The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-05
rHE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER S, 1898.
LOCAL NEWS.


form Mount Holly station 10 hogs ths
averaged 200 lbs.
George w. Cross an extensive distille
in Burlington County, is dangerously il
of neuralgia Of the heart.
Evans cider mills were kept busy, Oh
Thursday, receiving apples, nearly 200
bushels being taken in.
Jacob Gaun, of Mount Holly, who ha
been confined in the State Asylum a
Trenton, died there on Thursday.
Cliff Vanzant, who has been acting al
conductor on the Barnegat City branch
railroad, came home on Thursday evening
The weather vane on the Masonic Tenn
pie, which has been weak for some time
was blown down by the high wind o.
Tuesday.
The Burlington county Republican
convention has been called for September
30. The official call is in another column
of The News.
The high winds of Monday night played
havoc with the apple crop. One farmer
picked up so bushels and left as many
more lying on the ground.
Annual summer sale of ladies' muslin
underwear now on. Unusual bargains in
25 and SOC. goods. W. w. Curtis, 4S Main
street, Mount Holly, N. j.
Ladies connected with the Mount Holly
Baptist church will give parlor enter
tainment at John D. Johnson's residence,
on the evening of October 5.
Walter A. Barrows was elected Grand
Trustee of the Knights of the Golden
Eagle of New Jersey. at the annual session
at Asbury Park, on Monday.
Jacksonian Switchback excursion, Sep
TENDER IA. Tickets $3.50 and $1.25
Mount Holly passengers returned free of
charge from Burlington by wagon.
George j. Robertson, of Mount Holly,
and John Quinn, of Burlington, will act
as agents of the Society for Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals at the Mount Holly
Fair.
The representatives of the Firemen's
Relief Fund of Northampton township
will meet in America Hose company's
house this evening, to elect delegates to
the State convention.
Twenty volumes of HaYper's Monthly
Magazine handsomely bound were pre-
scented to the Y NJ c. A., by Col Chas.
NJ Sloan. The books are valuable addi-
ton to the library of the Association.
The annual meeting of the Mount
Holly Fire Department, to elect Chief
Engineer and assistants, will be held in
Relief engine Company's house, on Fri
day evening, September 10, at 7.30 o'clock.
On Saturday evening. either on Garden
or Washington street, there was lost a
lady's silver chatelaine watch, with a
short cham attached. The finder will be
rewarded by leaving at No. IL, Garden
street.
Prof. Henry M. Walradt, at one time
proprietor of Mount Holly Academy, has
been appointed sub-principal of the High
school at Lynn, Mass. Mr.. Walradt dis
posed of his property here to enter the
newspaper business at Trenton.
The architect of the new school build
ing was in town on Friday. and after a
careful inspection of the work pronounced
everything all right. Some of the stone
used he declared better than called for
by the specifications.
Rev. R. F. Y. Pierce returned to his west
IL, l.
granted him an extension of his vacation,
which will be spent in a missionary car,
with Uncle Boston Smith," on a trip
through the Dakotas and Minnesota.
Baggage Master James NJ Smith has re-
covered the gold society badge which he
lost last week. A small boy stood by and
picked the badge up. and secreted it
while Mr.. Smith was hunting for it. A
lad who noticed the action informed the
owner.
Without any undue noise the Directors
of the Burlington County Fair have been
working for successful season, and their
efferts are likely to be crowned with suc-
cess. There will be no falling off in the
exhibits or the race entries, while the
bench show of dogs will be the finest ever
seen in this neighborkood September
10, 20, 81 and %, are the dates.
The employees of the Burlington carpet
mill sent delegation to the proprietor
yesterday morning, to inquire the pros
poets for a resumption of work. They
were told that the mill might start next
Monday, and it might not run again this
year. The Brussels weavers were told
there would not be any of their looms
started. Good Democratic times, these.
The best groceries, meats and provisions
at the lowest possible prices. That is the
method of doing business adopted by
George w. Durand at his store, corner
Water and King streets. Persons desiring
to make a dollar purchase the greatest
amount of goods can do no better than
call at that store Goods delivered free to
any part of the town, and orders called
for when desired
Charles K Chambers, attorney for the
Mount Holly Land Improvement Com
D3H1, udb ptOphf GU uCOo Va NcNiSa1oA
of the streets on the plot of land owned
by the company, just over the railroad, on
Pine street. There are three streets run
ming parallel with Pine street, with the
names of Harrison, Lincoln and Randall
The streets running in an opposite direc-
ton have a more elevated title than
street." being called Nippins avenue and
Herald avenue.
The hotel at Centreton was broken into
on Friday night. The burglars entered
through a kitchen window, passing the
dining room and going direct to the bar
room, where they secured SIS in cash, a
half box of poor cigars, and two bottles OF
beer. That the thieves were easily salts
fed was shown by the fact that near
where they got their plumber there was a
bottle of brandy, and full box of good
cigars, which were not touched, besides
other valuable property that might easily
have been carried off.
The first train between Mount Holly
and Camden last Tuesday, had consid
cradle difficulty IN attempting to reach 1T
destination Trees and telegraph poles