The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-06-20


The net receipts of the recent fair an
festival given by the Red Men were $40
J. The wind which accompanied the storl
on Thursday did damage in several placs
about town.
' Over 700 acres of timber land WEI
ravaged by fire last week from careless
ness in burning brush.
. The Presbyterians will have charge {
the services to be held in the hospits
next Sunday afternoon.
= On account of the wind blowing spray
there has been considerable water abou
the base of the fountain during the pas
week.
William H. Parry. of Hainesport, wi
study law in the office of Mark r. Sooy
preparatory to entering the University O
Michigan
Please bear in mind the lawn social t
be held on the lawn adjoining the Metho
dist Church, on Brainard street, Thursda,
evening of next week.
Miss Mary Kimball, daughter of Rev
G. Cotton Kimball, formerly of Noun
Holly, and who is visiting friends in town
sang solo in the Presbyterian Churcl
on Sunday evening.
Quite a number of people from Noun
Holly attended the clam bake given OF
Thursday at the Locust Grove club hous,
, near Burlington. Diversified sports filled
the afternoon with pleasure
In his suit on Tuesday against Aaror
E. Burr, William W. Worrell was giver
judgment for the full amount of hi
claim, which was for unpaid fees Will,
holding the Office of County Clerk.
u Just the weather for the 25c, soc ano
75c lace corsets. Very thin ribbed. Gauzt
and Isle thread vests. A new lot of 49c
gingham skirts. Lisle thread hose only
25c per pair. s. s. Evan, No. 90 Main
street
There is a very bad hole by the side Of
the street car tracks just opposite the
stable on Main street, where the main
track switches off to the branch running
to the fair grounds. This should be fixed,
as 1t has already been the cause of several
accidents
A horse belonging to Thsmas Decamp,
farmer living near Jacobstown, died on
Wednesday after eating the bark from a
locust sapling. Another horse was made
violently i'll from the same cause Locust
bark is full of fannie acid, powerful
vegetable astringent
The present year appears to be espe-
cially unfavorable as regards the ravages
upon trees by different kinds of insects.
A good deal of destruction has been
caused not only to buttonwood trees. but
some of the maple trees about town are
showing evidence of decay
| The ghost" sensation on Church street
has subsidized. 1t has been learned that
the spectre came from the immediate
neighborhood, and that it was nothing
more than the work of married woman,
whose particular object in acting so
strangely has not been learned
| The Grand Army of the Volunteers,
under the auspices of the Volunteers of
America, held an enrolment meeting in
the Court House on Tuesday evening.
There was a good attendance and the
speakers, Col and Mrs. Kepple, were at
tentively listened to. The volunteers
marched from their headquarters to the
music of cornet
Sixteen years ago Samuel johnson gave
his son Willie and his daughter Lizzie,
aged and 6 years respectively, to the
care of Quaker family, also named John
son, who claimed to live at Mount Holly,
N. J. He was then widower and un-
able to support his children. Since then
he has married again and both he and his
present wife have made strenuous efforts
to locate the boy and girl, and the people
to whom they were entrusted But their
efforts have been unavailing. No one in
Mount Holly appears to have heard of the
Quaker Johnsons, and the father is now
advertising for his lost children.
| John Harris, colored citizen of Will
low street, came out in his war paint last
week. On Sunday he chased his wife
with knife, it is alleged, and wanted to
kill her Then he came down town and
tried to secure a warrant for her arrest
but no justice would recognize him. FL
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before the warrant was served Harris
threw all his wife's clothing into the creek,
so that she appeared before Justice Clev
enger with all her possessions on her back,
as on Monday he removed everything
from the house during his wife's absence
The prisoner was committed to Jail in de-
fault of $500 bail, the charge being deser-
tion and abuse
| The cement walk that was recently laid
in front of the residence of Mark R. Sooy
on Main street has been taken up. There
was objection because of its varying col
or, and because the edges had been chip
ped off before it became perfectly dry,
and from the further fact that the lines
were crooked and the walk out of plumb,
made so by an incompetent workman not
in the employ of the company. Contract
or Aimes did the job over again, and this
time the work is entirely satisfactory to
Mr.. Sooy. This cement pavement is but
little more expensive than one made OF
good bricks. The composition is not
like that which will be used on the sample
strip soon to be put down on Main street.
The committee appointed at the last
meeting of the Board of Freeholders to
inquire into the matter of purchasing
turnpikes, met at the office of Charles K
Chambers yesterday afternoon, where
they met several of the owners of bonds
in the two roads that have been offered
for sale. After considerable talk the turn
pike people promised to secure release
from all the bondholders and from al
holding judgments against the roads, anG
to secure consent to the sale from the re-
ceiver who has charge of one of the roads
All these proceedings will apply only tC
the portions of the turnpikes in Burling
ton county, and it is thought the matter
can be acted on at the next meeting of tn,
Board
On Friday afternoon James Gardiner
who keeps grocery store at the cornel
of Garden and Risdon streets, telephonet
down town for an officer and Policeman
Collins responded. but the man who wa
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