The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-22

John L. Severns will act as day police
man for the next two weeks.
Quite number of the Lumberton shoe
makers are now working at Riverside.
Joseph G. Bower had his store newly
papered last week by I. Walter Borton.
| Owen Bros. are selling asparagus roots
and strawberry plants cheap. Call and
see them.
A box sociable was held in the rooms of
Star of Washington Council, Daughters of
America, last evening
Rodman Bidwell wants to get rich
quick, and to that end he is contemplate
ing trip to the Klondike.
The remains of Mrs. Elizabeth White, of
Burlington, were inferred In the Mount
| Holly cemetery on Wednesday.
A large number were present at the box
social given last evening by the Daugh-
ters of America in the lodge room.
Mrs. Charles RodmaD, of Burlington,
was taken to the Trenton hospital last
week, as she recently lost her mind.
Wllhelmina, the infant daughter of
Frederick and Wilhelmina Joos, of
Hainesport, was buried on Thursday after
noon.
Harry Murphy and Bert Donnelly have
secured situations as shoe cutters in fac
tory at Reading, Pa, where they are now
working.
A sermon will be delivered in the Sa-
cred Heart Church on Wednesday even
ing, March %, by Rev. D. ]. Duggan, of
BordentowD.
The best and lightest running bicycles
For sale by W. S. Rendell, 203 Mount
Holly avenue.
Justice Clevenger had quite good
many calls last week by persons who
wanted to rent houses. and several were
taken by good tenants.
Immortelle and wax flowers, sprays for
funerals and decorating graves from 25c.
up. Fern pans, palms, ETC., at similar
prices. Rosbach's, Pemberton.
Not having any sales of his own, Sheriff
Fleetwood, accompanied by William H.
Reeves, drove over to Burlington on We'd
nesday and attended an auction,
Frank Wright, corner of Union and
Buttonwood Streets has dispensed with
the business of chicken raising and will
try his hand at vegetable growing.
The Daughters of America, of Lumber
ton, gave a very enjoyable supper on Sat-
urday evening. The Vincentown band
was present and discoursed fine music.
A large tree that was felled on Button
wood street few days since fell inward,
and when it struck the ground it carried
down many yards of the fences in that
vicinity.
Ramon Paoli, Spaniard who was for
merly student at the Academy, is prob
ably disguised with his mother country,
as he intends to become citizen of the
United States.
The fine weather of the past week has
doomed the bicycle business. Not only
this but it has forced nature, and a cold
snap accompanied with frost might do a
vast amount of injury.
Rev. J. H. Durham, who has been en-
joying brief vacation in the South, re-
turned home Thursday. On Wednesday
he had the pleasure of meeting President
Mckinley at Washington.
Ex-Sherif Townsend states most en-
phaticaIly that he is not candidate for
the position of County Clerk, and that he
never authorized the use of his name in
connection with that Office.
At the meeting of the Township Com
mittee, held on Tuesday evening, George
II. Branson, John L. Seyerns, Thomas B.
Denness and Job Collins were reap
pointed policemen for the ensuing year.
Rev. Father Lyons, of the Sacred Heart
Church, Mount Holly, gave lecture on
st. Pauls Church, Burlington, on We'd
nesday evening, to very large audience.
On Sunday morning, at the Sacred
Heart Church, Solemn Requiem Mass was
offered for the repose of the souls of the
members of the crew of the ill fated bat
tleshlp Maine, whose lives were lost in the
harhor nj Havana
On Friday evening the Knights of Pyth-
las of Mount Holly gave the third degree
to four candidates and one proposition
was received. Policeman Thomas Den
ness will take a whack at that big pin
next Friday night. There were 1891
members in the order in this state at the
beginning of the present month.
John R. Howell isTevidently promo
ter of promptness in the matter of pay
ing insurance. Caleb S. Huff, whose barns
were destroyed by fire on Thursday
morning, had 5000 insurance placed with
Mr.. Howell's agency, and this amount of
loss was adjusted in full the next day.
This settlement was certainly pretty quick
work.
Following is the list of unclaimed let
ters in the pest-ofice for the week end
ing March 10: Mrs. Manda Barnes, Miss
Ella Dire, Miss Agnes Grover, DR.. A. M.
Huron, Mrs. A. P. Lentz, Miss Marie Nc
Allister, DIR. E. w. Read, Mrs. VIM. s.
Shinn, T. G. Smith, Mrs. Lurana Smith,
Mr.. William Still, Mrs. Lena White. Pos
tails, j. B. Horner,
w. ]. Stokes, of Beverly, has had pa
tented bicycle cover that is used to pro-
tect the wheel when placed on the cars,
etc. 1t is considered a very good thing
for the protection OF wheels. Storey &
Sons, of Mount Holly, have contract to
make large number of springs with
which to snap on the covering. The
whole arrangement can be carried in the
tool bag.
The members of the Princeton Univer-
sity Symphony Club gave very pleasing
performance in the Opera House, on
Wednesday evening, but the boys were
not greeted by very large audience.
After the programme vas finished the
students and their lady friends enjoyed
dancing on the stage. The Mount Holly
Athletic Association, for whose benefit
the entertainment was given, realized
nothing, as the receipts just about paid
the expenses.
John Bill, 35 Church street, desires to
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