The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-03-12
Eucks County and Nearby


at $4,000. She bequeathed $500 to
the Manatawny Baptist Church in
Philadelphia; the house and ground
! where she lived and mortgages to the
value of $500 to Henry VanAller,
'who has lived with me over five
years and during that time hiss been
very good to me-" The residue of the
estate after being divided into two
equal parts is to be given to a sister.
Hannah S. Mann, and to the children
of deceased brother, Charles Shoe
maker.
DR.. J. N. Rosenberger, Wycombe,
has bought the best ear of corn ex-
hibited at the Bucks county corn show
by Julia Avery for the sum of S..
A load of hay on a sled belonging
to Harry Weierback, of Pleasant VAL
ley, upset last Friday in front of the
home of Oliver Kramer, landing on a
steep slope beside the road, and for
the sake of convenience it was re-
loaded on wagon at the foot of the
hill in the field.
Mother, 1 am bleeding to death.
Rush a doctor here" This was a
message phoned by Frederick R. Gil
lender, Jr., a young farmer of near
Montgomeryville, just after his right
arm had been caught in a fodder cult
er and severed between the wrist
and the elbow. He was phoning to
his mother, Mrs. Frederick R. Gillen-
der, of Landslide. When a physician
from Landslide arrived, Gillender
was weak from loss of blood, but was
entirely conscious He is 80 years
old and the father of two small child
rem He was taken to the Grandview
Hospital, at Sellersville.
Bids will be opened by the State
Highway Department on March "a,
for the construction of an improved
highway in Bucks county, 34,902 feet
long, on the south Delaware River
line and extending to Riegelsville
State engineers started work on the
road at Riegelsville on Thursday in
preparation for the start of the con-
tractors.
Harold and David Hemings, broth
ers, of Broad Axe, have just return
ed from successful three weeks
trapping trip along the Tinicum
creek, in Bucks county. Their total
catch was two foxes, thirty-nin pole
cats, eight oppossums, seven weas4ls
and more than 200 muskrats. They
will realize more than $500 for their
seasons catch.
Funeral Director Albert S. Worth
ington with his assistant Harry H.
Jamison, of Wycombe, reported on
Monday of having officiated at %
funerals in 80 days. The death toll
has been heavy in this locality for a
RADIUS of several miles, as it has been
in other communities the present win
ter.
y
been suffering from blood poisoning
for about two months, is improving.
1t was caused by a scratch on the
hand while he was working at the
shipyard and not thought to be of
sufficient Importance to receive i'm
mediate attention.
William Soliday, of Seliersville, on
Thursday while coming down Lawn
Avenue hill in his automobile delivery
truck lost control of the machine.
The icy condition of the hill WIS re-
sponsible for some very surprising
antics of his Henry" which landing
in the front yard of the residence
of Postmaster Harry Barndt. The
Ford was able to proceed on its own
power, however.
Five or six automobiles were swept
away Saturday by the flood in the
Neshaminy creek near Langhorne be-
tween Janney station and the Oakford
bridge, but no one was drowned or
badly injured as exaggerated stories
given earlier said. William l..
Maynes, an Oakford garage owner,
had the worst experience and was
nearly washed away with his car and
drowned, but succeeded in escaping.