The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-06-02
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
The police appeared in new uniforms
ON Saturday.
The circulating library is open in the
morning now from 8 to IL.
Nathan Frazer has been appointed
postmaster at GEORGETOWN.
Gibbs concert band will run an excur-
sion down the Delaware in the near fu-
ture.
Dogs got into the hen roost of James
McClarney, on Mill street, Saturday night,
and killed 20 chickens.
The bicycle path to the willows has
been somewhat improved by the addition
of gravel in several places.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Historical Society will be held in the
Lewis building on Friday evening.
Next Sunday afternoon at 3.45 Michael
J. Riley, converted Irish jig dancer, will
speak at the rooms Of the Y. M. G. A..
Everybody invited.
Parvin Qnigley was taken to Hahne-
mann College. Philadelphia. on Thursday,
and operated on successfully for appendix
citis. He is now in fair way to recovery.
The cantata entitled Ruth, the Moabitess,
will be given IN the opera house on Tues
day evening, June 8, for the benefit of
the Y. M. G. A. The solos and choruses
will be by local talent.
Col. Murphy inspected Co. F, in the Ar
mory, on Tuesday evening, instructing
the men in guard mount" The Colonel
Expressed great satisfaction at the eff
ciencysof the members.
The Indian girls residing in Mount
Holly will give an entertainment in the
M. E. Church. under the auspices of the
Epworth League. on Friday evening of
this week. Admission 10 cents. children
10 cents.
An inspection of the A fire plugs in
Mount Holly was made last week to ascer-
tain the water pressure OF each. Ten plugs
showed from 20 to 30 lbs; 5 from % to 25
lbs. / gave So lbs; the balance were from
o to 20 lbs.
The Willingborough Gun Club had
shoot on the farm of Howard Fl. Wills on
Saturday Howard Wills was an easy
winner, making "a out of possible 25.
Jacob Bishop was second, with 10 points
to his credit.
The parties who furnished the mem
bers of Joe Hooker Camp. Sons of Veter-
ans, with the suits. failed to ship their
caps. hence the Camp was unable to have
as many men in line on Memorial day as it
expected to.
Walter OIiphant was greatly worried,
last week, as to the safety of his brother,
who resides at st. Louis, after the cyclone
there. Word was received from the broth
or that the storm escaped his residence by |
only few hundred yards.
W. & J. Sloane have decided not to re-
build the mill property, recently destroy
was in town last week to see If the pro-
perty could be sold to local capitalists No
one here seems DESTROYS of purchasing the
plant.
Masland & Sons insurance at the carpet
mill covered finished stock and raw ma
terials in the process of manufacture. The
insurance adjusters have decided that the
firms loss was total, and the full amount
Of the policies. $4,000, will be paid.
George Hulme, at one time one of the
best known and most active business men
in Burlington county, died in Mount
Holly on Saturday. He had suffered with
paralysis for the past 26 years. so that he
was unable to walk. He was in the 85th
-yuasssfs Hisa age.
The commencement exercises of the
Mount Holly H't School will be held in
the opera house IN Thursday evening
Admission will be ny card. the holders of
which must be in their seatss prior to 7.45.
as the doors will be thrown open b. the
public after that hour. h
Augustus Morgan, baker employed at
Palmyra, sat down on the Pennsylvania
railroad platform to await train late
Wednesday night. He dropped off into
doze and when the train reached the
station the engine struck his head and
awoke him. He was not seriously in
jured.
During the past two or three days the
water supplied by the Mount Holly Water
company has had peculiar smell and
TASTE Superintendent Brown thinks y
this is the result of the recent opening of
the fire plugs, which has had the effect of
stirring up the sediment in the pipes.
He thinks this will remedy itself in few
days.
In September next, the Presbyterian
Board of Foreign Missions will send s
Walter H. Semple to Mexico. where he
will assume the duties of a missionary 2
At the expiration of every five years he
will be given a furlough of six months.
Mr.. Semple will be accompanied by
George Johnson, class-mate, residing in
Philadelphia. They will be stationed {
about six hundred miles apart, and both g
young men enter the mission field for life. ]
Constables Brown and Claypoole, on
Wednesday, took to the insane asylum at
Trenton Frank Hess. tramp, who has J
been unusually troublesome during the past
three months. He was confined in the !
jail, charged with assaulting Councilman
Harmer, of Burlington, and when released
he attacked two officers who attempted to !
take him back to Jail while he was very
drunk. Since his last incarceration he has
shown signs of dementia. and it was de-
cided to take him to the asylum.
The family of expressman Krayer has
been decidedly sin it" during the past
week in the matter of accidents Fred,
the son, was first. falling and striking his
head on the corner of step and receiv-
ing an ugly cut. Then the 'Squire's faith !
or was chopping wood and stick few
mp and hit him under the eye. The I
Squire didn't like the idea of being left Z
out in the cold, so on Sunday he took !
header from his bicycle. and now he !
wears patch near his eye.
Personal.
Henry G. Risdon has returned from his