The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-09-10

Edwin W Herbert has secured position
in New Brunswick, where he will resid
with his family.
| A. S. Kellogg will remove his billiard
parlor to the store soon to be vacated b.
James K Parker.
The factory of the Mount Holly Sho
Company has been shut down for a weel
to permit of stock taking.
DR.. George W. Vanderveer is adding
porch to the rear of the west side OF hi
residence on Garden street.
J Owing to the shortness of the tomato
crop, E. B. Jones & Co., have decided tt
raise the price to $3.50 per ton.
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Kerlin, of Colum
bus, have issued invitations for variety
wedding to be given at their home mex
Tuesday evening.
On Thursday Sheriff Fenton sold the
property of Samuel w. Shinn, at Palmy
ra, to the Palmyra Building and Loan AS
ISOLATION for $1,000
A barn party was given on the farm OF
ex- Sheriff William A. Townsend, at Col
umbus, on Tuesday evening. Several
persons from Mount Holly were present.
Right Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, Bis
hop of South America, is in Mount Holly
en- route for San Francisco to attend the
general convention of the Episcopal
church.
Benjamin Stanton, colored, fugitive
from Justice, has been arrested and placed
in jail He is one of the men who en-
gagged in the recent labor riot at Maple
Shade.
Announcement has been made of the
engagement of Miss Helena II. Hall, of
Mount Holly, to Edwin r. Cramer, OF
Altoona, Pa. The event will take place
in the fall.
The annual meeting of the Mount Holly
Fire Department will be held atthe Relief
engine house on Friday evening, Septem-
Der Goth. A chief engineer and three as
sistants are to be elected.
The state convention of the Firemen's
Relief Association will meet at Atlantic
City tomorrow The delegates from
Mount Holly are Joseph G. Kingdom,
Frank Dill and S. Earl Assay.
The managers of the hospital, at their
meeting on September 3, presented Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas E. Price with $25, in
ccommemoration of their ten years of
faithful service at the hospital.
The engine of the Relief Fire Company
will be placed in the Union house from
Wednesday night to Friday night to make
room in the former company's house for
the supper on Thursday night.
Company E will give a picnic for the
benefit of the Burlington County Hospi-
tai on the 21st inst. A special trolley will
leave Mount Holly at 11.30 P. NJ, con-
Meeting at Burlington for Bordentown
and Beverly.
DR.. William E. Hitchcock, of Newark,
Rrigadier General of the uniformed rank,
Knights of Pythias, who has many friends
in Burlington county, is suffering from
smallpox He contracted the disease
while attending patient.
Charles Willitts, colored, was fined
81 % yesterday for creating disturbance
at Cline's restaurant, on Washington
street. Saturday night William Cooper
who was thought to be implicated in the
matter, was discharged.
Frank J. Clark, of Philadelphia, who is
studying for the ministry, has been re-
ouested to take charge of St Martins in
the Fields Church, at Lumberton, max
ing his residence at that place and con-
Quoting the services while still attending
to his studies.
Miss Mary E. Thorn. of Mount Holly,
on Thursday met with painful accident
at Palmyra. She is engaged as teacher
in the schools there and while experiment
ing with alcohol the liquid took fire and
burned the young lady severely on the
hands and face
If you want good supper next Thurs
day evening go to the Relief engine house,
where an excellent bill of fare will be pre-
sented under auspices of the company.
Snapper soup, chicken, crabs, etc., will
constitute the feast. Tickets are 20 cents,
to be redeemed at the table.
The great acrobatic farce-comedy Next
Door" presented by the Roger Bros. com
pany of comedians, will be the attraction
at the Opera House, on Tuesday evening,
September II. This company appeared
here last season and was voted the best
attraction seen here in years.
Bargains in shoes of all kinds-ladies' ,
misses, children's, mems, boys and
Youths. The best shoe in town for the
least money. One hundred pairs of
ladies' to go at less than half wholesale
prices. Custom work and repairing as
low as the lowest, if quality is considered
Leather and shoe findings for sale John
Bill, SO Church street.
William Smith was arrested last week
on the charge of stealing blanket from
George r. Wilson, of Mansfield. Smith
was farm hand secured from an employ
ment office. He refused to tell where the
property was. When arrested he had
nearly hundred keys on his person. 1t
is thought the fellow is professional
crook. He was committed for court
Jacob Shedaker, of Beverly, who has
been at the Burlington County Hospital
went home on Saturday. On the fourth
of July he was operated upon for appen-
dicitis. His case was the worst that has
vet been treated at the hospital and at one
time it was feared second operation
would be necessary. Skilful surgery ano
very careful nursing sent the man home
cured.
An insurance commissioner has been
making an examination of the property
in the vicinity of Bispham street, and ht
has informed the owners that If thell
premises are destroyed by fire emanatin{
from the oil tanks of the Crew, Levick Co.
they will not receive any insurance tina
might be placed on the same. The resi-
dents in that part of the town have petl
toned the township committee to have thu
tanks removed, but no action was taker
by advice of Solicitor Chambers, who say
the proper channel for redress is through
the Prosecutor of the Pleas.
Hedding.
J. Howard Ludlow, of White Hill, viii