franklin, Virginia, be-
longing to Nicely Brothers, was set
on fire by some negroes, and destroy
ed, causing loss of $4,000 A few
hours previous to the fire a colored
man had been shot by white man
named Holland. This raised mob
among the negroes, who upon being
driven away from Hollands house,
fired the properties. The Nicely
brothers were sons of John T. Nicely,
of Bucks county, and had many
friends and relatives on both sides of
the river in the vicinity of New
Hope. The two elder brothers went
to Virginia and engaged in the
lumbe trade before the war, and
were afterwards joined by John R.
Nicely.
Bristol School Board is just as much
up in the air as it ever was in regard
to the salaries of the teachers. That
is the members do not understand
what proportion of the increase in the
teachers salaries the state is going to
pay. It had been the understanding
of the directors that the new school
appropriation bill would provide so
per cent. of the increase granted and
that the local board would have to pay
the other fifty. Now the directors
are not sure but that the total amount
of increase in the salaries will heap an
additional expense on the board a
mounting to nearly $4,000.
A family reunion was held at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Wismer,
of Upper Black Eddy, on Sunday in
honor of their son-in-law, Lewis
Schware, who recently returned from
France