The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-05-30
HE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.


safe in his jewelry store.
The circus will exhibit at the corner I
Branch and Mill streets on Friday.
Rev. S. Giffard Nelson will deliver th
memorial adore IS in the opera house TIL
afternoon.
q. P. Rogers & Son has removed thei
grocery business to their residence o
Water street.
Edward F. Burns will soon begin tn
erection of handsome residence o
Union street.
Fred Smith, of Florence, has bee
placed under bail for assault and batter
on julius A. Hobbs.
The school census for Mount Holly
just completed by Census Enumerato
Reeves, shows 1850 children in the distric
Rev. Edward Braislin has resigned a
pastor of the Washington Avenue Bap
fist Church, Brooklyn, and will trave
abroad the coming year.
Edward B. Jones was elected Presiden
of the New Jersey Pharmaceutical Asso
citation, which closed its session at At
lantic City, on Thursday.
John Perry, of Mount Holly, has in hi
possession half penny of the date o
1909. Thisl coin is quoted by numis
matists as being worth $50.
The papers concerning the erection of I
new school house have all been approved
by the Attorney General. The building
will not be completed before December.
T. Walter Borton has been given the
contract to paper and carpet the Metho
dist Church at Lumberton. This makes
six churches that he has papered this
year.
The high wind of last Tuesday carried
large pine cinders from the fire then rag
ing at Medford, to the farm of d. Budd
Coles, at Lumberton. a distance of nine
miles,
The commuters between Mount Holly
and Philadelphia are petitioning the rail
road company to give two summer lines
that will leave Philadelphia at 1890 and
100 p. M, daily.
Charles K. Brown. of Mount Holly. en-
ployed as carver at the Engleside Hotel.
Beach Haven, was found dead in bed on
Wednesday morning. having died of heart
disease during the night.
J. L. Anderson & Sons, of Mount Holly,
have arranged to do the packing for Leg
gett's canning factory. which was recently
destroyed by fire at Riverside, and which
will not be rebuilt this season.
General Shiras Post and Company F
attended divine service in body at
Trinity Church on Sunday evening. An
excellent sermon, appropriate to the oc-
casion, was preached by Rev. Martin
Aigner.
Cards are out for the marriage of Miss
Alice Read Oliphant, daughter of Mrs.
Augusta 0llphant, of Mount Holly, to Mr..
Edwin Van Duzen Paul, of Pittsburg, Pa,
ON Wednesday. June 7th, at $50 o'clock
in st. Andrews Church.
Charles II. Crammer was the first to
bring to town homegrown strawberries,
and ON Thursday his beautiful cry of
Strawberries" sounded like cross be
tween the mocking bird whistle and the
shad men. Nevertheless he sold out in
short order.
William w. Worrell of Evesham town
ship, has a card in another column, an
nouncing his candidacy for county clerk.
Mr.. Worrell is a young Republican who
has done active and effectual work for the
party, and will doubtless make good
showing in the convention.
George Morris, who was tried for muir
der in the Camden Courts last week, es-
capped the death penalty, being convicted
Of murder in the second degree. He was
defended by John L. Semple, of Mount
Holly, who was highly complimented by
the older members of the bar on his able
management Of the case.
Beach Haven is to have system of
water works. Uriah White, of Asbury
Park, is now sinking the artesian we'll,
which is expected to supply the water,
at depth of about 500 feet. Councilmen
Robert B. Engle. Richard MCKINNEY and
Mayor William L. Butler are the commit
tee who are experimenting the work.
The water mains are on the ground,
and will be placed in position at once.
While the concert was in PROCESS,
Tuesday evening, in the Sacred Heart
Church, window sash was violently
blown to and the glass knocked out. The
strong wind began to sway the chande-
Hers, and for moment it looked as il
something might occur that was not on
the programme. OF course the disturb
ance arose just at the most Interesting
part of the entertainment.
Chief Engineer John G. Morgan and
Assistant Harry Hawkins have been in
speeding the fire plugs. They find the
following unfit for service: Mill street,
opposite Cherry Pine street. at saw mill
Madison avenue, at hospital; foot Of
White street; corner Garden and Branch
streets West Washington street, oppo'
site Catholic Church. Whoever has
charge of keeping the plugs in order
should give this matter their attention.
A team of black horses attached to ar
open farm wagon took fright from 9
stream of water from a small hose or
Garden street, on Thursday afternoon
and ran away. At the corner Of MAR
and Water streets they collided with thu
electric light pole and threw their owner
Isaac Fox, of Jacksonville. out on thu
stone pavement, but he escaped will
bruises. The horses were uninjured, bu
the wagon was wrecked. The shocl
against the light pole was 80 great as +
shatter the lamp on the pole.
Shortly after o'clock on Saturday morn
ing the large barn and out-buildings own
cd by George Fortiner, weIl-todo farm
err residing about two miles from Haddon
field, were burned to the ground, involy
ing loss of several thousand dollars. On
of the hired men was in the barn feedin
the horse when lighted lantern whicl
he had set upon shelf exploded, and i
few moments the barn was mass Q
flames. The horses and cattle were take
from the barn to place Of safety. MI
Fortiner was severely burned about th
face and hands. The loss. II is stated,