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Delegates to the Ambler conven tion will be chosen at therimary elections that are to be held on Saturday evening, the 11th instant. There is a McKinley sentiment cropping out here and there in the several wards that is giving the leaders some trouble to suppress. The meeting place of the Mer chants’ and Stechanice’ Building Association has been changed from the town hall to Lincoln Hall, ad es the Onsraven office. ‘Twelve oans were sold at the last monthly meeting on Tuesday evening, at ten cents premium per loan. George 8. McEwen, of Newtown, formerly a policeman in Philadel phia, committed suicide at his home on Tuesday last by taking lauda num. His recent bad health is sup posed to have affected his mind. His wife found him in a dying con dhmen in bed, and the physicians could not prevent death. John F. Smith, the Bristol base ball manager, left for Pawtucket, R. I.,on Tuesday last, where he will take charge of the management of the Pawtucket club. The first game will be played in New York city, on the polo grounds. Mr. Smith iman ate the Pottsville team last year and the year before. Bank Commissioner Gilkeson has buried the hatchet with Senator Quay, but the wily Senator is said to have left a portion of the handle sticking out of the ground for his own convenience in case the emer rency should arise for its immedi ate use. Mr. Gilkeson should go as the second word delegate to the Ambler convention to keep that dis trict in line for the “old man.” Mr. G. Schiesser, Jr. announces that he will open a bicycle riding school in Bristol, and will probably secure the rink building for the use of his scholars. The skating sur face of the rink is an excellent place for beginners to learn to ride the wheel, and there are so many con templating the use of the machine when the season opens, that Mr. Schiesser is likely to have a number of pupils. The battleship “Iowa” was suc cessfully launched at Cramp’s ship yard last Saturday at one o'clock in the presence of an immense throng which filled the yard and every ad joining foot of ground that could be utilized for a sight of the vessel. She slid into the water as grace fully as a duck off a mud bank, and the screaming of nearly every tug boat and steam vessels within the limits of Philadelphia harbor. A tramp who was stealing a ride on a freight train on Thursday, the Gallie Pigitoned at the approach of detective McAllister, and jumped off the car near the passenger sta tion. When he jumped he struck the fence between the tracks, which threw him back and under the pass ing train, cutting off a leg and one arm. The injured man was sent to a Philadelphia hospital. He was an Englishman, and had only been in this country a few weeks. Say what you please and think what you like, its the well-dressed man Who gets ahead in this world. You acknowledge this and would dress well if you could afford it. Good clothes don’t cost so much as they used to, as will be convincingly shown by stopping in at Johnson Bros.’ store at the corner of Mill and Wood streets, where a full stock of all sizes, shades and pat terns in the clothing line are to be selected from. In his Arbor Day proclamation Governor Hastings designated two Fridays of the present month, the 10th and the 24th, for the obser vance of the day. The desire to plant is instinctive, even with child ren, at this season of the year par ticularly. It only needs concert of action to make the common impulse an important tributary to the en richment and improvement of the State; and this it should become an increasing measure with each re curring Arbor Day. At a meeting of the Bristol Fire Company No. 1, on Thursday night the following officers were elected to serve the ensuing year: President—Anthony K. Joye, Vice-President—Michael Dougherty, Secretary—Thomas Scott, Assistant Secretary—I. K. Runyan, Treasurer—John 8. Smith, Foreman—Samuel H. Ahiee, Assistant Foreman—Harry Lyndall, Engineer—John RK, Boyd, 1st Asst, Engineer—Lewis Loechner, 2d Asst. Engineer—Lyndall Ackers, 8d Asst. Engineer—Charles E. Scott, Trustees—James W. Webb, W. Allen Lori mer, Harry Scott, Allen Gilbert and Leon Boott. The firm of D. Landreth Sons, whose large seed farm at Blooms dale almost adjoins this borough, is to be congratulated upon receiving the award of the Department o Agriculture at Washington, as con tractor to furnish Uncle Sam with an immense quantity of vegetable seeds. The contract is one for 10,125,000 packets of seeds, the price of which is $70,000. The seeds are to be delivered subject to germina tive test under a very carefully drawn contract, at the Department in Washington, ready for mailing.
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Bristol Observer
Bristol, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Apr 04, 1896
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Christopher W.
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