The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-07-31
John Tice is painting John Wolfsberg's

Barzillai Mcintosh, of Chester, Pa, ha
4 removed to Mount Holly.
Wanted, girls not under 10 years of age
by Weaver Manufacturing Co.
The office of Prosecutor Samuel A. All
kinson has been newly papered.
Surveyor James Lippincott has rente'
room No. in the Gaskill building.
The members of Company E have sus
pended drilling until the 10th of Septem
Der.
Patrick Dolan has been held under bal
for court on charge of assaulting Georg'
Smith.
| Rev. Percy Lynch, of Reading, Pa.
will preach in the Mount Holly Baptis
Church early in September.
Vincent Moore, of Tabernacle, has beer
buying huckleberries for Anderson's can
ming factory in Mount Holly.
The second quarterly conference of the
Tabernacle and Indian Mills charge will
be held at Indian Mills to- morrow even
ing.
Rev. C. Fl. Pendleton will leave on
Monday next on his annual vacation,
which will be passed principally in Rhode
Island.
Justice John D. Clevenger is again at
tending to business, after being confined
to the house for a week with muscular
rheumatism.
The Northampton end of the South
Pemberton stone road has been given a
coating of red gravel, which is said to be
of good quality and just right for the
purpose.
On Sunday morning at 2 o'clock Police
man Branson found team standing I'M
hitched on Mill street near Buttonwood.
The officer placed the rig in Grant Davis
stable. Its owner has not yet been ascer-
tanned
The following is taken from the fish
and game laws, and anglers should make
note of it in order to escape $50 fine:
''It is unlawful to use any contrivance in
fishing having more than three hooks or
one burr of three hooks"
D. W. Williamson, President of the
Western Manufacturing and Building Co.,
of California writes to J. D. Clevenger to
ascertain the value of some building lots
located at Paradise Park" This is some
of the Paisley land, worth about two
dollars per acre.
Last evening Justice Laumaster issued
a. warrant for the arrest of William vi
varttas, of Smithville, who is charged by
Miss Bessie earn with using vile language
toward her and acting in disorderly
manner in Mason's boarding house where
she is employed.
Kate Houston, well known tramp,
was liberated from Jail on Saturday morn
ing. In the afternoon she made applica-
ton to Justice Clevenger to be committed
to the county house ''for six months or
six years" Kate said she preferred to
be there than anywhere else.
Deputy United States Marshal Garrison
yesterday arrested Joseph B. Collins,
postmaster at Wrightstown, on a charge
of embezzling funds of the Government.
His alleged shortage is said to be several
hundred dollars. Collins was arraigned
before United States Commissioner Nor
gan in Camden yesterday and held in $500
bail for further hearing.
By the will of Mrs Susan G. Waters
the artist who died recently in Borden
town, number of nieces get the estate,
valued at 100000. The will has just been
admitted to probate in the Surrogate s
Office Mrs. Waters was an artist, her
particular delight being in painting sheep.
Those who have her pictures are quite
fortunate. One of her best productions
is the property of Evans Fl. Tomlinson,
on Garden street.
An unforeseen danger was discovered
last evening, which scared two young
men out of years growth. They were
fishing close to the wharf in the rear of
the electric light station and when the
works started up they were unexpectedly
enveloped in escaping steam from the ex-
haust pine. They were compelled to
jump overheard to escape being scalded.
To avert possible danger an elbow
should be attached to the exhaust pipe.
The barns and other buildings on the
| farm and nurseries of Arthur j. Collins,
near Moorestown, which have just been
rebuilt since the big fire there, were
threatened to be burned down by John
Taylor, of Philadelphia, who lurked in
that vicinity last week He declared he
| would set fire to the buildings. Upon his
strange actions he was arrested and put
| in the lookup. 1t was afterward found
that he was hopelessly insane, and he was
taken to the Trenton asylum.
If you are troubled with insomnia and
cannot sleep just try a call on the local
telephone. If you do not get "that tired
feeling" before you get answered it will
be wonder. Of course there is but one
operator to attend to $50 phones, but that
has nothing to do with the question. Ii
there is not sufficient help to do the work
more should be engaged. A corporation
that is able to pay eight per cent. dividend
should not allow its customers to suffer
inconvenience when small outlay of cash
would remedy the difficulty.
| Some time since, Frank Kelly, son Of
Peter Kelly, took his fathers horse and
harness and also a wagon belonging to
Theodore Phillips. In company witt
Richard Stockton, the two young mer
started off with load of DR.. Caley'i
horse medicine. Several days later they
disposed of the whole outfit at Phil
lipsburg AS Stockton was in no way i'm
plicated in the matter, proceedings wer'
not taken against him, but the authorize
have been unable to serve warrant OF
Kelly, who has managed to keep out o
the way. Peter Kelly is willing to tax
the chances on his horse, and is willing t.
settle with Phillips for $40, in order t
save his son from arrest, but Theodore de
mands $40.
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