The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-15
The new school house at Jacksonville

of wood and timber on Thursday, Octo
Der 81, Sykesville.
H. D. Torrie, Of the Riverside Press
secured some fine Photographic views a
the fair grounds last week.
The holder of ticket No. 1864 on tn,
bedroom suite given by Rosenfeld & Glass
will please bring it to their store.
Rebecca E. tanning, of Trenton, ha!
purchased from Barzillai Bishop the c.
Bishop property on Pine street, Noun
Holly, for $4,000.
The corps of special officers that was
on duty in Mount Holly last week had
very little to do on account of the good
order that prevailed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Naar, of Tren
ton, rendered reception to number Of
friends Saturday evening in honor Of
their golden anniversary.
There is talk of organizing a new shoe
company in Lumberton. Those interest
ed in the project are William Anderson,
Frank Shinn and Spencer H. Powell.
III. M. Lincoln, the real estate dealer on
Pearl street, fell at the corner of Garden
and High streets, on Wednesday evening,
and sustained painful injuries to his head.
Benjamin Fenton was arrested on Sat
urday night for being drunk and disorder
ly. J. Wardell Shinn entered complaint
against the prisoner for stealing his chick
ems
| p. j. Welsh, tunnel foreman for the
Camden and Trenton Trolley Company at
Edgewater Park, had his right leg so
badly bruised and cut yesterday that it
may have to be amputated.
The unclaimed letters in the post office
for the week ending Oct. u, are as fol-
lows: J. Bovine, Mrs. NJ A. Evan, Miss
Nellie Kennedy, J. Marie, H. M. Lippin-
colt, Mrs. Lizzie Wilson.
Harry Myers, of Burlington, was shot
in the thigh at an Italian encampment
near that city. The police investigated
the affair and it was claimed the shooting,
done by an italian, was accidental.
Letters testamentary on the estate of
Hannah B. Haines, deceased, of Mount
Holly, have been issued by the Surrogate
to Joshua B. Haines, who inherits two
houses on Pine street and $4,000 in cash.
A. W. Lofand sold his trotter, Miss
Fearing, on Friday, to j. W. Mills & Co.,
of Greenport, N. Y, for $500. That
firm had several horses in the races at the
fair last week
A search was instituted at the fair
grounds last week for Matthew Riley, of
Newark, aged IA years. The boy ran
away from home and it was thought he
came here, but could not be found.
A few days since team of horses be-
longing to Firman Dubell ran away in the
field while attached to stub cutter. The
machine was overturned and striking one
of the horses broke its leg The animal
had to be killed.
The grand jury adjourned on Tuesday
afternoon and they will meet again next
Friday. 1t is reported that indictments
were found against Harrie A. Baxter for
his assault on Judge Wills, and Joseph
Kremler, the bigamist.
Dr. Rosalie Slaughter returned to Mount
Holly on Thursday from her trip around
the world, which consumed three years
She came home via San Francisco and
Buffalo, and is now stopping with her
aunt, Mrs William M. Risdon.
Edison's latest invention, life sized
moving pictures, including President
Mckinley reviewing the troops at Buffalo,
and other interesting events will be pres
ented at the M. E. Church Mount Holly,
Thursday, November Z. Make note of
the date.
The flour and grist mill together with a
barn and wagon shed, belonging to David
Ashby, at Three Tuns, were destroyed by
fire on Thursday night. All the live stock
was saved. The fire was caused by the
upsetting of kerosene lamp which had
been carried into the barn by the the
owner who went after some kindling.
All the outbuildings, crops and nipple
ments, including 1900 bushels of pota-
toes, belonging to Joseph Egan, a farmer
living at the long crossing, near Hartford,
were destroyed by fire of unknown orr
gin last night One mule, colt and II
COWS persisted in the flames. The loss has
not yet been ascertained. The farm be-
longs to Willitt Shinn, of Mount Holly.
A great, rafting comedy drama, Side
Tracked" will be the attraction at the
Opera House on Friday evening, October
IS. The piece is one of the best attrac-
lions of its class now before the public,
and is proving big winner wherever pre-
sented. 1t is bright, catchy and always
on the move, and has vim and go about
it that never fails to please. Seats on sale
at Jamisons.
"Side Tracked, with its scenic and me-
chanical effects, its funny tramp, German
and Irish comedians, its saucy hoyden and
the Opera House on Friday evening, Octo
Der 19. There is vim and go about the
play that captures the gallery, as well as
the elite of the audience. The special
scenery is effective, and several strong
specialties assist materially in the action
of the play.
Walter A. Barrows, of Mount Holly,
has bought of the Riparian Commission
ers large tract of land under water along
the creek at Riverside, which includes all
land flowed by tidewater from a point in
the high water line of the southerly shore
of the Rancocas creek where the same is
intersected by the westerly line of Pavil-
ion avenue to the Wallace Lippincott
property The amount paid the Riparian
Commissioners for this concession was
81, 900.
The South Jersey Gas, Electric and
Traction Company has decided to erect IA
temporary dam, about three feet high on
the site of the one recently broken This
will send water down the raceway back of
Mill street and wash away the sewage
that emptes therein. The company has
not yet decided the question of erecting
permanent dam of the height of the old
one, as there is some doubt if the amount
of power available would warrant such
an expenditure.
The Columbus, Kinkora and Springfield
Railroad, extending from Kinkora to
Lewistown, distance of ten miles, will
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