The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-08-13
LOCAL NEWS.
Trains to the sea shore ran in sections
on Saturday and Sunday.

a. M. h. Cnurcn, was Hclu on Ounuay.
The railroad track between Mount Holl
and Smithville is to be relaid with me-
steel rails.
Changes in the kitchen arrangements &
the Masonic Temple have been made dul
ing the past week.
A number of the boarders at Birming
ham Inn enjoyed straw ride to Noun
Holly on Saturday night.
Birmingham Inn is having very sue
cessful season. Over 200 guests are stor
ping there at the present time.
After August 20 the regular meeting
nights of Unity Lodge, No. 80. |. o. o. F.
will fall on Tuesday evening of each week
Barzillai Garwood, of Mount Holly
died ut the Burlington County lnsan
Asylum on Tuesday night from consump
ton.
Stewards pool and billiard parlor, Mali
street, Mount Holly, opposite the fountain
is one of the coolest places in town thes
warm summer days.
Blood poison, caused by an injury to hi
knee, caused Francis Reed, the nigh
operator at the railroad station, to qui
work part of last week.
Extensive improvements are to be made
to the property of DR.. r. G. Darlington
on High street, opposite the jail. 1t vii
be occupied by w. w. Curtis.
Rev. j. Madison Hare, formerly OF Bur
lington, has been chosen chaplain to the
New Jersey Department Spanish Ameri
can War Veteran Association.
The township committee has given out
the contract for the macadam road on
Mill street. The road will extend from
curb to curb with rubble cutters.
During the heavy downpour of rain on
Tuesday evening Streaker Bodine got
soaking wet 1t was the first time such
thing happened to him, he said, for forty
years.
The Mount Holly Banjo, Mandolin and
Guitar Club started off Saturday morning
on its trip along the shore. Before de-
parting a photograph of the group was
taken by I'll. L. Keller.
The members of Gen. A. E. Shiras
Post, No. 26, G. A. R., anticipate good
time on Friday evening, August 80, when
Comrade Eberhardt, of Johnstown, Pa,
will be here to deliver humorous lecture
A force of men will be in Mount Holly
this week to overhaul the entire system
of the Burlington County Telephone Co.
When the improvements are completed
m UGH better service will be given to the
subscribers.
Franklin S. Zelley, of Jacksonville, who
is secretary of the Farmers Reliance In
surance Company of West Jersey, attend
ed a meeting of the Directors in Camden
on Friday. The company had paid 500,
600 in losses since last November.
Arrangements have been completed for
holding the sixteenth annual reunion Of
the Ninth New Jersey Veteran Volunteers,
at Somerville, on Wednesday, September
25, with headquarters with General Wads-
worth Post, No. 95, G.. A. r., at the Ten
Eyck house.
Estimates are now being received by
architects Caldwell & Simons, of Philadel-
phia, for $25, 900 residence to be built on
the Risdon Hankinson farm adjoining the
fair grounds, in Mount Holly, which was
recently purchased by Frank Martin, OF
Atlantic City.
James Wassa, who fell from the freight
station of the Pennsylvania Railroad at
Edgewater Park some weeks ago and was
badly cut about the head and limbs, has
been released from the Cooper Hospital at
Camden, and returned to the home OF Ezra
Budd Marter, where he has been employed
as farm hand for many years.
Vincentown has wonder that proves
to be young man who, by main strength,
can lift 600 pounds. This young man is
A. ]. Wright, Jr., who works in the saw
mill 1t is worth any ones time to stop
in at the mill and see him lift heavy tim
Der with ease. 1t is believed by the PEG
pie of the town chat with proper training
he could lift great deal more.
Charles Olden Allibone, commander U.
s. N. was buried in Philadelphia, on Fri
day from the residence of his sister. The
funeral services were very simple. Com
mander Allibone died in the Philippine
Islands. and elaborate funeral services
were held over the remains before the
body was shipped to this country. De-
ceased at one time lived in Pemberton,
and he had many friends in Mount Holly
After many weeks of suffering. Edward
Small. father of DR.. Alex. II. Small, and
one of the oldest residents of Riverside,
passed quietly away on Tuesday, his death
being the result of injuries received while
alighting from trolley car in Philadelphia,
some time time ago. The aged sufferer
who was in his 74th year, bore up patient
ly under his trying ordeal until the last
and was surrounded by his beloved wife
and family when the end came.
E. D. Woolman, president of the Milk
Exchange of Philadelphia, is being pros
ecuted by the Board of Health of that
city for selling cream containing formal
dehyde. A woman bought some cream
from him which she manufactured into
ice cream. Several of her customers com
planned that it had bad taste and on tax
ing it to the analyst he found formalde-
hyde in it, Mr.. Woolman said he could
not imagine who sent him the 'tdoctored"
cream but the law makes him responsible
At the Washington house, on Thursday,
Sheriff Fenton sold at public sale, the
property of Charles F. King and wife
and others at the suit of the Palmyra
Building and Loan Association. There
were four lots all located in Palmyra. Lot
No. /, on Garfield avenue, was sold to
John Hoeffner, for 81, 400. Lot No. 2, on
Broad street, to Charles s. Voorhis, for
$3.50. Lot No. 8, on Morgan avenue, to
John Bellerjeau, Jr, for 81, 600. Lot No.
A, on Morgan avenue, to Charles E. Stew
art, for $4,000.
John Lucas, one of the most widely
known paint manufacturers in the United
States, and founder of the firm of John
Lucas & Co., in Philadelphia, died at
hotel in Atlantic City on Wednesday
night. The firms paint works, located al
Gibbsboro, in Camden comfy, just ovei
the Burlington county line, are the larg
est in the country. Eight sons and foul