The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-07-04
All kinds Of fresh vegetables at cava

o All kinds Of fresh vegetables at Cavs
naugh's, 80 Main street.
j. The eighth annual excursion Of Medfort
Grange to Atlantic City will take place OF
d July 20.
A new bridge is to be built on the Jobs
4 town turnpike, near the upper toll gate
this week.
4 William Gaskill and wife, of Pember
ton, visited Mount Holly relatives oil
Wednesday
Announcement is made of the engage
ment of DIR. W. P. Haines and Miss Flor
: ence Brick, of Marlton.
Samuel Colder has been limping around
for few days as the result Of piece Of
iron falling on his foot.
Thaddeus Woolston has been deprived
of the use of one of his eyes as the result
of an attack of erysipelas.
A new school house is to be built in
Delran township. 1t will be put up at
Fairview and will cost 81 800.
A camp meeting win be held at Rance
cas- from July ~ to &c. Rev. Ii. L. Den
linger, of Marlton, will be in charge.
A number of people were out on Thurs
day evening viewing the northern lights,
which for time were quite brilliant.
The Tuckerton and New Gretna Tele-
phone Company has been organized, and
a line will be run from those two places
Rev. ]. r. Thompson, of the Glassboro
Methodist Episcopal Church, has been
granted a months vacation. He is quite
Ill.
i Charged with having assaulted his
mother, John Mollison, of Masonville, was
arrested and committed to Jail on Tues
day
Hal. James, of Burlington, popular
dancer who has pleased Mount Holly aud
Fences, is performing this week in Proc
tors theatre. New York
"Kaighn," the handsome English coach
dog belonging to ]. Fred Laumaster, will
WCui u DCdubilui picCc VI IlDUOu JO-udJ,
a gift from lady admirer
Abner Cross, of Washington street, who
went to Wrightstown last week for the
benefit of his health was brought home
on Friday feeling much worse.
A special town meeting is to be called
in Burlington township for the purpose of
providing funds for the grading of the
new stone road to Mount Holly.
A trip through the country shows that
many of the farmers have cut their grain
and stored it away The work of har
vesting was accomplished quite early this
year.
Ellen Devlin, alias King, is the name of
ton street at the West End hotel, Tuesday
evening, by Officer Denness. The woman
was drunk and disorderly.
Some of the convicted thieves at the
Jail were photographed last week by B.
Frank Stidfole. The work was done at
the order of Detective Ellis II. Parker,
who will soon be able to start his "rogues
gallery"
| A. L. Lippincott, farmer out on Wood
lane whose barns were recently destroyed
by fire, is one of the very few farmers
who has fine piece of timothy. 1t is
very thick and healthy and nearly up to
the usual average
Following is list of the unclaimed let
ters remaining in the post office for the
week ending July 1: Mrs, Pottenes Aye
men, Miss Blanche Branin, Mrs. George
Dennis, Walter Earring, Mrs. Addie Har-
grove, Henry Jackson, Myron Weedham.
David V. Holmes, editor of the Bur
| lington Enterprise, has an idea that If the
members of the Burlington base ball club
were given a diet of Indian meal they
would be able to beat the Mount Holly
ball club in the game today that is to be
played at the fair grounds
Capt Walter A. Barrows, who has been
spending two weeks at Indianapolis, as a
representative to the annual meeting of
the Supreme Lodge of the Ancient Order
of United Workmen, returned home on
Friday. Mr.. Barrows was elected chair
man of the committee on appeals.
On Thursday evening an agent of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals could have had jobif he had
been on upper Main street. where party
of three men in q heavy wagon, drawn by
small horse with light Dutch collar,
were seen brutality kicking the animal to
make 1t go faster.
The electric lights about town as a gen
eral thing are obscured by the heavy
growth Of trees, and in many cases the
| light is of but very little value, and as
a consequence trees in very many cases
badly need trimming. Next year, when
the township committee is clothed with
more authority, this matter will receive
attention.
On Tuesday afternoon Constable Gas
kill went to Georgetown and made levy
on the crops and stock belonging to VIII
| liam Sager a farmer, who was sued at the
instance of George E. Rossell, grocer at
Jobstown, for bill of merchandise to the
amount of $50. If the claim is not settled
within two weeks the case will be heard
before Justice Clevenger.
The lead in one of the joints of the new
water main recently laid on Garden street
blew out on Wednesday afternoon, and
the leak that followed proved to be the
worst one that the company has ever had
In short time the cobble stones settled
several inches In order that the street
might not be undermined the water was
shut off in the evening when Gotleib
Everline made quick work in settling the
matter.
On Tuesday evening Charles H. Peters,
of West Washington street, was arrested
at the instance of Thomas Somers, who
sells ice cream for Joseph G.. Bower
After going home from his days work,
Somers put about "a in saucer, and this
his wife took into the kitchen In the pres
ence of the boy, who was accused of tax
ing it. There was not enough evidence
to convict him, but Justice Laumaster felt
justified in holding the young man under
bail for his appearance at court if wanted.
The ordinance restricting the shooting
of fireworks has been put in force again
this year 1t is not intended to abridge
the privilege of a proper celebration of
the Fourth of July, but to prevent the