50 Years ago in Bucks

BUCKS COUNTY NEWS HALF CENTURY AGO

The following information was taken from the Bucks County Intelligencer additions will be from time to time. Keep in mind the date of issue reflects the newspaper printed 50 years prior to that date. I may or may not have a record of any of the marriage or death dates. Last update was November, 2007. Larry Hillpot

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1/6/1915	The public schools of the borough were closed to give the pupils and teachers an opportunity to enjoy the Christmas holidays. Mr. Sheip's school also closed on Friday.
1/6/1915	THE FOLLOWING MARRIAGES TOOK PLACE: John Kuster, Clerk of the Quarter Sessions of Bucks County, and Miss Julia Schmutz, of New Britain township. Abraham Overholt, of Plumstead, and Miss Mary Elizabeth Lawrence, of Gardenville. Frank Wynkoop, of Montgomery county, and Miss Emma Skinner, of Philadelphia. Harrison Ettinger, of Lower Makefield, and Miss Mary Ann Manington, of the same place. Henry Ashmore, of Trenton, N. J., and Miss Rebecca J. Stackhouse, of Bristol. George W. Smith and Miss Margaret Simons, both of Bristol. Edward Merrick and Miss M. E. Vanartsdalen, both of Upper Makefield G. W. Miller, of Philadelphia, and Miss Isabella Krewson, of Montgomery county. Andrew Kunzer, of Warwick, and Miss Sarah Ann Raisner, of Buckingham. D. Hallowell Twining, of Harford county, and Alice P. Bayner, of Baltimore, Md. George W. Tomlinson and Miss Annie Strouse, both of Middletown. Mahlon Dimmick, of Haycock, and Miss Lizzie Stull, of Tinicum.
1/6/1915	THE FOLLOWING DEATHS OCCURRED: Mary M. Trauger, of Nockamixon, aged 36 years. Deborah Child, of Iowa, aged 30 years. Mrs. Samuel Yardley, of Lower Makefield. Deborah Stradling, of Plumstead, aged 76 years. Theodore F. Webster, of Lahaska, aged 18 years.
1/6/1915	Steever's mill, on the Little Neshaminy, near the county line, which was destroyed, was rebuilt in a substantial manner. It was furnished with a large steam engine, and the miller could carry on business whether there was water in the stream or not.
1/6/1915	Rev. H. L. Baugher, formerly of Quakertown Normal School, was chosen pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, Lancaster.
1/6/1915	Mrs. Sallie E. Bass after finishing a course of instruction in "musical gymnastics" in Doylestown, organized a class in Lambertville. The members of her class in Doylestown had derived much benefit from the exercises and a movement was inaugurated to start another class.
1/6/1915	Information relative to the appointment of teachers in the public schools of Philadelphia was frequently sought and given as follows: Every person, male or female, must hold a certificate of qualification, from a public examination held, before they can be appointed as teacher in any of the public schools. There examinations are held semi-annually in May and November, and occasionally at other times when vacancies occur. An average of 85 or upwards entitles to a certificate of the first class school, with a salary of $1000 to $1500. An average of 50 to 85 to a lower grade school with salary of $500 to $800. Now suppose John Smith, of Bucks county, attended one of these examinations without intending to teach in the city at that time, and gets a certificate, that certificate is good for any vacancy that may occur at any future time, and if there is no other one holding a certificate at the time, he must get the position, so with the ladies. Hence, the importance of those who intend to make teaching their business attending these examinations.
1/6/1915	Fifty years ago Dr. Joseph Foulke, of Buckingham, supplied The Intelligencer with copies of Foulke's well known almanac for 1856, the contents of which were of interest to the Society of Friends.
1/6/1915	The lyceum at Erwinna numbered about sixty members and was in a flourishing condition. A series of lectures was given in addition to other exercises. The meetings were held on Tuesday evening. The gale on Thursday amounted to almost a hurricane. Much damage was done.
1/6/1915	On Friday night about $40 in money was stolen from the house of Charles Taylor, a farmer living in Milford township. The money was taken from the clock case, where he was in the habit of keeping his spare funds. Suspicion was exited against two Jew peddlers, who had been staying at the house over night, and they were subsequently arrested and taken before Squire Ball, of Quakertown. The evidence was against them and they were required to give bail for their appearance at court.
1/6/1915	The cultivation of sorghum excited the attention of the farming community everywhere that it was expected soon to rank among the staple productions of the country. In this county there was less raised than in some sections, but success attended it's growth and manufacture into syrup of a very superior quality.
1/11/1917	Thieves appear to have been busy. They robbed the office of Joseph and David Taylor, lumber dealers, Morrisville, of $2000 in government bonds and $100 in money. A horse and carriage were stolen from Joseph B. Stapler, Yardleyville, about the same time. A lot of poultry and feed was stolen from Parker Staats and Edward Bilger, Bensalem.
1/11/1917	A general news item recorded the fact that Jacob Loucks, the largest man in York county died. He was 57 years old and weighed 500 pounds. His coffin was 35 inches broad and 23 inches deep.
1/11/1917	Of the revenue paid the state the county received $5380 in "pensions and gratuities" and $4224.71, for the common schools. The total revenue collected in the county in November, 1866, was $11,425.62.
1/11/1917	Women's rights were then discussed. One of the references to the subject was this: "During a recent session of the Equal Rights Association a strong-minded female entered a crowded street railroad car. An old gent arose to give her a seat, but asked? "Be you one of those women's-righters?" "I be.' "You believe women should have all the rights of a man?' "Yes, I do.' "Then stand up and enjoy them like a man." "And stand up she did."
1/11/1917	Affairs of the newspapers of the County Seat occupied rather more space than usual fifty years ago in the issue of The Intelligencer of January 8, 1867. One noted the sale of the German Democratic organ, the Bucks County Express, by Heist & Brothers to Dr.Morwitz, of Philadelphia, proprietor of the Philadelphia Demokrat, which had previously started an offshoot in Doylestown, the Reform von Bucks. The consideration was $3500 which included a Potter cylinder press. Previous owners in their order of ownership, were Edwin Fretz, Oliver P. Zink, Price & Daubert, Charles Price, Allen H. Heist & Bro. The other note was as follows: "The old frame building on Main street opposite the Court House, occupied from time immemorial as a printing office, was demolished last week. Many of our old subscribers will remember when James Kelley printed the Intelligencer under its roof and resided in the stone building adjoining. A few weeks ago it was vacated by Mr. Heist, the publisher of the Express, who built a new office upon his hotel property.
1/11/1917	Among the real estate changes was the sale of Joseph Broadhurst's farm of 50 acres in Buckingham to Paxson B. Hill, Solebury, for $7500, and the sale of Elisha Worthington's farm, occupied by Theodore Carver, to John Kirk Doan, of Northampton, for $130 per acre.
1/11/1917	Another note-Timothy Howell, of Lower Makefield, the man who captured so many minks and muskrats last winter, is also as proficient in raising good hogs. He killed two the other day which were one year old and lacked but 14 pounds of weighing 1000 pounds.
1/11/1917	The proceeds of a fair and concert held in the Davisville Baptist Church were reported to amount to $1000. The gold headed cane on which chances in a popularity contest were sold brought in $100. It was voted to H. P. Ross, of Doylestown, who had more votes than Caleb N. Taylor.
1/11/1917	Isaac Eyre, who appears to have been a successful apple grower, attributed his success to enriching the ground around the trees by using lime to make the grass grow, and the grass to enrich the soil.
1/11/1917	Among the local items was one referring to the fact that at that time three persons over 90 years of age were living in the same house at Carversville- John Kirk and wife and Phebe Jones, a relative of the former. One was 96 and the other two 92.
1/11/1917	MARRIAGES RECORDED WERE THESE: Henry Thompson, of Helena City, Montana, and Mary Elizabeth Matthews, of Buckingham. Fred L. Smith and Jennie Stradling, of Buckingham. Francis A. Hendricks, of Centre Bridge, and Sarah Elizabeth Scarborough. Peter R. Ziegenfuss, of Richland, and Lizzie D. Althouse, of Rockhill. Justus Storck, of Rockhill, and Rebecca Groover, of Haycock. James Fluck, of Richlandtown, and Mary Benner, of Milford. Henry Siganfuss, and Mary Swartzlander, both of Doylestown. Mark Wismer and Mary Etta Craven, of Bucks county. Howard S. Doan, of Edgewood, and Mary E. Young, of Yardleyville. Jordan Cooper, of Buckingham, and Emmaretta Vanluvanee, of Doylestown
1/11/1917	At the annual meeting of the Bustleton and Somerton Turnpike Company Jesse Comfort, Joseph Comly, Jonathan Knight, Simon V. Lefferts, William S. Hogeland, William Lukens and Charles S. Snyder were elected managers.
1/11/1917	Editorials dealing with Governor Curtin's message, said to have been "short and good," among other things praised it for the endorsement by another plan to draw jurors to take the appointment from the politicians.
1/11/1917	Dr. Joseph Foulke, of Buckingham, had recently issued his Friends' Almanac, which appears to have been a popular publication.
1/11/1917	Influenza was prevalent in Newtown at that time and was known as "Johnson grip."
1/18/1917	MARRIAGES WERE REPORTED AS FOLLOWS: Edward Blaker, of Newtown, and Miss B. Jennie Philips, Dolington John C. Whiteside, Northampton, and Miss Rachel A. Craven. Samuel V. Richardson and Katie Hagerman, Tullytown. Daniel H. Bleam and Sarah M. Keller, Plumsteadville. Dr. John W. Scarborough, Lahaska, and Cornelia Hartley, Columblana county, O. Truxton L. Vanartsdalen and Rachel Huntsman, of Bridge Valley James F. Dowday, Troy City, N. Y., and Catharine D. Freiling, of Noxamixon. John Vandegrift and Anna Elizabeth Hogeland, Northampton.
1/18/1917	Ah! Baseball! The Penn's Park Stars were defeated by the Magnolia Club, of Fallsington, 51 to 49 and later 60 to 34 in a return game.
1/18/1917	"James Wesley Hellings slaughtered for himself and others, in the village of Attleborough, on the 17^th, 31 hogs of an aggregate weight of 10,996 pounds."
1/18/1917	Dr. H. W. Beaumont, U. S. N., of New Hope, son of Dr. A. J. Beaumont, of Solebury, was ordered about that time to report at the Brooklyn navy yard.
1/11/1917	Going back to The Intelligencer files of fifty years ago we find the usual number of interesting articles, but there are two that stand out conspicuously. One is an account of the murder of James Wiley, aged 36 years, once a resident of Doylestown, at Wyker's lock, Nockamixon, by Albert Teufel, aged 22 years. The other is an account of the lecture "What Is Dirt?" delivered by Solon Robinson, the venerable agricultural editor of the New York Tribune. Mr. Robinson told his audience that "Bread is an excellent illustration of 'what is dirt.' We call it flour, but it is nothing but dirt ground through the great laboratory of nature. Yesterday it was dirt, today it is food. This is but one step from the practice of the North Carolina clay eaters, who consume dirt in its natural state. Dirt is the base of all our sustenance. Horse racing, particularly at agricultural exhibitions, were not looked on by favor by Mr. Robinson. The system, he said, does not draw the right sort of people. He advocated "Manly sports" to show skill in manual labor- like competitions for boys to make the best stacks and "improve the human heads as well as the cabbage heads." One of the results of his talk was the movement for a railroad from Attleboro to Newtown. He argued that no farm should be more than five miles from a railroad.
1/11/1917	According to a local item Charles Price, for several years publisher of the Bucks County Express, the Doylestown German paper, died early in December, 1856. He sold out to Allen H. Heist and brother.
1/11/1917	"Dr, H. B. Nightingale, editor of the Flemington Democrat, while on a visit to Lambertville last Friday, was making change with a man on the Delaware bridge when a sudden gust of wind blew a $100 bill out of his hand, and down it went through the timbers of the bridge into the river."
1/11/1917	At a meeting of Doylestown Council Mr. Morris, an engineer, submitted estiamtes of the cost of the water works plant.
1/11/1917	Among advertisers were C. Selser, sewing machines, Doylestown; Jay Cooke & Co., bankers, Philadelphia; Henry Yeager, jeweler, Doylestown; Charles B. Knowles, merchant, New Hope; Janney's store, Dolington; A. Landis & Son, merchants, Landisville; E. E. Smith, store, Buckmanville; Carver & Stapler, store, Newtown.
1/11/1917	Retorting to the Copperhead assertions about "niggers" marrying whites, the editor points to the Democratic Vice President Richard M. Johnson marrying a colored woman.
1/11/1917	Included in a story of Prospect Hill, (Spruce Hill) is reference to a temperance meeting there in July, 1847, addressed by George Lear, attorney, and Ka-ge-gag-ge-bow, an Ojibway Indian, and also to the fact that Chief Tomanend was buried there between 1740 and 1750, near a large spring.
1/11/1917	The "Croasdale" farm in Middletown township, 97 acres, was sold to George Y. Vansant for $104 per acre.
1/11/1917	Market prices at that time were given as follows: Best Timothy hay, 1.80 to $1.90; apples, 20 to 30c. Half peck; sweet potatoes, 35c.; onions, 15c; turnips, 10c.; eggs, 30c. Doz.; butter, 50 to 55c.; lard, 20c.; pork, 18c.; sausage, 18c.; scrapple, 10c.; spare ribs, 10c.; chickens, 18c.; turkeys, 22c.; ducks, 22c.; hams, 20c.; corn, $1; buckwheat flour, $4.75 hundred.
1/11/1917	County officers at that time were: President Judge, Henry Chapman; Associate Judges, Henry Troxell, Joseph Morrison; Sheriff, John E. Corcoran, Nockamixon; Deputy Sheriff, Julius Kuster; Prothonotary, Reuben F. Scheetz, Doylestown; Register, Samuel H. Heany, Springfield; Recorder, Asher Cox, Doylestown; Clerk of Orphan's Court, David Swain, Bristol; Clerk of Sessions, Francis S. Mann, Springfield; Coroner, William Earby, Bristol; Senator Dr. O. P. James.
1/27/1915	Protracted meetings were held for some time at the New Britain Church, which were very well attended and considerable interest was manifested. The church had been without a pastor since the resignation of Mr. Wheat.
1/27/1915	Half a century ago the delivery of newspapers at most of the post offices between Doylestown and Bristol, was delayed for a day or two by the extremely cold weather. Mr. Tomlinson, who drove the stage line between the two places, as unable to come further than Pineville on Monday evening, and consequently was not on hand to take mail on Tuesday morning. The papers for that part of the county were mostly sent by way of Philadelphia, and reached their respective destinations by Wednesday or Thursday.
1/27/1915	"Skaters were in ecstasies over the ice. The mill dams in the vicinity of Doylestown, which are the only skating parks in this quarter, were well patronized. Numbers of the young of both sexes, as well as those more advanced in years, were daily visitors at these places, for the purpose of indulging the passion for skating, which has become a most popular as well as healthful amusement in all parts of the country. Why can't we have a skating park in Doylestown?" It would certainly be well patronized.
1/27/1915	A number of young men and others living in the vicinity of the octagon schoolhouse, near Fountainville, in New Britain, organized a debating society, which met weekly for the discussion of important questions of the day. Meetings were held on Wednesday evening and the subject on January 10^th was whether education should be a requisite qualification for exercising the right of suffrage.
1/27/1915	Charles Roberts, teacher of Chestnut Grove school, Lower Makefield, was elected teacher of the Godfrey school, in the 23d Ward, Philadelphia, at a salary of $500 per annum.
1/27/1915	A man who came from Centreville to Doylestown, on Friday, when within a short distance of Doylestown, discovered that he had lost his pocketbook, containing a considerable amount of money. He immediately started back in search of it, and on arriving near Spring Valley, he had the good fortune to find it lying in the middle of the turnpike, the only evil having befallen it was that a carriage wheel had passed over it bursting it open. So that a $5 greenback was protruding from it.
1/27/1915	General Spinner, of the Treasury Department at Washington, whose rather peculiar signature appeared upon the face of all greenbacks, was a connection of the Spinner family in Milford township. The ancestors both were originally from the same place in Germany, and emigrated to this country ten years or more before the Revolutionary Was.
1/27/1915	MARRIAGES OCCURRED DURING THE WEEK AS FOLLOWS: Captain William Ritchie and Amanda W. Walmsly, both of Hatboro. James Breiner and Mary E. Sigafoos, both of Nockamixon. Lewis Hayes, formerly of Doylestown township, and Miss Sallie J. Appleby, of New Castle, Del. Henry W. Hunsberry, of Hilltown, and Miss Mary Rittenhouse, of Warrington.
1/27/1915	THE FOLLOWING DEATHS OCCURRED: Mrs. Thomas Stavely, of Philadelphia, aged 28 years. Margaret Vanluvanee, of Doylestown, aged 71 years. Mary Kirk, of Buckingham, aged 63 years. Mrs. Elizabeth Carlile, of Fallsington, aged 89 years. Rebecca Large, of Mechanicsville, aged 86 years. Mrs. Sarah Walton, of Moreland, aged 79 years Mary B. Lauer, of Illinois, aged 23 years. Mrs. Hannah Pickering, of Andalusia, aged 69 years. Mrs. Henry Morris, of Morrisville, aged 54 years. William Adams, of Plumstead, aged 64 years. Samuel Loux, of Hilltown, aged 52 years. Martha Ellis, of Upper Makefield, aged 84 years. Anna S., infant daughter of William and Rebecca H. Oliver, of Buckingham, aged 6 months and 2 days.
1/27/1915	Owing to the cold weather people were unable to cross the Neshaminy in wagons at Sackett's Ford and other places along the creek, on account of the ice along the edges of the stream. At Chain bridge also the stream was impassable. The obstruction at the latter place was a source of much inconvenience along a thoroughfare so much traveled.
2/1/1917	Aaron Savacool, son of Jacob Savacool, of Rockhill township, was seriously injured fifty years ago while hauling logs on a sled which was over-turned and one of the logs falling on and crushing one of his legs below the knee.
2/1/1917	William Nicholson spoke on temperance, on Monday evening, in the church at Carversville, before a large audience. On Tuesday evening he addressed a large meeting in the Methodist church at Lumberville. On Wednesday evening he spoke in the New Britain Baptist Church.
2/1/1917	A baseball club was organized at Danborough with thirty members.
2/1/1917	While putting away straw for William Morris, of Buckingham, Peter White accidentally fell from a window in the shed to the ground, a distance of twenty feet. He fell on his back on the ground and escaped with a soreness of the body.
2/1/1917	William M. Stackhouse, son of Jesse L. Stackhouse, of Bristol township, returned as a student to Pennsylvania Agricultural College. He had been in college two years and was in the sophomore class. The trip from Bucks county occupied about two days.
2/1/1917	DEATHS OCCURRED DURING THE WEEK AS FOLLOWS: Mrs. Uree Bonner, of Moreland, aged 85 years. Mrs. Henry B. Weiss, of Bustleton, aged 22 years. Miss Sallie Worthington, of Buckingham. Warren Hawk, of Morrisville, aged 19 years. Harry Linton, of Newtown township, aged 19 years.
2/1/1917	Along political lines an editorial on the new senator appeared as follows: "Mr. Cameron's speech, after his election as United States Senator, is very generally approved by the Republicans of Bucks county. They are pleased with his unequivocal endorsement of the policy of Congress in demanding that to loyal men alone belongs the work of restoring the republic, and with his plain rebuke of the conduct of the president. When it became known that Cameron had received the nomination of the Republican caucus, the fact was gloried in by the Copperheads as a triumph of their own. From their remarks it might have been inferred that they thought rather better of Cameron than they did of Cowan. Cameron was their man decidedly. But when they came to read the new Senator's speech, things were bravely changed. They were ready to curse where before they were vaunted. They declared Cameron to be the worst radical of all. Our Republicans, who, it is confessed, felt somewhat disappointed at the result of the contest for the nomination were unexpectedly gratified and certainly enjoyed their triumph. If Mr. Cameron keeps his faith as we believe he will, he will find no more sturdy backers than the Republicans of Bucks county."
2/1/1917	MARRIAGES TOOK PLACE AS FOLLOWS: Thomas C. Lect and Miss Rachel A. Wharton, of Tullytown. Carlile Shepherd and Mrs. Hannah B. Overbolt, both of Buckingham. Frank Shaffer, of Whitehall and Miss Julia Smith, of Philadelphia. Amos B. Tomlinson and Ellen Buckman, both of Byberry. Charles Bewley, of Yardleyville, and Mrs. Ann Firman, of Newtown. Charles A. Yerkes, of Huntingdon Valley, and Miss Sallie A. Flack, of Warwick. A. L. Worman, of Belvidere, N. J., and Miss Eva B. Corson, of Lahaska. Dr. Joseph H. Piatt and Miss Annie W. Wharton, both of Bristol. William Carter, of New Jersey, and Miss Sallie E. Carter, of Penn's Manor.
2/1/1917	Persons interested were determined to push the Perkiomen Railroad enterprise. A meeting of the stockholders was held and the president and board of directors were unanimously re-elected, after which it was voted to place ten miles of that lower portion of the road under contract at once. It was expected to start work on the new road in the spring.
2/24/1916	Fifty years ago Jacob Bachman, the new county treasurer, appointed Summers A. Smith, of Doylestown, to act as deputy treasurer in his absence from the office. It was the intention of Mr. Bachman, however, to discharge the duties in person as far as possible.
2/24/1916	THE FOLLOWING DEATHS OCCURRED: Mrs. Anna Bishop, of Hilltown township, aged 77 years. Samuel Smith, of Point Pleasant, aged 73 years. Jacob Beidler, of Bedminster, aged 89 years. John Krewson, of Newtown, aged 79 years.
2/24/1916	While sawing with a circular saw in Thomas' sash factory at Lumberville, David Kirk, of Centre Hill, met with an accident which at first threatened to deprive him of the use of one of his eyes. A small block of wood which was lying near-by, came in contact with the saw, and by its rapid motion was thrown into his face with much violence. Although the shock was sufficient to render him insensible for some time, its effect was mostly upon the eye, the block having struck immediately on the ball. Dr. L. C. Rice was summoned and on examination the eye appeared to be a complete mass of clotted blood. In the course of twenty-four hours the sight was so far restored that he was able to recognize objects, and at last accounts the complete recovery of the use of the organ was expected.
2/24/1916	Complaints were made by residents of Plumstead township of the action of the school directors in refusing to grant the use of the schoolhouse of the district for the purpose of holding evening meetings. Some teachers in the township, it was said, had been permitted to use their school rooms during the evenings, while those not connected with the schools were denied the privilege, which was considered manifestly partial and unjust. It was the opinion of patrons that the use of a school building for the purpose of moral or mental improvement of a community a perfectly proper one, yet at the same time it was presumed the directors had entire control of the school property, and had full authority to say for what purpose it should be used.
2/24/1916	MARRIAGES OCCURRED AS FOLLOWS DURING THE WEEK: William L. Umstead, a member of the 104^th P. V., of Dublin, and Miss Deborah F. Roberts, of Bedminster. John V. Hall and Miss Anna C. Fell, both of Buckingham. Jacob Dexheimer and Miss Amanda Wright, both of Warminster. William H. Woodside, of Philadelphia, and Miss Wilhelmina Carman, of Falls. Braley S. Stradling and Miss Elizabeth Freas, both of Middletown. William K. Bowman and Miss Hannah Francis Kurtz, both of Philadelphia.
2/24/1916	There were only three columns of reading matter in this week's edition of the Intelligencer, while the remainder four pages were filled with advertising matter.
2/24/1916	W. S. Kooker, veterinary surgeon removed from Penn's Park to Doylestown.
2/24/1916	As Dr, Clayton was descending a hill near Spring Valley, his horse owing to the icy condition of the road, fell down, breaking both shafts, and threw the doctor out, causing slight bruises.
2/24/1916	The concert in the Davisville Church was well patronized. The house was densely packed, and a number left who could not get in. The singing gave general satisfaction.
2/24/1916	The second Pennsylvania Artillery which had been doing garrison duty at Petersburg, Va., for some time was mustered out and returned home. There were several Bucks countians in the regiment. This regiment was one of the largest in the service, and numbered about 1500 men at the time of its discharge.
4/4/1918	Lindley J. Taylor, formerly of The Intelligencer office, but since employed in the machine shop of Matthew & Moore, in Philadelphia, was about establishing a foundary and shop of his own in the borough of Bloomsburg.
4/4/1918	Fifty years ago Isaac H. Hillborn, one of the incorporators named in the charter, was in Newtown, when the roads were at the worst, with the books asking subscriptions for stock to make a turnpike from that place to the Anchor tavern. It required no arguments to prove the importance of the enterprise. The want of a good road between the points named had been seriously felt during the winter and it was the general opinion that a little united, earnest effort would secure enough stock to justify the company in commencing the work.
4/4/1918	Doylestown Council at a meeting held on Monday evening adopted ordinances directing the opening of four new streets within the borough limits.
4/4/1918	On Monday as an empty coal train, consisting of one hundred and twenty cars and two locomotives, was rounding the curve between Souder's and Telford stations, something occurred to the forward engine causing it to slacken its speed, and the rear one pushing with too much force resulted in a smash-up in the middle of the train. Over a dozen of the cars were pretty well demolished. No one was injured.
4/4/1918	A serious fire occurred in the smoke house of Alexander German, of Newtown, on Tuesday night. The house contained from forty-five to fifty hams, and shoulders, valued at about $250, belonging to eight or ten neighbors who had taken their meat to Mr. German to be smoked. The meat was so much burned that it was not of much value.
4/4/1918	Rev. A. R. Horne, formerly of Quakertown, was chosen superintendent of the public schools of Williamsport, at which place he had resided for about two years.
4/4/1918	At a meeting of those interested in the building of the new German Reformed and Lutheran Church at Sellersville, it was decided that the proposed building should be erected the coming summer. Three acres of land had been purchased by William Schlichter as a site for the church. About $4000 had been subscribed toward the movement.
4/4/1918	After the commencement of good weather the workmen resumed operations at the new iron furnace at Edge Hill station. A large force was engaged upon the building.
4/4/1918	MARRIAGES TOOK PLACE AS FOLLOWS: Stephen Walton and Annie Lefferts, both of Mooreland Hartman Wink, Jr., and Miss Cornelia Maria Craven, both of Bucks county Isaac F. Myers, of Doylestown, and Catharine Bewighouse, of Doylestown township Robert S. Kohl, of Warwick, and Miss Caroline Marvill, of Germantown Charles Hillegass and Miss Matilda H. Jones, both of Lower Milford
4/4/1918	Salem Reformed Church, Doylestown, chose Rev. W. H. Heilman, of Jonestown, Lebanon county, pastor. Mr. Heilman had removed to Doylestown and entered upon the duties of his charge on Sunday morning. The first number of the Newtown Enterprise made its appearance on Thursday, March 19^th. It was a neatly printed sheet of seven columns to the page in general effect much resembling the Advocate formerly issued by Mr. Church, at Towsontown.
4/4/1918	THE FOLLOWING DEATH OCCURRED: Job Hollingshead, of Newtown, at an advanced age Edward White, of Morrisville, aged 42 years William Henry Singmaster, of Richland, aged 2 years Samuel Rufe, of Tinicum, aged 42 years
4/11/1918	At a collector's sale in Doylestown about 8000 cigars, seized for non-payment of taxes, brought prices ranging from $1.80 to $2.70 per hundred, according to quality. The collector's demand was satisfied and something was left for the owner.
4/11/1918	MARRIAGES TOOK PLACE AS FOLLOWS: Henry C. Michener, of Doylestown, and Miss Mary F. Roberts, of Middletown. Alfred D. Sharpless, of West Chester, and Rachel Roberts, of Norristown Aaron VanHorn, of Point Pleasant, and Miss Kate Rowe, of Kingwood, N. J. Otis H. Ballow, of Philadelphia, and Bele J. Glasgow, of Warminster Robert B. Newbold and Anna P. Gillam, of Middletown Charles Alman, of Warrington, and Miss Maggie Rush, of Horsham Orlando B. Fackenthal, of Springfield, and Miss Sarah J. Eaken, of Springtown. J. J. Betts, of Bucks county, and Miss H. Lou Scarborough, of Cottage Grove, Md. Charles VanHorn, of Newtown, and Miss Eliza Beards, of Middletown Joseph T. Deemer, and Miss Catharine Ann Nicholas, both of Nockamixon John J. Swartz, of Plumstead and Miss Sarah Overholt, of Bedminster.
4/11/1918	Fifty years ago a new Evangelical church was about to be erected in Springtown. The old building had been torn down and it was expected to commence work on the new one as soon as the weather would become more settled. The new building was to be made much larger and more substantial than the old one. Its erection had become necessary on account of the increased size of the congregation.
4/11/1918	The water in the Delaware being favorable for log navigation, an immense number of rafts were brought down from the hemlock tributaries of the river.
4/11/1918	Regarding fire protection an item was as follows: Where it is a growing disposition among the people of Doylestown to procure a new fire engine, for use in case of emergency. There has not been a fire in town for several years past, but if one should come, of which there is a constant danger, we have absolutely no protection whatever. The old engine, which was good for nothing, has been sold, and there is not a foot of hose, a bucket or a ladder to be depended on in case of a fire. This may be a remarkable state of affairs in a place of 2000 inhabitants, but it is the truth. We learn that a good hand engine, in complete order, costing originally $2000 or $3000, can now be obtained in Philadelphia for about one-sixth of the money. We are in favor of the purchase of a new fire apparatus by the borough upon such terms, and hope that no time will be lost in securing an engine and providing a suitable company, of men to put it in operation when needed.
4/11/1918	The Lutheran congregation in Doylestown was making preparations to build a church. They were about purchasing a lot of ground of William H. Constantine, on Main street, in the upper end of the borough, as a site for a new building. During the past year members of this religious denomination in Doylestown and vicinity occupied the cemetery building for purposes of worship.
4/11/1918	The Norristown Republican contained the following: "It has often been said when you want public office, strike high-you are sure to get something. In the late Democratic State Convention out townsman, Dr. A. D. Markley, and General W. W. H. Davis, of Doylestown, were prominent candidates for Auditor General, but neither got the nomination. On Friday the 20^th, they both ran for town council in their respective...
4/11/1918	The rate of county tax for the year was fixed by the County Commissioners at 90 cents per $100 of valuation. They intended to make it 75 cents, but the prospect of building a county hospital induced them to fix it higher. The previous year the rate was $1.50 per $100. The per capita of $1.00 to each taxable, amounting to about $12,000 was abolished.
4/11/1918	DEATHS OCCURRED AS FOLLOWS: George M. Wilson, of Whitemarsh, aged 69 years Henrietta Sharp, of Lower Makefield, aged 35 years Mrs. George Overpeck, of Nockamixon, aged 53 years. John Clymer, of Warwick, aged 76 years William Kachline, of Tinicum, aged 74 years Elmer Elias Ellsworth, infant son of Thomas Weaver, of Springfield aged 5 months and 23 days.
4/11/1918	The residents of the village of new Britain and vicinity were about to petition the proper authority for permission to form a separate public place which was situated on the line school district. The school at that between New Britain and Doylestown townships, was made up of pupils from the two districts. The length of the school term being different in the respective townships, and the joint arrangement being attended with considerable inconvenience and difficulty, it was proposed to form an independent district to embrace those portions of the two townships adjacent to the village. All living in the territory were in favor of the measure, and there appeared to be no difficulty in the way.
4/18/1918	THE FOLLOWING DEATHS OCCURED: Joel Worthington, of Centreville, aged 63 years Benjamin Allen, of Middletown township, aged 68 years Josiah S. Moore, of Buckingham, aged 74 years Abel Lester, of Indiana, formerly of Quakertown, aged 75 years Hanah Bruden, of Bristol, aged 85 years Charles Wise, of Falls, aged 79 years Thomas D. McCarty, of Haycock, aged 82 years Elizabeth Ann Tomlinson, of Byberry Lewis P. Kinsey, Jr., of Bristol, aged 82 years Mrs. Thomas DeCoursey, of Lower Makefield, aged 60 years Mrs. Samuel Y. Addis, of Philadelphia, formerly of Hartsville, aged 40 years
4/18/1918	The supply of butter and eggs in the Doylestown market on Saturday morning was entirely inadequate to the demand. The stock was soon exhausted at prices considerably in advance of former quotations. Butter sold as high as sixty-five cents per pound.
4/18/1918	The Richland Turnpike or Plank Road Company sold its toll house and lot on Broad street, Quakertown, to Henry M. Smith for $300, and purchased a lot from the property of William Shaffer, on which a new house was to be built for the same purpose.
4/18/1918	A meeting of the former officers and soldiers of the 104^th Penna Volunteers, and other interested citizens, was to be held in the Court House on the afternoon of the 25^th, to make preliminary arrangements for the dedication of the monument to the dead of the regiment, then being erected in Doylestown.
4/18/1918	William S. Haines removed from the Spring House tavern in Montgomery county, to the hotel he purchased from Simon S. Jacoby, at Whitehalville. Mr. Jacoby removed to Trumbauersville, where he continued the same business.
4/18/1918	The new lodge of Free Masons at Hatborough, known as "W. K. Bray Lodge, No. 410, A. Y. M." was regularly instituted on Thursday. A number of members from other lodges were present, and an address was delivered in the Baptist church.
4/18/1918	At the semi-annual election of Hopkins Lodge, No. 87, I. O. O. F., of Bristol, the following officers were elected: Thomas B. Douglass, N. G.; Benjamin Tomlinson, V. G.; L. M. Wharton, secretary; Henry Rue, assistant secretary; Jacob McBrien, treasurer, and William Kinsey, G. R. to G. L. The trustees reported the lodge in prosperous circumstances. The probable worth of the building with its furniture was $6000 or $7000, all paid. Other assets and moneys invested amounted to $1200.
4/18/1918	Henry H. Hough, who had for several years been principal of the public schools of Doylestown, resigned and Stephen Kirk, of Horsham, an experienced teacher, was appointed to fill the vacancy. Mr. Hough gave up his position to devote his time to the Doylestown English and Classical Seminary, of which he was one of the proprietors.
4/18/1918	The ordinance of baptism was administered to nine persons in the Delaware, at Point Pleasant, on Sunday, by the pastor of the Baptist church, Rev. D. Mengie. Although the weather was rather cold, the ceremony was witnessed by a large concourse of people.
4/18/1918	MARRIAGES TOOK PLACE AS FOLLOWS: Elwood Megargie, of Philadelphia, and Miss Amanda Smith, of Doylestown John S. Wilkinson and Miss Minnie Hinkle, both of Bucks county John Todd, of New Britain, and Miss Mary Eliza Vernon, of Philadelphia Anthony Rue and Miss Rachel Ann Temple, both of Churchville Dr. George P. Tracey, of Monroton, Bradford county, and Miss Anna Lomax, of Philadelphia Alexander McGary, of Fallsington, and Miss Euphemie M. Howell, of Dolington Walter S. Moon, of Morrisville, and Miss Sue Ogleby, of Fallsington
4/18/1918	Fifty years ago the site for the new hospital to be erected on the almshouse property was staked out by the County Commissioners. The size of the building was about 139 by 38 feet. There was to be a passage through the middle both ways, and was to be three stories high besides an attic. The hospital was to stand just north of the main almshouse building, and was to front toward the turnpike. The stone were to be supplied from a quarry on the pike at the Little Neshaminy bridge, for $1.75 per perch, delivered on the ground. The entire job was under the control of the County Commissioners, the Directors of the Poor having nothing to do with it.
5/9/1918	The bill passed by the Legislature to revive the charter of the Norristown, Doylestown and New Hope Railroad was signed by Governor Geary. The enrollment tax on the bill was $150.
5/9/1918	Dr, Isaac S. Moyer, of Plumsteadville, sold his medical practice to Dr. Krause, of Centre Point, and retired from business.
5/9/1918	Mahlon Lear and William Harold, of Wrightstown, started week before last for Missouri, with the intention of settling there if they are pleased with this country. They expected to locate in the neighborhood of Stewartsville, DeKalb county, on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad. Upon selecting homes in the west they intended to send for their families.
5/9/1918	DEATH DURING THE WEEK WERE AS FOLLOWS: Margaret Meyers, of Quakertown, aged 35 years. Collins McCabe, of Morrisville, aged 48 years. Thomas Blakey, of Philadelphia, formerly of Attleborough, aged 57 years. Mary Ann Stover, of Buckingham, aged 24 years.
5/9/1918	The Delaware river was in fine rafting condition, and a large number of logs and lumber rafts floated on their way to market. The lumbermen at the headwaters of the river did not suffer any loss from the ice freshet, and got their lumber to market in good season. The rafts seriously interfered with the operations of shad fisherman. Business was brisk among the landlords along the river, who made a livelihood by entertaining the raftsmen.
5/9/1918	Fifty years ago workmen commenced excavating the cellar for the hospital to be erected on the grounds of the Bucks County Almshouse. The contract for the work was awarded to Mathew Giboney and Company of Doylestown. The cellar was to be 139 feet long, 35 feet wide, and 5 feet deep.
5/9/1918	A premium was offered by the Equitable Life Insurance Company of New York to the agent who within a given time should return the largest amount of insurance. This premium which consisted of a handsome gold watch, was won by John W. Griffith, of New Britain, the agent of the company for Bucks County. Mr. Griffith outstripped his nearest competitor by about $63,000. The watch was inscribed with his name and was a very valuable article.
5/9/1918	Peter Walter sold his farm, containing about 50 acres, in Williams township, near the county line, to Glendon Iron Company, for $10,000. The property was supposed to contain valuable beds of iron ore.
5/9/1918	MARRIAGES TOOK PLACE AS FOLLOWS John W. Heath, of Carversville, and Miss Maria H. Penrose, of Beaver Meadow, Pa. Thomas P. Hall and Miss Caroline F. Haines, both of Doylestown township. Thomas B. Hagstoz, of Philadelphia, and Miss Emma R. Williams, of Camden, N. J. Charles Saunders, of Philadelphia, and Hannah P. Davis, of Horsham, Pa. Holmes D. Ely, of Lambertville, and Miss Willie Parker, of Lambertville. A. C. Markley, U. S. A., and Rebecca C. Morgan, of Willow Grove. Charles T. Wilkinson, of Bucks county, and Lizzie Lambert, of Philadelphia. Reuben McLaughlin and Miss Elizabeth W. Wood, of Montgomery county.
5/9/1918	John Tomlinson, of Newtown, while at work on a scaffold of a new barn he was erecting near his tenant houses, fell to the ground, a distance of fifteen feet. The only injury sustained was a sprained shoulder, scratched face, and for a few minutes could hardly recover his breath.
5/9/1918	Captain Charles H. Mann for several years past landlord of the Jones House, at Harrisburg, closed up that hotel and retired from business. The Jones House, under his management, was headquarters for Bucks county people visiting at the State capital and his absence was greatly missed.
5/16/1918	The Commissioners of Bucks county purchased a large fire-proof safe, and had it placed in their office. It was an Evans & Watson make and was put in under the supervision of Mr. Evans. The old safe in the Commissioners' office was rendered worthless except for old metal by the operation of burglars upon it. It was a vey old-fashioned one, and was of no value as a protection from damage by fire. The cost of the new safe was $400 and $75 was realized from the sale of the old one.
5/16/1918	THE FOLLOWING DEATHS OCCURRED DURING THE WEEK: Mrs. Lewis R. Willard, of Mooreland, Montgomery county. Henry Williams, of Attleborough, aged 65 years. Charles, son of William Neeld, of Falls township, aged 2 years. Hannah, wife of Martin Stradling, of Bristol, aged 46 years. Miss Elizabeth P. Black, of Philadelphia, aged 41 years. Rachel Palmer, of Falls township, aged 84 years. Hannah Sackett, of Wrightstown, aged 16 years. Mrs. Samuel S. Fries, of Milford, Del., formerly of Doylestown, aged 32 years.
5/16/1918	The common roads in many parts of Bucks county were in horrible condition, quite as bad as at any time during the winter. They were full of ruts and holes so deep that travel was very slow, if not dangerous. On the Durham road below Anchor, the traveling was particularly bad, and this was also the case between Pineville and Buckmanville. Nothing more ought to be needed, it was argued, to convince the people of the vicinity that the proposed Wrightstown and Newtown turnpike should be constructed without delay.
5/16/1918	William Gaul, a well known brewer of Philadelphia, who had just purchased a part of the Captain Taylor property in Doylestown, with the object of starting a brewery, died on Thursday after a somewhat protracted illness.
5/16/1918	Three young men were admitted to practice as attorneys in the several courts of Bucks county. They were Albert P. Schurz and Lewis H. James, students in the office of Mr. Lear, and Henry W. Scott, a student in the office of Mr. Lloyd.
5/16/1918	Work was commenced on the new Mennonite meeting house at Line Lexington. The old building which was one of the first of its kind erected in the county, was torn down to enable the available material to be used in the new one. The site of the new edifice was about a hundred yards above the old one, fronting on the old Bethlehem turnpike. The building was to be of stone and much larger than the old one. Among the other improvements at Lexington was a new dwelling about to be erected by Harley & Brother, John Shantz also built a new house.
5/16/1918	Fifty years ago the meeting of Friends at Newtown laid out their graveyard in convenient sized lots for apportionment to the members and families of members of that meeting as a place of interment. The order of the meeting had been to bury in rows.
5/16/1918	Henry Daubert sold out his stove and tin-ware store in Doylestown to J. Wilson Cowell, who continued to carry on the business.
5/16/1918	MARRIAGES TOOK PLACE AS FOLLOWS: Benjamin F. Croasdale, of Northampton, and Miss Sallie Worthington, of Wrightstown. Charles Watson and Miss Ada Bailey, both of Fallsington. Burnet Landreth and Miss Meta E. Phillips, both of Bristol
5/23/1918	A son of Abraham Fretz, of Bedminster, aged 8 years, was seriously injured by a fall from a cedar tree. His left arm and leg were both broken.
5/23/1918	Stephen Shaw, of Bristol, sold a pair of dapple gray horses to a Philadelphia man for $937.50
5/23/1918	Newtown Building Association at its meeting sold three loans of $200 each at a premium of $31.20
5/23/1918	The board of directors of the Doylestown National Bank declared a dividend of ten percent on the capital stock of the bank payable on demand.
5/23/1918	MARRIAGES TOOK PLACE AS FOLLOWS: Lukens Wood, of Willow Grove, and Miss Annie C. Erwin, of Davisville. William H. Paul and Miss Julia Fries, both of Philadelphia. Abraham D. Nash and Agnes B. Kramer, both of Abiugton.
5/23/1918	The Baptist Congregation in Doylestown was making good progress in the collection of funds for the proposed church edifice. Several thousand dollars had been subscribed. The object was begin work on building in time to complete it for occupancy by winter. The ground had already been secured.
5/23/1918	Foxes were quite numerous on Buckingham mountain. A number were seen prowling about the neighborhood in day time in search of young poultry to take their young. Two old foxes were shot by G. W. Wall and Albert Wiggins, and five young ones caught in steel traps, four of which were saved alive and tamed. They were caught near "Wolves Rocks," noted for having been the abode of a hermit, who lived there many years in a cave perfectly secluded although in a thickly settled and populated neighborhood.
5/23/1918	Stephen Shaw, of Bristol, sold a the Peace for Plumstead township.
5/23/1918	J. Wesley Hollings sold his butchering establishment in Newtown, to James S. Cornell, of that place, for $4000. The property included a house and lot a slaughterhouse etc. The property together with another house and lot included, was purchased the year before by Mr. Hellings for $2000.
5/23/1918	The Hulmeville Hall Association purchased a lot fifty feet front adjoining their property on Main street, of Jesse Johnson, for 250.
5/23/1918	Fifty years ago a city paper said that the first grass butter made its appearance on the market on Tuesday. It came from West Jersey and sold at from seventy to eighty cents a pound.
5/23/1918	THE FOLLOWING DEATHS OCCURRED: Mrs. Samuel Phillips, of Newtown, aged 76 years. Mrs. Isaac Child, of Salem, Iowa, formerly of Buckingham. John Dungan, of Warwick, aged 18 years.
5/23/1918	Hulmeville Building Association increased the number of its shares 600. The original was 400. The shares were 50 cents each, just half price of what they were in the Doylestown Association. The loans which were $100 each, had been calling at from $10 to $15 premium.
5/30/1918	Among the institutions established in Quakertown was an academy, opened on the 6^th of April, by Rev. G. W. Lazarus, which promised to be quite successful.
5/30/1918	MARRIAGES TOOK PLACE AS FOLLOWS: William E. Tucker and Miss Mary Cornwall, both of Doylestown township. John Thompson, of Flourtown, and Miss Angeline Sames, of Haycock. Elias Harstine and Miss Mary Detrick, both of Bucks county. William Wyker, of Bucks county, and Miss Lizzie Fretz, of Warren county, N. J. Dr. H. Heed and Miss Sue M. Anderson, both of Charlton, Iowa. Robert L. Minshert and Miss Phoebe J. Carter, both of Bucks county. Henry Kirkpatrick, of Richland, and Miss Selinda Hener, of Haycock.
5/30/1918	Doylestown Market was quite active on Saturday morning, and was well supplied with fish, produce, vegetables, etc. Butter was more plentiful and somewhat lower, the ruling price being half a dollar per pound. This was rather higher, however, than was common at this time in the season. Shad were scarce and high, selling at thirty to sixty cents apiece. Radishes and onions from New Jersey already appeared on the market. Cape May trout and fresh mackerel were rather new features in Doylestown market.
5/30/1918	The citizens of Newtown township held an election to determine whether the township should subscribe $1000 to the capital stock of the proposed turnpike from Newtown to the Anchor. There was a pretty full vote out and considerable interest manifested. The result was an almost unanimous decision in favor of the proposed subscription the vote standing 103 for to 9 against it. Wrightstown township was to vote on the same question on the 30^th. It was proposed that this township should take stock to the amount of $700.
5/30/1918	The growing peace trees in Buckingham seemed to be on the increase. Charles Williams, of that township, planted sixteen acres alternately with peach and apple trees. Edward Hughes, of the same neighborhood, planted eight acres with peaches.
5/30/1918	Road making fifty years ago was spoken as follows in The Intelligencer: "The season of the year is approaching when the citizens will be called upon to work out their rad tax, and although there has been a visible improvement in the results of the tax-paying operation, yet there is ample room for more where the ground is inclined to be soft. Well-broken stones, laid 8 feet wide, are the best and cheapest material to mend with. Crossways are a relic of old times, which like many other old things are out of date, and have been pronounced utterly useless, and a positive injury to the roads, by every intelligent man, and are only maintained by old fogies, who shutting their eyes to the light of progress, are only intent in following their great grandfather's footsteps. It is gratifying to notice the crossways have been discarded by all of the intelligent supervisors. Make the gutters on both sides of the road, regardless of gates or bars, make the bed of the road oval, and no washes will occur, no matter how steep or long the hill is. Take out the loose or fast stones in the road and put them in low places, breaking them as fine as turnpike stone, and the highways in a few years will be much better and require very little repairing."
5/30/1918	At the meeting of the New Hope Building and Loan Association, on Thursday evening, loans were sold at a premium of $48 and $50.50 each
5/30/1918	The amount of internal revenue collected in Bucks county, from all sources during the month of April, was $12,072.07. The total amount collected in the whole of the Fifth District during the month was $36,158.77
5/30/1918	James M. Stradling, formerly of Bucks county, was a delegate from Bedford county, Va., to the recent Republican Convention of that state. He was also a delegate from the Fifth Congressional District of Virginia to the National Convention at Chicago.
5/30/1918	School matters in the county were as follows: "In many of the districts of the county the old, uncomfortable school houses have been torn down, and commodious ones erected in their places; but where this is done, in some cases the directors appear to have concluded their labors have been finished and they have subsided on their honors. Now, if one of them was to erect a mansion to reside in, and particulary if he had a family or children, he would think it would not look well, and it would not be comfortable not having some shade about his nicely finished house; and if necessary at home for the comfort of _______ ground, where the children are out of doors during the warmest part of the day? Evergreens and other trees can be bought at a very low price, and a few of them planted on the school grounds would be conductive to the pleasure and health of the children.
6/6/1918	Regarding women's dresses the following item appeared. It is not mere fancy, but a fashionable fact, which we derive direct from our own observing dealers, and which is well worth mentioning as concerning the decline in the dry goods trade that not nearly so much dress goods are sold now as formerly, on account of the change of fashion substituting short for long dresses which affords our ladies ample opportunity to make new short gowns out of their old ones.
6/6/1918	An Owl of unusually large size was shot by Jenks Wismer, a young man living with Enos Detweiler, of Warrington. The wings extended measured a little over four feet between their extremities. It was killed on Spruce Hill.
6/6/1918	An unusually large number of wagons loaded with hay mostly from farms in Plumstead, passed through town on Wednesday morning destined for the city market.
6/6/1918	The news from Chicago was received in Doylestown on Friday morning and the nominations were endorsed by the Republicans, with a hearty, unanimity that has never been equaled. The old flag was soon suspended from the __ on of the Intelligencer office and in the afternoon the handsome colors of the Union League were floated to the breeze, on which the names Grant and Colfax were inscribed in large characters.
6/6/1918	Jacob Haring made considerable alterations and improvements to his dwelling near Plumsteadville.
6/6/1918	Robert K. Buehrle, formerly of this county, a prominent teacher of Allentown was appointed general superintendent of the schools of that place, at a salary of $900 a year.
6/6/1918	Doylestown market has become an institution with which our citizens could not well dispense. The market was well supplied and quite active on Saturday. Vegetables are becoming more plentiful, but prices remain about the same. Virginia peas, the first of the season sold at forty cents per half peck.
6/6/1918	THE FOLLOWING DEATHS OCCURRED: Joseph T. Wetherill, of Richborough, aged 62 years. Elizabeth Bright, of Solebury, aged 90 years. Mrs. Ili Leatherman, of Plumstead, aged 40 years.
6/6/1918	Fifty years ago many thousands of feet of lumber descended the Delaware river during the freshets and the almost numberless rafts gave a lively look to the riverside hotels.
6/6/1918	The Republicans of Landisville opened campaign on Thursday, by erecting a handsome pole about 70 feet high, from which floated the stars and stripes bearing the names Grant and Colfax.
6/6/1918	The members of the old Southampton Baptist Church, obtained an order from the Court to sell their farm, situated on the turnpike, below Fetter's Corner, formerly the parsonage belonging to the church. A new parsonage was to be erected in the summer on the pike, a short distance below the Church. The new building was to cost $4000.
6/6/1918	MARRIAGES TOOK PLACE AS FOLLOWS: Jerome Graybill, of Philadelphia and Miss Ella M. Hines H. S. Scholl, of Juniata County, and Miss Annie A. Garner. Edward H. Alberton and Clarissa K. Brooks, both of Philadelphia
6/13/1918	MARRIAGES TOOK PLACE AS FOLLOWS: Thomas J. Groom and Miss Mary E. Howell, both of Upper Makefield Augustus S. Biles, of Philadelphia, formerly of Bucks county, and Miss Mary Hurff, of Camden county, N. J. William Loux, of Quakertown, and Miss Wilhelmina Benner, of Lower Saucon. Horace P. Egbert, of Lower Merion, and Miss Melvina J. Bird, of Bunker Hill. Joseph S. Leland, of Bucks county, and Emily Tilton, of Burlington county, N. J. Henry C. Cooper and Miss Elizabeth Brunner, both of Warwick Charles Fields and Sarah C. Huff, both of Newark, N. J. Harry C. Blaker, of Mooreland, and Miss Sallie J. Clayton, of Southampton. Hector Wildman, of Middletown, and Radcliff Warner, of Mooreland Watson F. Michener, of Gardenville, and Miss Lizzie O. Myers, of Pipersville
6/13/1918	The First National Bank of Newtown opened Monday in their newly fitted up banking house.
6/13/1918	Fifty years ago at the beginning of June butter declined considerably in Doylestown, and sold for 40 cents per pound, and in a few cases for a still lower figure and was very dull at that. In Philadelphia it was lower still.
6/13/1918	One of the largest rafts that ever went down the Delaware arrived at Philadelphia. It was brought from the Lehigh and required fifteen men to manage it. There was one stick of square timber in the raft 56 feet long, 37 inches face, and 3 feet deep.
6/13/1918	Eleven dwellings were in course of erection in Quakertown, most of them to be good sized and substantial structures. Others were to be started as the season progressed.
6/13/1918	The public house known as the Township House, at Uniontown was sold by the sheriff on Friday to S. L. Ettenger, at $4400.
6/13/1918	THE FOLLOWING DEATHS OCCURRED: Mrs. Samuel White, of Prospectville, aged 19 years. Mrs. Joshua Webster, of Solebury, aged 57 years. Samuel C. Cooper, of Solebury, aged 80 years. Johnathan P. Magill, of Solebury, aged 70 years. Mrs. Abraham Larue, of Southampton, aged 69 years. Charles Irons, of Point Pleasant, aged 18 years. Rachel P. Broadhurst, of Upper Makefield, aged 76 years. William D. Magill, of Doylestown township, aged 59 years. Mrs. Henry Hohlbein, of Doylestown township, aged 73 years. Mary Shupe, of Doylestown township, aged 12 years. Mabel Auld, daughter of Clarence Auld, of Lumberville, aged 3 years and 7 months. Mrs. David R. Johnson, on the 28^th of 9^th month.
6/13/1918	Benjamin Worthington proprietor of the hotel at Feasterville, started a new daily stage line between that place and Frankford. Owing to increased amount of traveling, the old line had become unable to accommodate the public in a satisfactory manner.
6/13/1918	The Almshouse farm presented a lively scene Wednesday. The day was a fine one, and Mr. Trumbower took advantage of it by bringing out its full force into the corn field. A tract of about thirty acres was struck out and planted during the day. A man who passed along the turnpike counted fifty men, women and children work at one time. Besides aiding in the work, the air, sunshine and exercise doubtless exerted a beneficial influence upon them.
6/13/1918	Two sheep that were raised and always owned by Samuel C. Wildman, of Upper Makefield, died at his farm at the age of thirty-five years. The entire loss of teeth seems to have been the cause of their death.
6/13/1918	While a young man from Frenchtown was engaged in painting H. R. Major's new house, at Erwinna, the ladder on which he was standing broke, and he fell to the ground, a distance of twenty feet. He was injured considerably but not seriously hurt.
6/20/1918	The mercantile assessment of James S. Rich, of Yardleyville, was erroneously stated in the table published by the appraiser. He was rated in the 12^th class, instead of the 14^th, and paid a tax of $12.50.
6/20/1918	Thomas, son of Robert Smith, of Fallsington, in the employ of Charles Parsons, near Morrisville, sawed wood with a circular saw, propelled by horsepower, and nearly severed his right thumb from the second joint of his right hand, and also injured the second joint of the forefinger.
6/20/1918	Eagles were quite numerous in Bucks county. John C. Betts, of Solebury, shot one of the grey species on his farm in Solebury. The wings measured six and a half feet between their extremities and its weight was six pounds. There were six in the flock out of which it was shot.
6/20/1918	Robert Boreland, of Falls township, went to his barnyard to feel and milk his cows, and on missing one he investigated and found that one of his best cows, worth $110 had been upon the pump floor which had given way, precipitating the cow 26 feet down the well, where she became fastened between the wall and pump tree. The well was 32 feet deep, with 6 feet of water. After removing the mephitic air, John Stradling descended, fastened a chain around the cow's neck, and then with ropes, shears, pulleys and man strength, she was brought out of the well dead, and in a bruised condition.
6/20/1918	The prices of vegetables and butter were on the decline. In the Doylestown market butter sold as low as 28 cents a pound. Cucumbers, the first of the season, sold at 15 cents each.
6/20/1918	A party of engineers were engaged making a survey of the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal with a view of making a new and accurate map of the entire route.
6/20/1918	The turnpike from Newtown to the Anchor was certain to be built. At an election held in Wrightstown on May 30^th, to determine whether that township should subscribe $700 worth of stock towards the enterprise, it was decided in favor of the subscription without opposition. Newtown township, by a large majority, had previously agreed to take $1000 worth of stock. The road between the two points was full of holes and ruts, although some of the worst had been filled with cedar brush to prevent vehicles from becoming altogether mired.
6/20/1918	MARRIAGES TOOK PLACE AS FOLLOWS: Benjamin Kentner and Miss Mary Emma Thomas, both of Jenkintown. Lewis H. Hall, of Philadelphia, and Miss Ellen T. Brunner, of Penlyn. Joseph Fry and Lydia C. Smith, both of New Britain. Jacob R. Davis and Phoebe Popewell, both of Bristol township. Philip Haizell, of Philadelphia, and Miss Emma J. Stackhouse, of Emilie. Oscar W. White, of Newtown, and Annie M. Dyer, of Dyerstown. Reading H. Shupe, of Tinicum, and Miss Clara Sigafoos, of the same place.
6/20/1918	THE FOLLOWING DEATHS OCCURRED: Margaret Clymer, of Plumstead, aged 28 years Joseph Carey, of Ohio, formerly of Bucks county, aged 78 years. Mrs. Allen Tomlinson, aged 40 years. Isaac Stackhouse, of Penn's Manor, aged 64 years.
6/20/1918	A new organization of Odd Fellows, known as Doylestown Encampment, was established in Doylestown, meeting on Thursday evenings. The order was in a flourishing condition in Bucks and Montgomery counties.
6/20/1918	Lydia Harper, of Warminster, aged 94 years, fell down a cellar steps, and suffered a severe wound in her head. The scalp was badly cut and torn loose from the bone, and the injury was painful.
6/20/1918	Fifty years ago a surveying party was engaged on the proposed New Hope and Philadelphia Railroad. The route chosen left the Delaware near the mouth of Rabbit Run, on the farm of William Worthington, and followed that stream to the westward. It crossed the Street road on the property of John Coates, a short distance below Lahaska, and intersected the Durham road just below the creek beyond Centreville. When the Neshaminy was reached it was found to be difficult to get across below the forks, and therefore a route above that point was selected. From there the route ran to Edge Hill.
6/20/1918	The ceremonies of laying the corner stone of the new M. E. Church, at Springtown, took place on Sunday, the 31^st of May. The building was rapidly being pushed forward toward completion.
6/27/1918	A Grant Campaign Club was about being formed in Doylestown. At a meeting held on Saturday evening a committee was appointed to prepare articles of association and regulations. Grant Clubs were urged to be organized all over Bucks county.
6/27/1918	An editorial ran as follows: "there is one very significant feature in the proceedings of the Democratic meetings and conventions now being held in different parts of the country. This is the delicate and careful manner in which the question of negro suffrage is dealt with. Last year no language was strong enough to express the undying hostility of the Democratic party to the Republican policy of conferring the right to vote upon the loyal negroes of the South. They proclaimed themselves in favor of a "white man's government" and nothing else. But now they are scuttling off from this plank as rats leave a sinking ship, and are coming over to the Republican doctrine, as expressed by the recent Chicago Convention. They say nothing about negro suffrage in their speeches or resolutions, or treat it as an established fact that must necessarily be accepted. Thus they are getting ready to "flop over" into the arms of Chase, the original Abolitionist and supporter of negro equality."
6/27/1918	B. J. Smith & Co., exchanged the farm formerly belonging to Jacob Wingee, Jr., in Buckingham, near Mechanicsville, containing 101 1-2 acres at $ 12,500, to Watson Twining, for his farm near Bristol, formerly Willit Paxson's, at $10,000.
6/27/1918	The store of Hugh E. Warford, on the canal, in Tinicum, was robbed of $264. No clue to the robber could be obtained.
6/27/1918	MARRIAGES TOOK PLACE DURING THE WEEK AS FOLLOWS: John E. Booth, of Connecticut, and Miss Kate White, of Yardleyville. Rev. H. P. Cutter, of Brooksville, Vt., and Miss Anna W. Allen, of Morrisville. Samuel Mayberry, of Montgomery county, and Miss Sallie Reeder, of Bucks county. Alfred J. Bavington, of Plumstead, and Miss Annie Cranier, of Philadelphia. Jonathan Kinsey, and Kate N. Parsons, both of Solebury. E. H. White, of Phila., Ill., and Miss Sallie B. Brewer, of the same place. Rev. D. K. Turner and Miss Rebecca Darrah, of Hartsville. Jacob Hilbourn and Miss Anna Ryan, both of Newtown township. Albert Barndt and Miss Mary Ann Hoffman, both of Montgomeryville.
6/27/1918	Fifty years ago Doylestown Seminary awarded the following prizes for English and classical composition for the winter term: First prize to John Fell, of Buckingham; second, Carrie W. Jenks, of Yardleyville, and W. L. Delp, of New Britain; third, Annie McKinstry, of Plumstead, and James A. Ruckman, of Doylestown.
6/27/1918	John K. Paxson, an old resident of Solebury, died at his residence near Solebury Meeting House. A month or two previous he had been stung on the neck by an insect, causing a wound which resulted in serious inflamation, both inwardly and outwardly. His system being in bad condition, the poison seemed to operate upon it in such a manner as to finally cause his death.
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