The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-06-04

/ din tdhCbd S1otCos DiaOh @Hu SACy, AhS
quality, only 25 cents. s. s. EVAN, 2s
Main street.
The orders received yesterday by the
H. B. Smith Machine Company amount
ed to So, 900.
| Cabbage, tomato, caulifower, sage,
asters, pansies and daisy plants for sale
by Owen Brothers
The Baptist Young Peoples Union will
give light tea on the church lawn, Tues
day evening, June IS.
The John w. Taylor machine shop and
foundry will be sold at public sale by
Receiver Davis on July II.
The remains of Thomas w Schuyler,
aged 70 years, were buried yesterday
morning from his residence near Jackson
vile.
On Saturday morning at the mill dam,
Harley Shemeley caught pike which
measured 90 inches in length and weighed
81 pounds
While surveying some land near Hano-
yer, on Friday, Walter E. Borden, of ia
cobstown, killed a rattlesnake measuring
Al feet with nine rattles and button
The circus will exhibit on the lot next
to the railroad on Pine Street. This lot
is large and dry, and will give the circus
a good chance to show its excellent points.
Charles E. Rogers and Miss May Streak
er were married on Wednesday evening
at the home of the bride en- Pine street.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
James FL. Durham.
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.
Summer corsets. A beautiful short
summer corset lace trimmed top and
bottom, only so cts. P. N. summer cor
sets, 70 cts. A very good corset, % cts.
S. s. Evan, 2S Main street
A competitive examination for a free
scholarship in the New Jersey State Col
lege at New Brunswick, was to have
been held on Saturday at the Camden
Court House, but not single candidate
presented himself for the examination.
The members of Company E partici-
pated in sham battle last evening, and
the event drew large crowd of people
down Water street. The flashes of the
rifles looked very pretty as the soldiers
wended their way across the meadows.
The irregular firing sounded very natural
to the old veterans about town.
Rosbach's, at Pemberton, still have a
large lot in good variety of geraniums.
Choice plants at 75c per dozen. very good
ones at Soc Also a considerable stock of
plants in variety at after Memorial day
prices. If in need of plants it will be to
your interest to visit their green houses
Joseph G. Haines, of Lumberton,
stopped at THE News office this morning |
and showed what appeared to be a large |
lump of coarse salt, but on closer exami- |
nation proved to be bunch of hail stones. |
1t was left from the storm of Sunday |
night and Mr.. Haines says the hail stones
could be found this morning six inches in |
depth.
Miss Carrie Bickford, daughter of N. |
G.. Bickford, of Budd street, was married |
at her home on Thursday evening to
George Wilson, of Hainesport. The GER
emony was performed by the groom's
brother, Rev. Mr. Wilson, of Princeton,
assisted by the brides pastor, Rev. G. H.
Pepdleton, of the Baptist Church.
Robert S. Murphy, collector of the
Delaware and Raritan Canal, died in
Bordentown on Saturday, aged SO years.
He entered the Delaware and Raritan
Canal service some thirty six years ago
as clerk He was the son of the late
John Murphy, of Princeton, where he was
born, and was brother of George Murphy, |
of Trenton, and John P. Murphy, General
Superintendent of the Union Transfer
Company, of Philadelphia. He served as
City Councilman of Bordentown. He
leaves two daughters.
Captain R. r. Lippincott, veteran of
the civil war, died at his home in Rance
cas- on Friday. He was employed as a
salesman by a Philadelphia
wholesale grocery firm. About year
ago, while reading newspaper on rail
road train, Captain Lippincott was sud
denly stricken blind. He was taken to
Philadelphia, where specialists were I'M
able to discover the cause of his affection,
but few weeks later his sight was re-
stored as mysteriously as it had been lost.
His case attracted attention all over the
country. Since that time Captain Lip
pincott has enjoyed good sight, but his
general health has been failing.
There was an echo to the cemetery
controversy yesterday. Among the OBJ
jectors to the opening of the plot of
ground recently purchased on Ridgway
street were John B. Davis and Miss Lizzie
Goldsmith Back of their residences is
an alley and as soon as they entered OBJ
iections to the new cemetery, Henry G.
Risdon, superintendent of the cemetery
placed number of obstruc-
lions in the alley, claiming it was his
private property, notwithstanding 1t had
been used by the property owners for
years, and was mentioned in the deeds.
Y Yesterday, Charles K. Chambers, repre-
senting Miss Goldsmith, went before Vice
Chancellor Grey and presented the case,
asking for a decision in the premises.
Franklin B. Lewis represented Mr.. Risdon
and after hearing both sides the Vice
Chancellor granted an order restraining
Mr. Risdon from interfering with the Free
use of the alley by all the
it adjoins.