The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-06-26

81 Benjamin s. Gratz presented THE New
with some fine cherries last week.
Quite number of new electric ligl
poles are being erected about town.
The daughter of T. Lacey Atkins, WI
has been ill with scarlet fever, has entir
ly recovered.
There is some talk of another Loci
electric light company being organized
Mount Holly.
The lady graduates of the Mount Holl
High School will enter the State Norma
School in the fall.
Clarence Price was bitten on the leg b
dog on Tuesday morning, while walkin
on Madison avenue.
An entertainment is to be given in tn
Masonic Home on July IL. The Noun
Holly Banjo Club will take part.
The new metal works being erected
Riverside will be ready for operation Il
July, and will employ 200 hands
Twenty-Five building lots at Haines
port, belonging to John ]. Fenstermacher
have been sold to William H. Painter.
The house and lot on West Washington
street, owned by James Caldwell, ha
been purchased by Alice Riley for 1926.
| G. Craig Tallman, of Columbus, has I
machine by which he separates cream
from milk for farmers at half cent PEI
quart.
Bismarck, the Great Dane owned by j
1 G. Bower, weighs just one hundred anc
fifty pounds. The dog was weighed last
week.
| William E. Hires has been elected sec
rotary of the Palmyra Building and Loan
Association, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of r. L. Temple.
Rev. James Stoddard and Rev. Charles
H. Pendleton were interested spectators
at the Republican national convention
held in Philadelphia last week.
John D. johnson and family have gone
to Seaside Park for the summer Samuel
A. Atkinson and family will take up their
summer residence there to-day.
The secret societies of Glassboro con-
template forming stock company for the
purpose of erecting large building to be
used as an opera house and a lodge room.
Carriages with rubber tires are grad
ually making their appearance about
! town. They are said to be far preferable
to the old style, particularly when riding
over our rough streets.
Following is the list of unclaimed let
tiers remaining in the post office for the
week ending June %: Mr.. Robt. NJ
Broome. Miss Aseworth Bishop Miss H.
j. Deacon, Mr.. VIM. Logan, Rufus Som
erly.
The squad of Grand Army men who
are to handle the twelve pound cannon
in the Court House yard on the Fourth OF
July. are practicing for the occasion In
order to avoid possible danger from acct
dents.
The members of Marion Circle, No. y,
Rrotherhood of the Union, of Mount
Holly. went to Riverside on Wednesday
night to take part in the institution OF
Riverside Circle, No. SO. The grand
lodge officers were present, as were also
some one hundred visitors.
Francis Reed. the telegraph operator
at the railroad station, was bonored last
week by being summoned to Philadelphia
TO work in the main Office of the Western
Union Telegraph Company during the
session of the convention. Some fifteen
GENERATORS were taken from this section,
and altogether one hundred and fifty were
placed on extra duty.
Residents of Florence had double ex7
citement Tuesday afternoon. Nelson
Rainier stepped from the back step OF Nc
Graths stage and the jar broke his thign.
Rainier is but IA years of age and this Is
the third time his leg has been broken.
While he was on the ground with the
broken limb. Elmer Bartlett, about the
same age, came along and fell in an
epileptic fit. DR.. Baird was quickly sum-
moned and attended to both cases.
Frederick II. Seabriensky, well known
character of Moorestown, ended his career
Saturday afternoon by sending a pistol
ball crashing through his brain, at his
home on West Main street. dying instant
ly. Many years ago he was engaged In
the LIQUOR business. He was induced to
give up the business by the Woman,s
Christian Temperance Union. For some
time past he has shown evidence OF de-
rangement of mind.
independence day is, by long precedent
and common consent, set apart Tor nre-
works. but the balance of the year should
be free from such annoyances. These ex-
plosives are dangerous to the persons
handling them and they are constant
menace to property. Their use ought to
be rigidly suppressed, except on the
Fourth of July, and then they should be
cautiously INDUCED in to the fullest ex-
tent by both old and young, because it is
a glorious occasion which we celebrate.
The establishment of American independ-
ence should never be allowed to wane in
it's pyrotechnic beauty
The residents of Masonville are again
I'D in arms over the alleged speak easy
that is said to be fiourishing at that place.
For time the proprietor laid low, but
matters have loosened up again, and
farmers are complaining because their
hired men come home from that place in
toxicated. It is said that youth OF ten
der years, who recently emerged from the
house very drunk, went home to his en-
ployer, slept off the effects of the liquor
and lett the next day. He has not been
seen since and it is supposed that his
sense of shame caused him to take his de-
parture Evidence is being collected in
order to close the place and punish the
proprietor.
| Aaron EARLY, one of Pemberton's lead
ing citizens, has presented that borough
with public drinking fountain, Tor the
use of either man or beast. 1t will be OF
granite, with appropriately carved en-
blems, and will be located on the edge OF
the sidewalk in the central portion of the
town. It will cost $3.50. Its usefulness
will serve as monument to the donors
generosity. The fountain will be unveil-
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