The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-05-13

Flowers and plants for bedding. in tn
usual variety, at Elberson's, Mill st.
Edward R. Smith and Philip Schicke
danz drove to Berlin last Tuesday an,
caught string of trout.
A delegation of the Senior Mechanics o
Mount Holly, visited Enterprise Council
at Jacksonville last evening.
A quilting social will be held in tn,
Methodist Church on Friday Afternoon
and evening. A light supper will b.
served for 10 cents.
The fifth anniversary of the Daughter
of America, which was celebrated on Fri
day evening in the Gaskill building, wa,
very pleasant affair.
The Epworth League of the Methodist
Church is preparing programme for the
celebration of their anniversary on Thurs
day evening, May %.
Several members of Mount Holly Lodge,
No. IA, F. and A. NJ, will attend the an,
niversary exercises of German Masonic
Lodge in Camden this evening.
On Thursday evening, May %, the
Mount Holly Banjo Club will give an en-
tertainment at Vincentown for the benefit
of the Methodist Church at that place.
Rev. DIR. McBurney, the celebrated pull
pit orator of Philadelphia, will deliver the
annual address before the Epworth
League at their anniversary on May %.
A number of large water wheels are
now being shipped to various parts of the
country by the Risdon- Alcott Turbine
Company One of them goes to Russia.
1t is now proposed to bring suit against
some of the property owners along the
Mount Holly and Burlington stone road
because of failure to pay their assess
ments.
The Mount Holly and Jobstown Turn
pike Company, which held its annual
meeting last week, reelected the former
officers and declared a dividend of 80
cents per share.
Rev. N. ]. Wright, pastor of the Meth
odist Church, on the evening of Sunday,
May %, will preach a special sermon to
the old soldiers, Sons of Veterans and the
local guardsmen.
A strawberry tea will be given at the
Burlington County Hospital on June 5, to
inaugurate the opening of the woman s
ward, an addition to the institution which
h q raoonflv hoou oOra Dlafad
A retainer has been lodged with Sheriff
Fenton against William Jackson, a negro
in Jail who is wanted by the Camden au-
thorities for robbing the residence of G.
E. Rutter at Berlin. The prisoner has
but one arm.
Free instruction in the art of engraving
is to be given to young men and women
in the Holt box factory, on Cherry street,
by representative of the Riverside
Watch Company. Steady employment is
promised to those who become proficient
The Veteran Association of the Second
New Jersey Cavalry, will hold its twelfth
annual reunion in Mount Holly, on Mon
day, June 9. The exercises will begin at
10 O'Clock A. NJ Speakers will be pre-
sent from New York, Brooklyn and St.
Louis.
Some railroad workmen made complaint
yesterday before Justice Laumaster, of
the rifle shooting engaged in by lady
and gentleman residing on High street
1t is considered to be very dangerous
SPORT and several persons have narrowly
escaped being shot.
The institutions on the county farm at
New Lisbon were inspected on Tuesday
by ex-Sheriff Fleetwood, c. Henry Bel
din, Hamilton Hill, William E. Taylor
and Freebooter John ]. Norcross, of Bur-
lington. The party report having found
everything in good condition.
There will be progressive euchre
party at the Masonic Temple. Mount
Holly, next Tuesday night. for the bene-
fit of the new ward just erected at the
Burlington County Hospital. A general
invitation is extended to the public to at
tend. Tickets so cents, on sale at Jones'
drug store.
The conference of the A. M. E. Church,
closed its sessions at Camden, yesterday.
Following are some of the appointments:
Trenton district, Burlington, ]. r. Stro-
theirs; Freehold, B. A. Murray; Mount
Holly, F. w. Thompson; Pensauken, J.
III. Whitaker; Moorestown, ]. T. Diggs;
Bordentown, j. H. Morgan; Stockton, W.
B. Heath; Allentown, J. A. V. Henry.