The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-06-06
Bucks County Briefs

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of the graduating class are Florence
Worthington Nyce, Harold Myers
Kitchener, James Enos Gross, Pau
Trymby Huddle.
Farmers of Tinicum township held
meeting in the Brick school, Satur-
day evening, to discuss the proposal
to organize farmers club or grange
Fifteen were present. 1t was decided
to hold second meeting at Pipers-
vile on June 14th at which time a
grange will be organized
Thirty breeders of Holstein cattle
IN the county attended the meeting
of the Bucks County Holstein-F riesian
Association, Saturday, in Doylestown.
On Wednesday evening, June II,
County Farm Leader N. E. CARRIER
will be present at an open meeting
of the Springtown Grange, and will
give demonstration of testing soil
for lime requirements.
Every district of Lower Bucks coun-
ty was well represented Saturday at
the launching of the big steel cargo
vessel, the Neshaminy, at the Mer-
chant Shipbuilding plant, at
Hartman, in honor of the splendid
record made by residents of the lower
district in the fourth Liberty bond
drive.
At Taylorsville, on Memorial Day
evening the Upper Wakefield Vic
tory Loan committees raised the
American flag, the Victory Loan
honor flag with one star and five
Starred flag in evidence that the
township had exceeded it's quotas in
all of the Liberty Loans.
At special meeting of the board of
directors of the Yardley schools, held
Monday evening, May 10Th, the follow
ing teachers for the coming year were
elected: Miss Marie Keller, first
grade; Miss Mary Johnson, second
grade; Miss Thompson, Third grade;
Miss Elizabeth Weeks, fourth grade;
Miss Viola Moss, fifth grade; Miss
Edna Lear, seventh and eight grades;
No teacher has been elected for the
sixth grade nor for the assistant in
the high school as yet, Miss Pancoast
and Miss Carver having resigned.
One hundred and sixteen chickens
were stolen near Bridge Valley, and it
is believed to be the work of the gang
of thieves that recently cleaned out
two bungalows and stole chickens
from others. Fifty-five pure-bred
Plymouth Rocks were stolen from
Charles Morgan and at the farm of
Lewis Pleeman sixty-one Rhode
Island Reds were taken.
In a head-on collision Saturday be-
tween motorcycle and an automobile
near Brick Tavern, Frank Hunt and
Steve Teresosky, 719 Upland street,
Chester, riding the motorcycle, re-
ceived injuries which may prove fatal
Both suffered broken legs and We're
internally injured. They were taken
to Grand View Hospital, Sellersville.
The occupants of the automobile es-
capped injury. Both machines were
wrecked.
Fifty men, women and children Of
the Buckingham Farmers Club took
an automobile trip Saturday through
upper Bucks county and went on to
Bethlehem before returning. There
were no stops at farms, it was merely
a pleasure trip to see the farms of
upper end. They started from the
residence of Walter B. Wiley,
Mechanicsville, and went through
Plumstead. Dublin and by the way
of the Irish Meeting House, "Ihe
Elephant" Bucksville, Springtown
and Hellertown to Bethlehem. There
they had dinner and the party split
up and took different routes home.
Some went to Allentown, Quaker
town and Sellersville and others came
home by the way of Easton.
A noodle machine owned by
Daniel Roth, of Haycock township
1875 years ago has been deposited in
the Bucks County Historical Society
by Abraham Poulton, former care
taker at the society.
In connection with the Bucks
County Firemen's Convention at
Sellersville on Friday and Saturday,
June Is and IA, there will be a govern
ment airplane exhibition. The exhib-
ition was secured through Congress
man Henry w. Watson, of the Eighth
district. The assistance of the con-
gresham was enlisted by B. Harvey
Smith, of Sellersville, chairman of tn
convention committee. The airplane
exhibition will be on Saturday, the day
of the big parade.
If the phenomenal demand for the
machinery and lumber of the Victor
Box Company plant, solf at public
auction at Quakertown Tuesday, car
be taken as a criterion, manufacturers
in various States are making prepare
tons for the expected tremendous re-
vival in business. There was lively
bidding and goodly prices, the tota
sales being approximately three hund.
red thousand. Five hundred buYers