The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-06-27
Go to Allinson's for bicycles.


the bicycle fraternity.
If you want choice watermelon ca
. on Cavanaugh, No 80 Main street.
4 Perch fishing is now good in the Rance
cas- creek in the vicinity of Centreton.
Earl Atkins is now engaged in drivin
t the -four and feed wagon of Joseph W
Colkitt.
The pupils of the Jacksonville publ
, school enjoyed picnic in the Silver LAX
woods on Friday.
: John L. Severns, who went on dut
yesterday, will act as the day policemal
for the next two weeks.
, Frank s. Jones, of Vincentown, Is nov
employed at Frank Hates blacksmith
shop, ON Washington street
A lawn party was given Thursday even
ling by Mrs. Charles F. Hume at the Nc
Twain home on the Rancocas road.
Mrs. Sallie Allen, of Juliustown, fel
from step ladder while picking cherrie
on Thursday, and fractured her ribs.
/ Walter T. Stewart has gone to Boston
for two months. Edward s. Troth will
act as township clerk during Mr.. Stewart
labsence.
| The lightning that prevailed during the
storm on Tuesday night destroyed tele
phone connections between Vincentowr
and Pemberton.
A delegation of Masons from Mount
Holly lodge went over to Vincentown, Oh
Friday evening, to assist in the work OF
Central Lodge, No. "A.
The police are unable to explain the
fact that on moonlight nights the electric
lights about town give less trouble than
when the nights are dark.
Miss Lillian Allen, of Medford, and
Mrs. ]. Praul Rue, of Birmingham, are
successful prize winners in the Philadel-
phia Inquirer puzzle contest.
| Owing to the regular meeting of the
Good Intent Fire Company falling on the
4th of July it will be postponed until the
following Tuesday evening, 18th inst.
s. H. Walcott, who resided on Bispham
street, removed to Allentown yesterday,
where he has secured the contract to paint
the roofs of large number of buildings.
There was glut in the cherry market
at Burlington, on Friday, when the fruit
sold for two cents quart. Many farm
ers took crate after crate back home with
them for canning purposes.
William Sherman, the shoe dealer, is
quite a horseman and handles some very
fine roadsters. He recently sold fine
animal to Mr. Carncross, of Philadelphia,
the well known minstrel man.
Being unable to secure the stone road
assessment levied upon Charles Wisham,
the township of Lumberton has brought
suit to recover the same. The case will be
heard before Justice Clevenger on July 10.
A handsome certificate was presented
to George A. Lippincott last week by
Mount Holly Lodge, No. IA, F. and A.
NJ, for the fine crayon portrait executed
by him of Josiah w. Evan, Grand Mas
ter.
Proprietor ]. Praul Rue, of the Biz
mingham Inn, will in few days have
bicycle path built from the stone road to
the railroad station for the accommoda-
ton of the many wheelmen who visit his
place.
There is talk of starting subscription
paper in Burlington township for the
purpose of raising $500, the amount that
is needed to pay for the grading on the
stone road, so that the work may go on
uninterruptedly.
William Bryant, the white man who in
company with two colored men recently
broke into the house of Mrs. John She
meley, on West Washington street, and
assaulted her, was arrested at the railroad
station on Friday morning by Constable
Woodruff
Judson Gaslxill, the Garden street car
rage manufacturer last week turned out
two new delivery wagons, one for Joseph
W. Colkitt and the other for H. A. An
derson, grocer, on White street. George
W. Durand has also placed new delivery
wagon on the road.
The ladies of the NJ E. Church will
give supper on the lawn adjoining the
church, on Thursday evening. An or
chestra will furnish music and the lawn
will be beautifully decorated. Supper 25
cents. There will be no charge for adj
mission and everybody is invited.
Walter Norcross, of Mount Holly, went
to Medford on Wednesday for the purpose
of opening wall paper store. Upon ar
irving there he found that there was not
store or dwelling house to be rented in the
place, so he came home, feeling satisfied
that Medford was prosperous little town.
Charles Holzbaur, employed at the
Smithville Machine Works, met with a
painful accident on Saturday. While as
cending in the elevator his left foot got
caught between the platform and second
story floor. The young man was not in
position to stop the elevator and it went
right on, tearing off half his shoe, all his
toe nails and MASKING his big toe badly.
Among the prizes to be offered at the
exhibition of the Horticultural Society in
Philadelphia next September is $40 by c.
s. Ridgway, of Lumberton, for best seed
ling chrysanthemum showing no less than
three blooms, never before exhibited and
i. 60 he ef,, 10
Philadelphia in not over six inch pot; $40
for best six blooms, long stems, Major
Bonnaffon.
The travellers over the turnpike between
Bordentown and Crosswicks are tired of
being compelled to pay toll on road on
which repairs are great rarity, and
which is in worse shape than many coun-
try byways. On Saturday they applied
to Judge Gaskill for commission to ex-
anime the road and to decide whether the
company is justified in collecting tolls
The Judge appointed Amos Gibbs, Fred.
j. Potter and William A. Shreve.
John Anderson, aged about so years,
caretaker of the race track stables at Mer-
chantville, was found dead Sunday morn
ing in bed, at his shanty on the track.
Between the races Saturday Anderson
fell from horse he was exercising and in
jured his legs He was carried to his
place of abode and placed in bed, but it
was not thought that his injuries were of
serious character. Anderson was well
known to horsemen throughout New Jer-
sey, having had charge of the stables and
| track for two wears.