The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-08-28
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, AUGUST %, 1900.
LOCAL NEWS.

Labor day will be observed on Monda.
next
There will be session of court mex
= Saturday.
a If you want to get all the local ant
county happenings read THE News.
The band concert on Saturday evening
tracted the usual crowd around ''foun
. square. 2
ev. Charles H. Pendleton is expected
cupy his pulpit in the Baptist Churcl
Sunday.
bhn W. Taylor is looking for suit
Ne lot on which he intends to erect {
dwelling house.
Stacy B. Lippincott has been awarded
the contract to furnish coal for the public
school the coming winter.
A delightful picnic was held by st. Mar
tins Sunday school, of Lumberton, in
Warmers grove on Saturday.
e.-A social will be held in the hall at Jobs
town, on September II, by the young
men of St. Andrews Church.
The roof on the kitchen at the Jail res
idence has been raised several feet and
the place otherwise improved.
A harvest home, in aid of the Vincen-
town Methodist Church, will be held in
the camp woods there on thursday.
Several people from Mount Holly took
in the Washington Park excursion on the
steamer Columbia on Saturday night.
The remains of Sarah Jane wife of
John G. Harker, of near Columbus, were
inferred in the cemetery there yesterday
Frank Dennis, who is employed at the
Smithville machine shops, had the mis-
fortune to crush his thumb few days
since.
The will of the late Abraham Marter,
of Beverly, has been admitted to probate
by the Surrogate, and letters testamentary
issued to Harry II. Marter.
Richard McCunney, the well known
landlord of the Ocean House at Beach
Haven, is reported seriously ill, his ply
stefan giving no hopes of his recovery.
There is a very dangerous washout on
the pavement adjoining the residence of
William A. Norcross, on Water street,
that should receive immediate attention.
While Richard Lippincott, of Pember-
ton, was driving near Birmingham on Sun
day afternoon, his horse was knocked
down and stunned by bolt of lightning.
The annual meeting of the Burlington
County Womans Christian Temperance
Union will be held in the Presbyterian
Church at Burlington, on Thursday, Sep
TENDER 20.
~ 1t is getting quite common now to run
electric fans by water power, which en-
ables them to be used during the day time
while the electric light works are not in
operation.
On Saturday noon while at the creek In
the rear of the residence of George B.
Clothier, on Washington street, George
Krusen killed water snake that was over
five feet in length.
The Reamer property, on West Wash
ington street, has been rented by Frank
Pratt, who will open general store there.
Mr.. Pratt will also continue his black
smith shop on Water street
Manager Edward s. Troth will open the
season at the Opera House on September
10. The piece to be presented on that
evening will be Roger Bros. acrobatic
farce comedy entitled Next Door.
Harley G. Brown has been a sufferer
for several days past with bad scalp
wound which he received by striking the
top of his head against an iron set screw
while working at Chances pickle factory.
Richard Ridgway, of Vincentown, on
Tuesday, was ordered by Vice Chancellor
Grey to pay his wife, Jennie Ridgway, So
per week alimony and counsel fee of
$25 additional pending his suit for di-
vorce.
A party of Mount Holly ladies took
trip to Willow Grove, on Tuesday, but
the rain interfered somewhat with their
pleasure, causing several to return home,
while few remained at the Grove until
the band stopped playing.
Information is wanted concerning the
whereabouts of Howard Hamlin Bland,
aged IS years, who few days since ran
away from the home of John A. Bozarth,
a farmer near Buddtown. The boy has
light hair, sandy complexion and is freck-
led.
The National Mining Company, of
Florence, has fled articles of incorpora-
ton in the county clerks Office The au-
thorized capital is $3.50, 900. The incorpo-
rators are Frank M. Reese, Rudolph F.
Volk and L. Hamilton Davis, of Flor
ence.
Rev Martin Aigner will preach his
farewell sermon at Trinity Church on Sep
TENDER 16. He will leave for his new
field of labor Franklin, Pa, during the
following week The vestry of Trinity
Church formally received his resignation
at meeting last evening and reluctantly
accepted it. A resolution was passed ex-
pressing regret at his departure.
A plague of fieas has struck Merchant
vile. The insects came about week age
and haye multiplied so rapidly that there
is no comfort to be had for those not i'm
mune. While some homes haYe not YET
been invested by the minute biters, there
is look of dread on the faces of those az
yet unaffected in harmony with the ex
preston of those who are necessarily in
clined to scratch.
The meeting of the Board of Freehold
ers to be held on Wednesday, Septembe
s, at the almshouse, will probably be NOR
largely attended than usual. 1t will b
Steward Harbert's first opportunity to ca
ter to those who are in the habit of max
ing yearly trip to the county farm; and
besides, there will be desire on the par
of many persons to inspect the new in
sane asylum now being erected there.
David Norcross of New Egypt wa
driving near Cookstown, on Tuesday, an
stopped at spring along the road to &C
drink of water. While drinking froI
the spring Ire swallowed a water liar
eight and half inches long. After SUI