The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-21
Pike fishing is very good in the upper

creek.
2 Samuel Greenwald has opened his re
tsurant for the winter season.
3 The special constitutional amendmer
election takes place one week from to-da,
, E. Holeman & Son are making ne
overcoats for the Mount Holly polio
force.
Edward Wampole, of Doylestown, Pa
is acting as temporary clerk in Flynn
drug store.
: Certain boys have been noticed abou
the streets doing some reckless shootin
with air rifles.
All laborers employed by the Pennsy
vania Railroad Company are now WORK
ing on full time
On Wednesday the temperature fell t
point that made light weight overcoat
very comfortable.
Autumn begins on Wednesday, Septem
Der %, at l 40 P. NJ, when the sun reache
the autumnai equinox.
W. 3. Gale last week put in a new cul
vert and raised the walk at the corner G
Garden and Risdon streets.
Pitman & Stackhouse, Of Juliustow n
are building new hay press to replac
the one recently destroyed by fire.
Quarterly meeting was held at Moores
town on Thursday. Two carloads o
Friends passed through Mount Holly.
Charles Gale is one of those lucky fel
lows who nave been enjoying secono
crop of straw berries from the garden.
Captain Branson and John L. Severn
went down the creek on Wednesday aite
reed birds. They met with very fair sue
cess.
Edward Hullz collided with truck
wagon on the South Pemberton road Wed
nesday night and had his bicycle badly
broken.
There is a slight decrease in the tal
rate for Northampton township this year
Assessor Glrvin has announced the rat,
to be $l.75
Lawyer George NJ. Hillman has Sc
cured divorce for Mrs Mary Ann Branin
of Tuckerton, from her husband, T. Harry
Branin, of Mount Holly.
A return of the hog cholera Is causi nj
some uneasiness among the farmers.
number of losses by the disease are re-
ported from Chesterfield.
One day last week somebody broke into
the room occupied by the Mount Holly
Athletic Association on the fair ground
and stole some base balls, bats and shoes
Sallie Archer, of Vincentown, was
brought to Jail on Friday and held for
court, charged, while intoxicated, with at
tempting to break into the house of Sallie
Lennon.
Next Sundays young peoples meeting
in the Baptist church will be in charge OF
Joseph w. Colkitt and J. Frank Shaw, Jr
The topic will be Sunday School and
Chapel Car Work"
Henry DarnelI suffered severely last
week from a cold which settled in his
back. The trouble was contracted while
taking sail down the Delaware river on
J. Holmes Longstreet's yacht.
A handsome silk flag has been pur-
chased by the Knights of Pythias, and il
is now used to drape the altar The mon
ey was raised by penny subscriptions un-
der charge of Edward s. Troth.
George Clymer, of Burlington, a brother
of Alfred Clymer, who is serving life
sentence in state prison for killing Mrs
Doyle, spent four days in jail last week
for being drunk and disorderly.
John Peterson, of Lewistown, was rend-
cred unconscious one night last week by
falling out of his wagon while going home
from Mount Holly. He was found by
two men who assisted him back to town.
The members of st Paul's Church, on
West Washington street, gave an enter
tainment on Thursday evening which
concluded with a corn pone wedding. The
West End quartette, assisted by local tai
ent, rendered choice music.
The Mount Holly Military Academy
opened for the fall term on Tuesday.
The attendance is not so large as formerly
but pupils will gradually be enrolled for
some time yet. The other private schools
have begun work and are progressing
finely.
A sportsman pulled his boat upon the
shore of the Delaware and went up into
the town of Delanco to make some pur-
chases Wednesday evening, and while he
was gone another man got in and rowed
away. The boat contained fine gun and
other shooting paraphernalia.
Early on Wednesday morning a large
dog with long chain attached to him
was roaming about town at his own sweet
will. He caused needless fright to a
number of people by getting on porches
and dragging the chain after him, which
suggested the presence of burglars.
-Four marriage certificates have been is
sued by County Clerk Worrell. The last
one was to colored couple. The groom re-
sides in Burlington county and the bride
in Washington, D. G. The one issued
previous to this was granted to two peo-
pie who are teachers in an eastern college,
On Saturday Sheriff Fleetwood sold two
properties of Lewis Richardson, in Bur
lington township, to Christopher Riep.
Lewis r. Rigg and Maud S. Rigg for
$4,000; also the property of Frances Full
Ter Kennedy, in Moorestown, to the State
Mutual Building and Loan Association for
So, 200.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Mount Holly Electric Light Co. was
held on Tuesday night. A dividend of
five per cent was declared. The old board
was reelected, as fol lows: Amos Gibbs,
president and superintendent; Samuel A.
Atkinson, secretary and treasurer Ed
ward D. Stokes, Benjamin F. Lee, Dr. R.
H. Parsons, Joseph G. Cowgirl, Robert L.
Nixon, James L. Jamison.
State Road Commissioner Henry 1.
Budd was sharply criticised in half col
umn article published in last Tuesday q
Burlington Enterprise, because he has
withheld state aid from an extension of
the Bridgeboro road that the people of
that city desire to be extended into Broad
street. 1t is quite evident that Mr..
Budd's position in the matter is a tenable
one and that he ia ACTING foirlv 70 oil No.