The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-10-04

contemplated by several Philadelphia cal
italists
Patrick Owens has purchased hous
on Monroe street from Samuel c. Mathis
for $780,
Hope 2. Deacon has purchased the
F. Gaskill farm in Springfield TOWNSHIP
for 81, s25.
Efforts are being made at Smithville
organize a branch of the Circle of til
Home Communion
A lot of pet white rats belonging t
John Mcfarland were recently killed b
dog breaking into the cage.
An eagle measuring five feet six inche
across the wings was recently shot b
John Perkins, near Bridgeboro,
The sum of $3.50 in premiums was wo
at the Elkton, Md, fair by the Progress
i've Farmers Club, of Coopertown.
Cook Smith, employed in the Florenc
foundry, had finger cut off on Tuesda
by planer in the pattern department.
On Wednesday attachments were mad
to the new main ON High street to suppl
a portion of the county buildings witt
water
Isaac s. Hancock, of Bordentown
while at Mansfield Square, was badly bit
ten on the arm by dog. The animal wa
killed
Sea Side Park is nearly deserted, a.
most of the people who occupy summe
cottages there have returned to thei
homes.
Fall millinery opening, Wednesday ant
Thursday, October and 6, to which yol
are welcome. l. H. Lippincott, No. II
Mill street
The Mount Holly National Bank Sc
cured Judgment against Nathan S
Schuyler for $2s. 80 last week in the Dis
trict court at Trenton.
Samuel G. Parker, of Mount Holly
was the auctioneer of the goods that were
sold at hotel Engleside, Beach Haven
Fair prices ruled the sale.
| Counterfeit pennies and half dollars are
said to be in circulation in Burlington
county. The latter contain enough glass
to give them the proper ring.
Charles E. Hendrickson, Jr., of Mount
Holly, who recently opened law office
at Jersey City, has entered into copart-
nership with Walter Collins, of that place
1t is said that efforts are being made tc
secure the pardon of Sydney Plumer, Of
Evesham township, who, in 1894, beat a
boy to death and threw the body into a
pond.
G. E. Bowker formerly of Mount Hol-
| ly, who several weeks ago lost bicycle,
found the same at the Trenton fair last
week, and the person who stole it is now
in Jail.
On Sunday evening there began in the
Methodist Church weeks service which
is in charge of Rev. Mr.. Scuddy, of Tex
as Meetings will be held every night
this week.
Goodrich's wagon show gave very
creditable performance on the lot back
of Wall street on Wednesday evening.
The performers were greeted by quite a
large audience.
Benjamin NJ Stiles, of Haddonfeld,
who will be remembered as former prin-
cipal of the Mount Holly public schools,
died at his home about week ago, at the
age of SO years.
Abel P Caldwell colored, of the Phil
adelphia Times, was in Mount Holly last
week looking up data for an article which
he is preparing on the colored people of
Burlington county.
The season for duck shooting opened
on October LIST, at which time the squirrel
season ended 1t will come in again,
however, on November 10, when it will
also be legal to shoot rabbits.
Charged with stealing horse belong
ing to Walter Deming, of Bridgeboro,
Frank Demont was last week arrested by
Officer Caleb Wright, of Moorestown,
and placed in the county Jail.
Sullivan's Troubadours appeared at the
Opera House last evening and presented
"a Celebrated Case" which was highly
appreciated. The company will present
different plays each night this week
A nf do IF
were placed in the county clerks office ON
Tuesday Owing to their economy of
space they will hold twice as many books
as the old shelves which they displace
While riding his bicycle in Burlington
on Tuesday evening, Joseph A. Ward, OF
Mount Holly, took a first-class header by
striking stone. One of his fingers was
painfully injured and the handle bar on
the wheel was broken.
At Palmyra, ON Thursday October 10
will be held the District Epworth League
Convention These delegates will repre-
sent the Mount Holly League: Rev. Mil
ton Relyea, Mrs. Henry Storey, Miss Eva
Stewart, Miss Elizabeth Dobbins and DR.
A. r. W. Atwood.
Selah Bowker, residing near Brown,
Mills, who was last week liberated from
Jail under habeas corpus proceedings be
cause of his refusal to pay the costs of (
suit, threatens to bring a suit for falls,
arrest against Leander B. Joyce the com
hitting magistrate.
On Wednesday morning invitations
were issued for the marriage of Mis-
Della Ruth Wolf, of Oil City, Pa, anC
Martin Bayersdorfer, of Mount Holly
to take place in Mercantile Hall. Phil
adelphia, on Wednesday evening, Octo
Der 10, at o'clock.
George D. Worrell has received con
tracts to place the hot water heating sys
TEN in the residences of Howard Elan
ders and Griffith W. Lewis, of Burling
ton, and George Wills, of Columbus Nj
Worrell is also engaged in putting il
steam heat at the Masonic Home.
The following unclaimed letters remain
in the Mount Holly post office: JOSEPH
Atkinson, Charles Carson, S. E. Dubell
Co., Mrs H. L. Ficks, Mrs VIM. H. Het
lern, Percy Jackson. Antonio Scorga, R
Stevens & Co., Jennie L. Thompson Pos
tails: Alfred Hood, Harry Woodson.
Invitations have been issued for tn
wedding of George A. Wills, of Colun
bus, and Miss Beulah s., daughter of d.