The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-23
100, 900 Paragon tomato plants for sale.

+, $50, 600 Paragon tomato plants for sale
P. Ryan, -Lumberton.
The New Jersey Gas Improvement Co
t is laying a main on Buttonwood street, be
low Garden.
Mount Holly was well represented in
e the Inquirer yesterday by a three column
illustrated article.
John Rippel, of Stanwick, has a nice
situation for a young mar who is a stem
ographer, typewriter and bookkeeper. :
Senator Stokes, of Millville, will ad-
dress the graduating class at the COM
mencement of the Mount Holly High
School.
The Epworth League of the M. E.
church held services at the Masonic Home,
near Burlington, on Sunday afternoon.
Rev. Mr.. Owens preached and the church
choir rendered music.
The Epworth League will hold its
eleventh anniversary on Friday evening.
Rev. T. B. Nicely, of Philadelphia, will
deliver al address. An elaborate musical
programme has been prepared.
The H. B. Smith Machine Company has
the honor of sending the first lot of wood
working machinery to the Klondike gold
regions. They were shipped from Smith
vile last week to Dawson City, which
place recently suffered a destructive fire.
The household goods that were seized
for debt at the time of Charles Roots de-
parture from Mount Holly, and which
have stored in the Shreve building on
Mill street pending the settlement of a
law suit, were last week delivered to Mrs.
Root.
Three bicycles are offered for sale. One
Columbia and one Sterling-these are
gentlemen's wheels. One S~trawbridge &
Clothier lady's wheel, which has not trav-
eled a hundred miles. Apply to Eckard
P. Budd, Mount Holly.
There will be a special trolley on Deco
ration Day, leaving Mount Holly at 1.15
p. M, and leaving East Burlington at 2.05
p. m. All trolley cars will stop at the
Fair Grounds on notice to conductor or on
signal to the motorman.
Carlton Smith, an incorrigible boy from
Camden, who confessed to stealing trolley
wire, was taken to the Reform School on
Friday by Sheriff Fleetwood. An effort
was made to get the lad in the navy, but
he was rejected owing to al injury to his
| wrist.
William H. Reeves, turnkey at the jail,
received a letter on Thursday from Will
liam Delaney, the manager of Jim"
Jeffreys, who is now at Loeb Arbor train
ing for his coming fight with Bob" Fitz-
simmons. Billy" says that Jeffreys will
defeat his adversary.
If you want to hear something good
you should go to the opera house, Thurs
day evening, and hear the New GRAPHIC
phone Grand. Charles r. Fenton and
James Martin will sing some comic songs
and the machine will reproduce them.
General admission 10 cents, reserved seats
25 cents. Seats on sale at Jamison's sta
tionery store.
Try George W. Durand if you want
strictly pure groceries and provisions at
the lowest cash prices. He has a large
stock at his store, corner of Water and
King streets, Mount Holly. Orders called
for and delivered. Prompt attention given
to all customers, and satisfaction guaran-
teed. Also fresh and salt meats can be
obtained at lowest market prices.
Henry l. Budd says that the stone road
now being built between Mount Holly and
Burlington has the best foundation of any
road he ever saw. There is now about
one mile nearly completed, and the work
is to be finished by September 20. John
B. Davis is making an excellent super
visor, giving all details of construction
his undivided attention.
There is a general desire to have the
proposed stone road from Jacksonville
extended through Mount Holly to Main
street by the way of Ridgway, Broad or
Union streets. In every way the latter
~thoroughfare would be more beneficial.
There is more travel and more houses on
Union street than Ridgway, and the ex-
pense would be much less than should
the road pass down Broad street, owing
to the difference in their width.
Owing to his increasing business and
his inability to be in two places at once,
DR.. E. A. Pennington has secured the
services of DR.. W. 2. Barrett as an asso-
ciate in the dentistry business at the stand
of the late DR.. William M. Risdon. DR..
Barrett stands very high in his profession
and is a competent and careful practition-
er. He will take possession of Mrs. Ris-
don's residence on the first of June and
will, consequently, be on hand at a mo-
ments call.
Governor VOORHEES, has selected the de-
sign for the medal to be presented to the
New Jersey volunteers in the late Spanish
war. The medal is of bronze, and is a
modification of a maltese cross, and about
the size of a silver dollar. The front will
be decorated with a laurel wreath. On
the reverse will be the presentation in
scription. The medal will be pendant
from a bronze bar, to which will be at
tached a blue ribbon. 1t is expected that
the medals will be presented to the volun-
teers about the 4th of July at the several
state armories.
The Spring School of Methods of the
Burlington County Women's Christian
Temperance Union will be held in the NJ.
E. Church, Rancocas, on Thursday of
this week, beginning at 10 O'Clock with
devotional exercises led by Mrs. M. E.
Higgins, of Beverly. Mrs. R. w. Fish,
of Rancocas, will deliver the address of
welcome, the response being by Mrs. s.
D. Quigg, of Delanco. There will be in
strumental and vocal music by Misses
Sadie SPOTS, of Florence. and Annie An
trim, of Pemberton. Papers that Teach
our Work" will be the subject of an ad-
dress by Mrs. Mary M. Coles, of Moores-
town. In the evening there will be an
address by Madame Layyah Barakat, of
Syria, who will take as her subject:
Message from Mount Lebanon" The
Union will be entertained by the ladies of
Rancocas.
The opportunity to revive the Mount
Holly fair, if ever such an event is to take
place, would seem to be now, as interest
in that direction is beginning to manifest
itself. Several of the stockholders of the
Il fNr,,a~ decentralization o-o oes-o,,c &c hor