The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-03-07
LOCAL NEWS.

Telephones are soon to be placed in the
public school and at the residence of Prof
w. COLON Cook.
The H. B. Smith Machine Co. has Sc
cured space for an exhibit at the Paris ex
position mex year.
Preparations are being made for a good
time at the fair to be given on April s to
Is by the Relief Fire Company.
Bids for the proposed stone road from
Mount Holly to Burlington are to be
opened in the Court House this morning.
An Cinnamon" picnic will be held in the
Sunday school room of the Presbyterian
Church, on Thursday evening, March 16.
An effort is being made to have the
freight rates reduced on the Pennsylvania
Railroad between Mount Holly and Phil
adelphia.
A class is being organized for pen and
ink sketching from model. For informa-
ton address Miss Bessie Collins Pease at
No. "a Brainard street.
The H. B. Smith Machine Co. has
placed an order with Huff & Shemeley
for two new turbine water wheels to re-
place two that are worn out.
A much needed improvement at the Jail
during the past week has been the cree
ton of a series of closets for the recep-
ton of clothes and other articles.
An interesting programme is being ar
ranged for a musical and literary enter
tainment by the Epworth League of the
Methodist Church, on Friday evening.
A little excitement was occasioned at
the Arcade Hotel, on Friday, by three
men who could not allow the caucus cleo
ton to pass without engaging in a fight.
Several members from Enterprise Coun-
Gil and Chester Council, No. 8, of Moores-
town, paid a visit to Washington Council.
No. 10, o. U. A. M, on Thursday even
ing.
Rev. Kerr Boyce Upper will preach in
the Baptist Church on Friday evening.
The sermon will be especially adapted to
young men, the subject being "Perils to
young men,"
The directors of the Vacuum Gas En-
CINE Company will hold a meeting to-
morrow to decide what steps shall be
taken concerning the future disposition of
the business.
The Grand Lodge, Ancient Order Unit
II TTo-I~.oo I'LL Hold i+o animal moot
ing at Trenton on Thursday. Samuel l..
Tomlinson will represent Good Will
Lodge, No. IA, of Mount Holly.
On Thursday evening a surprise mas
querade party was rendered Mr.. and Mrs.
Harvey j. Burtis, at their residence on
Mill street. An enjoyable evening was
passed by the large number present.
A young otter was caught in a trap at
Indian Mills a few days since by a young
boy, who brought it to Mount Holly and
sold it to DR.. Vanderveer. 1t is a very
fine specimen, and the fur will bring some
S..
The remains of DR.. Frank r. Haines,
of Tuscon, Arizona, were inferred in
Mount Holly on Saturday. Deceased was
a son of Richard r. Haines, deceased, of
Pemberton, and his death was due to con-
sumption.
The election boards will sit this after.
noon and evening to revise the list OF
voters, and those persons whose names
are not registered should attend to the
matter, as this will be the last sitting OF
the board before election, which occurs
one week from to-day.
Members of the township committee
went to Philadelphia yesterday to look Ut
the matter of road improvements. They
saw several kinds of new material that is
now being used, and they are favorable tc
having Main and Washington streets put
in proper shape at once.
James K. Parker, for many years 6
prominent boot and shoe dealer in Mount
Holly, found it Improbable to continue
business any longer, and on Thursday
morning he closed his store, which is fol
rent. Mr.. Parker, who is i'll with the
grip, has the sympathy of many friends
There was a genuine surprise party a
Zacatecas, Mexico, last week. Rev. Wal
ter A. Semple, who lives at that place
went to the railroad sta ton on some bust
ness, when from the train stepped Prose
cutor Budd and Joshua E. horton. botl
parties were equally surprised as wen al
nloocad of tho mnotinu
The one hundred and sixty emplt1yes o
the H. B. Smith Machine Company start
ed to make full time on Wednesday, OF
which day a large order was receiver
from the Pacific coast. Last week four
teen new men were put to work, some OF
whom worked there ten years ago. Every
house in the village is occupied,
When the school board of Northamp-
ton township issued bonds to pay for the
new school building, advertisements were
inserted in the papers soliciting bids.
There were several answers, but the en-
tire lot, with a single exception. were sold
to the Moorestown Safe Deposit Company
at par. At a sale in that place last week,
two of the bonds were sold at a premium
of $141 per $1,000.
At the NJ. E. Church on Sunday ven
ing Rev. Milton Relyea preached the last
sermon of his pastorate here. Before the
services were concluded delegations from
the Baptist and Presbyterian Churches
accompanied by their pastors, arrived ant
Joined the large congregation already as
sembled. Rev. Messrs. Pendleton anC
Durham spoke in terms highly compli
mentary of Mr.. Relyea, whose genial Ma
ture and Christian character has endeare(
him not only to his own congregation bu
to those of the entire town. He will car
ry with him to his new field of labor tn
best wishes of all who have been so for
tunate as to enjoy his acquaintance whil'
here.
The publication of portraits in cit,
newspapers is becoming somewhat OF
nuisance. Even when the pictures bore
slight resemblance to the person intende
to be represented it was somewhat har
rowing to the feelings; but when sucl
outlandish pictures are published as ap
peared in Sundays Inquirer labelle
s'Charles G. Cowperthwaite," it is enoug
to cause a libel suit. The name was tn
only thing recognizable, the picture bein
that of a colored man. This is the secon
time such an occurrence has happened
The other instance was in the case of