The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-07-18
LOCAL NEWS.


considering the project of organizing
club.
William w. Wilson, of Hainesport, o
cupied the pulpit at the Baptist Church Q
Sunday.
Two acres of clover feet inche
high have been cut on the farm of 7.
Bunting, near Crosswicks.
The hook and ladder truck of Americ
Hose Company has been placed in th
front part of the company's house.
William Holt, Jr., h as been wearing
broad smile since Sunday. when he bt
came the father of little baby boy.
Two steamers now run between Tom
River and Island Heights, and the sum
mer competition promises to be lively.
The contract for three machines to b
used in the coffee business at Guatemala
has been secured by T. c. Alcott & Son.
George w. Bodine, ticket agent for tn
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at Hart
ford, has been appointed postmaster a
that place.
The house of Franklin B. Lewis, OF
Upper Main street, is being handsomely
decorated by Thomas E. Norcross, the
paper hanger.
DR.. John P. Burnett, formerly princi
pal of the Mount Holly public schools
has relinquished teaching, and will &
into the drug business.
The hangings of the bell on Relief Fire
Company's house will be changed THU
week, and the new arrangement given 9
trial some evening next week.
The Ocean County Board of Registry
is composed of George w. Cowperthwaii
and Jonathan Goble. Republicans I; E. P
Empson and T. w. Middleton, Demo
Gratis.
Nathan Haines and Amos Gibbs, Re-
publicans, and John w. Harris and James
L. Young, Democrats, have been appoint
ed as the Burlington County Board OF
Registration.
The drawbridge oyer Barnegat Bay
broke down on Thursday night, thereby
OBTAINING number of vessels for several
hours The train service, however, was
not interfered with.
On Tuesday, Mrs. Charles 1. Bishop,
was taken before Justice Clevenger and
fined 1915 for her share in the racket on
the previous Saturday night, when her
husband assaulted officer Severns.
The ladies of the Mount Holly Baptist
Church will hold festival and supper
in the Ward building on Garden street,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings.
An excellent bill of fare has been prepared.
One of Horace Cronk's horses ran away
on Mill street, on Thursday, and for q
time it seemed as if the driver would be
seriously injured. The animal fell, how
ever, which ended the matter with only
broken shaft.
The Mount Holly Light Guard will
run an excursion to Atlantic City, Sat-
urday. July 29. Price of tickets from
Mount Holly only $3.50. It will be the
only excursion from here this season to
this popular resort.
Open air service under the auspices Of
the Y. M. G. A.. on Washington street, be-
low the bridge, next Sunday afternoon, at
$50 o'clock. Rev. Eli Clifford, pastor of
the Methodist Church, will address the
svvsfad
Next Sunday will be quarterly meeting
day at the M. E. Church. On Saturday
evening at 7.45 there will be quarterly
conference, and on Sunday morning at 8
there will be love feast, with preaching
by Presiding Elder Reed at 1880.
Charles A. Castor, colored man, who
stole horse from c. P. Rogers, of Mount
Holly, about year ago, was captured in
Philadelphia, on Saturday, and brought
to Jail. He was indicted for the offence,
but has kept out of the reach of the au-
thorities.
John CardweIl caught large catfish at
the Hainesport draw bridge on Thurs
day. 1t weighed Al pounds, and dressed
q pounds At its head it was ten inches
in circumference, and it measured eigh-
teen inches in length. The fish made
meal for four persons.
Charles Henson, aged 28 years, was
drowned near Hainesport on Friday. He
was engaged wheeling sand on a barge,
and fell into the creek from the plank
leading to the barge. 1t is supposed the
Wheelbarrow struck the man as he fell :.
He lived in Philadelphia.
A Jersey City paper parades in large
type as matter of establishment the fact
that there are 'one-seventeenth as many
CANNES as people" in that city. If we
may judge from the number of dogs in
our immediate neighborhood We should
say that the proportion in Mount Holly
Is about one to five.
Some one stole Edward F. Burns
bicycle on Thursday night. 1t is thought
the machine was carried off in wagon. 1t
is different from any other machine made
by the H. B. Smith Machine Company
The front wheel was rs and the rear
wheel so inches. with pneumatic tires.
The air was exhausted from the front
wheel when the machine was taken.
Howard M. Parker, who has been serv-
ing term in State Prison for uttering
forged notes, was released by the Court Of
Pardons, on Friday. Parker was SEN
fenced to years imprisonment at the
last September term. Horace Aaronson,
who was indicted and convicted Of the
same offence, with Parker, is still in the
county Jail, awaiting decision on an APP
plication for new trial.
There was frightful accident on the
West Shore Railroad. at Newburgh, N. Y,
on Thursday. Among the passengers
were Burnham Emerson, wife and two
year old child. The child was killed, Mr.
Emerson had his arm broken and re-
ceived severe bruises, and Mrs. Elberson
had her head cut and her left knee frac-
tured. Mr.. Emerson is brother of Prof.
Lawrence Elberson, of Mount Holly. He
resides at Setauket, L. l.. and had been on
q visit to his parents at Barnegat.
1t is now said that bug twice as large
as potato-bug, of longer and sliehter build
and with red wings. has made its appear
ance and is rapidly DISCRIMINATING the po
tato-bug In Bucks County, Pa. The bug
pounces upon the potato-bug, stings it in
the neck and produces corpse almost
instantly. A dispatch says John Roth
ermeI, of Hyde Park, first encountered