The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-04-30
The public school children win cele-
hrste Arbor dav next Monday.


brate Arbor day next Monday.
1t is said that there has been more
cloudy weather this month than for any
month in the past thirty years.
Postmaster Endicott, of Marlton, had q
caller few days since who asked for d
two-cent stamp to Mount Holly.
One hundred and twenty cases of shoes
were shipped from Mount Holly to the
west on Thursday, via the Annie L. Van
solver.
Saturday next will be pension day,
which is always welcome occasion to the
old veterans who draw bounty from the
| government
Mrs G. F. Smith, No. 10 Church street,
will have a public sale of household
goods at her residence on Wednesday af-
ternoon, Mays 8.
Onion sets cheap and pouderette to
make them grow. Also asparagus and
rhubarb roots and strawberry plants. For
sale by Owen Bros.
| Announcement is made of the coming
wedding of William McHenry and Miss
Ella Shuster, of Moorestown. The event
will take place early in June.
Edward Hack has placed his fleet of
boats in the water for the coming season.
They are all ready for the anglers who
desire to start up the creek tomorrow af-
ter pike.
The pike season opens tomorrow, and
a number of angling parties have already
been arranged. 1t will not be lawful to
catch black bass or yellow perch until
June 10.
An all-day service was held in the nj.
E. Church at Marlton, on Sunday, under
the auspices Of the Epworth League
Several well known divines took part in
the exercises.
Call and see the Rambler bicycles for
1901. Ask for Rambler Art catalogue.
Second hand bicycles, sundries and tires
always on hand. Storey & Sons, Paxson
street, Mount Holly.
The list of unclaimed letters remaining
in the post Office for the week ending
April 81, is as follows: W. l. Burns, Ed
ward Jackson, Peter Fensen, E. R. Crit
fiths, Mrs. John B. Reed.
All sizes in gauze and ribbed under
wear for ladies and children. Also full
line of ladies' muslin underwear. Seer
sucker skirts, 40 cents. Flannelette skirts,
90 cents. S. S. Evan, % Main street.
Charles Mitsch, of Riverside, who was
successfully operated on at the Burling-
ton County Hospital for appendicitis, has
returned home. He appreciates the ex-
cellent treatment which he received at the
institution.
A large sturgeon punctured the nets of
seven OILERS on the Delaware river one
night last week, injuring their property
badly. The nets were drifting one after
another, and the big fish went through
them in rotation.
The Mount Holly Fire Police elected
officers last week as follows: Chief, Will
liam Reeves; first lieutenant, Albert FL.
Lear; second lieutenant, William H.
Colby; third lieutenant, George II. Peak;
secretary, John Throckmorton.
The mems Bible class of the Baptist
Church, on Friday, received twelve hand
some Bibles from the Friends Publishing
House, Philadelphia. These books were
secured through the influence of Mrs.
Charles Darnell, the local agent here.
While saving piece of wood at the
Pavonia car shops a few days since, How
ard Dix, of Moorestown, was struck in
the eye by flying piece, which sent him
to the Cooper Hospital for repairs. The
eye was painfully but not dangerously in
jured.
A large and first-class fresh stock of
groceries can be found at Durand's new
store on High street. Call and see the
goods and get prices Then you will be
sure to buy. Also meats and provisions.
Orders called for and delivered to all parts
of the town.
No one will attempt to cheat his grocer
in this state if he is wise, for the new law
gives the grocer the right to levy upon
his debtors wages in satisfaction of his
claims. The new law is the result of the
influence of the Retail Grocers' Associa-
ton upon the Legislature.
The Board of Health of Jersey City an
ticipates plague of small pox next fall.
Great preparations are to be made during
the summer to prevent it. In view of
this fact it would be well to have gen
eral cleaning up in Mount Holly. All
those persons who have not been vacci-
mated had better have the operation per
formed now, as prevention is better than
cure
In the last month on the Tuckerton
Railroad, one hundred tons of new steel
rails have been laid between Writings
and Davenport and between Mammalian
kin and Cedar Run. Over forty-six hun
bred ties have been placed at various Sec
lions of the road and the Pennsylvania
Railroad bridge-gang with a. piledriver
has spent nearly two weeks overhauling
the bridges, putting in new piling, etc.
The rolling stock of the road is now re-
ceiving attention and before the summer
schedule goes into effect everything will
be in excellent shape.
The Burlington County Convention of
the Brotherhood of the Union met at Ma
sonville on Thursday evening, at which
were present the Supreme Washington
and Supreme Scroll Keeper of the United
States, and Grand Scroll Keeper of the
state Nearly one hundred members
were in attendance and all sat down to
banquet. The next meeting will be held
at Pemberton in September. Several can
didates from the Centennial Lodge at Ma
sonville will come to Mount Holly to-
morrow night to have the Franklin, JEFF
ferson and Washington degrees conferred
on them by Marion Circle, No. 9.
What has become of the project to sup
ply Mount Holly with pure and whole
some water2 If anything has been done
it is being carefully kept from the pub
lie The pumping process, which was to
aid the artesian well, has been tried, but
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