The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-09-13

mas rented one OF w llllaIn mason houses
on Union street
The Misses Wyllie will reopen theil
school for young ladies at their residence
on Broad street to-day.
The Birmingham Inn will close on Octo
Der l. j. Praul Rue, the proprietor, has
had a fairly good season.
Last week THE News omitted to men
ton the election of Thomas Sims as a
corporal of Company F.
Daniel NJ Milbine, of Camden, was re-
Gently painfully injured by the breaking
of board on his front step.
The members of the Epworth League
gave a pleasing entertainment in the M.
E. Church on Friday evening.
John Kale and Miss Lydia Giberson, of
Florence, were married in the Methodist
Church there on Wednesday,
George N. Lukens, well-known here, is
now the tourist and passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
An Italian child, living at Sheep Pen
Hill, near Magnolia, died last night. Cor
oner Grobler is making an investigation
After being laid up for several weeks
with rheumatism, Franklin Antrim has
resumed work in Archer's carriage fac
tory.
Rev. T. B. Nolan, who has been in
charge of the Catholic parish at Glouces-
ter City, has been transferred to Mount
Holly.
Howard Archer, who has been danger
ously i'll with typhoid fever, is getting
better, and he is now considered out of
danger.
Mrs. Harry Bond, of Riverside, a ty-
phoid fever patient, has been removed to
the home of her mother, Mrs. Eliza At
kinson, in Mount Holly.
In bicycle race at Tuckerton, on Sat
urday, Colby Worrell, of Buddtown, won
first prize in five mile handicap race and
third in one mile open.
On Thursday United States Marshal
Thomas J. Alcott will sell quantity of
diamonds at Jersey City. They were seized
while being Struggled into this country.
Theodore T. Joyce, having sold his
milk route to Charles Lewallen, will have
charge of the stationary engine at the
Howard bicycle hub factory on King
street.
Some of the finest tomatoes that have
come to the canning factories here this
season were from the farm of Henry Wor-
rell, near Buddtown. They were called
the "Stone.
DR.. r. H. Parsons, superintendent of
the Burlington County Hospital, last
week offered ten beds in the hospital for
the use of sick soldiers AS yet no def
mite acceptance has been received.
The Evening Bulletin has adopted
novel advertising medium by sending out
of the hard tack used by the sol
diers in the late war. Assay Bros. have
one of them on exhibition in their store
window.
The Locust Grove Club, of Burlington,
will by request repeat their annual out
ing at the club house on the Burlington
road on Thursday afternoon. When held
recently the storm interfered with the
being carried out.
Mrs. Thomas Holland visited Mount
Holly on Tuesday to look after some bust
ness matters in connection with the re-
cent sale of the effects belonging to her
colored husband. She was given a cold
by her former acquaintance.
The Rancocas Epworth League has ar
ranged series of lectures, the first of
which will be given on Friday evening.
The speaker will be Rev. Joseph Garrison,
of Crsmer Hill, whose subject will be
1.-The Dark Side of Life in Libby Prison.
Wanted, a 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.
E. c. Stahl, of Trenton, Grand Master
Workman of the Ancient Order of United
Workmen of New Jersey, will visit Good
Will Lodge, No. IA, at Mount Holly, on
Tuesday evening, the Goth inst, when all
the members are requested to turn out
and accord him a proper reception.
In another column will be found list
of the election officers for the coming year
as appointed by the County Board of
Election on Thursday, and filed with the
County Clerk on Saturday morning. The
only change in Mount Holly is that Will
liam j. Shannon succeeds Edward W.
Evan in the first district.
At the county convention of the Broth
erhood of the Union, held at Pemberton
on Tuesday evening, Blanchard H.
White, of Union Circle, No. 2, of Pember-
ton, was elected president, and ]. H.
Stackhouse, of Amo Circle, of Moores-
town, was made secretary. The next con-
vention will be held at Smithville.
Try George W. Durand if you want
strictly pure groceries and provisions at
the lowest cash prices. He has large
stock at his store, corner of Water and
King streets, Mount Holly. Orders called
for and delivered. Prompt attention given
to all customers, and satisfaction guaran-
teed. Also fresh and salt meats can be
obtained at lowest market prices.
A dog is said to have deliberately com
mitted suicide by jumping off the bridge
at the railroad station Thursday evening.
Lamps were secured and efforts made to
save the canine, who was seen to whirl
around in the water and go down for the
last time. His jumping overheard was de-
liberate, but some are of the opinion that
the animal might have been suffering
with fit.
In the Ocean county courts last week
Mark R. Sooy made application for road
in Little Egg Harbor township beginning
at centre line of East Main street, 80 link:
from corner of Pharo's grist mill to Yves
Main street at S. J. Ridgway's feed store
This is the. old Tuckerton mill dam, al
old as the town itself and all these years
two centuries used as a road. This nov
is to make it a public road so that thu