The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-07-01
LOCAL NEWS.

Young America is getting ready to cele-
brate the glorious and noisy Fourth.
The people of Bridgeboro want the tel
ephone service extended to that place.
A fish hatchery for the propagation of
sturgeon has been established at Bristol.
The New Egypt Packing Co. has been
declared bankrupt by the U. S. District
court.
The Burlington County Medical Society
is the oldest in the state, having been or
ganized in 1929.
Work has been commenced on the con-
struction of the stone road from Burling-
ton to Columbus.
Ezekias W. Esham and Josiah w. Evan
have arranged to build double cottage
at Sea Side Park.
Charles Heisler, of Coopertown, began
cutting corn on June 20, for which he re-
ceived 81 per basket.
Inflammation of the lungs last week
caused the death of the gray horse owned
by Samuel T. Engle.
The proposition for general Fourth of
July celebration at Beverly has been
dropped for lack of interest.
A handsome brick barn is being erected
in the rear of the residence of John d.
johnson, on upper High street.
There were many washouts about town
on Thursday morning, caused by the
heavy fall of rain during the night.
A forty pound snapper, caught in the
pond at Hanover by Joseph Risley. of
Pointyille, was brought to Mount Holly
on Tuesday.
The celebration of the fifth anniversary
of the Shepherds of Bethlehem, held in
the Opera House on Friday evening, was
a pleasing event.
Those persons in Mount Holly whose
business calls for the payment of an in
ternal revenue tax. settled with the col
lector last week.
The P. o. S. of A., of Mount Holly, on
Thursday evening, will initiate about a
dozen candidates A degree team will
come here to perform the work.
Lucy Delaney. of Edgewater Park
while about to board trolley car, Tues
day evening, stumbled and fell into gas
trench, receiving painful injuries
Sheriff Fenton has only little over
four months to serve. We wonder who
will be his successor -Moorestown Re
publican Joseph G. Bower, of course
On Sunday evening the members of
Gen. A. E. Shiras Post and the Sons of
Veterans listened to a sermon by Rev. j.
II. Durham in the Presbyterian Church.
A moonlight excursion will be given on
the steamer Columbia on July 90, at
which there will be a chorus of $50 voices
on the boat, under direction of the choir
of the Delanco Presbyterian Church.
A large drum fish was received by
George W. Durand, on Thursday. In
view of the prominence which this fish
has attained by destroying oysters and
CLAIMS, it was an object of much curiosity
A curious growth of willow trees can be
seen amony the ruins of the carpet mill
Some of them have large trunks shooting
up through crevices in the broken walls.
In this manner the debris is being OBJ
liberated.
Some maliciously inclined person, on
Wednesday, placed large rock on the
trolley tracks at Perkins lane. near Bev-
erly, evidently with view of throwing
the cars off the track at a small bridge
which covers creek at that point
Joseph Salter, of Bridgeboro, is recover
ing from injuries and shock received
week ago, when he was attacked by a
highwayman, beaten with a club and
thrown into ditch, where he laid for
three hours, after which he managed to
crawl home.
Most Worshipful Grand Master w. Fl.
Apgar, of Trenton, and delegation from
Mount Holly Lodge, No. IA, F. and A.
NJ, went to Medford last evening in a
special train and organized a Masonic
lodge there with fourteen members. This
work was performed under dispensation,
and charter for the lodge will be secured
at the next meeting of the grand lodge.
The International Marine Governor
Company, Of Mount Holly, has contract
ed to place one of their governors In the
steamship Paloma, of New York, which
makes regular trips to Hayti and Jamaica.
Robert F. Storey leaves to-day for New
York to install the governor In the ship
The result of this practical test of the
governor will be watched with great in
terest.
A child of Mrs. Thomas, colored, resid
ing on West Washington street, was bitten
by vicious dog last week. Capt. Bran
son Investigated the matter, but he had
no authority to kill the animal A man
in the employ of Stacy B. Lippincott also
received a bad bite on the calf of his leg.
The township committee claimed they
had no authority to give permission for
the animal to be shot.
Thomas Cromwell was hanged on
schedule time at Lebanon, Pa, on Tuesday.
The execution was witnessed by fully 300
people. Because OF the failure of some
one to remain on guard at the gate after
the execution number of people gained
admission to the Jail yard while the body
was still hanging, among the number be-
ing several women, some of whom
brought children of tender years with
them to view the grewsome spectacle.
William Hoffman, who was recently ar
rested by the Moorestown police on sus
picion of having robbed the Centreton
hotel. is wanted by the authorities of
Pennsylvania. Chief of Police Brook
mayer, of Ardmore, came to Mount Holly
on Thursday in an automobile for the
purpose of lodging a retainer against
Hoffman, who is charged with robberies
in Lower Merton, Montgomery county, in
April last, and for which Charles Hoff-
man, brother, and Edward Walton, are
serving ten years in the penitentiary.
Fires in the glass furnaces of South
Jersey went out on Saturday. 1t is said
that the season has been an excellent one
for the blowers, but the manufacturers
tell different story. The industry has
not been moving with the rapidity with
which it ought, chiefly because of the low
price for manufactured ware. Nearly