The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-06-08

The free reading room at Burlington
has been closed for want of support.
The Burlington County Medical Society
will meet at Moorestown next Tuesday.
The life-saving men along the Jersey
coast have gone off duty until September.
William H. Craft. of Columbus, has
been granted divorce from his wife, AL
freda Craft.
Washington Council, No. 5, Jr. o. U.
A. M, will celebrate. their twenty-eighth
anniversary on June IS.
Benjamin B. Bishop was appointed
postmaster at Rancocas, on Wednesday,
vice H. H. Leeds, resigned.
The handsome match team of horses
belonging to Richard Westwood has been
sold to Philadelphia party.
John Robinson, employed by Samuel S.
Potts, near Jobstown, was committed to
Jail last week for assaulting his employer
| Reading Margerum, Jr., Charles B. Hor-
nor and Fred Owen brought boxes of ex-
ira fine straw berries to this Office the past
week.
G. Henry Beldin, former proprietor of
the Beldin House at Burlington, was an
interested spectator at Saturdays ball
game.
Ridgway Stoddard, who has rented the
Madison avenue hotel property, will con-
duct a boarding house and livery stable
there.
Jones & Ireland are nearly through can
ming asparagus, and thus far they have
been unable to secure enough to ill their
orders.
John McCloskey, Jr., of Beverly. has
failed to accept the challenge of James
Berry, of Mount Holly, to fistic en-
counter.
Samuel P. Cline led the van in Mount
Holly for securing penny contributions
for the benefit of the Burlington County
Hospital.
The State Board of Taxation will meet
at Toms River on the 18th, to hear ap-
peals from the assessments in the borough
of Lavalette.
There was very pleasant time at the
lawn sociable held Saturday afternoon and
evening in the yard adjoining the Sacred
Heart Church.
The clerks about town had a pretty
easy time of it last week. They were of
three nights, a circumstance that very
seldom happens.
A. s. L. Doughty, on Tuesday, return
ed from a visit to Berlin. He brought
with him seven rattles taken from snake
killed during his visit.
The members of Company have been
ordered to proceed to Trenton on Thurs
day, to take part in the field day exercises
of the Seventh regiment.
Congressman s. G. Forker, of River
side, the Burlington Gazette says, was
born in the house in Mount Holly where
Stephen Girard once lived.
Shirt waists for forty mine cents; ladies'
ribbed vests, five. ten, fifteen, and twenty
five cents. Also, ladies' white skirts, long
and short, at S. 8. Evans, % Main st.
The road from Columbus to the Jobs
town turnpike has been surveyed for the
stone road, and efforts are being made to
have it fourteen feet wide instead of ten
The engineers drilling for water at
Marlton have struck an excellent quality
at depth of 2l3 feet in a bed of white
sand. The water is free from iron. and
rose to within few feet of the top of the
pipe.
On Tuesday night OGicer Collins found
horse attached to carriage, leisurely
walking out Main street. He secured the
animal and shortly afterward the owner
turned up greatly pleased that the team
was safe.
Col. James Matlack Scovel and wife, of
Camden, have been chosen as delegates
to the Worlds Peace Congress, which
meets at Hamburg, Germany, on the 18th
of August. They will attend. Emperor
William will preside.
| An interesting lecture was delivered in
the Methodist Church, on Friday evening,
by Charles Butler, of Camden, under the
auspices of the Epworth League. His
subject was, "My Trip Across the Ocean
and First Night in London"
Burtis & Zimmerman have dissolved
their partnership as bicycle dealers and
agents, and W. S. Burtis will continue
under his name. A. A. Zimmerman, the
retiring partner, has lately returned to
racing and cannot give time to the bust
ness
During the high wind on Tuesday,
large limb was blown from tree opposite
to E. H. BuTtis' house on Washington
street A man was driving by at the time
with hay shelving. The limb hit the
wagon, breaking the sides, and the driver
had narrow escape.
John Nordenweck, living near Atsion,
had an encounter last week with two rat
tlesnakes along ditch near the New Jer-
sey Southern Railroad. He killed one of
the reptiles and was bitten on the arm by
the other. Nordenweck swallowed large
quantity of applejack, which counterfeit
ed the venom and saved his life
Elmer D. Prickitt led the Christian En-
deavor meeting held in the Presbyterian
Church on Sunday evening. Tomorrow
afternoon in the lecture room will occur
the monthly meeting of the Women's
Foreign Missionary Society. On Thurs
day evening there will be rehearsal of
the music for children's day, which oc-
ours next Sunday morning.
The recount of the recent borough
election at Riverton took place before
Judge Miller at the court house, on Tues
day The result sustained the officers de-
clared elected by the election board. In
the recount two additional Citizens tick
cts were rejected, and only two of the five
they claimed were allowed, so that it
practically left them in the same position
as before.
Adm Gibbs, Waterman at the round
house, received painful injuries on Tues
day night. He was shoveling coal into an
engine, when steam pipe running out
side of the fire box bursted. The escap-
ing steam filled the cab, and not knowing
where it came from, Gibbs FASTENED to