The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-06-01


Cherry to Mill street.
J. B. Roney, of Delanco, delivered q
stirring Memorial day grafton at the GEM
etery at Lumberton, yesterday.
Editor d. V. Holmes, of the Burling-
ton Enterprise, was an interested specta-
tor at the ball game on Saturday.
Rev. r. A. Rodrick will conduct the
service at the hospital next Sunday after
noon at 4.l5. The public is invited.
Cards have been issued for the we'd
ding of George A. Henry, principal of
the West Washington street school and
Miss Eva E. Moore.
On Friday evening the Knights of
Pythias conferred the first and second de-
grees on five candidates. Three applica-
lions for membership were received and
there were two reinstatements.
Memorial day was properly observed in
Mount Holly yesterday. Shiras Post, Sons
of Veterans and Mount Holly Academy
Cadets visited the different cemeteries,
where veterans graves were decorated
A committee from Shiras Post also deco
rated graves at Pemberton, Lumberton,
and Medford. In the afternoon Rev. j.
h. Durham delivered an Grafton at the
court house.
Charles Kelse, of Julustown, was ar
rested by Officer Severns, on Saturday
evening, for insulting ladies on Washing
ton street and endeavoring to put several
young snow ball merchants out of bust
ness. He was given 80 days in jail. Kelse
is the fellow who tore wagon to pieces
and nearly knocked out two constables in
being brought to Jail from Juliustown
some time ago.
As dog cart turned the corner of
Washington and Main streets yesterday
afternoon, one of the wheels grated in
the car track and scared the horse, which
made lunge forward, throwing one of the
occupants out. He struck his head, cut
ting slight cash, which was dressed in
Jones' drug store. The other man who
was in the cart grabbed the lines and
stopped the horse after he had run short
distance. The names of the men were
not learned.
There has been CONSERVATION in the
hearts of the school teachers of Brick
township, Ocean county, for the past
fortnight. At the close of their schools,
District Clerk G. V. Hance refused to
sign their salary warrants until they had
taught four days more to make up four
i days vacation voted by the board of edu-
cation at the Christmas holidays. The
matter was brought to the attention of
County Superintendent North and through
him to the State Superintendent, who d.
rected Superintendent North to give Hance
three weeks time and then depose him
! from the school board if he didn't do his
duty. In the meantime several of the
teachers yielded to Hance's assumption
and taught the extra days.
Yesterday was observed throughout the
land as Memorial day, and flowers were
placed upon the graves of hundreds of
thousands of brave men who would have
been living to-day had there not been
war. To their loyalty and for national
honor they sacrificed the years which
haye been crowded with advancement in
all departments of human affairs, and
which makes life better and more en-
| joyable than it was then. To them was
lost the matchless trlumphs Of science in
its varied branches that have since been
developed. They died that we might
have new era of national growth and
prosperity through the blessing of united
country under one flag. And greater
than all to them, they marched away
from home, family and friends, never to
| return.
Burglars tried TO enter the mouse OF
Abraham Witcraft, at Evesboro, on Mon
day night. They secured ladder which
M. Witcraft had in the barn and placed
| it to the second story window. They
| found that the window was fastened.
Then they came down and we're about to
enter the kitchen, when Mary E. Myers,
a niece of Mr.. Witcraft, saw two men
peeping in the window. She went to the
window and scared them. 1t seems that
the burglars thought the Witcraft family
were in bed, but they were not. On the
same night some one entered the house of
Job Evans 1t is thought they are the
same ones that tried the Witcraft house.
They went into the cellar and helped
themselves to eatables and then they went
to the room where Mr.. and Mrs. Evans
slept and got 81 in cash and an old knife
which Mr.. Evans has carried for years.