The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-09-06

| granted an original pension OF So pc
month
The public schools will open to-day
All the rooms were thoroughly fumigatet
last week.
| Rooms to rent, furnished or unfurn
ished. Also lodging. Apply at IL
Union street
Solomon R. Simons, of Vincentown
who is i'll with paralysis, is not improv
ing very fast.
| The postoffice at Evesboro has been dis
continued and the patrons of that office
will receive their letters at Marlton here
after.
Junior Mechanics did not draw any sick
benefits at their meeting on last Tuesday
evening
The paving of lower Water street will
be finished this week. The work would
have been done sooner but for the delay
in receiving stone.
The Uncle Toms Cabin Company that
played here ON Thursday, purchased from
Walter G. Haines the little burro that he
brought from Denver with him
1t is said that II. Charles Hale, who for
merly resided here, and who was reported
at one time to be dying from consump
ton, is getting well, and he is coming
north again.
Austin R. Haines, well known in Mount
Holly, was overcome by the heat in Cam
den on Friday and taken to the Cooper
Hospital for treatment, after which he
soon recovered.
Matters are quite lively down at MARI
ton. Two new physicians have located
there, and rivalry among the grocery
stores is causing brooms to be sold at
four cents apiece
Albert Gray has rented the barber shop
on Main street., recently vacated by Thos.
Holland. The owner, Capt. Walter A.
Barrows, says he intends to make radical
improvements there.
At the Friends quarterly meeting on
Tuesday, interesting addresses were made
by DR.. Franklin Haines, of Rancocas, Su-
san Walters, of Bordentown and Walter
Laing, of Bristol, Pa.
The announcement is made of the APP
preaching marriage of Rev. John W.
Lynch, of Titusville, and Miss Airline B.
Ogburn, on Thursday, October 6, at the
residence of the bride in Mount Holly.
Many colored people from Mount Holly
went to Washington Park, on Tuesday
evening, on moonlight excursion down
the Delaware, given by members of the
Pearl Street NJ E. Church, Burlington.
The stone road from Chambers Corner
to Columbus will be completed in the
course of the next two weeks. A steam
roller is now being used, which gives
more satisfaction than the horse roller.
Three members of Company F, who
were unable to join their companions on
previous occasion, went to Sea Girt on
Tuesday and enjoyed several hours at
rifle practice. Two of them qualified.
Having returned from an unsuccessful
expedition to the Klondike, DIR. E. A.
Hambright, of Philadelphia, was in Mount
Holly on Tuesday. He related many in
teresting experiences of his trip to the
gold fields
Although having discussed the advisa-
bility of removing his printing office to
his residence on Murrell street, Albert P.
Cardwell says he intends to remain where
he is as long as business will warrant him
in doing 50.
Litigation has begun over the settle
ment of the estate of Joseph Hinchman,
deceased, of Medford, as objection has
been made over the appraisement and
also to Nathan Lippincott serving as one
of the administrators.
The Deposit On. V Courier, under date
of September /, contained the following
in its local columns Miss Mary Vain
wright and Harry j. Cable, of Mount
Holly, N. j., came on the Mountain Ex-
press last evening to live with A. M.
Cable"
Howell & Jones began yesterday to pick
cranberries on their boys at Mountain
Run Walter s. Jones has charge of the
work, and during the picking season he
will be assisted by J. Sexton Folwell, of
Mount Holly, who will return each Satur-
day.
Wanted, number of people to buy
crimson and yellow Rambler rose bushes
Cover two feet high at 20 cents each, and
a variety of other roses just as cheap;
also lot of bedding and vase plants at
about half regular prices at Rosbach's,
Pemberton.
On Thursday, before Justice Slack,
hearing was to have been given in the
case of U. S. Culinary against Anthony
Phillips & Son, of Mount Holly to re-
cover sos for new roofs put on defend
ants buildings on Water street, but upon
request the case was adjourned for two
weeks.
On Sunday morning, just after he had
emerged from the Baptist Church, the
youngest son of Theo. Small was overcome
with the heat and sank to the pavement
at the corner of Garden and Buttonwood
streets. He was taken to his home on
Union street by his grandmother, where
he soon recovered.
On Tuesday evening man named John
Green, of Pemberton, tried to clean out
the Mill street hotel and complaint was
made against him by the proprietor, Grant
Davis The defendant was taken before
Justice, and when friends interfered in
his behalf and he promised to go home he
was allowed to depart.
On account of the disarrangement of
some harness, horse driven by Powell
Wetherill ran away ON Union street Tues
day evening, but did no damage. His
sister, who was in the carriage, became
very much frightened and jumped out in
front of the residence of Jere H. Colkitt
where the animal was brought up.
A law suit between DR.. Carter, of Jobs
town, and George Brown, was to have
been tried before Squire Hagaman, al
Juliustown, on Saturday, but when thu
appointed hour arrived the justice de
cided that his mental faculties were il
such condition as to require attention