The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-09-04

be opened in Mount Holly.
John L. Severns will act as the day pc
liceman for the next two weeks
The Burlington county Prohibition con
yention will be held at Moorestown to
day.
The machine shops of Deible & Eppler,
on King street. are to be removed to Phil
adelphia.
Fred Shreye won first money in a race
at Easton, Md, on Tuesday, with thu
trotter Victoria
1t is said that oyer 100000 children
salute the stars and stripes every day il
the public schools
On October Henry M. Thomson viii
begin to operate the steam feed mill at the
foot of Budd street.
The Burlington terra Gotta works are
so rushed with orders that the employees
are working overtime.
The annual reunion of the survivors Of
Kearney's First Brigade will be held al
Asbury Park on September H.
The Knights of the Golden Eagle OF
| New Jersey opened their seventeenth an
nual session at Trenton yesterday.
| A fair and festival will be given in Me
chanics' hall, Rancocas, on Saturday night
by the Junior League of that place.
The American House at Bordentown has
been leased by Henry Barry, who has
been conducting hotel at Browns Mills.
George J. Robertson fell from a step
ladder, on Thursday, while working at ).
| T. Engles store, and narrowly escaped
injury.
Miss Lillian NJ Buckage will have
charge of the Eastampton school during
the coming year, and Miss Gertie Andrus
will teach at Maple Shade.
A straw ride party in two sections pass
ed through town on Saturday night, and
from all indications the occupants of the
shelvings were having good time.
The first day of the Mount Holly Fair,
Wednesday, October Sd, will be known as
"children's day." when free admission
will be granted children under ~ years OF
age.
A. M. Sutherland and wife have gone
to Allentown, Pa, for two months Mr..
Sutherland has received contract to
erect poles and do big job of wiring
there.
DR.. john J. Flynn is now prepared to
use the X rays in his practice. During
the past week he has been showing the
workings of this wonderful invention to
number of friends
Riverton is to erect 4 country club"
house to cost $4,000. Mount Holly does
not support base ball team, and IT re-
ports are correct, does not do much
towards keeping golf club in existence.
Chicken thieves who operate on Monroe
street in the future will run considerable
risk. 1t is said that a man who has lost
several fowls in that neighborhood recent
ly, has set spring gun for the next Gus
toner.
There is a movement on foot to place
the opera house under the management OF
Company E. This organization is desir-
GUS of securing larger drill room and
propose to use the opera house for that
purpose.
A dog that for years had been a famil-
lar figure about the Arcade Hotel, and
belonging to Mrs. w. L. Butterworth,
was chloroformed last week because it was
thought that the animal had outlived its
usefulness.
Miss White, who for the past seven
wears has been acting as housekeeper for
her grandfather, Barclay White, on Cher
nv street, has returned to her home at New
Lisbon. A suitable person has been en-
gagged to take her place.
Unclaimed letters remaining in the post
office for the week ending September l.
Elvin T. Moore, Ida Nolan, Mrs. Lavania
Hagaman, j. r. Howan, Dan Likes, Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred Knox, Herman f. Potter,
Frederick Reimer, Thomas Small, Joseph
Sharp.
Moorestown citizens have appointed
committee to secure information relative
to the establishment of sewerage system
for that town. The committee is COM
posed of Joseph T. Sullivan, E. @. Wor-
rell. Uriah Borton, Samuel L. Allen and
Charles Collins
James Bramall, Jr, an ice dealer of Riv-
erside was thrown under his wagon on
Friday, while endeavoring to stop his rum
away team, and had his collar bone,
shoulder and arm fractured, and received
injuries of the head, which resulted in his
death on Sunday.
Frank and Charles Smith, farm laborers,
were arrested on Saturday on suspicion OF
having set fire to the barn of Hudson B.
Haines. near Rancocas, week ago. They
will be given hearing at the jail this
morning before Justice Clevenger The
state will be represented by Prosecutor
| Atkinson.
Isaac FL. Hutchinson, son of John +.
| Hutchinson, who has been spending the
past six months in Europe, sailed for
home Friday from Glasgow. Accompany
ing him on the homeward voyage is Sidney
Newbold, who has had charge of the
Bethlehem, Pa, Iron Works exhibit at
the Paris Exposition. Both Hutchinson
and Newbold reside in Georgetown.
/ Steward Harbert has introduced several
new ideas at the almshouse, and the meet
i ing there to- morrow will witness another
new departure At all similar gatherings
the tables have been waited on by men,
hut the service tomorrow will be by fail
Young ladies. This announcement viii
} probably cause larger crowd than usua
to flock to the watermelon feast, and the
scramble to get to the tables will be be
: yond precedent.
The proceeds of the recent picnic TO-
the Sacred Heart Church were $273
Father Lyons at the Sunday services ex
) tended most cordial thanks to the peopl
of Mount Holly and vicinity, who kindl,
assisted. He praised the gentlemen ant
ladies who had charge, for their untirin!
labors to make the picnic social ant
financial success He also announces
- - s...oo Ion,arv @100 had been Maid Oh