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

A large quantity of msgnolias is beng
gathered from the swamps in Bunker Hill
woods
Sturgeon fishermen report the season as
one of the poorest experienced for several
years.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will hereafter carry dogs as passengers
baggage.
Amos Gibbs has been appointed trus-
tee under the will of Henry l. Deacon,
deceased, of Burlington.
Albert 9. Shinn, formerly of Mount
Holly, has received $1,000 for patent de-
vice on an electric table.
William B. Stackhouse led the Chris
tisn Endeavor meeting in the Presbyter-
ian Church on Sunday evening.
Benjamin Bishop, of Rancocas, recent
ly caught an opossum in that village
which had ten young ones clinging to it.
/ The streets of Mount Holly were crowd
ed with people on Saturday night and the
stores of our merchants were well patron
lied.
Hulme street is being graded by the
township committee and the lower end
of Water street is soon to receive some at
tention
The annual reunion of the Second N. j.
Cavalry was held at Cranbury. on Thurs
day Several veterans from Mount Holly
attended
been sufferer for several days past from
the effects of burns received from a gaso-
line stove.
John Godsmark was placed in Jail last
week for committing an assault and bat
terry on Joshua s. Fenimore, of Beverly,
on June 8.
]. L. P. Eckman played with Jennings
band on Wednesday and Thursday, at
Atlantic City, on the occasion of the G. A.
R. encampment.
Washington Council, No. 5. Jr. O. U.
A. NJ, will hold their 18th annual recep-
ton in the opera house on the evening of
Friday, June Is.
William II. Heisler, President of the
Manufacturers Bank of Philadelphia, is
frequent visitor to Daniel Suffer during
the latter's illness.
Atkinson & Craig opened their new gen.
eral merchandise store at Lumberton on
Thursday. William Craig will have
charge of the business.
About dozen persons from Mount
Holly went to Camden, on Tuesday. to see
Forepaugh's circus. They report the
show as being first-class.
The post-ofice clerks are having it
somewhat easier since the public schools
were closed, as the children flocked there
every day in large numbers.
Reports from the cranberry district say
the vines have been injured by the re-
cent frost, and the probabilities are not
favorable for more than half a crop.
H. II. Earnest has been appointed town
ship secretary of the different Sunday
schools here under the jurisdiction of the
Burlington County Sunday School Asso-
citation
While at work in the Columbian Iron
Works, at Hainesport, Thursday after
noon, George Baronski was badly burned
about the face. He was working about a
big ladle of molten iron when some of il
was spilled and splashed up, narrowly
missing his eyes.
At the annual meeting of the stock hold
ers of the Otto Gas Engine Works, of
Philadelphia. on Tuesday, Edward F.
Burns, of Mount Holly, was reelected
president and treasurer The concern is
doing more business than eyer before, and
is rushed with orders.
In the will of Robert Beckenbach,
which was admitted to probate in Phila-
delphia, on Wednesday, was bequest of
a mortgage of $3.50, which Mr.. Becken-
bach held against the property of the
Christian Institute, at Palmyra, and upon
the death of his sister, Catharine Rose, to
the said institute.
The employment of tramps to gather
straw berries and peas on the farms about
Delanco, Edgewater Park and Beverly is
making life unpleasant for the residents
of that vicinity. The tramps camp on
the shores of the Delaware and the Ran
cocas and make it dangerous for women
and girls to seek the pretty walks and
drives which abound there.
At meeting Of an organization in town
last week, one of the members arose and
wanted to know if due notice of what was
to be brought before the meeting had
previously been given. Another men,
Der promptly replied that ''if you had
read The NEWS you would have found out
what was to be done" This is only
another evidence of the appreciation of
the live local matter found in THE News.
There was some indignation, on Satur-
day afternoon, when the game of ball was
over, at the discovery that some miscreant
had thrown quantity of tscks under the
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the habit of storing their bicycles, and
number of these found their way in
several tires All such annoyances can be
averted by getting your wheels checked
for FIVE cents. The association is not re-
sponsible for this despicable act.
Andrew Aucott, of Germantown, Pa,
came to town, on Saturday morning, and
rode up Washington street, from King
on his bicycle. He was gathered IN by
officer Severns and taken before Justice
Laumaster. The rider was somewhat
reckless and narrowly missed striking
some ladies whom he passed, and in ad-
dition to this he was somewhat insulting
to the officer. On account of the plead
ings of ignorance of the law, the fellow
was fined only $3.50.
Grand Concert.
An excellent concert was given by the
Sacred Heart Church Choir, in st. Mary's
Hall, West Washington street, on Satur-
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