The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-10-18

Collector Samuel Holt will send out tn
yearly tax notices directly after election
John Lippincott and family, of Lum
berton, have removed to Mount Holly.
For bad weather, hog killing, ETC., get
an oil cloth suit at Wetherills, A Main
street.
An entertainment will be given by the
Baptist Sunday school on Thanksgiving
evening.
County Superintendent Stees last week
made tour of the schools situated in the
pine districts.
Most any small boy can now give the
geographical location of the chestnut
trees in this vicinity.
A number of cranberry growers in the
vicinity of Medford have sold their entire
crop to Philadelphia merchants.
The property adjoining DR.. Samuel
Galley, on Garden street, has been pur-
chased by Ellis G. Taylor, for $500.
Letters testamentary have been grant
ed to Robert s. Gaskill on the estate of
Ellen McHugh, deceased, of Mount Hol-
| ly.
Officer Job Collins will be the day po
liceman for the next two weeks. Last
night the officers donned their winter he'll
NETS
Granville W. Leeds has purchased the
farm of Jacob H. Leeds along the Ran
cocas creek for SIS, 145. 1t contains 999
acres.
Franklin Lightcap, proprietor of the
hotel at Medford, has concluded to retire
from business owing to continued i'll
health.
Mrs NJ A. Earnest, of Pemberton, who
deals in musical instruments, has sold
"a, 900 worth of instruments in one town
near Princeton.
The Democratic county committee has
engaged the Opera House for the evening
of November 3, at which time a political
rally will be held.
Is your sight failing? If so, have your
eyes fitted with properly adjusted glasses
by A. Gouley, graduated and practical
optician, 81 Main street.
w Roland Warrick, of Moorestown,
the well known half back of the foot ball
eleven of that place, has been engaged to
coach the Riverside team.
John P. and Sallie Lemon, his wife, of
Pemberton township, have been held for
court on charge of assault and battery
preferred by Anna B. Webb.
Rev. Norman Van Pelt Lewis, now act
ing as curate of st. Johns Church, Eliza
beth, has declined call to the assistant
rectorship of Grace Church, at Chicago
Joseph Conover, of Bridgeboro', was
relieved of some cash few days since by
a sneak thief entering his house and steal
ing tin box which contained the money.
Word has been received in Mount Holly
to the effect that Dr. W. W. Whitehead
was recently robbed of a considerable sum
of money in Boston, by having his pocket
picked.
A nice lot of palms, ferns, rubbers and
fern pans for house and table decoration
at the usual reasonable prices. Sage
palms e to 10 leaves at 150 each. Ros
bach, Pemberton.
The pastor Rev C. A. Jackson, and the
members of the A. NJ. E. Zion Church at
Timbucto wish to thank the people of
Mount Holly for contributions amounting
to $12.96 for repairs to the Church.
The publication of the Mechanic, which
was started by the late H. B. Smith in the
interest of the machine company, at Smith
vile, will be resumed with an issue this
month. 1t will contain sixteen pages.
The members of Company will give
fair and festival in their armory on Fri
day and Saturday evenings, November II
and ~. Admission ten cents. Several
valuable articles will be given away to
ticket holders.
There is not prettier plant throughout
the whole county now than the poison
ivy, and those who gather foliage should
exercise the greatest care. With the frost
these leaves turn to the deepest red and
include the most beautiful of autumnal
tints
j. Fred Laumaster, manager of the
Opera House, has in his possession an As
trakhan cape with fur collar that was
found oftar tba Tunior Moobon;os, nor
Torrance on Tuesday evening. 1t is de
sired that the owner call for the same.
Louis F. Lowden is considered hero
at Riverton. On Tuesday two men
stopped him and demanded his money
Lowden drew carpenters rule from his
pocket and pointed it at his assailants,
who thought the rule was revolver and
at once gave up. They were sent to jail
and were indicted by the grand jury.
The outbuildings on the farm of Henry
Keeler, near Arneytown, together with
one hundred tons of hay, five hundred
bushels of wheat and a large quantity of
potatoes, were destroyed by fire, the work
,
day morning; loss, $4,000. The buildings
were insured, but there is no insurance
upon the crops.
DR.. Joseph DeVoll, of Philadelphia,
while in Mount Holly recently, arranged
some of the mineral exhibits in the Bur
lington County Lyceum of History and
Natural Science The doctor is a mining
expert engineer and is now in North Car
DINA with DR.. Samuel Galley, where they
have arranged to mine for gold in fields
that have been worked before.
Representative Gardner, after a four
hours effort at the Postotfice Department
in Washington on Friday, succeeded in
Strengthening out the tangled rural de-
livery question in the Second District.
to Mount Laurel and Evesboro carrier
will be placed soon. Mr.. Gardner went
over with the authorities at the Depart
ment the whole field of rural delivery
William N. Slack, of the firm of Hill &
Slack, prominent architects of Trenton,
went sailing in small yacht down the
Delaware on Saturday. Upon leaving
home he told his wife that he would re-
turn in few hours. On Sunday his yacht
was found at White Hill, near Borden
town 1t was capsized and since Slack
has not yet returned home, it is feared
that he was drowned A search for his
body was commenced at once, and it was
found in the water at White Hill yester-
| dav. near where the nnturned boat was