The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-06-05

side to Hattie F. Reineck.
Miss Bessie E. Lamb, of Smithville, lai
week called for the Easter basket whic
was given away by P. Cesar
The members of the Hainesport Methc
dist Church held strawberry festival l
the town hall on Saturday evening.
Surrogate E. H. Kirkbride left on Tues
day for Fredericksburg, Va, where b
took part in the Memorial Day exercises.
A party of young people came to Noun
Holly on Tuesday and spent the evenin
with the Misses Nellie and Bessie Durand
Thomas Black, who pleaded guilty t
setting fire to the pines near Cookstown
is quite ill with pneumonia in the count
jail
Lee A. Stroud, who has been conduct
ing the hotel at Jacksonville, has secures
hotel in Bordentowp, to which place b
will remove.
While fishing at the mill dam on Frida..
afternoon Alfred Doron was overcome b.
the heat. Angling is one of Mr.. Doron'
most pleasant pastimes.
Bennett Risdon has been appointed t.
take the United States census in the is
ward of Northampton township, in plac
of Franklin Dill, resigned.
An open air strawberry festival will b.
given in the church yard, at Jobstown, oil
Saturday evening next by the ladies o
the Baptist Sunday school.
While driving on Washington street OF
Thursday afternoon, Robert Streets wag
on struck one of the chuck holes. which
caused the axle to snap off.
Samuel Burke, of Mount Holly, is con
fined in hospital at Santa Rosa, Califor
mia, suffering from injuries received il
the side while carting timber.
The fire commissioners of Columbus
have elected these officers: President
John B. Comfort; secretary, Samuel R
Ware; treasurer, Thomas s. Page.
The estate of Mrs. Annie B. Coles, de
ceased, of Lumberton, will be administer.
ed to by her husband, D. Budd Coles.
The personal property is valued at 81, 900.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Knell, Jr. OF
Moorestown, last week entertained Messrs.
Y. Matsumono, Y. Wakita and K. Yama-
guchi, three of the Witsui bank officials,
of Toxic, Japan.
The trouble between Samuel Mason. a
former resident of Smithville, and Miss
Laura Richie, of Mount Holly, has been
settled by the former paying $500 and all
costs of prosecution.
DR.. J. Hume Carter is well pleased over
the result of the Wissahickon horse show,
as his thoroughbred stallion, Spokane,
was awarded red ribbon, which entities
the owner to a cash prize of $50.
Three small children, with flags and
gun, attracted considerable attention, on
Thursday morning, as they innocently
paraded down High street. They were
evidently still imbued with the patriotism
of Memorial day.
There was free fight among some of
the members of Harrisons colored per-
formers in their car at the railroad station
on Thursday afternoon. During the even
ing a singer was taken i'll while render
ing ''The Holy City"
Theodore Phillips, of Mount Holly, who
was recently arrested on a capias in suit
for breach of promise by Annie Bullock,
of Atlantic City, appeared last week be-
fore Judge Ludlow. in Camden, to have
the amount of his bail decreased.
The wedding of John Disbrow, manager
of the Mount Holly branch of the Armour
Packing Company, and Miss Nellie
Schlegel took place Thursday afternoon at
o'clock at Trenton. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. D. R. Foster, pastor
of the Bethany Presbyterian Church.
On Wednesday evening Howard Eckard.
of Hainesport, drove to Mount Holly with
his wife, They made their horse fast at
the Farmers bank on Mill street. When
they went to get the animal they found
the rig missing. The police found the team
early the next morning on Madison ave-
nue.
On Wednesday Bishop McFaul confirm
ed fifty five convicts in the state prison at
Trenton. One was female and dozen
were colored. An interesting feature of
the ceremony was the presence of twenty
five little girls attired in white, who form
ed a procession and strewed flowers in
the path of the bishop.
The drill corps of Washington Council,
No. s, Jr. o. JAM, of Mount Holly, are
said to have been considered the best corps
in the Memorial day parade at Beverly.
There are sixteen OF these young men who
are now taking drilling lessons in fancy
evolutions, with the object of becoming
as proficient as were the Mount Holly
Light Guards
Try George W. Durand if you want
strictly pure groceries and provisions at
the lowest cash prices. He has a large
stock at his store, corner of Water and
King streets, Mount Holly. Orders called
for and delivered. Prompt attention given
to all customers, and satisfaction guaran-
teed. Also fresh and salt meats can be
obtained at lowest market prices.
Some of the county papers have been pub
fishing a very incomplete blank with the
idea of making the work easy for the cen
sus enumeration while collecting informa-
ton desired by the government According
to instructions these officials have no right
TO receive information unless obtained by
a personal interview with the residents, and
those who fill out such newspaper blanks
will have their work for nothing.
Several months ago leak occurred in
the gas main running through Broad
street between Buttonwood and Cherry
streets. A number of shade trees and con-
siderable shrubbery in that vicinity died
from the effects of the escaping gas. A
number of good wells of water on Union
and Cherry streets at that time became SC
saturated with gas that the water was un
| fit for use Within the past few weeks
other wells on Union street, near the place
of the previous trouble, have also become
unfit for use, and it is a question whether
another leakage has not occurred in thu
BROAD street pipe, as no trace of gas ha:
| heretnfnre been detected in these wells.