The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-09
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A Farrell safe in good condition and a
cash register for sale cheap. Apply at
No. 76 Main street
Miss Ella Armstrong has resumed her
place in the post office after enjoying a
weeks vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward F. Burns will
spend considerable time in New York
state during the summer.
John B. Leeds, of Moorestown, is con-
Quoting weekly classes in Mount Holly on
the study of primitive man.
Herman virgins, rs Main ST., supplies
families with oysters, meals at all hours
and quick lunches. Give him call.
A number of the members of the Ameri-
ca Hose Company were measured last
night for their new parade uniforms.
/ Harry NJ. Hughes, employed in the
government printing Office at Washing
ton, d. c., is a visitor in Mount Holly.
Fresh strawberries, egg plants. onions,
radishes, peas, tomatoes, lettuce and all
seasonable vegetables at Cayanaugh's
A handsome memorial tablet has been
placed in the Elk's Home. The names of
deceased members are inscribed thereon.
Charles E. Brinser, assistant supervisor
at the railroad station, has been operated
on for an obstruction in his nasal passage.
The conductors and motormen employ
ed by the Burlington County Railway
Company, appeared in new uniforms on
Thursday.
As the result of getting his thumb
caught in a sewing machine, James Wook-
ey has had that member amputated at the
first joint
A pair of gray squirrels have taken up
their quarters in the court house yard,
and request has been made that no one
modest them.
Parlor suits of various styles and cover
ings are being offered for short time at
great sacrifice by Rosenfeld Brothers, of
Mill street
William Penn Circle, No. 3S, Brother
hood of the Union, of Burlington, has
presented $50 to the Burlington County
Hospital, the proceeds of fair and festi-
val held by the Circle.
1t is quite likely that the Board of Free
holders will sanction the erection of an
addition to the building now occupied by
the county collector and auditor, who are
cramped for room.
The building on Risdon street, formerly
used as a shirt factory, has been rented by
Philadelphia firm, who will employ a
large number of persons in the manufact-
ure of waists and shirt waist suits.
A stereopticon lecture, under the aus
pieces of the Young Mems Association,
will be given in the Presbyterian Church
this evening by Rev. r. H. Baker. A
silver offering will be taken at the door.
During a recent shower Louis Tribolet,
living on WOODLAND, was struck by light |
ming, the electric fluid passing up his |
arm For fifteen minutes his hands and |
fingers were snow white. A dog by his |
side was knocked off the porch.
Lewis A. Gentner, of Moorestown,
a former Mount Holly plumber, has been |
removed from the Burlington County |
Insane Asylum to the State hospital at
Trenton, because of not being a proper |
county charge.
Rev. A. G. Apgar has rendered his res
ignation as pastor of the Baptist Church
at YOUNGSTOWN, to take effect on August |
1. He will remove to Tuckahoe, at which |
place he will preach and become principal |
of the graded school.
The Mount Holly Fire Police have
officers as follows: Chief, William M.
Reeves; lieutenants, w. Henry Colby, |
George HI. Peak. William A. Headey; |
secretary and treasurer, John Throckmor-
ton, Sr
The special sale of Rosenfeld Brothers, |
on Mill street, has caused to be moved |
many fine couches, and two carloads of |
mattings and linoleums. The |
prices at which these goods are being sold |
tell the story.
In its endeavor to encompass the globe |
with its wire and picket fence, the New |
Jersey Fence Company, of Mount Holly, |
has covered about one quarter of the dis |
lance. The company has sold about |
40, 600 feet since the beginning of the year.
At meeting of the Board of Freehold |
erst to be held tomorrow, there should |
be no objection to increasing from 81 900 |
to 81, 900 the appropriation for the benefit
of the Burlington County Hospital, which
is short of funds because of recent heavy |
demands on its resources.
Detective Ellis II. Parker took his wife
along with him while serving some sub
p9nas, on Tuesday afternoon While
driving on the back road from Vincen-
town to Red Lion he saw a black snake
asleep on top of bush. Getting out of |
the carriage he killed the reptile with the
butt Of the whip. 1t measured over three
feet in length.
An interesting meeting, under the
auspices of the Christian Endeavor Society,
was held in the Presby terian Church, on
Thursday evening. Members of the Ep-
worth League and Baptist Young Peoples
Union were present. An interesting ad-
dress was delivered by Rev. W. Porter
Lee, of Philadelphia.
The first election to be held in the new
township of North Hanover will take |
place to-day The County Board of |
Elections sat at the Court House on
Thursday and Saturday to add and erase
names from the register, which contains |
the names of 237 voters. The appointed |
election officers are James Murphy and |
Mahlon K. WINS, Republicans, and Lee G. |
Davis and Augustus Ridgway, Democrats. |
The freeholder to be elected will i'm
mediatelY qualify, in order to be able to
attend meeting of the board to be held |
tomorrow.
At the office of Franklin B. Lewis, on |
Tuesday afternoon, was held the annual |
meeting of the Mount Holly and Jobstown
Turnpike Company. Because of expen- /
sive improvements made during the past |
year, no dividend was declared. Officers |
were elected as follows: President, Will
liam B. Wills; secretary and treasurer,
William G. Lippincott; directors, Barclay /
White, James Logan, Thomas S. Logan,
Samuel Ellis, Henry r. Lippincott, Will
liam G. Lippincott, William B. Wills, |
Franklin B. Lewis, Samuel H. Chambers. |
Promptness on the part of Mrs George
Lommanson, living in tenant house on |
the farm of James Jobes, near Jacobs |
town, resulted in the saving of much val
liable timber from destruction. While |
burning some brush on the farm of George |
Millslagle, last week, the fire crept across |
the road and began to spread in the woods |
of Mr.. Jobes When Mrs. Lommanson
saw the danger she rang the large dinner
bell suspended on a pole and by this |
means summoned assistance. The fire
was extinguished just in time to prevent
the flames from entering the Emley tract. |
The purchase, by the Mount Holly
Water Company, of the water power,
has been consummated and the deed has
been placed on record. The purchase in
cludes the saw mill and grist mill proper |
ties, and all the rights to the creek and
raceways. The Water Company has not
perfected its plans for Improvements, but
intends to build a dam that will give
proper head of water. There is move
ment among certain parties to have a
larger dam than the Water Company feels
is necessary, and it is quite possible pri-
vate subscriptions will be taken for that
purpose This will make the creek avail.
able for boating, and will also aid mate
rally in flushing the raceway that is now
in such bad condition.
The head of large moose, shipped
from Canada by Edmund Eddy and con-
-, j Ill.