The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-09
Lewis H. Wallace bought the Wallace
house. at PALMYRA. for $685..

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house. at Palmyra, for $685..
William johnson, Of Pointville, is re
covering from a recent stroke of paraly
sis.
William Briggs. of Hartford, has beer
confined to his bed several weeks with ty.
phoid fever.
Fresh squashes, radishes, onions, egg
plants and eating apples at Cavansugh's
No. 80 Main street.
Pocahontas Tribe, No. 10, l. O. r. M.
will hold a fair and festival in Red Men'i
Hall June 8 and 10.
Mrs. Julia Matlack, of Lumberton, who
is very i'll, is being treated at the B%urling-
ton County Hospital.
An order for TO- 900 feet of fence has
been received by the New Jersey Fence
Company of Mount Holly.
There is prospect of another residence
being erected on Main street near the
Mount by Charles A. Sims.
Elias Emmons, of Juliustown, is sui.
fering from a broken thigh bone as the re-
suit of falling from a hay NOW.
Oscar L. Borton, of Masonville, who
has been very ill with typhoid fever for q
number of weeks, is convalescing.
Rev. Mr.. Blackiston, of Windsor, for
merly stationed at ~Lumberton, is in a hos
pital being treated for a throat trouble.
A party of Mount Holly gentlemen en-
joyed a shad fishing trip Thursday after
noon on the island opposite Burlington.
Coroner William M. Wells and his
brother George, of Burlington, took in
the sights at the county seat on Tuesday.
Announcement is made of the approach
ing marriage of Edward Mol, of Mount
Holly, and Miss Ella Taylor, of Rance
cas-.
The $500 cleared by Relief Fire Com
pany at its recent fair will be used toward
paying a $500 mortgage against the COM
pany.
Frank Wright has put in a stone curb
ing and laid a new brick walk in front of
his property on Union and Buttonwood
streets.
Amos Poinsett, of Red Lion, was bitten
on the thumb Thursday by his bull dog
while in the act of separating two fight
ing ours.
The personal estate of Martha B. Han.
cock, deceased, of Columbus, is valued at
SO, 900. +. Elwood Hancock is the adj
ministrator.
The terrace in front of the residence of
Caleb S.. Ridgway, of Lumberton, is one
of the prettiest spots to be found in Bur
lington county.
As the result of falling from his bicy-
Gle at Masonville recently, Josiah Gilbert
has been confined in the Cooper Hospital
at Camden with a fractured skull.
Charles Stockton, who has been con
fined to his home with an attack of rheu-
matism, is much better and will probably
be able to resume business this week.
Rev. William L. Peterson, of Pitman
Grove, delivered an interesting lecture in
the Methodist Church on Friday evening.
His subject was "a Square Look, or
Count the Cost"
Henry Wright is now acting as coach
man for Col. Charles M. Sloan. A va
n was caused in the stable by the
o.o~a &c Thonooe O,Ro,rLo u,haco
bride lives on the Rancocas pike.
The police donned their summer uni
forms last week and after the first day or
two they were seen wearing overcoats.
The fall in temperature was quite a relief,
and it went so low as to make it doubtful
as to whether there was a frost or not.
Samuel P. Cline has a small conserva-
tory in the yard in the rear of his hard
ward store, where by careful nursing he
is raising a choice assortment of flowers.
Mr.. Cline has provided a place for his cen
fury plants around the stove in the rear
end of the store.
The members of Shirass Post, No. 26,
G. A. R., of Mount Holly, intend to do
their part in celebrating the Fourth of
July this year. Every form of amuse-
ment suitable for such a gathering will be
presented in the Court House yard, and
the occasion will be enlivened with music
by the Metropolitan band of Burlington.
The rain on Tuesday evening interfered
..
with the district meeting of the Knights
of Pythias, held at Burlington, and also
the entertainment given at the rink in
that city by the Mount Holly Banjo, Man
dolin and Guitar Club. The performance
was a success and these who attended
were well pleased. Even the Burlington
papers had a good word to say about it.
There was a beautiful electric display
on Tuesday evening as the 1925 trolley
went over to Burlington, which resulted
from the overhead wire being wet. Large
flames kept shooting out over the car all
the way over, which illuminated the sur
rounding country in a weird manner ow-
ing to the presence of the heavy shower,
which at first assumed the nature of a
sand storm.
Chris. Stemner, while loading bricks at
Firman Dubell's recently, was thrown by
the sudden starting of the horses. In
falling he struck the wagon, cutting a
deep cash in his head and producing un-
consciousness which lasted for a long
time, although the skull was not fractur-
ed. DR.. Flynn, who dressed the wound,
reports Mr.. Stemner as quite ill, and his
recovery is very slow.
Eighteen new members were initiated
by the Red Men at Medford last week.
The warriors there have had on wal paint
! since the recent organization of the lodge,
and a number of tenderfeet, when solicit
ed to join, have been compelled to throw
up their hands and quietly surrender their
scalps. One little girl objected to her
father joining because she thought he
would come home bald headed.
The local cigar dealers here were visit
ed yesterday by Agent Spencer, Of the
Deputy Revenue Collectors Office at Cam
den. He was looking for cigars bearing
bogus revenue stamps made by the Jacobs
counterfeiting gang at Lancaster, Pa. Thu
deputy seized 1850 cigars in the posses
sion of Worrell 6 Harris, and 900 from
T. Harry Bowker. The cigars were pur
chased in New York city, and the owner
did not know that they had been victim