The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-08-08

Word was received in Mount Holly G
Friday of the safe arrival of Howar
Cooper at Manila.
The local Gamers will soon be engage
i in putting up tomatoes At present the
are at standstill
The house and lot belonging to job
Bill, on Church street. has been sold t
Mrs. Susan Brown.
A number of people from Mount Holl
attended the trotting matinee held at Col
umbus on Thursday
The Eayrestown Sunday school enjoy
ed delightful time in the woods at Vim
centown on Thursday
1t is said that the proprietors of the oil,
iron foundry at Hainesport contemplate
starting up business again.
Charles B. Braddock is said to hav
harvested the largest hay crop of an.
| farmer in Shamong township.
| On Friday evening the Knights of Pyth
las received one proposition and gave tn
Knight degree to three esquires.
The Good Intent Fire Company has Sc
lected the 10Th and Goth of January. 1900
as the dates for it's next annual supper.
Rotten planking ON the bridge near thu
Jervis s. Zelley farm, near Jobstown. is
menace to horses, and remedy should b.
applied at once.
While going to Burlington Saturday af
ternoon on the trolley, Christian ]. Kraye
lost his purse, which contained abou
thirty five cents.
Rev j. Madison Hare, formerly pastor
of the First Baptist Church, Burlington
will occupy the pulpit of the Baptis
Church next Sunday.
The biggest event of the season is ex
pected to take place on August 16, wher
the Columbus Grange will hold its annual
picnic at Browns Mills
J. Smalley Baugh will give a boating
carnival on Saturday evening. The invi
tations he has issued for the occasion are
quite unique in appearance.
A dead spot of grass on the lawn in
front of the Jail denotes the place where
ball of fire entered the ground during
the storm on Wednesday afternoon.
A very successful supper was given on
the lawn adjoining the Methodist Church
on Thursday evening. The pleasant
weather brought out large crowd.
AS the result of getting his hand caught
in an eyeletting machine at Bowker's fac.
tory, on Wednesday, George D. Austin
has been suffering with very sore finger
j. Frank Long was last night elected
first sergeant of Co. E, Third Regiment.
Lee J. Wells, who held the position, was
unable to fill it on account of his absence
from town.
About twenty members of the Mount
Holly Banjo Club started for the shore
yesterday morning, where they will spend
the week in giving entertainments at sew
eral places.
Freebooter Edward A. Colby last week
removed some of the accumulated dirt
from the surface of the Main street stone
road, and the bare places were given a
coating Of gravel.
Walter Oliphant, the railroad electrician
at Mount Holly, has been kept quite busy
for some time making repairs to cars,
caused by the recent heavy storms which
have passed over this section.
People who read THE News have long
since learned that they get all the local
and county happenings worth recording.
and the paper is welcome visitor to sub
scribers who are stopping along the shore.
The Philadelphia Times last week was
incorrect in stating that Frank ]. Clark.
of Mount Holly, preached at Ocean City.
Mr. Clark, who was at the latter place,
simply assisted the rector in reading part
of the service.
The scholars of the Friends First-day
school enjoyed their annual picnic in
Loves woods, at Hainesport, on Wednes-
day, but the pleasure was curtailed by
the storm, which caused the party to beat
hasty retreat.
The new curbing on one side of Grant
street has been set, and this makes no
table improvement on that thoroughfare.
Cop,o Of +l,a ;daxuolbo oro offaotad hu fha
new grade and they will probably receive
some attention.
About sixty persons enjoyed the trip to
Willow Grove on Thursday, under the au-
spices of the Baptist Young Peoples
Union. A special trolley car conveyed
the party from Market street ferry to the
Grove and return.
Members of the Medford Grange as
sembled on the Mount Holly fair grounds
Saturday and enjoyed their annual basket
picnic The attendance was large, and as
the day was pleasant, all had good time
Meals were partaken of under the shade
trees.
1t is quite probable that two of our cit
liens will assume the management of 8
foot ball team here this season. Some Of
the young men who expect to be selected
for this purpose are now practicing occa
sionally, and there is not much doubt bu
that this sport will be one of the past
times in Mount Holly this fall.
A Judgment was given to August Fro
muth last week in his suit before justice
Slack, of Mount Holly, tc recover thu
sum of $40 from the proprietor of thu
! Stanwick carpet mill for the making o
several designs for carpets. The defend
ant had refused to pay for the same, al
leging that they were imperfect
The Board of Education of New Gretni
met last week to open the bids for build
ing the new school house. All of then
were beyond the appropriation and wer
i rejected. Under the law member of tn
Board cannot contract for work. Elk
County Clerk Levi French is one of tn
Board so he resigned, and agreed to bull
the school house within the appropriation
He was awarded the contract.
i People residing out of Mount Holl,
who have grievances of such characte
as to justify them in having warrant
issued for those who are accused, shoul
remember that it is their duty to max
complaint before local justice of tn
peace, and not come to the county sea
for that purpose, on account of the extr
cost entailed in the disposition of sue
suits. Prosecutor Budd has cautione