The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-09-26

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phia firm.
The annual meeting of the Mount Holl.
Water Company will be held on Saturday
October 7th
! Samuel L. Bullock has been awarde'
the contract to paint the Methodist churcl
at Pointville.
The lines of the Pennsylvania railroa'
are being placed in condition in anticipa
ton of the annual inspection.
| George Hendrickson, of Mount Holly
is in practice as candidate for position
on Princeton's first foot ball team.
i Mrs. Alexander Rhodes, of Riverside
is said to have decided to bring proceed
ings against her husband for support.
| Edward johnson, of Budd street, sho
| hawk down the creek, on Wednesday
that measured five feet from tip to tip.
4 1t is stated that Gilbert H. Baker will
not return to Mount Holly this fall as h
has engaged in business in Philadelphia.
The former DR.. T. w. Dobbins propert,
on Main street, Mount Holly, has beef
sold to Edward L. Dobbins, of Moores
town.
On Friday evening the knights o
Pythias gave the third degree to two es
quires and three propositions for member
ship were received.
Drs. Faringer and Grumbrecht success
fully operated upon Richard Norcross las
week for appendicitis, and he is now pro
crossing very nicely.
Samuel johnson, of Jacksonville, cut {
deep cash in his knee with a stalk knife
while cutting corn on the farm of Charles
A. Pope near Columbus.
Ex-State Senator William Fl. Carter,
delivered an address on Prison Reform
before an audience at the Methodist
Church at Crosswicks Wednesday night.
| The stock of groceries of James s. Nc
Twain, who recently discontinued business,
has been purchased by Trenton firm, and
stored in the Sharp building on Main
street
A horse belonging to Charles Hancock,
of Jacksonville, came near bleeding to
death a few days since as the result of
getting its foot caught in barbed wire
fence.
Those who want to share in the impetus
which cold snap will infuse into business.
should put their advertisement in the local
papers and let people know what they
have to sell.
A retainer has been lodged against
Joseph Worth, who is now in the Toms
River jail. He is charged with being con
nected with the robbery of William H.
Newell at the West End Hotel recently.
The large number of delegates who at
tended the Brotherhood meeting in Mount
Holly last week. were well pleased with
everything they saw but our bad streets,
and some of the visitors said they would
not live here on that account
A Pennsylvania Railroad track walker
living at Bordentown, has covered six
teen miles of track every night for thir-
ty-four years, total of 1893, miles.
During the whole period he has never
missed night or had an accident.
Rev. j.. Fl. Durham, of Mount Holly,
who has been spending several months in
Switzerland, has arranged to sail from
Cherburgh, France, on the St Louis on
September 80. He will occupy his pull
pit in the Presbyterian Church on Octo-
Der s.
The tax rate for Northampton township
has been announced by Assessor Martin
H. Girven as being $500. This is an adj
vance of 20 cents over last year. The
proportionment is as follows: school, 80
cents; township, IS cents; county and
state school, $1.15.
A suit is to be brought against the Riv-
erside and Bridgeboro' stone road con-
tractors for their failure to pay over an
amount due for repairs, or to furnish its
equivalent to the county in broken stone.
The case will be looked after by Solicitor
Charles K Chambers.
Invitations have been issued for the
the marriage of Miss Mary Leeds Slack,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs r. ] B. Slack.
of Mount Holly, to Dr. Richard Francis
Gerlach, of Philadelphia. The ceremony
will be performed in Trinity Church, on
Wednesday, October 4, at $50 o'clock.
1t was only through the influence of
State Road Commissioner Henry |. Budd
that the Rocky Hill Stone Storage Com
pany took the contract to finish the work
on Grant street, as the job is too small to
be profitable. 1t cost the company $50 to
get their steam roller to Mount Holly.
The twenty travelling libraries for
which the last Legislature made an appro-
priation, will probably be started on their
travels early next spring when the next
Legislature has decided npon the plan of
their equipment and distribution. They
will consist of about so books in each Ii
brary and they will be sent to towns and
villages all over the State.
Unclaimed letters remaining in the post
Office for week ending September 90: Mr..
Edward Austin, Sarah Bovine, ]. II. Bar
dan Shoe Co., Mr.. Joe Beaby, Miss Emma
Brown, Miss A. Brown, Mr. Dickens,
Thomas s. Gibbs, Aron Goldenstein, Mr..
G. E. Gaskill, Stacy L. Lippincott, Miss
Lottie Little Miss Beulah Lippincott,
Mr.. Will Miner, Mr. E. Reeves, Miss
Edith Johnston, DR. Zeller, Jos Warner
About rs young ladies and gentlemen
attended the straw ride and lawn party
given by DR. A. R. w. Atwoods class Of
the Methodist Sunday school at ex-sherif
/ Harbert's farm, on Thursday night. Aftel
partaking of watermelon, ice cream, and
fruits, the party returned home about
midnight. There were not enough
wagons provided to accommodate thu
crowd, and part were compelled to re
main in Mount Holly until Samue
Matthias hack was secured. All had very
enjoyable time,
4 The law passed last winter for exclud
ing from New Jersey cattle found to be at
fiicted with tuberculosis, purchased in 9th
er States, goes into effect November 1st
next. The Commission on Tuberculosi
in Animals is DESTROYS of obtaining tn
names and post office addresses of all cat
> tie dealers, especially of those who pur