The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-06-15
TUESDAY. JUNE Is. 1897.
LOCAL NEWS.

L lax udy WAS SOmbWHdb T6CORulZoO IL
Mount Holly yesterday.
Bicycle supplies, full assortment, at S
P. Cline's hardware store.
A new pavement has been laid in from
of Mayors bakery, on Main street, which
is great improvement.
Steam cars are being used ON the Bur
lington branch to-day, while repairs are
being made at the power house.
Edward Wills attended the Kerr-El.
liott wedding, at 1908 Spruce street. Phil
adelphia, on Tuesday afternoon.
John D. Clevenger will conduct the SER
vice at the hospital next Sunday after
noon at AIS. The public is invited.
The commencement exercises of Brain.
ard school will take place in the opera
house on Thursday evening, June "a.
Detectives from Camden were in Mount
Holly, on Sunday, looking for the burg.
lars who shot policeman there last week
The ladies of the Baptist Church were
very successful with their bread and cake
sale at the church on Saturday afternoon.
Turnkey William Reeves is taking pri-
vate lessons on recently purchased bike
and will soon make his appearance in pub
lie.
The closing exercises of the Misses
Wyllie's school will be held in ST. An
drew's gymnasium, on Thursday evening,
at Z. 80.
Lorenzo L. Sapp has purchased the lot
of Judge Charles E. Hendrckson, on
Union street. near Main, and will erect a
residence thereon.
The railroad company last week laid an
additional mile of stee rails on the Bur-
lington branch. This makes the road
equipment all steel rail.
John G. Sims. Jr., Of Mount Holly, hav-
ing successfully passed his examinations
before the examining board at Trenton,
has been admitted to the bar.
John s. Rogers, of Moorestown, accom-
panied by force of Mount Holly masons.
went to Seaside Park yesterday, to begin
operations upon several new cottages.
A thin coating of gravel has been iudic-
iously applied to the South Pemberton
road. which is more than can be said of
the other stone roads running out of town.
Children's day was appropriately cele-
brated IN the Presbyterian Church on
Sunday morning. The exercises we're en-
tertaining throughout, but the congrega-
ton was small, owing to the rain.
A freight car ran off the track between
Ewanville and Birmingham on Friday
and delayed travel for some time. The
train which should have left Mount
Holly for Philadelphia at 4.24, was de-
tanned until 5.35.
Norman Van Pelt Lewis will be ordained
as deacon of the Episcopal Church to-
morrow. The services will take place at
Trinity Church at Ills in the morn
ing. Bishop Scarborough and other cler-
gymen will be present.
One dollar will BUY fifteen to twenty
geranlums, one dozen roses ready to
bloom or three dozen coleus. Chrysan-
themums, thirty five cents per dozen.
Other plants at corresponding prices at
kosbach's Pemberton.
The Centreton phosphorus works are not
to close on July l. Orders were received
there on Saturday to start the acid cham
bers, which have not been running for
several weeks, and fresh supply of raw
material has been ordered.
Coroner Fisher, of White Hill, gave a
burial permit in the case of Herbert N
COLON, aged 10 years, son of Andrew
COLON, who was accidentally drowned
by falling from boat slip into the Ran
cocas creek. at DelaDco. on Friday.
The fire plug on Madison avenue, con-
nected to the new main, was tested last
night by the Good Intent engine. A suf
ficient supply of water was obtained to
throw two good streams from the engine
and one very small stream from the plug.
Letters testamentary have been grant
ed to William r. Lippincott, executor of
John Donovan, deceased, of Moorestown,
and to Anna R. Dudley, William B. Lip
pincott aud Aaron w. Engle, executors
of Levi Lippincott, deceased, of Moores-
town.
The Society of the Colonial Wars has
sent to London set of congratulatory
resolutions on the jubilee of Queen Vic
toria, which are to be presented to her in
the name of the society by General E.
Burd Grub, who sailed for Europe on
June 5.
A large number of bicycle riders from
frankfort and other places came to Mount
Holly, on Sunday, and did not leave q
favorable impression. They put up at the
West End Hotel, and their conduct was
OF such character as to cause much an
noyance.
Howard Cooper, of Mount Holly, who
recently went to the Isthmus of Panama
to accept position as telegraph operator,
has returned. The bad climate causes too
many deaths, he says, to make things
pleasant there. He is now employed in
Brooklyn
On Friday Sheriff Fleetwood sold a
house and lot in Bordentown, belonging
to Anna Worth, to Mary Elizabeth Fee,
for $1,000. On Saturday two lots at River
side. belonging to Peter and Hannah
Walters, were sold to John G. Hippen-
stiel, for $147S5.
The annual readjustment of salaries Of
postmasters has taken place and the new
figures will go into effect July l. Mount
Holly has been advanced to a second
class Office. The increase in salaries in
this county are Moorestown $1,70O to
$4,000; Mount Holly 81, 900 to $1,000
Riverton, $l,l0O to $1,000. Burlington
decreases from So, 300 to So, 200.
The freight train that left Mount Holly
at O'Clock on Sunday evening met with
an accident at Birmingham. A flying
drill was made and when the car struck
the bumper at the end of the siding il
ran off the track. The wrecking crew
went to the scene, but their work was
necessarily slow, the car being loaded
with shelled corn.
The Trenton Abattoir Company's
horses ran away on Saturday morning
with fatal result. The team was stand
ing in front of Walter Krusen's store, on
Washington street. What started them is