The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-09-26

d Burlington townships tax rate is $1.71
a slight increase over last year.
a Wanted-Ten men to work in the fac
y tory Weaver Manufacturing Co.
The .Engleside Hotel at Beach Have
: will close for the season on Thursday.
Jervis ZeIley was employed at Davis
Burr's drug store, Pemberton few day
5 last week.
e A party of merry strawriders from Penn
berton paid visit to Mount Holly Oh
g Friday evening.
j Robert A. Semple, Jr., left yesterday
afternoon for Washington. D. c., where
he will spend four days.
A number of Mount Holly people will
go to New York this week to witness the
arrival Of Admiral Dewey.
! 1t is said that sparrows on toast are
being served in the upper part of the
state as a substitute for reed birds.
, The Epworth League of the Beverly
Methodist Episcopal Church celebrated
, its ninth anniversary Sunday night.
Walter Gaskill has resigned his position
with the Mirror and accepted another
, in job printing Office in Philadelphia.
G. H Ellison, of Buddtown, and A. W.
Engle, of Masonville, took part in the BIZ
/ cycle races at the Trenton fair yesterday.
Coroner Grobler came to Mount Holly,
; on Sunday, to view the body of Joanna
Filler, who died suddenly from hemorrha-
ges
Charles Ross, of Camden, was arrest
ed on Tuesday evening for being drunk,
and Justice Krayer gave him four days in
jail.
Four actions on contract will come up
before Justice Clevenger this week. One
is set down for Friday and three for Sat
urday.
Deep water sun fish are reported to be
lquite plentiful in the lower creek, and
several large strings were caught last
week
William Ireland is through with his
summer engagement at Atlantic City, and
next week he will enter upon his studies
in medicine.
| Israel Burtis died ON Friday morning
near Pemberton. He was an old man and
was attacked with sickness after eating
heartily of watermelon.
1
Fall millinery opening Friday and Sat
urday, September 80 and 80. Call and see
our prices before buying elsewhere. No.
10 Mill street. l. H. Lippincott.
DR.. VanDeryeer desires to state that the
lumber in front of his house is to be used
in building scaffold from which repairs
to the chimney on the house will be made.
The discourse of Rev. G. H. Pendleton
in the First Baptist Church on Sunday
evening on trusts, combinations, amuse
ments. etc., was intently listened to by a
large audience.
The vicinity of the station has been i'm
proved by cutting down the weeds on the
adjoining lots, which the railroad men do
ANNUALLY as an offset for the use of the
spring in that neighborhood
The wagon that was stolen last sum
mer from in front of the carriage factory
of John W. Archer, on Washington street,
and which was subsequently recovered in
Trenton, was returned to its owner on
"Wednesday.
| All poor tomatoes received at the can
ming factories are rejected, and complaints
are being made because farmers dump
them along the road on their way home
1t is said that a number of thoroughfares
are Uttered with decayed tomatoes.
Since September 10, 1896, there has been
recorded in the firemen's docket in the
County Clerks Office the names of TWEEN
| tyfour firemen from Bordentown, two
| from Beverly and one from Burlington.
Firemen are not exempt from jury duty
unless their names are properly docketed
in this journal
| Ambrose Reeves was arrested last night
by Constable Woodruff on warrant issu-
ed by Justice Laumaster. The defendant
is charged by Charles Dattilo, a shoemaker
on Water street, with making threats
against him on various occasions. Reeves
will give bail this evening to keep the
peace.
| Michael Lynch, of Camden. and William
Conroy, of Fellowship. went into saloon
in the former city, on Sunday, and got in
to an alteration with the proprietor,
which ended by Lynch stabbing the for
mer with an oyster knife. Both Lynch
and Conroy were bound over for their APP
pearance at court.
| DIR. Samuel Galley, of Mount Holly, had
hopes of organizing company for the
sale of a mineral water obtained from a
spring in South Carolina. which is said to
contain excellent medicinal properties,
but as the proprietor of the land insists
that such company shall purchase one
hundred barrels of the water per day, the
matter is held up for further considera-
ton.
The option recently obtained on the
Shreve property at the mill dam expires
on October H. The tract was recently
surveyed, and the money, amounting to
$12, 900, will probably soon be paid over
to the owners. The second payment has
been made on the purchase of the gas
plant, and third and last one is due Octo-
Der 1, when the new company will assume
control
Arthur Stultz, of Beverly, was pain
fully injured about the head and face
from load of shot fired by Charles Wea-
yer, of Delanco, while cunning on the
marsh near there Tuesday afternoon.
Weaver was not aware that Stultz was on
the marsh, and as he fred at rising flock
of birds Stultz raised his head above the
reeds and received the full effect of the
shot. 1t is said Stultz will be disfigured
for life.
The second anniversary of the Keswick
Colony of Mercy, at Writings, is now in
progress, beginning on Sunday. A num-
, Der of prominent Philadelphia clergymen
are among the list of speakers, which in
, cludes Rev. Charles NJ Boswell, the head
of the Methodist Episcopal Mission move
ment in Philadelphia; Rev. R. T. Jones,
of Philadelphia; Rev. H. M. Wharton, of
Baltimore, Md, and Rev William Mather,
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