The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-06-27
Miss MARY x Dew. of Princeton, is

Dancing at Rancocas Park tonight.
Sham battle and dancing on Thursday
night.
The summer time table of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company went into effect
on Sunday.
Miss Sarah B. Keller, of Mount Holly,
has been elected teacher in the Mount
Holly schools.
Chester township is now getting the
use of the steam roller recently purchased
J by the county.
Miss Minnie J. Robinson, aged So years,
died on Thursday at her home on West
J Washington street.
Mrs George D. Worrell and Master
Jack MacElroy will spend the Fourth at
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Charles Rogers has sold his retail oil
route to John F. Kiner, who will con
tinue the business
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel w Shinn and Mrs.
Charles Fl. Shinn will take trip to
Niagara Falls, on Saturday.
The restaurant on Garden street, con-
Quoted by Elwood Bennett, has been
closed for the summer.
Mock Ock. the Chinese laundryman, on
Main street, will have his usual display
of fireworks on the Fourth of July.
There will be sacred concert, by the
Burlington orchestra, at Rancocas Park
next Sunday evening, from 7.SO to 10.
| AS the Fourth of July will come on
Tuesday, our publication day, THE News
will be distributed next Monday after
noon.
A widow, with one child, wants posi-
ton as housekeeper or to do housework in
small family. Address Box 297, Mount
Holly.
There was no sale of the Troth prop
erty by Sheriff Bower, on Thursday, the
matter having been postponed for one
week.
Rosenfeld Bros. have just received |
A, 600 cylinder records, the largest single |
shipment of records ever made to Mount |
Holly.
The addition to be erected to the Office |
of County Collector Joseph Powell, will |
necessitate the cutting down of two syc-
| amore trees
The postof1ce will close at 10 O'Clock |
and remain closed for the balance of the
day on the Fourth of July, one week
from to day.
Allen M. Fenimore has purchased a lot
on Grant street. near King, from Mrs.
Julia Hume, upon which he will erect
buildings for his hay press.
Mrs J. Woolston Haines, of Vincen
town, has taken neither solid nor liquid
nourishment during the past forty days,
and her tenacity on life is remarkable.
The building on Mill street, formerly
occupied by A. r. Bedwell, has been
rented by Miss Tillie FenimOre for the
manufacture of jellies for her hotel trade.
A number of friends called on Mrs. Al
len Fenimore, last evening, to cOngratu-
late her on the anniversary of her birth.
The affair was complete surprise to Mrs.
Fenimore
A large number of concrete railroad
ties for experimental purposes are to be
made at the sand plant of Norcross s. Ed
munds, at Birmingham, for Restore B.
Lamb, of Mount Holly.
An automobile party from Atlantic City,
|
nell, Albert Darnell and John s. Ingram,
came to Mount Holly on Thursday. They
covered the distance in 81 hours
The Tall Cedars of Lebanon, Masonic
degree, was conferred on several candi
dates by Mount Holly Lodge, No. IA, F.
& A. NJ, on Thursday night A large
delegation from Camden was present.
The large and varied assortment OF cyl
I'll - - IL |
are going to make speciality, and which
have been a source of delight to passersby,
are now on sale at their large deparement
stores.
TIE Haines lot at Bunker Hill corner
has been purchased by the Board of Ed
ucat ion of Westampton township, upon
which will be erected new school house.
Bids for the same are now being adver
tised for.
About two thousand persons were at
the Rancocas Park on Saturday night.
The Peerless orchestra, of Mount Holly,
fur ished the music for the sacred con-
cert held Sunday afternoon. when about
five hundred people were present.
Preparations being made by numerous
anglers for the Fourth of July, would in
dictate that the finny tribe may be some
what depleted on that occasion. At any
rate the patriotic smoke of the evening
will probably envelope some pretty good
fish stories.
Ewood Stead, the Mill street plumber,
is steadily recovering from his serious ac
cident of last Tuesday. He either fell or
was thrown from trolley car while pass
ing down the hill at Hainesport to the !
| iron foundry, and suffered conclusion of |
the brain. resulting in Inconsistencies |
for nearly day.
Edward T. Nippins, of Mount Holly, |
is one of the milkmen of the county &C |
cused by Deputy Milk Inspector Town |
send, of Camden, of having sold aduter- |
ated milk, and fined $50 by Justice of the |
Peace Smith, of Burlington, before whom
the case was heard Mr.. Nippins claims
that if his milk contained water, 1t was
doctored by the farmer from whom he |
purchased 1t.
| A dance picnic will be held in the court |
house yard on the Fourth of July, both
afternoon and evening, under the auspi-
ces of the Mount Holly A A. Joseph
Raymond's orchestra, of Philadelphia, will
| furnish the music. Admission 25 cents,
including dancing. The proceeds will be
used in the erection of grand stand at
the base ball grounds. Refreshments will
be sold.
Pocahontas Tribe, No. 10, l. o. R. NJ,
elected the following officers last night:
Prophet, Horace Flowers; sachem, Harry
| Ward; senior sycamore, A. Morris Haines;
| Junior sycamore, Herbert Heller; chief of
records, George J. Robertson; keeper of
wampum, Albert H. Lear; collector of
wampum, Frank Dennis; trustees, George
j. Robertson, ]. c. Anderson, Charles
Fitzgerald; guard of forest, Tilden Bid
we'll; representative, ]. Clayton Ander
son.
On Monday noon, while sitting along
the bank of the creek, back of the Stan
dard Shoe Factory, on Water street,
Misses Emma Berry and Mabel Peak slip
ped into the water which at that point is
10 feet deep Miss Lidie Armstrong in
her efforts to aid them was also pulled
into the water and had a narrow escape
from drowning Had it not been for the
timely assistance of some of the men en-
ployees, all of the young ladies would
have been drowned.
Attorney W alter E. Dobbins, of Bur
lington, was acquitted in the Union County
Court yesterday of charge of embezzl-
ing $2775 from Mary E. Mcpherson, of
Railway. Dobbins, who was trusted
clerk for the Manor Realty Company, of
i Philadelphia, was given a voucher for
a that amount to hand over to Mrs. McPher-
s on as payment for land purchased from
her by the Realty Company for the Penn
e that Dobbins cashed the voucher and APP
e propriated the money. His defense was
that he used it to clear off mortgages on
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