The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-07-16
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.

office for William Henry Howell.
The Enterprise Shoe Company at Lun
berton is about to dissolve partnership.
Henry I. Budd says the potato Gro
will fall off atGleast one half this season.
A large barn is being erected in the req
of the Hiram Earnest property on Garde
street.
A party of merry straw riders from Bul
lington, visited Mount Holly on Tuesda
evening.
As the result of lifting heavy cakes Q
ice, Edward L. Durand is suffering fror
strained back
Dr. John J. Flynn yesterday displaye
a bunch of four and five leaf clover Thi
is said to be an omen of good luck.
Fourteen young boys at Riverside wer
arrested on Thursday and fined 81. 30 eacl
for playing tag at the railroad station.
Prof. William J. Shannon has accepted
position as book keeper for Davis .
Denness, the liquor dealers on Mill street
Upon request of Governor Voorhees,
New Jersey day at the Pan American Elk
position will probably fall on October IL
A new electric launch, the property o
John D. johnson, of Mount Holly, ha
been put in commission at Sea Side Park
The circulating library will close OF
Saturday, July 90. 1t will open again OF
Monday, August H. at nine o'clock in th'
morning
Jacob Shedaker, residing near Edge
Park has been operated on at the
Burlington County Hospital for ap
perinicitis.
A ten days tent meeting will open al
Lumberton on August 1. Rev. d. E
Clair will be assisted by number of wei
known ministers.
A barber in Topeka, Kansas, opens his
shop every morning with. prayer. Mount
Holly BARRIERS are real good, but not as
picus as the Topeka man.
William Carley, who supplied funds
for the defunct Home Manufacturing Co.,
has been sued in attachment by John Il.
Deacon, one of the stockholders.
The Sunday school scholars of the M.
E. Church at Lumberton will hold their
annual picnic in thescamp woods at Vim
centown on Wednesday, July 81.
Harry Phares, who has been delivering
evening papers, has gone to work for the
railroad company, having accepted po-
sition in the office of Supervisor Vain
right.
There is no more enjoyable outing for a
brief respite than trip on the upper creek
at dusk Pleasure seekers are keeping
Edward Hacks feet of boats pretty well
in demand
While picking cherries on farm near
New Egypt, on Thursday, Harry M.
Cranmer lost pocketbook containing $50.
He suspects that it was stolen and may
locate the thieves
The improvements to the post office are
rapidly nearing completion, and when
finished it viii be very convenient office.
Muster Frank Moen has been chosen as
special delivery carrier.
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
w. Harry Mason, clerk in the office
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
at Philadelphia, has been transferred to
the ticket receiving department in At
lantic City for the summer.
Goods for the warm weather: Lace
corsets Thin gauze vests, four for 20
cents. Seersucker skirts. White skirts,
long and short. White shirt waists. Palm
fans only cents apiece s. s. EVAN, %
Main street.
The Standard Hicks Hammock Com
pany, which conducts business quietly in
Mount Holly, has been making another
large shipment of hammocks. This firm
has had very busy season, and the
works are kept going all the time. The
outlook is said to be very bright.
Mrs. Harris Cox receives the income
from the estate of her late husband, Harris
Cox, deceased, whose will has been ad-
mitted to probate. She is given the house
hold furniture and $500, and can dispose
of $1,000 of the principal by will. At her
death ST. Andrews Church will inherit
the entire estate.
Theodore Haines, of Vincentown, who
has relapsed into insanity again, has been
removed to the county asylum. Fol
some time past the unfortunate man has
been having a mania for making fire, and
IT is believed he was the author of some
of the mysterious fires that have taken
place in that neighborhood recently.
Walter Allen has recovered his watch
and chain which was recently lost or stolen
at his building operations in Hainesport
The timepiece was found on sill OF one
of the houses. 1t is believed that 1t was
placed there by the person who first took
il. fearing arrest, as officers were making
a diligent search for its recovery.
Young man named Walton, who lives
at Beverly, went to Burlington, on Fri
day, and padded in a canoe to Burling
ton Island Arriving there he pulled the
canoe ashore and left his coat in the bow
When he returned some time later the
coat was gone, together with walle
containing a roll of money and railroad
Communication ticket.
Spend your money in distant city ant
all YOU will receive are the goods you buy
Spend it in your town and it will come
back to you, not only in the goods yot
buy. but in better streets, better schools
and better everything. Did you eve
stop to think about this matter2 Whel
you help your town you are helping
yourself, directly or indirectly.
The following officers for Marion Circle
No. 9. Brotherhood of the Union, wer
installed on Wednesday evening: Chic
Washington, George Bishop; chief JET
ferson, John F. Flowers chief Franklin
Stephen Carter; honorable herald, An
drew Maulsbury; watch of the day, Sam
uel Stradling; watch of the night, job
Tice; treasurer, William B. Pearson; rep
resentative to grand circle, @. ]. Krayer
trustee, John Tice.
1t is said that woman who has bee
living in Lumberton has applied for
separation from her husband. From a
accounts he ought to be glad to get rid @
her, as she has frequently caused troubl
in Mount Holly. where she is now resid