The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-05-07
Bucks County and Nearby

Bucks countians who are getting
their supply of gas for cooking and
lighting from the Bucks County Pub
lie Service Company will be obliged
to pay an increased price in the near
future The company will present
new schedule to the Public Service
Commission, but the increase may
not go into effect for two months.
Because of the severe winter and
the hard shooting during the season,
Bucks county sportsmen will probably
apply to the State Game Commission
to close the county on game birds
for two years. Assurance has been
gotten from the Commission that this
might be done if the sportsmel desire
it.
Baptist churches in Bucks County
have up to this time raised $22 ,337.50
of their quota of $685. 900 in the Inter
church drive. E. F. Bowlby, of Doy
lestown, county chairman, gave the
following figures for individual
churches Monday morning: New Brit
ain, $4,000; Doylestown, $5105; Dav-
isville, $5174.95; Point Pleasant,
S1419.25; Hilltown, S173S.20; Perka-
sic, $27OO; Wycombe, 5000.
Spring Ridge Farm, a mile west of
Doylestown, formerly owned by John
Fanshawe, treasurer of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company, lately the
property of j. G. Williamson, has been
sold by C. F. Beaumont, real estate
broker, of Doylestown, to c. F. Tiers,
of Pittsburg, Pa. This is one of the
oldest plantations in the vicinity of
Doylestown, containing an old-fash-
toned colonial fourteen-room house,
but fitted up with modern conven-
fences.
The gates of the White Hall Turn
pike Company were thrown open to
the public on Monday as the turnpike
has been purchased by the state and
is a free road
Eugene Trego and daughter-in-law,
of Kansas, are spending some time at
the home of W. H. Trego, of Wood
HILL They recently purchased the
Judge Walker farm, and will be able
to take possession in a few days, as
soon as his son, Edgar, arrives from
the West with their car of goods.
His ire. aroused by statement said
to have been made by an agent that he
is profiteering in his retail shoe bust
ness, L. K. Allebach, of Lansdale, has
branded the story maglinant lie and
offers $500 reward in a big display
notice for evidence that will convict
those guilty of circulating the "slan-
derous story" According to the story
Allebach, the merchant, was charged
with offering for sale of pair of shoes
for SIS for which he paid $3.50.
Harry Trouse, Revere, Deputy
Game Commissioner of the game
preserve at Tinicum; Harry Blair,
Doylestown, and Redding Rufe, Phila-
delphia, killed four young red foxes
on the preserve Sunday, in the wood
near Smiths hill between Revere and
Frenchtown. They examined the fox
es' den and found the remains of
snakes, guineas, chickens, ground
hogs and rabbits.
Public school teachers of Lansdale
will be granted increased salaries
next fall. The school tax rate has
increased from twelve and one-half
to fifteen and one-half mills, an in
crease in school revenue of about
$4,000.
Fire started by arbutus gatherers
on the top of Buckingham Mountain
Sunday afternoon burned over from
fifteen to twenty acres to the North
side of the mountain and added to the
destruction which has been done to
timber growth on the mountain by
preventable fires in the past few years.
Game Protector Warren Fretz, Doy-
lestown, is taking steps to provide
feed for the birds of the country, par
ticularly the insectivorous and game
birds. He has received supply of
millet, sunfower seed, kaffr corn and
broom corn, which bird lovers may
get by notifying him that they are
willing to plant it to provide food for
the birds next winter.
Playing with matches in the alb
sence of her mother, Mrs. George De-
Masse, of New Galena, Anna, aged 8
years, was burned to death Tuesday
in her home in the presence of several
small children. Being obliged to go to
the store for some supplies, Mrs. De-
Masse left the little folks alone, and
the older ones failed to notice little
Anna climbing on chair to get
matches from a mantle-piece. The
first they knew about it was when the
their attention and they turned to see
screams of the little child attracted
her clothing in flames.