The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-09-30

On thursday evening the knlgnts G
the Golden Eagle will initiate three car
didates
The first degree was given to one can
didate on Friday evening by the Knight
of Pythias
The engagement is announced of Fran
j. Bowen of Trenton and Miss Mari
Danz, of Lumberton.
Joseph S. Shreve contempfates building
himself naphtha launch during the win
ter, for use on the lower creek.
Charles H. Fitzgerald, bookkeeper of tn
H. B. Smith Machine Company, has re
moved his family to Mount Holly.
Millinery opening Friday and Saturday
October 8 and 4. A general welcome t.
ALL 10 Mill street, l. H. Lippincott
A special meeting of the Good Inten
fire company will be held this evening
for the purpose of procuring uniforms.
Mrs. Hannah Stokes and daughter, O
Jacksonville, have rented the Sharp prop
erty at the corner of Union and Cherry
streets
A number of houses are being erected
on Glasstown Hill. in Medford, by tn,
Star Glass Company, for use of their EN-
ployes.
The Lakewood house, the largest hote
at Lakewood, will open November IA un
der the management of H. E. Elder, Of
Mount Holly.
Announcement has been made of the
marriage of Miss Lizzie Lippincott. Of
Burlington, and William Loveland, OF
Mount Holly.
A snapper soup supper will be hello
this evening in Red Mems hall, at Indian
Mills, for the benefit of the Methodist
Church there.
Duck shooting on the Smithville pond
has afforded considerable sport during the
past week On Friday one man succeeded
in killing seven.
The law office of Capt Martin L.
Haines, adjoining the Washington House,
is to be increased in size to take In the
width of the adjoining alley.
Clarence Price who successfully passed
the examination for Pierce's Business Col
lege, Philadelphia, few weeks ago, will
enter that College, tomorrow.
Edgar Johnson, who had a portion of
his arm shot off while cunning down the
creek, has opened cigar and soft drink
store near the run on Buttonwood street
William ]. Shannon has returned from
Thomsonville, Conn, where he has been
working in a carpet mill He expects to
resume work at his trade in Philadelphia.
Frank Wright has in his yard, at the
corner of Union and cottonwood streets,
one of the most prolific pear trees to be
found in Mount Holly. It is overweight
ed with fine fruit and is quite sight.
The school of engraving of the Phil
adelphia Watch Case Company, which
was started in Mount Holly some time
ago by Robert R. Rohrig is now in
charge of George Hess, of Riverside.
Watson Antrim. son of the late Benajah
Antrim, of Pemberton, died in Cooper
hospital, Camden, On Friday. He was
stricken with paralysis, on Thursday,
while walking on the streets of that city.
The filter plant at the water works is
ready for the test which the contractors
are required to make before it goes into
the possession of the Water Company.
This will probably be done in about two
weeks
Colkitt & Thomson, at their store on
Mill street, have the largest stock of flour,
as well as baled hay and straw, to be
found in town. They sell all kinds offeed.
Grist work will be attended to with
promptness Telephone No. ia.
Material improvements have added
to the Methodist Church at New Lisbon,
which will be opened next Sunday. Rev.
E. Harrison Cloud will preach in the
morning, and the presiding elder of the
New Brunswick district, Rev. Joseph L.
The members of the Mount Holly Shoe
makers Union gave their outing in the
Court House yard on Saturday evening,
and large number of people were pres
ent to enjoy the dancing and other fea-
lures of the occasion, the crowd being
swelled by additions from Burlington.
Material improvements are being made
at the headquarters of the Inter State
Telephone Company. A portion of the
Temple has been added so as to give more
room for the installation of the new switch
board, and to allow of private Office quar-
tiers.
The dynamo at the railroad station,
which was injured by the burning of the
power house, was shipped to Philadelphia
on Saturday, where it will be rewrapped
and repaired for service again. Prepare
lions are now being made for the removal
of the engine, which will find new home
somewhere in New York state.
Trust funds and investments held by
the Burlington County Safe Deposit and
Trust Company, Moorestown, N. j.. are
kept entirely separate from the property
belonging to the Company itself. The
books of the Company pertaining to es-
tates and trusts are always open for in
spection by those who are directly in
terested.
This will be an exceptionally good year
for the hackmen during the Mount Holly
FAIR because the street railway line can
not be used above the car barn, on High
street, and also from the fact that the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company has dis
continued its trolley service, There is
only one street car in service here, and as
one of its wheels is cracked, it is feared
that heavy load will put it out of bust
ness.
very pretty wedding took place 10
the Sacred Heart Church on Wednesday
evening, the contracting parties being
Miss Ella NJ Madden, daughter of Viii
liam Madden, of Bispham street, and
Daniel S. Cronin, of New Bedford, Mass.
Rev. Father Murphy, of Moorestown, per.
formed the ceremony at o'clock in the
presence of many relatives and friends
The bride was given away by her father
Miss Marie Madden was the maid of hon
or and Miss Cecilia Madden acted as the
flower girl. Frederick Sexauer was the
best man. Thomas Madden and Lewis
Furry were the ushers. A reception fol