The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07
LOCAL NEWS.

Camp, of Pine street, was buried yester
day afternoon.
The bodies of the two women who wer,
drowned at Palmyra on Decoration da,
were recovered on Tuesday
Robert M. Huff, of Mount Holly, ma
rine in the United States navy, has beer
assigned to the gunboat Peoria.
Quite number of Mount Holly citi
zens went to Burlington on Thursday ant
inspected the Dutch Neck fishery
The Sea Side Park Company has bought
a 40 horse power gasoline engine to rur
an electric light works for the town.
The children of the Mount Holly pub
lie schools have contributed the sum Of
S. toward the Maine monument fund
Rev. James Stoddard, D. D., of Brook
Ign, is now in charge of the parish of St
Andrews p E. Church, of Mount Holly
Centennial Circle, No. 10, Brotherhood
of the Union, of Masonville, will hold a
strawberry festival on Saturday evening
18th inst.
The annual picnic for the scholars OF
Trinity Sunday schools will be held in the
woods near Hainesport, on Thursday, OF
next week.
A coating of gravel has been placed on
portion of the stone road leading to the
WOODLAND station and on the West Wash
ington street road.
The greatest attraction in Burlington
county on July 4, will be seen on the
Mount Holly fair grounds. Five thousand
people are expected to be present.
The report of the physicians to Assessor
Girven for last week shows one new case
of diphtheria and one cured, and that the
scarlet fever patients are all recovering.
One or two pension vouchers that had
been signed with an indelible blue lead
pencil were returned to Mount Holly last
week by the department at Washington.
William Pease, of Key West, Fla, son of
Horace Pease, of Mount Holly, fell from
an embankment a distance of twenty five
feet, one night recently, and broke leg.
The merchants of Mount Holly have ar
ranged to close their stores at six O'Clock
on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, be-
ginning June 18th and ending September
10TH
The contest over the will of DR.. J. w.
Green, the wealthy hermit of Wading
River, will come up for hearing before
the Orphans court ON Thursday of next
week.
Individual communion cups were intro
duced in Merchantville for the first time
on Sunday; in the Merchantville Baptist
Church. The new plan was highly COM
mended
The barns on the Barclay Haines farm,
near Medford, were destroyed by fire yes
terday afternoon. All the live stock was
saved except one calf The cause of the
fire is not known.
On Sunday night some one entered the
yard of John B. Davis, corner of Broad
and Cherry streets, and carried away some
choice flowers that were taken from the
urns on the lawn.
The phosphorus works at Centreton
have been sold by Robert L. Shelter to
the Rancocas Chemical Works. The sale
includes the manufacturing plant and
twelve acres of land.
n y Parcono and CanonoI Y SonD bava
placed in their meat markets a new de-
sign of scales, which without any manip-
ulation whatever shows the exact weight
of the meat and the price it amounts to.
Mount Holly Lodge, No. IA, F. and A.
M, will entertain the members of Radiant
Star Lodge, of Frankfort, Pa, on the
evening of June 10. 1t is expected that
$50 visitors will arrive on special train.
Three girls escaped from the State In
dustrial School, at Trenton, on Tuesday
One of them was Annie Chamberlain, of
Jobstown, who was committed for steal
ing. The girls were caught later in the
day.
Last Tuesday morning Susanna, the
wife of John Kessler of Fork Landing,
died suddenly about five o'clock of sup
posed heart disease. The deceased was
43 years of age and leaves family of five
children,
Shirt waists only 40 cents. 1t is worth
more than that to make one. Also, shirt
waist sets, collar and cuff buttons. Cam
brio corset covers, trimmed with Hamburg
edging, only 81 cents. S. S. Evan, 2s
Main street.
The annual commencement of the
Mount Holly High school will take place
In the Opera House this evening. Seats
will be reserved for those holding tickets
until 7.45, at which time the doors will be
thrown open to the public.
William Rogers, the oil dealer, has beer
missing from his home since Friday last
when he purchased ticket for Philadel
phia His wife and children are at los.
to account for his absence. Rogers was
formerly brakeman on the Pennsylvania
railroad.
A cable message announces the election
as Bishop of Rio Grande de Sui Brazil
of the Rev. Lucien L. Kinsolving. Mr.
Kinsolving has been engaged as mission
airy in Brazil for several years. He mar
ried Miss Alice Brown, daughter of tn,
late Charles Brown, of Mount Holly.
The commissioners who have been look
ing into the value of the Camden ant
Marlton turnpike have fixed the figures a
SAG, 52172. Burlington county's share i
SIG, 451 56, of which So, $50 is for bridges
1t remains with the Board of Freebooter
to decide whether to purchase the turn
pike.
The Relief Fire Company, at its meetin!
last night, accepted an invitation to tax
part in the parade that is to be held il
Burlington on Thursday, October 90
The Company decided to have a pair o
horses at the engine house all day on tn
Fourth of July, and also to hold its regu
lar July meeting on the 18th instead o
the 4th.
A colored fife and drum corps parade
through the streets on Saturday evenin
headed by drum major. While playin
in front of Zelley's hotel the music evi
IDENTIFY was getting too lively and secon
drum major began to help out, using
billiard cue which had been taken fror
the hotel Landlord Zelley noticed tn
proceedings and promptly seized the cue
The Mount Holly Insurance Compan
has decided to have a sale of all its re
naming assets in the fall, at which tim