The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-09-03
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1901.
LOCAL NEWS.

Summer travel is now homeward bounC
as the season of 1901 is nearly closed
The oyster crop promises to be large
and the bivalve will soon be in demand
again.
The petit jurors for the October tern
of court will be drawn by Sheriff Fentol
next Tuesday
Nelson B. Gaskill and Thomson Sims
members of Company E, have qualified
as sharpshooters.
Beginning with tomorrow evening tn
Odd Fellows No 80, will hold thei
meetings at 7.30 o'clock.
The Mount Laurel drum corps made 1T
appearance in Mount Holly on Thursday
attending a harvest home.
The members of Company E held thei
dance in their armory on Saturday even
ing on account of the rain,
The eleventh annual reunion of the 29tl
New Jersey Volunteers will be held a
Long Branch on September IL.
Mr. anu NILS. OuNCi II. CShASJ Va
leave on Thursday for a two weeks tril
to the Pan American Exposition.
A. S. Kellogg has the refusal OF the
store to be vacated by James K. Parker,
to which place he may remove his billiard
parlor.
A thief secured small sum of money
- DA1n SfrQpf
Tuesday morning while the family were
absent.
An oyster supper will be given in the
Masonic Temple on Thursday, October
II, by the Ladies' Aid Society of the M.
E. Church.
In the 2 IA trotting class at Providence,
r. l., on Tuesday, Frank Martins bay
mare Easter won in three straight heats.
Time 2144; 9.134; 2124
Harry Hargrove, while in the hallway
leading to the Opera House, on Tuesday
morning, was severely bitten by a grey
hound owned by Grant Davis.
Yesterday was Labor day, but the occa-
sion was not marked by any special event
in Mount Holly The banks, county build
ings and post Office were closed.
Denness & Davis, the Mill street liquor
dealers, are rushed with orders, especially
for soft drinks. The front of their build
ing bears new and handsome sign.
The sum of $5S 65 has been handed
over to the Burlington County Hospital
by Mrs. Harry Matlack, who realized the
money by an endless chain of three let
tiers.
1t is useless to attempt to name the va
rious brands of cigars kept at Stewards,
but they are all good, and our growing
trade is proof positive that what we say
is true
A valuable horse, trained for cunning
and other sports which was kept for the
private use of the late Pierre Lorillard,
has been purchased by Edward f. Burns
of Mount Holly.
The freeholders who compose the coun
tv asylum committee are now wrestling
with the matter of getting rid OF the sew
erage at that institution, and are in
quandary as to the best means to adopt
The New Jersey Sunday School Asso-
citation, which holds convention once In
three years, will hold its next convention
in the Broadway M. E. Church, Camden,
on Thursday and Friday, November II
and %.
The Episcopalians of Lumberton held
an illuminated" picnic on Saturday even
ing. and the affair proved to be decided
success. There was plantation scene
with negro melodies and other pleasing
features added enjoyment to the occasion.
Over 800 tickets were sold in Mount
Holly on Wednesday for Burlington, the
occasion of the merchants picnic Con
ductor Ancker sold tickets at the Grant
street station, which relieved the trolley
conductors and accommodated the crowd.
A new Methodist hymnal is about to be
issued. 1t will contain about 800 hymns,
MANY of them old favorites combined
with considerable percentage OF new
church music. The book will be put in
general circulation within the next four
months.
The shortness of the apple crop in New
Jersey leads to much apprehension as to
where the annual supply of appleJack is
to come from The cider makers and dis
tillers are making but little provision fol
fall work, and shortage of the favorite
Jersey beverage is likely to result.
Walter Sellers, of Camden, who died
after two days illness, was buried Oh
Wednesday afternoon. Deceased was
popular salesman, a prominent Demo
cratic politician and a member of severa
secret societies. He had many friends IL
Mount Holly who regret his death.
Since the breaking of the mill dam
Colkitt & Thomson have steamed up thu
mill on Bispham street, where they arr
prepared to do all grist work at shor
notice. Orders received at the office OF
Mill street for flour and feed will receive
prompt attention. Telephone No II.
The new two-cent piece, soon to b
issued by the government, has alread.
been styled 'doughnut CON-, because
will have hole in the centre. This limo
walton was deemed necessary, as the neV
coin is to be the exact size and of tn
same material as the present tive-cen
piece.
Bargains in shoes of all kinds-ladies
misses, children's, mems, boys an
Youths. The best shoe in town for tn
least money. One hundred pairs c
ladies' to go at less than half wholesal
prices. Custom work and repairing q
low as the lowest, if quality is considered
Leather and shoe findings for SALE job
Bill, SO Church street.
E. C. Gregory, who is a citizen of I'll
First New Jersey Congressional Distric
has been engaged for three or four yea
in compiling from the records of the pei
sion office the complete personal histo1
of every New Jersey soldier in all IL
wars of the country. The work is dor
under the auspices of the New Jerst
Historical Society. The publication, wht
made, will be full as to the companie
regiments etc, and be an authoritati'
record of New Jerseys military contrib
ton to the welfare and salvation of Il
republic.
The merchants of Burlington have e
tended their thanks to the weather mi