The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-03-28

e Top spinning seems TO nave the call II
: pleasure among the young boys just nov
Oscar L. Borton is seriously ill wit
: typhoid fever at his home near Moorel
town.
The condition of some of the countr
a roads has been improved by the lat
high winds.
Rev. Martin Aigner preached in tn
Trinity Church at Moorestown on Thurs
day evening.
After several weeks illness, Justice
Fred Laumaster is again able to atten
to business.
The farm of Edward Wills in Spring
field township has been conveyed to c
Craig Tallman.
George Bishop, of Bridgeboro, cut
bad cash in his leg, on Tuesday, Will
hewing posts.
Silks.-2OO yards, at 49c per yard; 70
and 81 quality. w. w. Curtis, 4S Mali
street, Mount Holly.
Ten dozen pillow cases, bleached mus
lin, torn not cut, 36x45, 10c. w. w. Cur
tbs, As Main street, Mount Holly.
The Epworth League will give a socia
on Thursday evening at the residence o
Mrs. Alfred Eddy, on Grant street.
At the town meeting held at Marlton
the sum of $1,000 was appropriated foi
improving roads by a vote of II to ~.
Joseph Sherman, who recently BROKE
two bones in his left leg while cutting ice
was able to appear on the street last week
Mrs. Rebecca r. Smalley is now il
charge of the boarding house on Mali
street recently conducted by Miss A. Hill
yard.
John Biddle was on Saturday awarded
the contract to take care of and open the
King street bridge on a bid of $24 for the
year.
Charles Coles, of Retreat, was recently
painfully injured by cutting a deep cash
in his left foot with an axe while splitting
wood.
The two new constables of Mount Hol-
ly are both shoemakers. One makes shoes
for the man and the other makes shoes fol
the horse.
One of the insects that was rushing the
season Yesterday was a handsome butter
fly that was caught on Main street by J.
K. Parker.
Having secured a position as carpenter
in the bridge gang on the railroad, Geo.
Carpenter, of Retreat, has moved to
Mount Holly.
Three lots of land in Lumberton, the
property of Caleb r. Dudley, of Mount
Holly, have been sold to Mrs. Clara V.
Ried for 1865.
street, has sold the Maloney farm on the
man for 50, 800.
A large flock of wild geese passed over
town ON Thursday morning. They were
flying so low that a resident shot at them
but without effect.
Assessor Martin H. Girven and a party
went over to Burlington on Tuesday
evening took after the returns of the
election held there.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Masonic Temple Association will
be held at the Temple next Tuesday af-
ternoon at 2 o'clock.
Atkinson, the grocer, lost a large guam
tity of molasses last week by the faucet
on the barrel breaking, which allowed the
syrup to run all over the floor.
B. Frank Lewis, who has had charge of
the mills at Jones Mills, has been en-
gagged by William B. Wills to conduct the
Bispham street mills in Mount Holly.
James Mullen, the horseradish man
from Burlington, was arrested Friday on
a drunk and disorderly charge, and JUS
tice Krayer gave him four days in jail
Three children of William Grover, of
Vincentown, took some sumac bushes
home and burned them in the stove re
Gently, and as a result they were badly
poisoned.
A large quantity of advertising for a
patent medicine firm was distributed in
the p~ostoffice on Saturday, and before the
day was over much of it was piled in
heaps on the floor.
While trimming a strip of woods near
Wrightstown, on Wednesday, Henry Rue
met with a painful accident, the axe he
was using slipping and cutting off the
end of n of his thumbs.
The Foresters of America will give
their first oyster supper in Red Mems hall,
Mill street, ON Thursday evening, at
which there will be a musical entertain
ment to enliven the occasion.
The attention of many people was di-
rected to the moon, on Sunday evening,
around which was a ring, and through
this, running east and west, was a strip
resembling a piece of rainbow with all it's
various colors.
A prominent citizen, on Tuesday even
ing, said that a friend of his living in
Philadelphia would like to come to Mount
Holly with his horse and carriage and
spend a portion of the summer, but he
would not on account of u bad streets.
THE News is modest and seldom refers
to itself. But so many people have spoken
to us concerning the excellence of the pa
per, that we feel obliged to give this
slight recognition of our appreciation of
their manifestations of approval. To get
all the local news and important county
events you must become a regular reader
of THE News.
The Sir knights of West Washington
street will give one of their grand prize
cake walks, including a promenade festi-
val, in Mount Moriah hall, on Thursday
evening, April 6. Some of the grand
lodge officers will be present. Admission
10 cents. The committee has arranged
for a lot of fun.
Arthur A. Zimmerman, the worlds for
mer champion bicyclist, has registered
with the National Cycling Association,
and will compete at meets under its rules
the coming season. Jimmy" requested
No. 10 for his registration number, hav-
ing had his greatest success with that
number while abroad several years ago.
Under a new law passed in February
the election officers were entitled to sew
eral dollars more han what they receiv-
ed. As their bills were all made out and
in the hands of the clerk when the dis
covery was made, they concluded to let
the matter go, and now the election off
GERS are looking for a set of engrossed res
o~lutions from the township com mittee.
The u~nsightly electric light pole at thu
side of the fountain is not relished by the
business men in that neighborhood. They
claim that it not only destroyes the APP
~pearance of the fountain but the street as
well. In order to make an improvement
all around, Edward B. Jones says he is
willing to cut down the maple tree in
front of his drug store and allow the pol,
to take its place.
Owing to the increased number of EN-.
ployes at Smithville, the closing of the bi
bicycle railway proves a serious dis
advantage, as the men have no convenien'
method of reaching Mount Holly in the
evening, and many of them hope for it
/ revival again. The H. B. Smith Machin
Company is still receiving orders every
| day, and the work on hand will require
| at least six or nine months for its compile
l ton. One hundred machines have al
ready been shipped this month.
The Fourth Regiment, New Jersey Vol
u%nteers, is expected to arrive home o
$ April Z. The men are now occupying
Camp Wetherill, at Greenville, Sout
Carolina, and for some time past tn
weather there has been so cold that tn
t men ate their meals in their tents Will