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

Having rented a house at Moorestown,
Daniel A Sweeney removed there last
week.
1t is said that a new shirt factory is one
of the possibilities for Florence, in the
near future.
According to all representations this is
to be cold winter, with plenty of snow
and heavy rains.
agus on Friday. 1t was regarded as quite
a curiosity for this season of the year.
The tax rate in Northampton township
for the present year has been fixed at
81 80, an increase of five cents over last
year.
Inspectors appointed to ascertain if rev.
enue stamps have been affixed to goods in
compliance with the new law, are now
going about.
Samuel s. Stackhouse, of Juliustown,
has been granted an original pension of
SO per month. Blanchard II. White
acted as attorney in the case.
Eli Shaw has offered a reward of $500
for the arrest of the person who murder
ed his mother and grandmother
Edward W. Durham, of Trenton,
brother of Rev. J. H. Durham, of Mount
Holly, was married on Wednesday, to
Miss Julia Coe Silvers, of Cranbury.
Flannelette skirts for 25 cents. nice
ly-made skirt for 80 cents. Good black
stockings 10 cents per pair. A beautiful
corset for 80 cents in white and colored.
S. S. Evan, % Main street.
The Masonic Home, near Burlington,
now has nine inmates, most of whom
come from the upper part of the state.
| One good feature about this home is the
fact that man and wife are not separated
in their old age.
The Fourth Regiment, New Jersey Vol
unteers, has been removed from Sea Girt
to Camp Meade. The members of this
regiment will probably appear in the
peace jubilee parade to be held in Phila-
delphia, on the Goth and 9th.
The W. c. T. U. will hold it's regular
meeting at the home of Mrs. Mark r.
Sooy, Main street, Wednesday afternoon,
at 2 O'Clock Any old members not hav-
ing be a asked to join the present union
will be very welcome to join.
For several years William Hughes, re-
siding on Woolman street, has been suf
fering from injuries to one of his legs, re-
ceived while cutting trees, and of late has
gradually been growing worse until now
it has assumed such nature that in
order to save his life it is believed it will
be necessary to amputate the member.
Edward Hults has appeared before JUS
tice Clevenger and given his side of the
trouble existing between his family and
that of William H. Foster, who last week
had warrants issued for the arrest of the
Hultz family. The testimony showed the
Fosters to have been the aggressors, and
perhaps they got the worst of the scrim-
mage.
If you read an advertisement to the eff
feet that certain firm in some distant city |
will sell you an elegantly tinted engrav
ing of the battleship Maine for one dollar,
said engraving approved by the United
States government, don't bite. They will |
send you two cent revenue stamp, and
you'll have no one to blame but yourself
for your stupidity
The election officers having made their
canvass for the names of all legal voters,
it is now the duty of every person who de-
sires to vote at the coming election to ex
anime the registers to see that his name
has been properly recorded If this i'm
portant matter is attended to now, no one
will be deprived of his right to cast a bal
lot on the 8th of November
Frank S. Davis and J. Fred Kiner, two
practical shoe manufacturers of Mount
Holly, are endeavoring to form company
to be known as the Northampton Shoe |
Company, their object being to engage in
the manufacture of shoes The capital |
stock will be $40, 900, composed of 1000
shares at $40 each. An effort is now
being made to sell the stock, and it is |
hoped that the undertaking may prove
success.
A member of the Junior Mechanics,
who has quite an appetite for oysters, was
informed that the lodge was going to have
an oyster supper on Tuesday evening, af-
ter the anniversary exercises, and went in
70 troiDinor for tho Ocoooiop Inv raf,1oipr 70
eat any supper at his boarding place that
evening His feeling can be imagined |
when the longed desired oysters made |
their appearance in the form of ice cream
and cake
Frank Rigg, of Jacksonville, who grew
an extraordinary acreage of fine wheat |
has had nearly all of the crop destroyed
by the Hessian fly Edward B. Deacon
and Christopher Wctherill, of the Burling-
ton road, have also lost heavily through
the same pest Many other farmers in
that vicinity have suffered loss from the
Hessan fly, and unless something is done
to prevent the spread of the pest, it will
in few years destroy the entire eastern
yield.
Prominent citizens of that vicinity are
talking of organizing a trolley company
to run line from Trenton via Allentown,
New Egypt, Cassville, and Lakewood to
Point Pleasant. The places mentioned
are only about eight or nine miles apart,
covering a distance of about forty-fve
miles Train service between New Egypt
and Trenton and Point Pleasant is very
unsatisfactory, while there is no railroad
at either Allentown or Cassville, both
thriving villages.
Rey Father Keuper, formerly pastor
here, but now of New Brunswick, will
lecture in the Sacred Heart Church.
Mount Holly, on Tuesday evening of next
week, on True Education the Vital Prin-
ciple of Democracy. Tickets twenty
five cents. Proceeds will be devoted to
lessening the heavy debt on the Church.
Father Keuper's ability as public speak
err, his popularity among the people here,
and the interesting character of the sub
ject will surely attract large audience.
The Pennsylvania Railroad station at
Riverside was broken into at an early
hour Thursday morning The thieves at
tempted to blow open the safe, but in this
they were only partially successful. Their
failure enraged them so that they demol-
ished everything in the office, breaking
windows, smashing the ticket case and