The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-07-31
The MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.

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the sidewalks in New Egypt.
An advance of twenty five cents per tol
has been made in the price of coal.
- William II. Gibbs, prominent resident
of Columbus, was buried on Saturday.
Miss Emma Gordon, of Jacobstown, hal
taken up her residence in Mount Holly.
The Prcsbyterians held their postponed
picnic in the Smithville woods on Friday
1t is said that DIR. Eugenia Whitehead
will again locate in Mount Holly In Sep
TENDER
Charged with robbing a peddler neal
Medford, Conrad King was committed te
jail on Thursday.
Doves are said to be plentiful in this
section. The season for shooting them
opens tomorrow.
II. C. Poinsett, of Jacobstown, has been
suffering with boils on his hands, caused
by the sting Of insects.
Walter Rossell has removed his family
to Manasquan, where he has been given a
position as section boss
A match factory is to be started at Bur
lington in the fall, giving employment to
about one hundred persons.
The annual session of the State Camp,
Patriotic Order Sons of America. will be
held at Pennsgrove, on August 10.
The residence of Rev. R. g. Moses, of
Merchantville, was struck by lightning
on Wednesday night and slightly dam
aged.
Township collector Fewks, of Florence,
sailed for Europe on Wednesday,. He
will visit the Paris exposition before re-
turning.
There are prospects that the Company's
shoe factory, at Lumberton, which has
been idle for several years, will soon re-
sumo business again.
The rain on Thursday put damper on
the Epworth League rally at Browns
Mills and broke up the picnic. TWAS
continued the next day.
Mrs. Lewis Whitaker, of Centreton,
saw weaselimaking off with one of her
chickens, and hastily picked up pair of
scissors and beheaded the animal.
Improvements are being made to the
front of the residence of Oliver L. Jeffrey,
on High street. by the extension of the
porch the full width of the house.
Several anglers had very good luck in
catching catfish in the lower creek on
Thursday, after the rain. A number of
large cells were also landed safely.
Abner Nixon, Jr., of Columbus, who
was successfully operated on in Phila-
delphia hospital for appendicitis, has re-
turned home much improved in health.
Mrs NJ E. Thatcher, of Florence, has
returned home from her trip to Europe,
where she has been in the interest of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union.
County Clerk w. Roland Warrick and
Miss Marion Deacon took a fishing trip on
Barnegat bay, Tuesday, in company with
number of friends from Moorestown.
A few days since John Mcfarland fed
some cabbage leaves to pair of his pet
guinea pigs, and in short time they died,
the cause being attributed to paris green.
Farmers throughout the state report
quail more numerous than for some time
past, and at present there is every reason
to believe that gunners will have fine
sport in the fall.
A large portion of maple tree in front
c<1.o 1f Eyrnla
corner of Garden and Buttonwood streets,
was blown down by the high winds on
Wednesday evening
Joseph Petit, of Stanwick, who died on
Tuesday, was buried Thursday from the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Elwood john
son. of Lumberton. The interment was
made in the Brotherhood cemetery in
Mount Holly.
1t is said that the Camden and Trenton
Railway has settled its differences with
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and
that work ON the trolley road will be Wig
orously pushed, going under the railroad
tracks at Edgewater Park.
Mrs Hannah Burroughs, of Bridgeton,
died on Wednesday, from the effects OF
the heat. The funeral took place In
Mount Holly, on Saturday afternoon, from
the residence of John Fl. Sine, interment
being made in the Mount Holly cemetery.
Deceased formerly resided here.
Howard Russ, of Delanco, paid fly
ing visit to Mount Holly on Thursday.
Howard has been very busy with his
truck lately and has not had much time
for anything else. He has shipped con-
siderable corn to New York. On one day
he cut and shipped A, 600 ears of corn.
Charles F. Benham, fireman on the
Union Transportation railroad, was over
come by the heat while at Birmingham
junction, on Wednesday afternoon. He
was taken to his home at Hightstown, on
an extra train, where he died without re-
gaining consciousness, death being due to
apoplexy. Deceased was % years of age
and leaves widow and one child.
The large volume of water on the east
side of High street, during the heavy
downpour of rain on Thursday morning,
which comes all the way from the mount,
clearly points out the fact that more cul-
verts are needed to carry it away and
prevent danger At the residence of DR..
Charles Harker, where some bricks had
been removed from the sidewalk, there
was very bad washout, going deep to
the foundation of the house and allowing
much water to enter the cellar. On such
occasions the sidewalks are impossible
and pedestrians cannot get across the
street.
Lightning struck the large barn on the
farm of William Jones, three miles north
east of Medford, during the severe thun-
derstorm Wednesday evening When the
bolt struck the barn Cooper Allen, the oc
cupant of the farm, was in the act of tax
ing the harness off one of the horses. The
shock was so great that both man ant
horse were knocked down. Allen arose
however and got all the live stock out O
the barn before the fire reached them
Two barns, crib house and-wagon she'd
were destroyed, together with their con
tents, which consisted of the years crops