The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-06-12
sHERIEF SALES.
LOCAL NEWS.


I The Mount Holly Academy will close t
day.
A top dressing of gravel has been ap
piled to Grant street.
1.-THE annual report of the county audito
appears in THE News to-day.
Chief of Police Thomas B. Denness will
act as the day officer for the next tw'
weeks.
Frank T Morton has erected an addition
to the barn in the rear of his residence OF
Garden street.
Very interesting exercises were held il
the various churches on Sunday in cele
bration of flower day.
Samuel L. Bullock and his corps of art
lists have finished painting the Trinity
Church at Vincentown.
There will be strawberry festival or
Friday and Saturday evenings in the M
E. Church yard at Juliustown.
On account of the demand for adver
Using space this week in THE News, oul
local matter is necessarily curtailed.
Orders have been issued for the Third
Regiment and Second Troop of Red Bank
to 90 into camp at Sea Girt on July IA.
Wanted. woman to work at house
keeping and small family at the sea
shore. Address, George E. Pancoast.
Why are "Ideal' bicycles the best $25
wheels on the market this year? Call and
see for yourself at Storey & Sons, Paxson
street.
Harry Warner is meeting with much
success in getting advertising for the
schedule soon to be issued by the Mount
Holly Fair Association.
Thursday will be flag day-the ami
versary of the adoption of the stars and
stripes as the ensign of the country by
the Continental Congress.
FL. A. Stiles, the optician, will not be in
Mount Holly on July 4. On account of
the national holiday, Mr.. Stiles will come
here on Wednesday, June 81.
The degree team of the Knights of Pyth-
las will have rehearsal in the lodge room
on Thursday evening at O'Clock, at
which time the new uniforms will be
ready for use.
The Mount Holly Fair Association will
hold another trotting matinee on July 4,
at which time there will be game of
ball between the Mount Holly and Bur
llngton clubs.
Shirt waists. Ladies ribbed underwear.
Vests &c., 10c., 13c. and 25c. Cambria
corset covers, 25c., 28c.. Bic, 45c and SOC.
Summer corsets, Csc, SOC. and 75c s. S.
Evan, % Main street.
Robert G.. Marshall has given up his po
sition in Bowker's shoe factory to accept
situation in the express office of the
Pennsylvania Railroad at the foot of Mar
ket street, Philadelphia.
The scarcity of farm help in the vicini-
tV of Riverton has made necessary the
importation of italian labor, and rs men,
women and children have arrived there to
work on the truck farms.
= A lawn social and light tea will be given
on Tuesday evening next, 10Th inst, by
Miss Lille Colkitt's class, of the Baptist
Sunday school, at the residence of Mrs.
Quicksall, on Madison avenue.
Freebooter Durand has force of men
scraping all surface dirt from
the High street stone road. A portion of
the road is being resurfaced, an improve
ment that has been needed for long
time
On Friday next, State Road Superin-
tendent Henry |. Budd, and number of
invited guests from Mount Holly will go
to Doylestown, Pa, by trolley from Bris-
toll, to attend the Estate Good Roads Day"
A large delegation of the Diamond
Wheelmen, of Philadelphia, enjoyed
run to Mount Holly on Sunday. They
went to Burlington and from there to
Riverton, where they took the boat for the
city.
George Gauntt was arrested Wednesday
for the support of Lena Simons and her
four weeks old child, of Burlington
Bail was furnished in the sum of $500 for
his appearance at hearing in Burlington
last evening.
Jones g. Ireland, of King street, this
year have the field in Mount Holly all to
themselves in the matter of putting up
asparagus The firm is employing many
people now, and already they have pack
ed many tons.
On Saturday afternoon stranger from
Philadelphia. while under the influence OF
LIQUOR, passed down Main street on a bi
cycle. When opposite Jones drug store he
took a header and fell on his face, cutting
a cash over his right eye.
The list of letters remaining uncalled
for in the post Office for the week ending
June 9 is as follows: Mrs Ray Baker, Hy.
Cuppler, John H. Davis, E. I'll. Davis,
Mrs Emma Erison, Chas Franklin, Chas.
Mace, Miss Nettie Van Vandto, Miss Jean
Lamb, NJ Lippincott, Miss Mary Navel
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick I'll. Lee gave a
dinner on Wednesday evening. Mr.. and
Mrs. Franklin B. Lewis gave one on
Thursday evening, and Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward H. Lewis held similar event on
Friday evening, all of which were in honor
of T. Wilkins Hulme and Miss Mary Oil
plant.
S. T. Engle has large assortment of
screens on hand, ard wire netting will be
supplied at short notice. His ready mixed
paints are the best brands, and the prices
are right. A full line of srortsmen's
goods are carried with his other large as
sortment of articles generally found in
an up date hardware store.
Congress has just ordered the minting
of new three cent pieces. The old one
looks too much like dime, hence its
coinage was stopped. The new piece will
be made of nickle, about the size OF a
bronze cent In the centre will be hole
about quarter of an inch in diameter,
thus making the new coin easy to detect
by either sight or touch.
The horse attached to the Atlantic and
Pacific tea wagon ran away on Thursday,
and in short time Buttonwood street was
strewn with samples of that commodity.
A wagon from Lumberton was upset dur
ing the evening at the railroad station
and smashed A little damage was done
by the animal in its mad flight, but the
occupants escaped with slight bruises.
The Electric Light Company is said to
be considering a proposition to disband
the power house here and get the current
from the station at Moorestown. This
would require an alternating current,
which is dangerous, and would also inter
fere with the working of the telephone,
and it is likely there will be some oppo-
sition on the part of our people to the
proposed change.
The census enumerators here are about
with their work, and altogether
the Job has not been very desirable one.
All kinds of human nature are encounter
ed on canvass of this character and in
some cases the task was an unpleasant
duty There are quite number of per-
sons whom the enumerators were unable
to see, and the names of all such will be
reported to headquarters. Those who re-
fused to answer the questions PROFOUND
ed are to be arrested and fined.
J. L. Anderson & Son, packers of canned
goods on Water street, are now engaged
in putting up 2400 dozen cans of straw
berries. The goods are already sold, a
wholesale dealer in Philadelphia having
contracted to take all the firm could put
I'M. The order was secured in the face of
sharp competition with Baltimore pack
ers. When samples were opened the Jer-
sew berries were found to be the best
The Messrs. Anderson last year used forty
tons of sugar in packing pears.