The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-07
The past week has been delightful
weather for cycling.

"0htuor hut CYCLING
! The meeting of the Knights of Pythia
; lodge is now called at 7.30 P. M.
W. P. Rawlings has arranged to remov,
r his family to Philadelphia again.
The Unionville Sunday school will holt
a peach festival tomorrow evening.
Although September has come, grass il
as green as on fresh June morning.
The golden rod in bloom Throughout
the country presents a beautiful sight.
Lawyer Jerome B. Grigg was attending
to legal business in Gloucester county IasI
week.
The Mount Holly residents at Sea Side
Park will soon close their cottages and re-
turn home.
The Twentieth Century wheelmen Of
Philadelphia had a run to Mount Holly
on Sunday.
Mrs. Alkaline Collins and son Harry
have removed to Philadelphia, where they
will conduct bakery.
The special excursion to the shore on
Tuesday, which was the last of the season,
was very largely patronized.
Holster Clymer, publisher of the Cen
trail Record at Marlton, has been suffering
from an attack of appendicitis.
Five tramps were arrested at Palmyra
Thursday night, by special officer John P.
Saar, for robbing freight car.
The Baptist people of Columbus will
give a peach festival and supper in the
yard adjoining their church on Thursday
evening.
A buggy and harness that was recently
stolen from Charles A. Braddock, of Vim
centown, has been recovered at Doyles-
town, Pa.
| The license of the Clarence House at
Barnsgat was transferred on Wednesday
from j. II. Serviss to Richard Westwood
by the court.
George N. Winner. the new postmaster
at Palmyra, took charge of the Office on
Wednesday Its location will probably
be changed in about month.
The Improvements to the main audience
room of the Baptist Church were much
appreciated by the large congregation that
attended there on Sunday.
The family of R. NJ Early has removed to
Philadelphia, where his daughter Miriam
is conducting a class In elocution. Mr..
Early's business compels him to still re-
side at Smithville.
Completeness of Christian Character"
will be the topic for the young peoples
meeting to be held in the Baptist Church
next Sunday evening. Miss Carrie E.
Bickford and Miss Ida Manners will be
the conductors.
Capt. John ]. Read, of the United
States cruiser Olympia, has returned to his
home in Mount Holly after tn rec years.
cruise in Japan waters, looking as natural
as ever. He made the trip home, a dis
lance of $500 miles, In twenty -one days.
The annual meeting of the Young
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
will be held Tuesday evening. September
| z. Election of officers and other matters
of interest are to be considered All mem
bers, and others desiring to join the
Union, are invited to be present.
According to the Burlington Gazette of
Saturday, Blanchard H. White, a Penn
berton lawyer, while spending week at
Ocean Grove. was accused by an old lady
of being a minister and married man
with family. Blanche is now spending
his time denying the accusation.
Merchantville residents, on Thursday,
by vote of 104 to 81, decided to bond the
borough for $685. 900 to lay improved side
walds. The property owners will have
ten years in which to pay for the improve
ment. Frances Cunningham served pro-
test against the result of the election for
the purpose of testing its legality.
The funeral of the late Caleb c. PAN
coast from his late residence at Woodbury.
Heights, last Thursday, was attended by
many prominent state and county politi-
clans. Rev. Edward Dillon, of the Wood
bury Presbyterian Church, preached the
sermon. Interment was made at Coles
town.
The books of the various Firemen's Re-
lief Associations in the counties compris-
ing the Second Congressional district
have been audited by B. Frank Ellis of
Moorestown, President of the Asso-
citation, for presentation to the meeting of
the latter body to be held at Trenton to-
morrow.
A few days before J. Frank Simpson, of
Hartford, met his shocking death at Had
don avenue station, Camden, he called on
County Clerk Barber, an intimate friend,
and requested him to act as a pall-bearer
at his funeral. Mr.. Barber laughed, but
Mr.. Simpson appeared to be very much
in earnest.
Petitions are being circulated through
out the state by women In favor of the
adoption of the proposed Constitutional
amendment, to be voted on at the special
election this month, giving women the
The voting on the constitutional amend
ments will take place the 2Sth inst, and
all citizens should familiarize themselves
with the various amendments proposed.
At the Friends quarterly meeting held
in Mount Holly on Tuesday, the matter oil
home for homeless Friends was discuss.
ed, and committee was appointed to
look at several properties that might be
available for the purpose which are loca-
ted in Mount Holly, Burlington and Bor-
dentown. The committee will visit the
latter place to-day, and their report will
be made at the next quarterly meeting ia
be held in Trenton.
About O'Clock Wednesday afternoon
Samuel Coleman, farm hand in the en-
ploy of Isaac Richman, was found lying
by the roadside near the Riverton Gun
Club grounds, with an ugly cash in hil
neck. He was very weak from loss o.
blood, but managed to state that he had
been knocked down by a bicyclist who
afterwards cut him with his knife. The
wound was about two inches long, half an
inch deep, and narrowly missed the jugu
lar vein. The supposition is that /
quarrel followed the collision, in which
the cutting was done. The officers havl
a clue and are looking for the assailant.
The annual session of the State Council