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

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open for navigation, weather condi-
tons permitting, Monday, March Is
1920, and the Lehigh canal will oper
for navigation, Monday, April 10
1920.
A movement is on to consolidate the
schools of South Langhorne, Middle
town township and Hulmevil,e into
one central located school Meetings
Lave been held and others are to be
held for the purpose of working out
the plans for the consolidation.
During the storm Saturday morn
ing at Quakertown the service of the
local municipal electric light plant
came into contact with a feed wire of
TIE Lehigh alley Transit Company
electric light line to Trumbaurersville,
causing a tremendous overcharging
nf the local wire, which Immediately
resulted in hur1 ing the wires in near
| nv homes.
Buckingham roads are very badly
drifted. Some of them are in worse
conditions than they were after the
earlier blizzard, and the supervisors
are sup against financial problem
that is not small. After the earlier
blizzard about $4,000 was spent IN
opening roads. Now they are as bad
or worse than before.
According to plans now being car
| ried out, Perkasie is to have a well
| ordered race track at Menlo Park this
coming season, and is to be the GER
ter of county racing attractions. par
ticularly during the Bucks equity Fair
for which event preparations are also
being made. The alert management
of Menlo Park, Messrs. Hizer ami
Wilson, under the supervision of
Charles Sprenkle, have already begun
the layout of the track, which is to
be dandy half-mile course. It will
be an entirely new track, as the old
course is not suitable any more.
Fifty-two new members were elect
ed Wednesday evening at the meeting
| of the Doylestown Fire Company.
| Twenty of them will be on the
| active membership list.
Gas escaping from gas heater
| last Saturday night at the home of
Willard Reeder, of Wood Hills nearly
| caused the death of the members of
the family. Miss Edna Valentine
was spending the night with them
| after attending party. Getting up
in her sleep and trying to find win
dow she fell on the floor awakening
the other members of the family. The
| others suffered from the effects Of it
| also. A physician was summoned 70
treat Miss Valentine and those need
ing it.
Lingohocken Fire Company, Wy
combe, is gaining in popularity. as
evidenced by the large number of new
members during the past month.
DR.. Charles i Smith, OF Newtown,
has been appointed by Colonel Martin
as a member CT the Bucks County
Health Council to fill a vacancy. his
completes the Bucks Count Heath
Council under the State Department
of Health IS follows: Mrs. Henry A.
James, of Doylestown; Miss Margai ct
R. Grundy, e Bristol; DR.. Henry
Lovett, of Langhorne; DR.. William j.
Wilkison, of Sellersville; DR.. Charles
B. Smith, of hew-,wn.
Ferry service between Burlington
and Bristol has been resumed again
following long tieup on the Della
ware river, due to the ice. In the
meantime, the Hartman shipyard
| workers from the New Jersey side
have been crossing the ice on foot at
the fish cabin, about two and half
miles above Burlington. This has re-
suited in many narrow escapes from
death by drowning, as several have
crashed through the tide-weakened
ice of the middle channel.
In 1916 industries in Bucks county
produced goods having a value OF
SIT, 346, 800 and the following year the
value rose to s27 1886, 700 Figures
for 1918 place the value of the manu-
featured goods at sS9, $685. 700 or more
than double the value in 1916.
Because of the very severe storm
the meeting of the Bucks County
Teachers Association which was to
have been held Saturday in Doyles-
town, has been postponed until Fri
day, March 20, both morning and
afternoon. At that time the same
program arranged for Saturday will
be presented. The speakers will be
DIR. Lewis, Deputy State Superinten-
dent and Mr.. Driver, Director of
Rural Education.
Announcement has been made of
the sale of the Bucks County Gazette,
established in 1873 and one of the old
est weekly papers in Bucks county,
by Jesse o. Thomas & Son, founders
to William NJ Remine, who has been
editor of the paper for the last sew
eral years.
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