The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-14


envy is offered for sale by the Sheriff
Evening bicycle runs to Birmingham
and Pemberton are quite popular now
Governor Voorhees, has been requested
by Col Bamford to call out the Seventh
regiment.
Miss Annie German, who was taken i'll
in the opera house on Tuesday evening,
has fully recovered.
The eating saloon on Mill street, con-
Quoted by Capt. Middleton, has been
closed for the summer.
A number of dogs that have acted in a
suspicious manner about town during the
past week have been killed.
The Lumberton Epworth League gave
very profitable fair and festival in Me-
chanics' hall on Saturday evening.
A cash from rusty knife blade has
caused Mark Sooy, Jr., considerable pain
and trouble during the past week.
| Quite large force of men is now en-
gagged in setting out cranberry plants,
most of which came from Cape Cod.
John Cotton, who has for many years
acted as night clerk at Creed's hotel,
! Vincentown, has given up his position.
The new hall that is being erected by
the Junior Mechanics of Wrightstown
will be dedicated on the Fourth of July.
C. E. Hendrickson, Jr., and Ralph W..
Deacon, of Mount Holly, were graduates
at the University of Pennsylvania last
week.
Phil Karg, on King street, has only first
class groceries and provisions and his
prices are extremely low. Also dry goods
at city prices.
Unclaimed letters remaining in the post
office for the week ending June 9th: John
Funtz, Miss Mamie Gibbs l. Schaffer, F.
F. Wannamaker Postals, Mrs. Chas. H.
Coleman, Edward Johnson.
The newly appointed teachers for the
schools in Springfield township are Mary
Wilkinson, for Mount school, Lizzie D.
Wetherill, Jobstown; Mary Engle, Spring
field; Fanny Powell, Juliustown.
The Kenilworth wheelmen, of Phil
adelphia, enjoyed a run to Mount Holly
on Sunday. The Riverside wheelmen also
passed through town on their way to Penn
berton.
The Mount Holly Banjo, Mandolin and
Guitar Club are getting in shape for an
entertainment which they intend to give
in the opera house in the fall. E. D.
Holeman has been elected leader of the
club
A handsome American flag, 80 feet long,
was stolen from the Palmyra public
school some time during Friday night.
The flag had just been presented to the
school by Washington Camp, P. 0. S. A.
Rev. James Kennedy, of Trenton, was
present at the Presbyterian Church on
Sunday, and in the morning he preached
an excellent sermon. The childrens day
exercises, which were held in the evening,
were very interesting and we'll attended
1t has not yet been fully determined
whether the Davis & Hancock Co., of
Bridesburg, Pa, will remove their bust
ness to Mount Holly. The members of
the firm have little difference of their
own to settle before any action will be
taken.
The remains of Capt. Gridley, who fired
the first shot of the Cuban war, were
cremated at Hong Kong, ON Friday.
Capt Douglass Ottinger had his flag
floating at half mast in respect to the
memory of the deceased naval officer, who
was a warm personal friend of Capt.
Ottinger.
| As Granville Woolman and his sister
Anne, of Vincentown, were out riding a
few evenings since, the horse became
scared at a bicycle lamp. The animal
turned short and threw both occupants
into ditch. The rider of the wheel dis
mounted and prevented the horse from
running away.
Gen. A E. Shiras Post, No. 26, G. A.
R., at its meeting last week, passed a
resolution expressing thanks to the ladies
of Logan Circle, the Ladies' Aid of the
Sons of Veterans, Baptist Young Peoples
Union, the ladies of the W. C. T. u, and
citizens generally for contributions OF
flowers and refreshments on Memorial
Day Also to Walter A. Barrows, the
orator of the occasion.
Geraniums SOC to $1.00 per doz; Coleus,
Verbenas, &C., 35c per doz; Astors, Snap
dragons, Cosmos (early and late flowering)
Scabiosa (mourning bride) 10c per doz.
Hardy herbaceous plants in variety will
bloom this season, 15c per clump. Roses
81. 90 to 81. 80 per doz., other plants in va
riety all at prices below the usual cata
logue rates. As we publish no expensive
price list and sell only for cash, you arr
not expected to help pay some one else'
bills or unnecessary expenses. A. & G
Rosbach, Pemberton
A suit was tried before Justice Haga
man, at Juliustown, on Thursday. Aarol
R. Pitman recovered $37. 80 from. Thoma
Pitman the amount of store bill con
tracted by the defendent The latter de
mand an appraisement of his possessions
and when this was made the goods wer
|, found to be worth only $146. The sal
was then declared off, as the defendan
awaited himself of the exemption Above
by law to the amount of 5000.
On the 9Th inst negotiations were un
} der way for the withdrawal of the charg
against Isaac Harris, for assault and bat
terry on Sophia Atkinson On Tuesda
morning Harris wanted to go away and h
asked his wife to accompany him to tn
J Grant street station. Upon arriving Their
he asked her to go on further, and finall
| they reached a point near Wood lane sta
ton, when. without warning, Harris bt
, gan to beat his wife. He cut her in til
face and on the head and treated her BAG
ly Finally she made her escape, and q
she was coming toward Mount Holly COY
cred with blood, her husband stopped
trolley, and after reaching Burlingto
f took train for Philadelphia. A warran
q has been issued for his arrest.
e John Bill, 35 Church street, desires
: inform his friends and the public that h
4 has on hand line of sale work which b
offers at low Philadelphia prices. Men
e from 81 25 to $2.75; boys from $1.10
. 81 20; youths from S1O0 to 81. 10; ladie
f from ST. to So. %; misses from S1.0O
t $115; childrens from 70 cents to 80 cent
e Also. some of his own manufacture /
e $3.50. Also a large stock of custom an
b factory shoes from the oldest and large