The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13
LOCAL NEWS.

Mount Holly's tax rate 10 $l.SO this
year.
The steam laundry, on Mill street, has
gone out of business.
The streams at Browns Mills are to be
stocked with perch and catfish.
Do not forget the lecture by DR.. A. A.
Willis 10 the NJ E. church this evening.
Walter s. Haines, the free silver apostle,
left Mount Holly last week for his home
in Denver Col.
Charged with stealing clothing from
the West End Hotel, Thomas Neal was
lodged in Jail yesterday.
ID. NJ. Thomson has in a supply of
extra pure buckwheat -four at the Mount
Holly mills on Mill street.
A birthday tea" at the resi- dence of
John D. Johnson, ON Saturday evening,
netted $40 for the Y. M. c. A.
Mrs H. Owen left last week for Cape
May to spend two months with Mrs. Eli
Clifford, formerly of Mount Holly.
Josiah w. Evan is erecting two story
building. next to the bridge on Washing
ton street, for Offices for his lumber bust
ness.
John B. Collins, who has been the clerk
at a hotel in Atlantic City during the
summer. returned to Mount Holly last
week.
The suit of T. H. Risdon & Co. against
the Dispatch has been settled. the editor
paying the claim of $l199 and half the
costs.
A musical and literary entertainment
will be given in the Baptist church next
Monday evening by the Young Peoples
Union. Silver offering at the door.
LADIES' ribbed vests, good quality for
twenty-five cents. Also a nice colored
shirt for twenty-five cents. Come and
look at them at s. s. Evans, % Main
street.
The hearing on the disputed position of
the new fence erected by the Friends.
which was to have taken place on Thurs
day of last week. was postponed until the
same day this week.
Horace w. Sexton, postmaster at ia
cobstown, was given hearing before
United States Commissioner Cassidy, in
Camden, yesterday. on the charge of OPEN
ing letters. He was held in $500 bail for
court.
The Directors of the Burlington Con nty
Agricultural Society met on Saturday, and
canvassed the financial standing. The
railroad company has not yet made its re-
turns, so definite statement could not
be made.
The So notes for 800 given by stock
holders of the Burlington County Agri-
cultural Society last year, to tide over the
financial embarrassment, are about due
and the drawers will be called upon to
take them up.
Lost, on Friday afternoon. between
Ridgway street and the railroad station,
heavy silver link bracelet with paddock.
The finder please return to F. B. Ellis.
corner of Ridgway and Buttonwood streets.
A suitable reward will be given.
Recognition services" will be held in
the Baptist Church, on Thursday evening.
when Rev. Mr.. Pendleton will be official
ly indicted into the Office of pastor. Rev.
DIR. Upper. of Philadelphia, will preach
the sermon. Rev. A. II. Granger. of Mt.
Vernon, N. Y, Rev. Mr.. Greismer, of
Haddonfield, and several other ministers
will take part In the services.
There is trouble between Richard
Meirs and George Hankins about farm
in Monmouth county. Meirs rented his
farm to Hawkins on shares and claims
that his tenant has not lived up to the
contract. He therefore asks that O re-
ceiver be appointed pending settlement.
The case was heard by vice chancellor
at Camden yesterday, but not concluded.
Charles K Chambers and B. 81. White
appeared for Hawkins; John s. Meirs, Jr.,
for the plaintiff.
At the sale of property of the late
William K. Rudderow. on Thursday,
stocks sold as follows: One share Mount
Holly Electric Light Company. par 500,
to William w. Worrell for 500. Six
shares Mount Holly Shoe Company, par
$40. to George M. Hillman for $13 per
share. Four shares Concert Hall, par $25.
to Charles A. King, for $3.50 per share
Mr.. King also bought shares Mount
Holly and Moorestown Turnpike stock
at $3.50 per share.