The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-05-18

loIlnR lIOLu AEhCtuIou WElbt, hb Inc r6BuIl
of q fall.
Cut prices on bicycle lamps and sun.
dries. w. S. Rendell, 203 Mount Holly
avenue.
DR.. John G. Doron was elected treas
urer of the Camden Medical Society on
Tuesday.
The people of Marlton boast of the fact
that there is not an unoccupied house in
that village
Frank Dove, former carpet mill weav.
er, is preparing to travel as an Inherent
photographer.
Daniel Suffer was confined to his home
all of last week suffering with hemor.
rage of the kidneys.
The young peoples union of the Lum.
berton Baptist Church will give festi
val on Saturday evening.
]. Holmes Longstreet, of Bordentown,
was unable to serve ON the grand Jury,
as he was laid up with bad case of rheu,
matism.
Flies and mosquitoes. Look over your
screen doors and window screens. s. P.
Cline renoyates them on short notice at a
reasonable price.
The truck farms in Burlington county
are said to be the finest and most profit.
able of any in the state. They are now
looking beautiful.
The Junior Auxiliary of St. Andrews
Church gave very pleasant andssuccess.
full entertainment in the gymnasium on
Thursday evening
Samuel Frake, night Waterman at the
railroad station, has arrived home from
/ Hi Anlx ~uk h. I'D
moved from his neck.
Landlord Zelley, of the Washington
House, had orders to provide dinner fol
80 wheelmen from Camden on Sunday,
but only IL of them showed up.
The salute of the war vessels at Phila.
delphia, on Saturday, when the Wash.
ington monument was unveiled, was
plainly heard in Mount Holly.
Mr.. and Mrs. William j. Baird have
sent out invitations for reception at
their country place at Darby on Wednes-
day, May 26th, from to O'Clock.
J.. Ridgway Haines, of Hainesport, was
among the graduates of the Jefferson
Medical College, Philadelphia, on Friday.
He is now full-fedged physician.
1t is said that New York syndicate OF
capitalists Is to erect an eight story
building in Philadelphia on the site OF
the recent large fire in front of Wanama-
ker's store.
I The new lodge, Star of Washington
Council, Daughters of America, has effect
ed complete organization, and will here
after meet in Red Mems Hall on Friday
evenings.
White goods, swiss and nainsook edg-
| los sill nd
bows. Also children's lace caps; very
pretty one for twenty five cents, at s. 3.
Evans, % Main street
The three degrees of the Knights OF
Pythias were conferred upon five candi-
| finished just as the fire bell rang. Four
new propositions were received.
The following letters remain in the
Mount Holly post Office: N. E. Brown,
Mrs. Evan, Mrs. Hubs, William A. Ros-
sell; postals, G. H. Elwell. ]. R. Haines,
Caleb Henry, Benjamin L. Myers
Members of the Columbian Iron Works
Beneficial Association, OF Hainesport.
hope their Mount Holly friends will
go down there on Saturday evening next
and attend their strawberry festival.
Mrs. and Mrs. Harry T. Warner gave q
progressive euchre party on Thursday
evening. The prizes were secured by
Mrs. Charles Keen, Miss Mary Girven
and Messrs. Joseph Huff and Joseph
Ward.
William Won Foringer led the Christian
Endeavor meeting in the Presbyterian
Church Sunday evening. The pulpit
of this church will be occupied next Sun
day by Rev. DR.. Walter A. Brooks, OF
Trenton.
| DR.. Edmund Bennett, of Barnegat. was
elected director for the sixth consecutive
year, on Wednesday, of the Ocean county
board of fire. holders. w. H. Fischer, ed
ltor of Toms River Courier, was selected
as clerk. There are nine Republicans
and four Democrats on the board.
Charles Chambers, ST., of Plattsburg,
was admitted to the Burlington County
Hospital, on Tuesday, suffering from q
gun shot wGsnd In his leg. which he re-.
ceiyed by the accidental discharge of q
t-qn. He is getting along nicely.
'~fhe crop of dandelions appears to be
unusually large this year, and for the
past Jews days nearly every lawn in town
has had its share. The dandelion has
come to be great nuisance, and if left to
grow in lawns soon kill the grass.
The members of General Hooker Camp
Sons of Veterans, gave a very successful
fair and festival on Friday and Saturday
evenings in the Arcade Hall. There was
good music and plent9 of enjoyment, and
the members express their thanks and
/ appreciation to those who assisted them.
The will of Chalkley Leconey, who
was acquitted of the charge of numbering
his niece, Annie Leconey, in September,
1889, and who died recently, was admit.
ted to probate, on Tuesday, by Surrogate
West, of Camden. The will beuueathes
all of his possessions to Martha A. Vance,
his sister, of Moorestown. The estate is
small.
The $40 trolley to Burlington, on Sun
day evening, came to a stand still short
distance above the Grant street station.
on account of the current having been
turned off at the power house. Finally
the car was allowed to go back on the
down grade as far as Washington street
in order to ascertain the 4Ronble. The
electricity was again turned On, and as
there were passengers on board to catch
the New York train at Burlington, the
trolley went oyer in about ten minutes.
During the absence of Mr.. and Mrs. FL
lis Adams, residing at Columbus, on Wed
nesday, young man named James Lam
ming, said to belong in that neighborhood,
entered their home, and after ransacking
bureau drawers, carried off a valuable
gold watch and chain, besides two gold
| rings, one of which was Mrs. Adams we'd
ding ring. The thief was tracked as far
as Kinkora, on the line of the Amboy
Division of the Pennsylvania railroad,
where it is supposed he boarded a train
for Philadelphia.
When sober, Frank Hess, of Borden
town, talks like a crazy man when in
toxicated, he acts like man of unsound
mind, and while in this latter condition
he is the worst white man south of the
north pole. Hess was in Burlington on
Tuesday, and the officers knowing what
to expect braced up for the occasion, but
they escaped trouble by presenting him
with a ticket to Mount Holly, which was
very kind indeed. Hess was in the court
house yard Wednesday afternoon mutter-
ing to himself, and those who saw him
knew that trouble was brewing He met
Prosecutor Budd as the latter was pass
ing through the gate at the Surrogate's
office, and he at once insulted him. His
| fists flew about the lawyers head quite
AaP!uly, uuI VIC laVIer sclenLlncally par
ried all these gentle demonstrations of
affection. Hess then threatened to MUIR
der the Prosecutor and all the Judges.
Constables Brown, of Mount Holly, and
Wright, of Moorestown, escorted the vio-
lent man to Jail with some difficulty, the
disturbance attracting quite crowd. The
fellow was placed in the cellar with the
tramps, for the reason that when confin-
ed in cell he breaks all the windows
and twists the sash out of the walls.