The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-09-27

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: The Howard bicycle hub factory, o
|. King street, started up on Friday.
: The Advertiser has resumed publication
with Elwell H. Shemeley as its editor.
The raspberry vines in the yard of
/ K. Parker, on Broad street, are in full
bloom
/ Isaac Fenimore has purchased hous
and lot on King street from Mrs. Julia NJ
Hume.
3 Mrs. Seth Melvin, of Juliustown, i
: suffering with sprained knee, the result
of fall
f John Smith, of Wrightstown, recently
killed an opossum which had nine young
ones in her pouch
Lemuel Sweet, of Pemberton, has beer
, granted pension B. H. White was at
torney in the case.
Rev John Bows Hills has resigned as
associate rector of St. Mary's Church
West Philadelphia.
A number of new men have been given
employment at the PHOSPHORUS works
located near Centreton.
: Doc" Bishop, of Rancocas, will have
on exhibition at the Trenton fair a water
melon weighing 66 pounds.
Robert G. Reid, foreman of Prickett's
leather factory, on Garden street, sailed
ON Saturday for Dundee Scotland.
i If the Trenton fair gets through this
week without wetting it will be lucky,
as the equinoctial storm is now due.
There is no particular time for paying
up back subscriptions to your paper.
Fall is just as good time as spring.
New victims of the golf fever appear
most every day, and it is possible that the
game will be introduced in Mount Holly.
Alfred Kimber, of Riverside, clerk at
Andersons canning factory has occupied
his present position for the past ten sea
sons
The condition of Samuel A. Dobbins
Jr., stationed at Fort Wadsworth, who
has been seriously i'll with typhoid fever,
is much improved.
| II. H. Earnest, of Mount Holly, was
presented with handsome piano, on
Thursday, by his mother, Mrs. M. A. Ear
nest, of Pemberton.
Sheriff Edward Emley, who is liv
ing ON his farm near Jacobstown, enter
tanned a number of his Mount Holly
friends on Wednesday.
| The annual convention of the Burling
ton County Sunday School Association
will be held in the Baptist Church, at
Moorestown, on Thursday, November 1.
Frank B. Atkinson, who recently re-
moved to Moorestown, has been awarded
the graphophone left over from the re-
cent fair given by the Relief Fire Com
pany.
1t is said that company will be formed
among the people of Chatsworth to put
up cranberries in glass jars, and that
glass factory will be erected there to make
the jars.
| Mr. and Mrs Samuel L. Tomlinson cell
ebrated the 33d anniversary of their we'd
ding on Tuesday evening by gathering
of friends at their residence on Washing
ton street.
Saturday night rackets are becoming so
| frequent of late that it may be necessary
to appoint special officers for the occasion
in order to preserve the peace in several
localities.
The Wills farm on the Rancocas creek,
near Centreton, and owned by Amos
Gibbs, of Mount Holly, has been ex
changed for handsome cottage at At
lantic City.
mortgage for 5000 on the Methodist
Church at Florence, was publicly cremat-
ed on Thursday evening in the presence
of large congregation. This was made
possible by legacy received from the
Robert Patterson estate.
Farmers in this vicinity are making eff
forts to prevent the commission merchants
and others from retaining the baskets in
which fruit and truck are shipped. 1t is
proposed to charge an excess for the bas-
kets, and to remit this upon their return
The chicken farm at Hainesport, be-
longing to Harry Fl. Cross, ]. Blake Slack
and Charles E. Hendrickson, Jr., is pros
pering The young men now have some
500 chickens They are undecided as to
whether to kill them now or hold them
over until spring.
Charles HI. Pittman is the hero of the
Mary Ann Forge cranberry bog near Han
over, he having killed large rattlesnake
last week after the reptile gave battle for
its life 1t is said that an unusually large
number of rattlers have been seen in that
vicinity this year.
At New York, on Thursday, the ship
George Stetson arrived after a long trip
from the Hawaiian Islands, coming around
Cape Horn On board were Captain Pat
ton and wife, of Mount Holly, and Miss
Bessie Smith, of Vincentown. The party
were all well, and had been ON the ocean
| for nearly year.
The management of the Keswick Col
ony of Mercy, situated near Writings, the
| object of which is to afford men and wo-
men who have been reduced by drink or
otherwise chance to reform, has issued
an appeal for contributions of cots, linen,
tools, cast off clothing, and money, which
should be addressed to Charles F. Cripps,
treasurer, 1888 North Ninth street, Phila-
delphia.
Rev Peter Carey, former resident of
Mount Holly, is picking cranberries in
the pines, but this does not prevent him
from holding camp meeting at Browns
Mills. His object is to raise money for
| the erection of church at Cranberry
Hill; but he is meeting with trouble, be-
cause some of the citizens there are in
terested in another religious organization,
and they are putting obstacles in his way.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has been investigating complaint made
that boys have been throwing stones at
the cars as they pass the cemetery on Pine
street, and on Wednesday special officer
Aaron E. Burr arrested Charles Simons,
who is charged with having thrown the
missiles with slung shot. Justice Slack
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