The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-01-16
Bucks County apd Nearby

Samuel Noble, of near Forest Grove
left for Florida the week before
Christmas where he will spend some
time with his sister. Friends here
| have received letters from him since
his departure and he states that the
people down there are now picking
fresh vegetables from their gardens,
| peas selling at % cents per quart, and
mentioned squashes, bananas, etc.
He had eaten dinner some days with
the door wide open, which would seem
vast contrast to our zero weather
Yardley citizens are Indignantly
aroused over the towns lighting con-
ditions for some weeks past Slip
perry pavements and failure to have
the electric street lights turned on un-
til after 6 o'clock Tuesday evening
caused no little inconvenience to the
towns folk and it is likely that some
action will be taken if the careless
| practice of the lighting company con-
tinues. On several occasions, while
the lights were turned on after dark,
they remained burning for hours on
the following mornings.
| When the ice on which he was skat-
ing broke through Tuesday evening,
Ted Breisford, IS years old, of Yard
ley, was thrown into the water and,
after struggling for some time, was
rescued by Paul Stubs, Is years old.
Peter Bintzer, for many years Sell
lersville's champion back yard egg
producer, has the following record for
| the year 1919. From 25 hens he got
1928 eggs for which he received
| S73.38. Feed bills in this time am
mountetd to s15.78, which means that
$3.50 was cleared. The yearly earn
ing power per hen was $3.50. Beside
the above earnings the hens paid for
| the feed for a number of male birds,
| SIS worth of which were slaughtered
and marketed. This sum, of course,
| must also be credited partly to the
earning power of the hens, though not
all of the marketed birds were raised
in the last year.
Smelling smoke as she returned
from hanging up clothes in the yard,
the grandmother of two-year-old
Emily Laning, of Hulmeville, went to
the bedroom where she had left the
child and found her burned to death.
The case is most unusual. Before 60
ing out to hang up clothes the grand
mother had placed little Emily in
wire-enclosed play crib which she put
over the register of double heater so
that she would keep warm. How the
mattress in the bottom of the crib got
got afire is not known. The child
when found dead, was sitting with her
hands held up, but even part of the
clothing in the crib was unburned.
Mr.. and Mrs. John L. High and
Miss Elizabeth Myers, of Dublin,
were driving along in an automobile
near the blooming Glen toA-gate
Sunday, they turned out of a rut on
the icy road to escape a team. And
the car skidded and turned over. Mrs.
High suffered cut in the side of her
head and a badly bruised shoulder.
Mr.. High and Miss Myers escaped
with slight bruises.
There were las deaths in Bristol in
1919, the lowest death rate per 1000
of population of any year since sta
tistics have been kept there. The to-
tai was less than half that of 1918,
when there were 303 deaths. The
stork maintained its long lead over
the grim reaper in the town, with a
total of 361 births in the past II
months. In 1918 there were 296 new
arrivals.
Quakertown Borough Council reor-
ganized Monday evening, electing
these officers; President Victor A
Smith; treasurer, Oswin Gussman;
secretary, Fred A. Krauss; street
commissioner, Henry W. Stauffer.
Louis Quinby, of Lahaska, former
" storekeeper at Holicong, went tc
Florida about a month ago and pur'
chased property and will make that
state his permanent home. His wife
was preparing and started on Friday
with their goods to join her husband