The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-08-21

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A good double barreled gun for sa
cheap No % Main street =
The public school in Mount Holly wi
reopen on Monday, September 10.
The residence of William B. Ogburl
on Mill street, has been newly painted.
The manufacture of cider and vinegs
will begin at the Evansville press in
week.
Edward Hack is rebuilding and enlare
ing the wharf along the creek at his boa
landing on Mill street.
The last of the popular excursions t
Barnegat Pier and Long Branch will b
run on Friday, 31st inst.
Watermelons and cantaloupes raised b
Sheriff Fleetwood found ready sale il
Mount Holly last week.
The Dairymen's Union of New Jerse
will hold meeting in the West Jerse.
Hotel, Camden, next Saturday.
James w. O'Brien, of Mount Holl,
avenue, has removed his family to Bris
toll, Pa, where he is employed.
The people of Pine street want tn
bridge on that thoroughfare widened t.
conform with the line of the street.
Charged with committing an assault OF
Mary A. Moore, Amos Prout colored
was committed to Jail on Wednesday.
The camp meeting at 'Bucto is becom
ing an interesting affair, and number O.
visitors from Mount Holly have been pre-
sent.
Farmers are now bringing in tomatoes
to the canning factories and work at those
places will be carried on steadily for some
time to come.
The Christian Church at Bridgeboro
will hold it's forty fifth annual harvest
home on Saturday, September 1, in the
grove at Riverside.
Surrogate Kirkbride, on Wednesday
purchased the house belonging to the late
Nathan Gaskill, so Brainard street. The
amount paid was $5O5.
While on his way to the Philadelphia
Market, on Tuesday night, with load OF
truck, Henry Burke, of Marlton, was shot
at by some highwayman.
Mrs. jackson Nippins was taken sudden
ly i'll at her home near Unionville, last
week. The indisposition was caused by
the heat and indigestion.
A weaver in the Stanwick carpet mill,
who got his hand caught in pulley a
few days ago, was compelled to have
some of his fingers amputated.
The Camden and Burlington County
Gas and Electric Company is to be reor-
ganized under the name of the South Jer-
sey Gas and Electric Company.
A case of malarial fever has caused
James G. johnson to lay by at his house
on Madison avenue. Mr. johnson is
night station master at Camden.
Daniel Foster, employed by Harry D..
Culin, was arrested on Thursday, by Con-
stable Gaskill, charged with being drunk
and disorderly He was committed to
jail for four days.
A lawn picnic in honor of the birthday
of Mrs Shinn was given on Wednesday,
at the home of Mrs. Burke, on Pine street.
The afternoon was fully enjoyed by the
large number present.
James Lippincott, of Mount Holly, has
cantaloupe on his farm that will probably
need surveying when it comes to maturity
as it is now "a inches in length. 1t will be
placed on exhibition at the coming fair.
Z James Flamer, of near Moorestown, was
committed to Jail on Tuesday in default
of 5000 bail for appearance at court, by
Justice Albert S. Petit Flamer is
charged with stealing horse from the
farm of Winfield Johns.
Dr. Francis N. Thorpe will not remove
from Mount Holly at present, as he has re-
considered his acceptance of chair in the
University of Vermont at Burlington. DIR.
Thorpe and family left last week for a
visit near Boston, Mass.
A Philadelphia paper on Saturday stat
ed that as the result of recent visit
of State Dairy Inspector Peter L. Vande-
grift to Mount Holly, four of our dealers
are to be arrested for selling milk below
the standard required by law.
Quite number of people from Mount
Holly attended the clam bake given near
Burlington, on Wednesday, by the Locust
Grove club. The day passed without the
programme being intertered with by rain,
which has been the case for the past two
or three years.
An attempt was made one night last
week to burglarize the residence of Mrs.
Richard Shreve on Mill street. One of the
Stats of nd-story shutter had been
cut out when the thief was frightened off.
A passer-by saw the man jump from the
porch roof and escape.
A wheel came off the wagon of J. E.
Schenck, Thursday morning, as he was
driving to the station with load of milk,
causing some of 1t to spill upon the
ground. No damage resulted from the
accident. The balance of the milk was
taken to the depot by Edward A. Colby,
William Evans, farmer near Mason
vile, was robbed of $55 by one of his EN-
ployes on Saturday The man took ii
from the house while all the other hands
were at work in the field. He was a
stranger, who had been hired by Mr..
Evans at an employment agency in Phila-
delphia.
During the past few days there has been
observed an unusually large number OF
tramps in this vicinity. A great many Of
them have been stopping in the bog
near the railroad station, and although 6
few of them have given the police some
trouble the majority are quiet and peace
full. The cranberry picking season viii
soon open, and the tramps are on their wa1
to the boys to get employment.
| Augustus S. Barber, Jr., editor of tn
Woodbury. Constitution and secretary o
the Republican State Committee, died a
his home in Woodbury., Wednesday, age
81 years. Mr. Barber was considered on
of the best posted Republicans in tn
state. For number of years he wa
journal clerk of the Senate at Trenton
and was secretary of the Republican Stat
Committee. which duties he was attend
ing to at headquarters in Newark whe
he was taken i'll.