The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-05

. ton on the Democratic ticket for Auditor
Don't fail to hear Willie Kelley, the fe
male impersonator, at the. Juvenile min
| strels.
Grip and hay fever are causing mucl
annoyance to number of people abou
J town.
Joseph Crockford recently sustained
painful injuries by falling from a step
} ladder.
A number of young men are collecting
a library for the use of the prisoners a
the Jail.
Somebody has been sprinkling tacks or
the Jobstown turnpike beyond the SECOND
toll house.
Harry Lynn has been making some inn
provements to his residence on Mount
Holly avenue.
Rev. R. A. Rodrick preached in St.
Johns Episcopal Church, Camden, on
Sunday morning.
Henry I. Budd doesn't like the friend.
ship that exists between him and a car
buncle on his leg.
The Rescue Mission that recently start.
ed in Jeffrey's hall has been discontinued
for want of support.
Edward Dobblns. who has been in the
service of the United States Navy, is visit
ing his parents here.
Joseph Morgan, a former resident Of
Mount Holly, has been appointed station
agent at Birmingham.
The engagement of Miss Marion Hill
lard, of VIncentown, to Arthur Mathis, Of
New Gretna, is announced.
Mrs. Fl. F. Smith conducted the young
peoples prayer meeting in the Baptist
Church on Sunday evening
Mrs. Sarah Bodine has been suffering
with lame back as the result of a recent
fall at her home on Pine street.
1t is reported that one of the Klondike
Companies has sold over a thousand
shares of stock in Moorestown.
A large black cat belonging to Mrs. Ed
ward Justin, on Water street, was killed
by the trolley few evenings since.
Mrs. Annie E. Steen, of Florence. a sis
ter of Theodore B. Pope, of Mount Holly,
died Thursday at the age of So years.
The annual supper of the Ladies' Aid
Society of the Methodist Church will be
held on the 18th and 18th of November.
The S-year-old child of William M.
Potts, of Medford. Democratic candidate
for the Assembly, is seriously ill with
typhoid fever
Raymond Clark, a former clerk in
Jones drug store, left for Philadelphia on
Wednesday to take course in the Den
tai College there.
Lydia May, the 1S-months' old daughter
of B. o. Herbert, of Green street, was
buried in the Brotherhood of the Union
Cemetery on Saturday.
"Peck's Bad Boy" will appear at the
Opera House on the 18th inst The Annie
Mitchell Repertoire Company has can
celled its engagement here.
All the goods and personal property Of
Schsffer Bros, who have been doing bust
ness on Washington street, were sold yes
terday by Sheriff Fleetwood.
Nelson B. Gaskill has entered tAe Har-
ward Law School, and Thomas Logan
Gaskill has entered the Law School OF
the University of Pennsylvania
Talk with any commercial traveller you
meet and he will tell of his increased
sales and general improvement in bust
ness circles all along the line.
Job Collins, who is agent for the Little
Giant fire extinguisher. is selling quite
number of them about town. He is now
negotiating with one person for eighteen.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
intends to equip its entire system with
special freight cars equipped with air
brakes and able to carry 100000 pounds.
Calcium lights will be used during the
performance at the opera house on Thurs
day and Friday evenings. The statuary
will excel anything of the kind ever seen
in this town.
Frederick H. Lee and Thomas W.
Hume, of Mount Holly, are two of the in
corporators of the United Real Estate
Company, of Jersey City, the capital stock
of which is $4,000.
While alighting from a carriage near
Midtown on Sunday, Mrs. Julia Young,
of Riverside, was run down by Frederick
Schroeder, bicyclist, of Palmyra. Both
were severely hurt.
Mrs. Bathsheba Bullock is slowly re-
covering from the injuries which she re-
ceived by falling down her back stairway.
When she landed at the bottom of the
stairs she broke the door by striking it
with her cheek.
The following persons were naturalized
by Judge Gaskill on Saturday: Joseph
Mattler. of Mount Holly George Johnson,
of Beverly; Hamilton McCreary, of Bur-
lington. Henry Sudle, of Bordentown,
and Charles Graf. of Riverside, have
made application to County Clerk Wor-
rell for their second papers.
Some of the gunners in this vicinity
who have been in the habit of shoot ing
robins had better take warning as it is
dangerous business. Game Warden Wise,
of Burlington, has plans laid to detect
such persons. A man in Somerset coun-
ty was fined $107 on Thursday, for hav-
ing five robins in his possession.
Il is said that the diamond frame will
be more popular among the ladies next
year than it has been. The substantial
build of the diamond frame is far superior
to the regular ladies' wheel, and affords
greater ease in propelling. There seems
to be divided opinion as to whether the
bloomer costume or the divided skirt will
predominant as the fashionabl attire.
Lorenzo W.Prickett has just turned out
magnificent double set of harness for a
New York man, that is perhaps as fine q
piece of work as was ever made in Mount
Holly. 1t is copiously supplied with heavy
silver mountings, and in a number of
places the initials of the owner are set in
monogram. The ornaments alone cost
5000, the workmanship is excellent and
the harness should last lifetime. 1t was
made during the past month and has baan