The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22
LOCAL NEWS.


vile is being rebuilt.
Parties from the west are in BurlingtC
county buying all the pork they can co
tract for.
1t is the duty of every voter to see TIL
his name has been properly placed on tt
registry list.
Rev. Daniel Clair, of Lumberton, is r.
covering from an illness which PROSTATE
him week ago.
One hundred and fifty tickets were sol
at New Egypt for the Mount Holly Fa
on big Thursday.
Samuel Matthias is running hack
Smithville for the benefit of the machir
lists working there.
The Moorestown and Mount Holly turn
pike will probably be abandoned and be
come public highway.
Cards are out for the wedding of Thos
Gill and Miss Sarah Risdon, of Moores
town, for Thursday next.
Miss Myra Culin, of Lumberton, is re
covering from injuries received by beinl
thrown out of carriage.
Thursday, October 81, has been desig
mated as donation day for the Aged Wo
mans Home at Burlington.
The Masonic Home at Burlington ha
received a bequest of $4,000 from de
ceased member of Jersey City.
County Superintendent Herman A
Stees, Of Beverly, spent last week visiting
the schools in the lower end of the coun
ty.
Clarence Carroll, of Mount Holly, dice
at the residence of relatives in Phlladel
phia, on Sunday, where he had been Wis
iting.
The total loss at the fire of JOSEPH
Egan, near Hartford, was $7,7O6, which
will be paid by John r. Howell, of Mount
Holly.
Jackson L. Kelley has been disposing
of some of his property in Mount Holly
for two farms, one at Bristol and the
other near Clayton.
Good trained hound dogs at this season
command very high price. There will
be plenty of work for them to do, as
game will be plentiful.
A farmer on the Smithville road suffer
ed the loss of twenty baskets OF white po-
tatoes on Friday night, by some thieves
who entered the field and dug them.
1t is thought that the receipts from the
fair recently held in Mount Holly are
sufficient to permit of all the buildings
being painted and leave good balance in
the treasury
The fourth anniversary of the Keswick
colony of Mercy, near Writings, was eel
ebrated last week William H. Wanna
maker and other distinguished persons
took part in the exercises.
Quite a serious break occurred on Sat
urday in the water main at the corner OF
Ridgw and Buttonwood streets, and
great amount of water was wasted. The
damage is being repaired.
The determined kick made by the com
muters of Mount Holly to have continu
ed the 130 P M. train from Philadelphia,
has been successful, and on Saturdays
that train will come here instead of re-
turning from Hartford.
The gas in the Jail last night was simply
''out of sight, and until late in the even
ing it was impossible for Sheriff Fenton
to do any writing at his desk. If the
Board of Freeholders would install plant
of it's own to light all the county build
inge, estimates show that the same would
pay tor itself in four years.
At the Burlington County Hospital on
Saturday, surgical operation was per-
formed on Matthias A Edinger, OF River
side, from whose neck were removed "A
Emphatic tumors ranging in size from
hens egg to a marble. There will be two
other surgical operations performed at
the hospital to-day.
The engagement of William Dunn Rog-
ers, aged 70 years. and Miss Lydia Lip
pincott, who is also three score and ten,
both of Moorestown, has been announced.
They are prominent members of the So
ciety of Friends. 1t is said there is quite
a romance connected with this engage
ment, the aged couple having been lovers
in their youth.
Having received no pay for two weeks,
the workmen on the Moorestown sewers
quit on Thursday and are threatening to
wreak vengeance on the property All
work is practically at standstill. The
contractors left town for the purpose OF
raising funds The work was to have
been completed on November 1, but up to
date less than 25 per cent. is completed.
While playing with matches Thursday
at his home in Palmyra, Harry Sapp, the
two-year old son of Edward Sapp, was
-seriously, and perhaps fatally, burned
about the face, x east asid was
taken to the Cooper Hospital, in Camden,
where he died The child's five
year-old sister was slightly burned, but
her injuries were dressed by Palmyra
physician.
Following is the list of unclaimed let
tiers remaining in the post office for the
week ending October 80: Mrs. Michael
Daniels, Mrs E. M. Harvey, George Will
liams, A. F. Moore, Palantien Angelo
Maria, Palmer N orden, William Purnell,
Margaret Prett; James Mather, Mrs. Lo-
gan, L. Selesky, Harry Heist, 2, at fair
grounds Unmailable, Miss Edith Groshe,
lib Strawberry street. One unknown
letter.
Shortly after midnight Saturday Isaac
Newton heard some mysterious noises
under his bed room, and on creeping
downstairs he found man striking match
es, and securing what things he could of
value. Mr. Newton procured his shot
gun, and, on taking aim at the mans
chest, he ordered him to surrender, which
he promptly did He then put the robbel
in the smokehouse, where he kept him the
rest of the night, and Sunday morning
sent for the constable who took him be
fore Squire Weller He gave his name al
Wilhelm Beldin, from nowhere. HI
was brought here to Jail.
Recent events would seem to indicate
that an organizaed band of thieves, in tn
guise of house servants, had struck River
ton. A few days ago woman employed
by ]. C. w. Frishmuth decamped in tn