The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
Dove shooting will be legal until octo-


The Daisy club enjoyed straw ride t.
Medford on Friday evening.
Over $500 was realized from the Ep
worth League rally at Browns Mills.
A Pullman parlor car is now attached
to the trains to and from Beach Haven.
Joseph S. Stackhouse, of Juliustown
has sold his butcher business to Charles
Simons.
The now celebrated Columbus Grange
picnic will be held at Browns Mills to
morrow.
Signs have been posted at the station
warning wheelmen not to ride on the
platform.
Rev. Mr.. Scuddy, the evangelist, occu
pied the pulpitof the Methodist Church
on Sunday.
A number of houses on Water stree
have had water in the cellars over foo
deep for some time past.
A large mill dam that is being construct
ed at Hornerstown, is being superintend
ed by William II. Mason, Sr., of Mount
Holly.
| A. S. Hall, representative of the Met
ropolitan Insurance Company, formerly
of Chester, Pa, has rented house or
Cherry street.
A frst-class sensation is blooming or
Washington street, and a married lady
may soon have occasion to regret hel
present unfaithfulness.
1t is possible that raid will be made
on some of the speak easies that are said
to be doing good Sunday business in the
nelghborhood of Ong's Hat.
Quite number of wheelmen from
Mount Holly attended the races of the
National L. A. W. meet held in Philadel
phia on Friday and Saturday.
A lady residing on Mount Holly ave
nue., who is compelled to exercise econo
my, has been paying 40 cents pound fol
her butter for number of years.
James p Melodies last week bagged II
plover in one day. Bert West and two
others, of Julustown, secured 80 in one
day, and yet most gunners say this game
is very scarce.
The young peoples prayer meeting in
the Baptist Church next Sunday evening
will be led by Elmer ]. Shinn and J
Frederick Shaw. The subject will be
Gan Upright Life"
Joseph Armstrong, arrested here or
Tuesday on charge of assaulting Joseph
Raymond at a picnic given at Browns
Mills, was released on bail by T. Harry
Bowker going his security.
The bicycle path has been greatly i'm
proved. and as compliment to the youne
men who labored on it gratuitously, the
wheelmen of Mount Holly should sub.
scribe to the expense without delay.
The officers have been unable to learn
anything concerning the whereabouts of
the bicycles that were recently stolen in
Mount Holly. They have visited Sc vera
of the adjoining towns. but without sue
cess.
On Tuesday evening. while at the rail
road station, County Collector Joseph
Powell was stricken with an attack Of
vertigo, which caused his friends some
alarm. He soon revived under medical
treatm ent and was taken home.
The large barn, COW house and wagon.
house, together with four hundred bushels
of wheat and sixty tons of hay, on the
farm of Walter Bird, at Arneytown, wat
destroyed by fire on Tuesday afternoon
causing loss of $5,000 partly insured
The origin of the fire is not known.
GEORGETOWN Lodge, No. 20, Knights of
Pythias, will hold one of their pleasant
harvest homes in the grove at George
town, on Wednesday, August 49, There
will be pig race, comforting of the mys.
tic degree and other amusing features.
Supper will be served at $50 P. M.
Thomas Jordan Is now on his good be-
baylor. He has taken the pledge to alb
stain from drinking for year, and at the
end of the agreement there is a new suit
of clothes If Tommy remains faithful
to his promise he will get the garments
if not, he will 60 to Jail for thirty days.
The old landmark on the Burlington
road, known as the willows" and whose
history dates back to the memory of the
oldest inhabitant. was thought to have
been completely obliterated but new
growth has started up afresh from the old
roots. and it will not be long before that
spot will again be associated with its pre-
yious history of robberies and hold-ups.
Justice Laumaster, on Tuesday, heard
the complaint against Morris Games, who
was charged by Robert Anderson with in.
fiicting cruelty on a cat. The defendant
to protect his chickens, but did not kill
it and it escaped badly wounded. The
evidence warranted conviction, and Nor
ris was let off with a fine of one dollar
and costs.
The supposed mad dog that made its
appearance at Pemberton several months
ago left town and went in the direction Of
Jacobstown. John Poinsett, farmer lly-
ing near there, heard dogs fighting dur
ing tie night and the next morning he
found his dog dead. Last week three Of
his hogs went mad and it was necessary
to kill them. The other stock on the farm
is being closely watched.
Freeholders Frank P. Jones, Thomas
Fairbrother, Dr. A. E. Conrow, Enoch
Evans and Joel Horner, on Thursday,
condemned the bridge that connects Riv-
erton borough with East Riverton over
the Pompestsn creek, and bids for new
iron bridge with twenty foot driveway
and six foot space for pedestrians, will
be advertised at once. Bids will also be
advertised for a similar bridge over what
is known as the Bucks creek, preparatory
to buildingSthe stone road between River.
ton and Riverside, which the treeholders
gave as their opinion would be built this
fall.
John and Maggie Brian, two trampf
well known to the Mount Holly police,
were released from the Camden Jail on
Tuesday and at once proceeded to create
CONSERVATION at the fashionable boarding
house of John Rowbotham. of Merchant
vile, by entering the dining room and de-
handing to be served. When ordered