The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-08-20
LOCAL NEWS.

Inc farmers IN JHlb SecblOu VI Iuc std
will take an outing tomorrow at Was
ington Park
The Baptist pulpit, on Sunday, was o
cupied by Rev John Shape, of Whining
ton, Delaware.
c. o. Howard, of Grant street, will r
move his family to Washington about tt
first of September.
Charles Leualen, former milk man {
Mount Holly, has disposed Of his hos
business in Camden.
Wanted.-A young man or lady exp
rienced in Office work. Apply Weave
Mfg. Co., Mount Holly
Miss Nellie Frymer. of Lumberton, wi
be one of the teachers in Miss Jamison
school during the coming year.
The Red Men are now paying out cor
siderable money, there being no less tina
twelve members drawing benefits.
The Central Railroad Company has oil
dered card playing stopped on its trains
Trouble over seats caused the order to b
issued.
The bursting of the dam will be disas
trous to the boating parties which hav
enjoyed the beauties of the creek for s
long a time.
William Bennett, of Pemberton, age
IS years, and Mary Jennings, colored, 0
Do.lo..+~,,,,,, q rod Ok uaarc diad at th,
almshouse last week
Samuel Shinn, who murdered Thoma
F. Applegate, near Bordentown, on Wed
nesday began his long sentence of eighteen
years in state prison.
The sand for the new filtration plant IL
Philadelphia will be taken from the Up
ton tract at Hanover. and will give EN-
ployment to large number of men,.
A log came down the creek on Wednes
day and got caught in one of the gates al
the mill dam, which allowed large guam
tity of water to escape before it could bt
removed.
The Keswick Colony of Mercy, neal
Writings, a settlement established for the
reclaiming of drunkards, is free from
debt, a mortgage of So, 400 having beer
cancelled.
A maple leaf, measuring thirteen inches
across it's surface, was brought to TIL
News office on Wednesday. 1t came from
tree in the yard of Henry Peterson, OIL
Bispham street
On Buttonwood street. on Thursday
morning, team of horses belonging te
Isaiah A. King, of Jacksonville, was In
clined to run away. They started off but
were sooE captured.
The police spent some time last week
watching for person who has been ring
ing certain door bell on Mill street late
at night If the offender is caught he
will be made to pay dearly for his fun.
The property of the defunct John w
Taylor Manufacturing Company was
passed over to Thomas J. Alcctt on Thurs
day, when the full amount of the purchase
money, $4,000, was paid to Receiver
John B. Davis.
A large and first fresh stock OF
groceries can be found at Durand's new
store on High street. Call and see the
goods and get prices. Then you will be
isure to buy. Also meats and provisions
Orders called for and delivered to all parts
of the town.
The annual picnic of the Columbus
Snapper Soup Club will be held in ex-
Sheriff Townsend s woods, near Columbus,
on Tuesday, August 81. E. A. Atkinson,
William A. Townsend, John L. Deacon,
Raymond r. Wells and Charles E. Black
are members of the committee of arrange
ments,
Chief Moore, of the Weather Bureau,
asks that the public shall judge that in
stitution, not by the daily forecasts of the
weather, but by its success in forecasting
big storms, cold waves and killing frosts.
This, he says, is the more important work
of the Bureau, and in this he claims for it
long record of success.
A COW at Birmingham had good feast
last week on vest laid on the ground by
John Stumpf 1t contained watch and
$13 in notes. The COW was discovered
when the garment was half devoured.
The watch escaped injury, but the money
went down the animals throat. So did
the hand of boy named CLASSIFY, who re-
covered the wad of greenbacks.
Policeman Rudderow, of Merchantville,
on Wednesday night arrested negro who
was running horse through the borough,
and which was later found to be the prop
erty of Charles Andrews, of Fellowship.
The negro gave the name of James Cole.
man, and said the horse was given to him
by a friend to take to Philadelphia. Cole
man was conveyed to the Mount Holly
jail.
Farmers in the vicinity of Salem are
complaining of what promises to be ar
almost total failure of the corn crop The
stalks are apparently large and heavy
but species OF worm is attacking the
points of the green ears. The worm Ii
very small and resembles an opal in colol
and shape The insect turns the grain OF
the ear to blood color. No cure for the
pest has so far been discovered.
The authorities had intended to remov,
the odium from the baby of Mrs. Mabe
Haines, who is held under a charge O.
murder, from being born in prison. Tt
this end room had been secured at Eel
ley's hotel, which was newly papered,
nurse engaged and a Waterman employed
to prevent her escape. The event having
occurred sooner than was expected, tn
innocent child will have to suffer the dis
grace through life.
Judge Relstab, of Trenton, on Tuesda,
denied the motion for new trial in tn
case of Henry j. Burtis, formerly O
Mount Holly. who. his counsel alleged
had been convicted of petty larceny b.
the jury in the case deciding upon vel
dict by drawing lots. The prosecutor pre-
scented the affidavits of nine members c
the jury, who swore the verdict was nc
arrived at by lot but by standing vot
after twenty ballots had been taken.
Three colored girl, all under 10 year
of age, who were supposed to have bee
kidnapped by Robert Reed, negro c
Wilmington, Del, have been located &
Riverton. They state that they had gon
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