The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-09-02

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arrived.
| Devoe, the Hackensack weather proph
ct, says the first two weeks in September
will be ''scorching hot"
Edward Hack has been engaged to re
letter and varnish the America Fire Com
pany's new hose carriage.
The Grand Army veterans, accompan
led by their families and friends, enjoyed
picnic at Browns Mills on Thursday.
The members of the Grand Army Posi-
and Sons of Veterans attended the Meth
odist Church in body on Sunday even
ing.
The season for woodcock, snipe and
squirrels opened yesterday. Thus faI
reed and rail birds have been found poor
and scarce.
A broken package of rice at the corner
High and Garden streets, on Saturday
morning, was soon cleaned up by a flock
Of sparrows.
A pair of gold framed eyeglasses. lost
on Friday, are badly needed by the
owner A reward will be paid on their
return to The News office.
The Mount Holly public schools will
reopen on Monday next. The rule re-
quiring pupils to be vaccinated is still in
force and will be strictly adhered to.
Several pieces of jewelry, belonging to
Mrs. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, former
resident of Mount Holly, were stolen dur
ing her recent passage from England to
Brazil.
The Thirteenth New Jersey Veteran
Association will hold its annual reunion
in Newark on September "a. The asso
citation will be the guest of its president,
Governor Murphy.
The latest addition to the Rancocas
navy, which has headquarters at Baugh's
wharf. is boat propelled by bicycle ar
rangement designed by the owner of the
craft, Claude Bullock.
The record of Artillas A. Anderson, of
Mount Holly, in catching seven perch on
six hooks, will probably stand for awhile
owing to the new law governing fishing,
which permits of only three hooks being
used.
DR.. Eugene B. Witte, of Trenton, who
claims to have discovered sure cure for
consumption in all its stages, has in con-
temptation the erection of sanatorium
at Bordentown for the treatment of such
patients.
The following unclaimed letters remain
in the Mount Holly post office: Mrs. VIM.
o. Donnell, Carrot Hultz, Rev. A. B.
Richardson, D. D.. 2; Miss Violet Smith.
Paris Art Co., Miss Charlotte Person,
Francyeo Hagazzen.
Mrs. Mary Harris, of Edgewater Park.
lost diamond ring while at Atlantic
City The ring was found, on Thursday,
when she arrived home. While shaking
her skirt the ring, which had caught in
the torn part of the braid, fell out.
AS the express train was coming from
the shore, yesterday morning, leak
was discovered in the boiler, from which
water was rushing quite rapidly 1t be-
came necessary to change engines at
Mount Holly, causing a delay of nearly
half hour.
The twenty first annual reunion of
Kearney's First New Jersey Brigade So
ciety will be held at the villa of General
E. Burd Grubb, at Edgewater Park, on
Monday, September Is. The address of
welcome will be made by General Grub,
and will be responded to by Rev. w. II.
Mccormick, chaplain of the brigade
Judson Gaskill has been turning out
several carriages from his factory, corner
of Garden and Buttonwood streets. He
has sold runabouts to Edward A. Atkin-
son, Columbus. and Sheriff Fenton, of
Mount Holly, and a runabout and brake
to Edward F. Burns, Mount Holly. Mr.
Gaskill wants all to look at his exhibit of
Cortland wagons at the fair. The exhibit
will be large, the prices small.
Having tried several times to get fish
from the creek, Bob Berry, of Water
street, thought perhaps he might have bet
ter luck nearer home. For over year he
has had water in his cellar, which the
landlord had repeatedly promised to re-
move. On Wednesday Bob went into the
cellar with a small net. In short time
he secured eight fish from two to three
inches long and two small eels
Wire thieves made another big haul on
Wednesday morning, the Western Union
Telegraph Company's line to Mount Holly
which was robbed of one hundred spans of
wire between Maple Shade and Merchant
vile. The robbery was committed be-
tween midnight and l o'clock, and the
thieves evidently went north with their
plumber. as the Camden police were at
once notified and kept a strict watch on
all the ferries, every wagon crossing the
river being examined.
Justice Laumaster issued warrant yes
terday for the arrest of Florence Lake,
aged 10 years, and to-day an officer will
probably go to New Brunswick to effect
her capture, as she ran away to her home
after stealing So 40 from her grandmother,
Mary Donnelly, of Birmingham, whom
she was visiting The money was
lying on table in an envelope, on which
was resting a bag of flour. The com.
plant was made by the girls uncle,
Thomas Donnelly. Robert Lake, the
father of Florence, who is a pretty but
somewhat hayward girl, came here few
days since to take his daughter home. but
she took advantage of privilege to re-
main longer.
The Acrobatic Farce Comedy, Down and
Up, which is clever farcical absurdity
headed by the funny caricature comedians
the Hickman Bros, at the Opera House
next Thursday, September 4, who are well
known to most theatre goers from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, as being the high
est comedians in the line starring in
comedy. This time they come to US will
a new play Down and Up" having been
specially written for them with view OF
what the people like. 1t abounds In
sparkling music, pretty dances and rich
repartee. goes with a laugh from start tc
finish, noticeable among which are several
original numbers written for the Hick
man Bros. and used exclusively by their
company The company is spoken Of
highly wherever it has appeared and is