The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-11-05
October was the finest month of the

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Va, last week for burial.
Walter Garon has purchased lot o
Rossel street, adjoining his residence.
Persimmons parties are now popular
The first needs good frost to make
palatable.
: Edward B. McClough has purchased
double house on Shreve street from Johl
| Straub for $1,000.
The residence of Harry Lynn has beef
successfully removed from Mount Holl.
avenue to Broad street
Reeve Stewart, an engineer on the rail
road, fell off his engine on Tuesday anC
sprained his right hand.
The members of Company E will par
ticipate in a drill to be held at the armory
in Camden on December 10.
We have just received carload of fine
York state potatoes, which we offer for &
limited time at 45c. per basket. Allin
sons.
President Roosevelt has selected Hon
Franklin Murphy as one of the trustees OF
the Mckinley National Monument Asso-
citation.
Good progress is being made in the
work of matchmaking Mill street When
completed that thoroughfare will be in
fine condition.
The safe that was taken out of the post
office and sold to the county, was placed
in the Insane Asylum, on Thursday, by
T. Lacy Atkins.
A supper will be given in the gymnas-
ium in the rear of the st Andrews church
by the Ladies' Society on the evenings of
November 81 and %.
State elections will be held in only eight
States to-day, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Iowa, Massachusetts,, Virginia,
Nebraska and Maryland.
Captain Elton A. Smith and family, &C
companied by their retinue of servants,
came on from Woodstock, Vt, last week
to spend the winter at Smithville.
The marriage of Miss Laura Edith Long,
of Riverside. and Edward K. Vansciver,
of Willingboro, took place Wednesday
evening at the Lutheran Church, River
side
The usual pension vouchers were exc
cuted yesterday, and for the next few
days the war veterans will be receiving
their Quarterly dividends from the gov
eminent.
The Teachers Institute for Burlington
County will be held in the Court House,
Mount Holly, commencing on Wednesday,
November 90, and closing on Friday, No
vember %.
The next annual convention of the New
Jersey Baptists will be held in Jersey
City, on which occasion Rev. G. H. Pen
dleton, of Mount Holly, will preach by
appointment
The Pan American Exposition closed on
Saturday night. 1t is estimated that the
Exposition Company and those who gave
financial aid to the enterprise will lose
about $4,000,00
Ex-Prosecutor Budd was confined to
the house last week, having sprained one
of his ankles, in consequence of which he
had to cancel some of his engagements to
make political speeches.
Helen Townsend, eight years of age,
was operated upon for appendicitis, at the
Burlington County Hospital, on Sunday.
1t was very bad case, one of the worst
that has been at the hospital this year.
Harry A. Cook, of Hainesport, while
out cunning on Friday, was accidentally
shot in the right side and arm. He was
removed to the Burlington County Hos
pital, where his wounds were pronounced
to be not serious
J. Franklin Hunter, who has been at
Montclair, Pa, during the past five weeks
at the bedside of his invalid father, came
to Mount Holly, on Thursday, to look af-
ter his business here. He will return home
again this week, as the condition of his
father is serious.
The Supreme Court has decided that it
is only necessary to secure the consent of
the town committee or other governing
body in order to put up poles and string
telephone or telegraph wires along public
highway. Auditing real estate owners
boua potbino 70 COW in tho nnottar
The cunning season opened suspicious
ly on Friday, and many people tramped
the country in quest of game, which in
some sections was found to be quite plen-
tiful Some of the parties report having
captured as high as sixty rabbits. 1t is
said that but little game was found in the
open.
The following unclaimed letters remain
in the post office for the week ending Nov
ember / I: Mrs Mary Morris, Giuseppe
Ciaffe. Letters held for postage, Master
Herbert Hughes, 428 Chambers ave-, Cam
den, MI; Mr.. Louis Bandzinas, Barclles
Cangmon, North America. ; Koluncko
Lydepnur, Russia. Unavailable, Ematine
Smith.
Another nuisance Thursday night. The
Youngsters and others should be taught
that damage to the property of private
individuals is just as much an offence
on Halloween night as on any other night
of the year. There are plenty of ways
for the boys to enjoy themselves, other
than in the wilful damage to property,
and the authorities should see to it that
this is not done.
The Moorestown electric light plant has
been shut down and is being dismantled.
Current is now being supplied to that
town from the Camden power house of the
South Jersey Gas and Electric Traction
company. All the employees of the Moores-
town plant have been transferred to Cam
den, with Superintendent James l.. Moore
as superintendent of the Camden district,
taking in Camden, Merchantville and
Moorestown. 1t is reported that Mount
Holly will soon be supplied from the
same source.
DR.. Leclerc Gauntt, of Lumberton, had
narrow escape from death on Sunday.
He was driving with friend, and becom-
ing chilly took from his medicine grip
bottle which he thought contained liquor.
After swallow, however, he found it was
mistake, and an examination of the la
bel disclosed the fact that The bottle con-