The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-10-30
LOCAL NEWS.

The cigar store of A. A. Engle, on Higl
street, has been reprinted.
The Keiffer pear crop of Joseph Engle
Jr., near Hainesport, netted him 1901
baskets.
John T. Nippins has been showing
sweet potato that weighs pounds ant
159 ounces
Rev. Cyrus w. o. Nyce has rendered
his resignation as pastor of the Marltol
Baptist Church.
Collin w. Hartshorn, well known res
ident and postmaster at Jacobstown, wa
buried on Thursday
The Indian summer question is nov
having it's turn in the discussion, being al
occasional relief from politics.
The annual meeting of the directors Of
the Mount Holly Street Railway Company
will be held on Friday evening.
Mary, the young daughter of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Charles K Chambers, is recovering
fram an attack of intermittent fever.
DIR. E. D. Prickitt is now carrying {
fine line of candies put up by Croft q
Allen They are good and very cheap.
The demand for the Mckinley and
Roosevelt buttons and portraits grows
daily. The Bryan features are very
scarce.
A few nights since Thomas Carly and
wife narrowly escaped death by asphyx-
iation, caused by gas escaping from
coal stove.
Burlington county is the largest in this
state containing $50 square miles, while
Hudson is the smallest, covering only &c
square miles.
Jennie, daughter of Emanuel Katz, a
former resident of Mount Holly, was re-
Gently married to Elias Simon, Phil
adelphia merchant.
William Antrim, Jr., of Jobstown, who
recently went to England with consign-
ment of horses from the Lorillard farm,
has returned home.
The Burlington Camera Club has ar
ranged to hold an exhibition in their
studio from Oct 80 to November 8. II
will be very interesting event.
Letters of administration on the estate
of Elizabeth Lippincott, deceased, who
-dssi recently near Mount Holly, have
been granted to Annie M. Rogers.
Samuel K. Robbins, of Moorestown,
has been appointed to the vacancy of the
County Board of Registry, caused by the
resignation of Col. Nathan Haines.
DIR. Ward, of the State Hospital at
Trenton, stopped in Mount Holly, or
Tuesday, while on his way to New Lis
bon to inspect the new asylum there.
Justice Franklin B. Haines, of Cooks
town, has committed Charles Klotz, OF
New Egypt, to Jail, on charge of steal
ing valuable hound dog from A. G.
Hutchinson, near Jacobstown.
The farmers of Burlington county will
petition the railroad company for the use
of a special boat so that they can trans
port their hay across the Delaware river
at Camden, without the necessity of bal
ing it.
The crop of white potatoes in Soutf
Jersey is very Short One farmer say
the crop will not equal the seed he plant
ed to grow it, and another offers to sci
his for the cost of his fertilizer and pari
green.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has decided to employ large number o
men to police its tracks to get rid of tn
tramp nuisance. 1t is certainly a larg
undertaking and will afford much relic
to the train men.
A society badge has been presented tt
Chief of Police Thomas B. Denness by
teweler Harry Halt One side of the en-
blem represents the Knights of the Gold
en- Eagle and the other the Knights o
Pythias 1t is beauty.
Flannelette skirts in light, medium an
dark shades. Woven corset covers, lon
sleeves and sleeveless, rs and % cents
Muslins bleached and unbleached. Ian
caster ginghams only 7 cents per yard
s. s. Evan, % Main street.
While out driving Wednesday after
noon, the horse of Mrs. John Plasket, c
Moorestown, took fright at train an
ran away. The upsetting of the carriag
threw Mrs. Plasket out and she sustaine
serious injuries around the head arm an
back. She had narrow escape from be
ing run over by the train, which grazed th
horse as it shot past.
Autumn tints in all their gorgeor
splendor are already to be seen on tree
and underbrush. Every person know
that some varieties of trees and bush'
will show color before others. Just VIII
the leaves of one of two trees, of the SAN
kind, standing side by side, should show
marked change before the other. has bee
puzzling question to thoughtful and Of
servant persons. A gentleman, few dal
ago, in discussing this subject, offered
interesting explanation. He maintain
that sex prevails in the vegetable wor
as well as in the animal kingdom. II
one of two trees that first exhibits autun
tints, and sheds its leaves, is of the mo
delicate and gentle sex. In other wor'
it is the female tree.
On Wednesday afternoon an alarm
fire was given in the public school by
teacher who had never before tapped ii
bell four times, which is the signal
Immediately vacate the building. In G
der to test the efficiency of the pupils
their fire drills, which are of frequent Q
currence, Prof Cook closed one or ty
doors to assist in barring their exit to I
street The object of this move was
interrupt the line of march and throw
scholars into disorder, from which cont
tion panic is likely to arise in case
fire. The pupils deserve great credit I
the decorum which they maintained,
pecially as some of them thought the
was something the matter with the heat
In the cellar The behavior of the CHI
dren was an agreeable surprise to t
principal