The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-24

to the interior OF the clothing store OF
| Holeman 6 Son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Fl. Lee entel
tanned some friends at their residence o
Tuesday evening.
The Burlington County Telephon
Company expect to run the line to River
side and Palmyra.
Nearly five tons of newspapers wer
sent from the Mount Holly post office dur
ing the past quarter.
Mrs. George Wills, of Columbus, ha
been visiting her parents, DR.. and Mrs
Brown, in Mount Holly.
William Collins is no longer employed
at Bowers bakery. His position is being
filled by Theodore Joyce.
The small boy with his air gun and
Flobert rifle is proving to be very much O
an annoyance throughout the county.
A meeting of the Board of Freeholder
will be held on Wednesday, May g. Thu
new board will organize on the following
Wednesday.
Howard Cooper, of Mount Holly, who
has been serving in the United States
signal corps in the Philippine islands, il
on his homeward voyage.
The laying of the trolley from Bur
lington to Riverton is proving to be quite
an attraction, and many people witness
the operations of the workmen.
Grand Master Workman Lambert, o.
Newark, was given warm reception by
the members of Good Will Lodge No. IA
A. o. U. W., on Tuesday evening.
Sheriff Charles r. Fenton, accompanied
by his father, was driving behind a pain
of high steppers on Friday which dis
tanced everything they came across.
Announcement has been made that a
reduction of fare will hereafter be made
each year to the meetings of the State
Firemen's Association, by the railroad
companies.
Barclay White, who has been spending
a season at Atlantic City, returned home
in health on Tuesday. He was
accompanied by his son, Joseph j. White,
of New Lisbon.
J. L. Anderson s. Sons are utilizing
their waste tin in making buttons for lay
ing felt roofs The waste tin has hereto
fore been thrown away and now quite a
sum is realized from these buttons.
A circular signed by leading diYines has
been sent to the churches throughout the
country, inviting all to participate in a
grand twentieth century revival. The
date for holding the revivals will be an
nounced later.
The New Jersey Agricultural Expert
ment Station at New Brunswick, has just
issued pamphlet on the apple plant
louse The subject is treated very fully,
and copies may be obtained free by ad-
dressing the station.
A revival of great interest is in progress
in the New Gretna Methodist Church.
Evangelist George @. Hammell is assist
ing the pastor, Rev. John W. Lynch.
Thirty five persons have professed CONVEX
sion and many have been sanctified.
A slick canvasser is going about the
state swindling ladies. He represents
himself as being an agent for silk mill,
selling dress patterns. An advance pay
ment is asked in nearly every instance.
It lis said that the people of Somer-
Vile have been victimized to the extent
Of 81 900.
Mrs. Margaret McKeone, an aged wild
ow, jumped from third-story window of
,he Catholic Home at Beverly, on Thurs
Law, and was killed instantly. Mrs.
Keone had lost her reason through old age
and while her nurse was temporarily alb
sent from the room she crawled out of the
window to death.
Bridgeton BARRIERS have formed union
and have adopted the following rules: All
razors shall be disinfected before using;
Iather brushes shall be sterilized every
time before using; combs and hair brushes
shall be cleaned daily; no sponges or pow
der puffs shall be used, except they belong
to customers; a clean towel for every Gus
toner.
The pupils of the Camden public schools
are at the head of moyment to purchase
for the battleship New Jersey its silver
service. It is said the matter will be
taken up by all the scholars in the state.
It is proposed that the name and address
Of every contributor shall be enrolled on
roll of honor, :" and be presented to the
New Jersey along with the service.
The following unclaimed letters remain
in the Mount Holly post office: Mrs
Noonie LeBarr, Mrs. J. W. Bovine, Mrs.
Annie Burbie, Samuel Emmons, Howard
Gibbs, Mrs. Geo. Grovatt, G. W. Mount,
Miss Louisa E. Haines, Franklin B. Haines,
Eliza Herto, Mrs. C. E. Kelley, Mrs. Ellen
Prickett, Robert Rolf, W. P, Scale, Rollon
Smith 8, Isaiah Stephens 2, Bernard
Sweeney, Mrs. Harry F. Speese, Mrs
Anna Belle Ward, Louis Williams 3, Mrs.
Martha r. virgins, Miss Annie II
Woolston, Miss Elsie Paris Ward.
Rev. J. B. Turpin, one of the best known
members of the New jersey Conference,
died at the Methodist Episcopal Hospital
in Philadelphia, on Tuesday. Mr.. Turpin
has been i'll for long time, and held a
relation with the Confer
ence. He was the corresponding secre-
tary of the Preachers Aid Society and a
of the Ocean City Quarterly Con-
ference Mr.. Turpin was admitted into
the New Jersey Conference in 1868, and
was at the time on the Monroe circuit.
His charges in this county were Beverly
and Pemberton.
A large congregation assembled at the
Baptist Church on Tuesday evening to
hear an address by DR.. John G. Patton, a
missionary to the New Hebrides. Dele
cations were present from Burlington,
Palmyra, Beverly and other places. The
address was mainly upon narratives of
his experience as a missionary on the
islands. DR.. Patton is circulating pc
tition to Congress for the passage OF law
prohibiting American traders from ex-
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