The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-12-12
Bucks County and Nearby

AAStle 1lHSer on MS le1C han0 caught
, by piece of baling wire that was
picked up in a sheaf of wheat. His
hand was drawn into the machine
and his finger SO badly mangled that
amputation was required.
Attorneys for Andrew Cochran and
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
on Friday settled the claim for DAM
ages brought by Mr.. Cochran for land
taken on an island below Morrisville
A jury awarded Mr.. Cochran $4,000
In damages. He appealed from this,
but the claim was later amieably adj
justed.
Automobile insurance was quickly
disposed of Wednesday by the Fellow
ship Horse Company at it's annual
meeting in Doylestown, when Henry
A. James was reelected president
and Mathew S. Cogan, of Doylestown,
was elected treasurer to succeed the
late A. S. Steever. Insuring auto
mobiles, the members said, was too
much of load for an organization
nearly hundred years old to Shout
der. They preferred to keep the or
! ganization horse protective and a
social one.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of OttsvHle Dairymen's Asso-
| citation was held and the following
| directors were elected: W. S. Sassa-
man, D. D. Jenkins, John Hemmerle,
Alexander Wittig and Fireman John
son, W. A. Frankenfield was elected
secretary and Horace Yost, treasurer.
A new heating plant has been in
| stalled in the Kintnersville school.
Finding So cases for trial at the
term of Criminal Court William C.
Ryan, an attendant at court remarked
why, thought there would be no
crime after prohibition went into eff
feet, but this is bigger than usual
To large extent, however, the list
is made up of growing new class of
crimes, thefts of automobiles and
violations of the automobile laws. An
unusually large number of crimes are
on the list. Rev. j. o. Lindaman,
Perkasie, was made foreman of the
Grand Jury.
At the Merchant Shipyard, Bristol,
Friday, one of the men who helped
launch the Mitchell, Liberty Loan
vessel, enjoyed something which
many more wealthy individual
would give much to possess drink
of champagne,
Plumsteadville. Grange, No. 1893,
held meeting on Friday evening,
the following officers were elected:
Master, Isaac S. Grss; overseer, Hor-
ace L. Bishop; secretary, George W.
Shelly; treasurer, William H Spring
er; lecturer, Ruth S. Nash; chaplain,
Edwin L. Myers; stewart, Oliver C.
Lands; assistant stewart, Harold D.
Leatherman; lady assistant stewart.
Florence Kriebel; gatekeeper, Willis
| M. Humberger; pomona, Mrs. Irene
Melcher; ceres, Mrs. Willis o. Myers;
flora, Dorothy Frying; organist, Mrs.
Arthur Fryling; trustee, Uriah S.
| Schmell
A truck with a load of moving
goods, which had just been unloaded
on Monday night. at the Joseph Irwin
farm, Jamison, took fire in some way
and was completely destroyed. 1t
was truck from Philadelphia. They
had three van loads, and had bad
luck all the way.
Burglars who figured that food
stuff was as valuable as money or
jewelry, made big haul of groceries
and provisions at the Bidwell grocery
store at Washington's Crossing. An
automobile or wagon was used to cart
the plumber away.
The public sale of Mrs. Anna L.
Mearns, on her personal property,
near Traymere, on Saturday last,
drew large crowd, and good prices
were realized. There were quite
| HuHlDST VI antiques u SCI u anu
irons brought $50; an old lowered
toureen SIS; another set of andirons,
s18. Quite lot of goods were sold
and the sale was continued on Tues
day afternoon.
Close to one hundred farmers and
their wives, members of Pomona No.
p, of Bucks and Philadelphia Coun-
ties, held an all-day meeting, We'd
nesday in Mechanics Hall, Doyles-
town. An election of officers resulted
as follows: Master, Charles A. Row,
Yardley; Overseer, Herbert Starkey,
Bustleton; Lecturer, Mary Wilson,
Newtown; secretary, Margaret Slack,
Pineville; Stewart, John Lownes,
Newtown; Assistant Steward, Her
man Heston, Newtown; Lady Assist
ant Steward, Margaret Vasey, Car
versville; Chaplain, Samuel Hibbs
Hulmeville; Pomona, Ida Row, Edge
wood; Flora, Elizabeth Heston, New
town; Ceres, Jessie Row, Edgewood
AS a result of a shooting attain
julius Brismont, living at Thomas
Corner, about 2 miles south of Sell
lersville, is a patient at Grand View
Hospital with bullet wound in his
left shoulder. The shot was fired by