The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-30

street.
A ball will be given at Jacksonville o
Thursday evening, which will be the Las
: of the season.
Snapper soup at Ed. Smiths restaurant
Sc Main street, today. Don't fail to &c
some; it's good.
George Hendrickson, of Princeton Col
lege, came home on Wednesday. He rod
the distance on his bicycle.
4SO pairs of children's fast black hose
all sizes, pairs for 25c. w. W. Curtis
IS Main street, Mount Holly N. J.
Miss Ella Middleton has been confined
to her home on Buttonwood street for sew
eral days with severe sore throat.
Prof. Gray. the Main street barber, ha
sued his wife for divorce, and testimony
in the case was taken on Thursday.
A matineehre party was given OF
Wednesday afternoon by Mrs. George A
Lippincott. at her residence on Broad
street.
Prof. Allen, who has been occupying
the academy building, has accepted po
sition in New York state, to which place
he will soon depart
4 Joseph Sisom, of Madison avenue, took
a vacation last week on account of the
firm with which he is employed in Phil
adelphia taking an account of stock.
Frank Pratt's blacksmith shop on Water
street Is now being conducted by George
Vandegrift, as Mr.. Pratt is running a
wagon for beer bottling establishment.
The improvements at the Hainesport
iron foundry are now well under way, and
when the work is completed there will be
a decided change in the appearance of the
place.
The League of American Wheelmen
will pay liberal reward for the appre-
hension of the person who sprinkled tacks
and broken glass on the sidewalks on Mad
ison avenue.
| A nice summer corset for only 25 cents
Short summer corsets, beautiful quality,
80 cents. Ladies' ribbed vests, four for
25 cents Bingham skirts, 40 cents. s.
s. EVAN, % Main street
At the installation of Rev j. Crawford
as pastor of the Baptist Church, at New
Egypt, Rev. DR.. Rice, of Philadelphia,
conducted the services. Dr. Rice had
married Mr.. Crawford's parents and had
baptized the young man.
John G. Hippinstiel, the defaulting tax
collector of Beverly township, who is con-
fined in the county jail, has been sending
a number of requests for his friends to
call and see him, probably with view of
securing his release on bail
The cylinder head of the large Westing-
house engine at the trolley power house
blew out with great force early on Thurs
day morning. People living in the vicin-
ity Of the station were aroused by the
noise and several houses were shaken.
There was quite crowd of people at
the fair grounds on Sunday, many of
whom were interested in the horses who
are to trot at to-day's matinee. In the af
ternoon there was mile bicycle race be-
tween two young boys for cigarette.
100000 late tomato plants, Paragon or
Stone, 81 per 1000 to farmers. We will
give free 100 plants on each 1000 you buy
from US. Can you beat that Come and
see US. We will give you true stock
Owen Bros, Madison ave-, Mount Holly.+
On Friday last Amos Gibbs received
a telegram from gentleman asking what
he would sell his Atlantic City cottage
for. Real estate at that popular summer
resort is jumping in price at an astonish-
ing rate, and small holdings of few years
ago have increased in price amazingly
Spirea Anthony Waterer" is one of the
most desirable plants for the cemetery
Foliage, pink, yellow and white Entire
ly hardy and a constant bloomer, to be
had at Rosbach's, Pemberton, at 20 cents
each. A sample lot at s. p Cline's hard
ware store, Mount Holly. ct
The bicycle path running from Small
ey's Corner to Vincentown, has been COM
pleted, and the wheelmen of the latter
place are entitled to the thanks of all
riders for their enterprise. They are now
willing to give the path coating of
gravel, providing the Mount Holly riders
make liberal contributions.
The following unclaimed letters remain
uncalled for in the post Office for the week
ending May 81: Miss s. v. Adams Ellen
Barlow, Mrs. s. Baugh, William Bennett,
Samuel Emmons, Emma Edwards, Joseph
Fielding, ]. w. Godfrey, W. C. Lippin-
colt, Jr., Mrs E. c. Lippincott, B. F. |
Reed, John Rathleey, B. Sorrey
There was quite delegation of Mount
Holly people in attendance at the enter
tainment given in the hall at Vincentown
on Thursday evening for the benefit of
the Burlington County Hospital. 1t is
thought by the promoters that some $40
will be Melted, and they have the thanks
of the managers of that worthy institu-
ton.
During the blizzard last winter Mrs.
Andrew ]. Kelley lost ring in her barn.
A thorough search was made for the miss
ing article but it could not be found, and
at last it was regarded as gone for good.
On Sunday, however, the lady went into
the barn, and while not thinking about
the matter she saw the ring lying where
it was first thought to have been lost.
The Knights of Pythias kept in session
until midnight on Friday, as eight candi-
dates were given their first two degrees.
Six propositions were received, and next
Friday night nine Esquires will be given
their Knight rank This lodge is growing
in membership quite rapidly The sum
of 5000 was drawn to pay death benefits
Its charter, dated December 10, 1867, and
which bears the signature of the late An
thony Phillips, is draped in mourning in
respect to that deceased member.
Last week over 81 tons of asparagus
were put up by Jones & Ireland at their
factory on King street. The pay roll
amounted to nearly $500, and the total
amount expended by the firm during the
week for all purposes was some So, 0O0
Add to this the amount that is be-
ing put up by Anderson & Son, and it
shows that the canneries of Mount Holly
are doing quite a business, notwithstand
ing the fact that the cold nights have de-
creased the asparagus crop 25 per cent.
There will be no trouble to find amuse-