The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-06-22

Miss Marianne Read graduated at Ped
die Institute last week
Mrs. Charles P. Brewin spent Saturday
among friends in Mount Holly.
]. Frank Budd and family are spending
their vacation at the Delaware Water Gap.
The perch fishing is good, and the
'honey holes" are pre-empted daily by
those who know where they are.
Mayor McNeal and his son will start
upon their tour to Europe on Thursday
They will be gone until the middle of
September.
E. Allen Horn bought the house No
124 East Union street, belonging to the
estate of Elizabeth r. Hancock, on We'd
nesday, for 81 ,2O1.
G. Henry Beldin and wife have gone to
Atlantic City for the Summer, and the
genial ex-Boniface will be pleased to greet
his friends at the Hotel Hoffman.
Charles Vansciver has renewed the
Notwithstanding on the York street side
of his hotel and given the whole structure
new dress of old gold paint. greatly en-
livening and improving its appearance.
July IA will be holiday in this city,
as the merchants annual picnic will be
held on that day and all the stores will be
closed. The committee is an active one,
frequent meetings are held and extensive
preparations are being made for the event.
The announcement of the death of Mrs.
J. Parrish Woolman on Saturday was re-
ceived with deep regret by this commun-
ity, and the ex-Mayor and his daughter
who survive her have the most wide
spread sympathy in their great bereave-
ment.
One day last week the Evening Reporter
mentioned the name of DIR. Richard II.
Parsons, of Mount Holly, IN connection
with the Senatorial nomination on the
Republican ticket. Whether the sugges-
ton was wise, timely, polite or other
wise, it would certainly haYe pleased the
Doctor and his numerous friends to have
heard the favorable comment it created.
And those who expressed themselves
were not all Republicans, either.
The storekeepers here have come to no
definite conclusion yet relative to the early
closing movement. There seems to be
lack of unanimity upon any of the several
propositions made. Some favor a half
holiday instead of closing early every
evening, while others think the idea in
operation in Mount Holly, of closing at 6
o'clock two nights in the week, feasible
and practicable one. The clerks are as a
matter of course anxious to have the mat
ter settled.
The Good Citizens League isn't carrying
a chip on Its shoulder exactly, but it evil
dently doesn't like to be called down or
made light of Shortly after the recent
arrest made by the organization it was re-
marked by some of the enemies it had
made that its career was about over and
that it would probably be heard of no
more forever. The Executive Committee
of the League desires it to be known that
these persons are reckoning without their
host and that they would better have due
regard for the Sabbath day else they will
learn to their everlasting sorrow and re-
greet that the organization is ever so much
alive yet, and fully determined to make
hard the way of the transgressor. They
present the unsnswerable conclusion that
where the Sabbath is not respected law
lessness and disorder reign supreme, and
are determined that no such condition
shall grow and prosper in Burlington.