The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-06-13
60 to Allinson,s for bicycles.

I Go to Allinson's for bicycles.
The public schools closed OH Friday.
Rev. J. Il. Durham left Mount Holl,
yesterday for his vacation. he will sal
next week for Italy.
The residence of Mrs. Emley, at tn,
corner of Garden and Buttonwood streets
Is having number of improvements add
ed to it.
The Board of Education of the Point
vile public school, at meeting last week
elected Miss Lillian Buckage, of Mount
Holly, as teacher for the coming term.
The weather was so hot last week that
in several cases people sprinkled theil
lawns with water and then covered the
grass with burlaps in order to keep il
from burning up.
John Craft, of Burlington, was present
at the graduating exercises in the Opera
House, Thursday evening, interested In
the part taken by his granddaughter, Miss
Mabel c. Elberson
John Blake Slack, Thomas L. Gaskill
and Nelson B. Gaskill were admitted to
the bar as attorneys yesterday, having
passed the examination before the Su-
preme Court examiners.
Six tramps from Bridgeboro, all Of
whom were tied together, were brought to
Jail last week in hay shelving. They
will serve thirty days for disturbing the
peace The prisoners were in charge Of a
constable and three citizens.
25O,OOO late tomato plants, Paragon or
Stone, 81 per 1000 to farmers. We will
give free 100 plants on each 1000 you buy
from us. Can you beat that Come and
see us. We will give you true stock.
Owen Bros, Madison ave-, Mount Holly
Ellis HI. Parker, state detective, of
Wrightstown, has quite a number Of pict-
ures of criminals which he will soon place
in the county jail, as a beginning Of his
rogues gallery. Mr.. Parker is quite a
young man, but he is fearless and has done
some good work since he entered the de-
tective service.
The prospects are very bright for re-
sumption of business on the part of the
Vacuum Gas Engine and Power Company
ON much larger scale than heretofore,
| by gentlemen who are DESTROYS of organ
izing new company, and to whom the
stock of the old concern has been trans
ferred. This accounts for the several post
ponements of the sheriff's sale on judg
ment held by George D. Worrell.
A baker employed by Alfred Mayer
went in swimming at the mill dam on
Thursday afternoon and he came within
an ace of losing his life, because of his
inability to swim. He was on the bar,
when suddenly he got into deep hole
and down he went out of sight. Upon
coming up he cried for assistance, and
Clifford Bower caught the struggling man
just as he was going down for the third
time
Ellsworth H. Burtis, now Of Burlington,
who has not become thoroughly weened
from his native town, says that when he
attends game of base ball between
the Burlington and Mount Holly teams,
he will do his applauding for his home
team with his right hand and his left hand
will be used in giving recognition to bril-
liant plays by the county seaters, proyid-
ing there are any. This seems to be a
fair proposition.
John W. Wright, son of William Wright,
of Union street, received diploma from
the Drexel Institute of Art Science and
Industry, Philadelphia, at the commence
ment exercises of that institution on Fri
day morning, after completing a three
years course in mathematical drawing,
mathematics, physics, shop work in wood
and iron. There were but five who sue
ceeded in passing the examination. John
was presented with handsome diamond
ring by his father for his success
One afternoon last week tramp ap-
piled at the residence of Mrs. Alfred Rey-
nolds, on Buttonwood street, and demand
very much surprised to find the fellow
sitting in her house, and upon her ap-
proach he said: "Give me some coffee
Assuring him that the work of dinner had
been cleared away and that there was
nothing at hand for him, he again de-
manded in rough tones that she make him
some tea Of course this was not done,
and finally the intruder went away NUT
tering inaudibly to himself.
Daniel B. Phares, corner of White and
Monroe streets, was arrested on Wednes-
day evening for an assault on his wife,
and Justice Slack imposed fine Of So. 40
On Thursday night he was arrested again
on warrant sworn out by William H.
Newell, boarder, who charged assault
and battery, and his face showed evidence
of the trouble, which grew out of his ef-
| forts to get his trunk out of the house
Justice Laumaster held him In 800 bail
for court, which security was furnished
| by George Stead. Mrs. Phares left her
husband Thursday afternoon.
Detective Ellis H. Parker, of Wrights-
town, did good piece Of work on Thurs
day by arresting Anthony Stevenson, who
was indicted over year ago for grand
larceny, and since which time he has
been a fugitive from justice. Parker
found his man after long hunt and by
treating him literally finally landed him
in Trenton, where the handouts were put
on the follow who was almost stunned by
surprise. Pretty slick job, boss, )" said
the astonished negro, "but you won't
catch this bird on that kind of worm
again" Stevenson was landed in the jail
here late in the afternoon. He is pal of
Budd Harmon, George Flora, and the
crowd who are spending several years in
state prison for stealing chickens.
A tghost" has been disturbing the psacs
of Church street. On Saturday evening
as the two daughters of Charles Ebert
son were going home, they were con
fronted by person dressed in white who
came out of the alley by Risdon's foun
Jury. ne cnIuiSu, WIZ "Oio very MuCA
frightened, ran home and told their moth
er; but this was no news to the parent
who a short time before had seen the
ghost in her yard, and strange to say the
vicious dog kept there made no demon
stration at this intrusion, and this feature
of the case cannot be accounted for
! Later in the evening Mrs. Elberson start
ed out to buy some meat, and as she open