From the Oct. 4 edition of the Register-News
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125 years ago
Much ado has been made relative to the haversack recently put upon conductors on the Pennsylvania road. We have examined one lately, but for the life of us we cannot understand why the conductor is not allowed to carry it in his hand instead of on his hip. If convenience and expedition are of any account, a change would seem necessary.
Joseph E. Troth, corner Main and Walnut streets, has had some very fine watermelons lately. Last week he sold one weighing 44 pounds, and quite a number weighing between 35 and 40 pounds. Raised at Hammell’s Turnout, near Florence.
Of late years we have heard a great deal about stocking the Delaware with black bass. Does it take a century for the bass to mature?
100 years ago
While no formal complaint has yet been made, still well-grounded suspicion exists as to the party who stole the brass and copper fittings of Thos. Crawford’s portable steam engine. Mr. Crawford lives at Bushtown, but his engine was out in a lumber tract, on the Georgetown road, when it was stripped.
The upper tract of Hanover will soon be a busy place. Workmen will be employed there to furnish sand for Philadelphia’s new filtration plant.
Last week was noted in town for a circus fight, an uncommonly large number of drunks, an immense fall of rain, crushing heat and family jars.
60 years ago
John Marks of Bordentown and William Roche of Columbus are taking a 90-day course in aircraft construction at the Fleetwings Plant in Bristol.
Hope that work on the new farm shop building in the rear of the high school may start by Oct. 1 was voiced this week by Micklewright and Mountford Architects of Trenton. The estimated cost of the materials will be submitted tot he National Youth Administration in Newark for approval.
The month-old strike for union recognition by the workers of the Max Cohen Dress Factory has resulted in a victory for the union and the plant will reopen within 10 days as a union shop under new management.
50 years ago
"I Remember" by The Old Timers:
From C. E. Pleas: "The passenger pigeon is a thing of the past. My wife mounted one of the last to be seen alive. I remember seeing them fly, in a constant stream 50 to 100 yards, for hours at a time. Sometimes they would be stretched out from horizon to horizon in millions. When roosting time came they settled in such hordes as to break the timber.
From Mrs. Martha Bray: "I remember working in the corn field for 35 cents a day and doing house work for 50 cents a week. I could get me a dress for 21 cents. Them were good old days."
From Lillian R. Cottrell Mason: "I remember when we hastened for the box of soda when stung by a bumble bee, blue jacket or wasp. Also when mother gave doses of sulphur, cream tartar and molasses in the spring and when the streets of St. Louis were made of wooden blocks."
(Compiled by Vanessa Sarada Holt from the Bordentown Register, 1875-1951).