The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-09-05

meet at tne COurU house pO-Qay.
< The residence of R. ]. B. Slack on Mai
street is receiving fresh coat of paint
D Samuel P. Cline has had new foe
: laid in the front part of his hardwal
store.
The sand diggers near Masonville al
7 jubilant over promised increase of the
wages.
4 The first R month made its appearance
on Friday, and oysters will now jump in
to prominence.
The shore travelling is now diminishing
: and boarders along the coast are leavin
in large numbers.
Quite number of people from Noun
Holly took in the sights at Willow Grov.
on Tuesday evening
A new house is being built at Charles
! ton, and it is said to be the first dwelling
erected there in 70 years.
T. Logan Gaskill has decided to prac
tice law in Newark, at which place h
has secured good location.
Clarence Smires, of Browns Mills i
recovering from serious injuries which h
recently received by being gored by
bull
Sixty thousand cans of tomatoes art
said to have been put up in one day las
week by the canning factories of Mount
Holly.
Bessie McKenna, infant daughter Of
Michael McKenna, is suffering from q
broken jaw as the result of falling down
stairs.
A public meeting was held in the
Friends meeting house on Buttonwood
street, on Sunday afternoon at o'clock.
Zebedee Haines was the speaker.
The lake at Browns Mills has been
stocked with black bass by the United
States government through the instru-
mentality of William j. Browning.
The Standard Hicks Hammock Co. will
shut down for few days this week to
connect the machinery in the old and new
mills, make changes in the smoke stack,
| etc.
| L. II. Chambers, manager of the Della
ware River Shoe Co., has decided to remove
his factory from Riverside to Beverly, ow-
ing to the scarcity of labor at the former
place.
Notwithstanding reports to the con-
trary, the cranberry crop is expected to
be up to the average, and already num-
Der of growers have the picking well I'M
der way.
The electric lights in the eastern part of
the town were out a portion of Wednes-
day evening, and about o'clock in the
morning they all went out. A defect in
the machinery was the cause.
1t is feared that Capt. Burroughs Cav
ileer, together with his vessel and crew,
were lost during the recent severe storm
at sea- Capt. Cavileer's home is at New
Gretna. Heis brother of Mrs. Joseph
Rogers, of Mount Holly.
On Tuesday evening several persons
witnessed a large number of swallows
circling about chimney on Union street,
and nearly one hundred of them were
seen to enter it. Swallows are said to be
a good thing to clean out chimney.
A lady in Mount Holly, on Friday,
nearly had the Mysteries when she discov-
cred for the first time that there was no
almanac in the house II won't be salts
fed until get one. she remarked to her
husband, who thereupon Immediately
| trotted off to the drug store.
The fourteenth annual convention of
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
of Burlington county will be held in the
Methodist Church at New Egypt on
Thursday, September IA. There will be
sessions at II AM, Q p NJ and 7.45 Pm.
An interesting programme has been pre-
pared.
Berry pickers are now making their
way to the cranberry Dogs in large num-
bers. Some of them who have stopped
in Mount Holly hoping to get nights
lodging, have been committed to Jail for
thirty days as Migrants. On account of
this they will lose most of the picking
season.
The New York World is promoting
scheme to have the arrival of Admiral
Dewey noted by the firing of an Admiral's
salute of seventeen guns in each of the
principal cities and towns of New Jersey,
and if any military or fire department or
civil officers will take the matter in hand,
the World will wire the exact minute of
Dewey's arrival.
A watermelon party was given at the
residence of Mrs. l. H. Wainwright, on
Mill street, on Tuesday evening of last
week, in honor of Miss Lucy Tripler, of
Norristown, Pa. The evening was pleas
antly passed with games and vocal and in
strumental music, and after watermelon
had been served the guests departed
About twenty five were present
The greatest sight ever witnessed dur
ing the season for canning tomatoes was
that on Thursday morning on the
streets leading to the canning houses of E.
B. Jones s. Co. and J. L. Anderson & Son.
On every thoroughfare as far as could be
seen stood wagons two abreast, loaded
with tomatoes. The yield in this vicinity
this year has never before been equaled.
The postoffice department yesterday is
sued new money order form. 1t will be
the size of the ordinary bank draft or
check, and will be printed in blue instead
of green. 1t will be particularly well
coined by the post Office force, as by
means of carbon paper both the order and
the advice will be made at one writing.
1t will also have receipt to be given to
the purchaser of the order
Following is the list of unclaimed letters
remaining in the post Office for week end
ing September 2: Mrs George Anderson,
Mr. Edward Adams, Mr. Geo. Doneley,
Mrs VIM. Reeves, S. Reibore, Mrs Harry
Rossell Mrs. Matte Smith, Miss Lena
Smith, Mr.. Bart Shinn, Albeit Stogon,
Mr.. John Simon, Mrs. Albert Thompson,
Miss Emily Trimble, Geo. B. Higgins,
Mrs. Geo. Hubbs, Miss Grace A. Haines,
A. E. Mitchell.
On the south side of Union street, in
all the inforescent glory of its annual
beauty, may at the present time be seen q
lovely display of clematis japonica, which
so beautifully drapes the extensive porch
of William T. Harding, to the great de-