The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-05-15

friends in Mount Holly, on Thursday.
John L. Joy and Miss Carrie Comp, o
Columbus, are to be married next Octo
Der.
You can rely upon getting the choices
meats at all times at Sapps', Gardel
street.
George Walther, of Hainesport, ha
sold piece of land to the Columbian Irol
Works for $3.50.
How many words can you make from tn
sentence BUY it at Boyce'sS'' See Boycs'
window for particulars.
A cemetery association has been formed
} at Tuckerton, with B. 81. Crosby, edito
of the Beacon, as president.
} Everything for the flower and vegeta
Bile garden, of best quality at reasonable
prices. Rosbach-s. Pemberton.
4 Benjamin G. Doyle caught nine pound
shad with hook and line while fishing in
Rancocas Creek from the Delanco bridge
i Neona Altonorau, who has been in thii
country but three days. died suddenly Of
heart failure at Riverton on Saturday.
Three cars from Birmingham, loaded
with sand, were wrecked at Pavonia, or
Friday, causing delay in travel for sew
eral hours.
Rev. Mr.. Pierce, of Wayne, Pa, has &C
cepted the call to the Central Baptist
Church, Palmyra, and he will take charge
next Sunday.
Mrs George Rendell, who has been al
Atlantic City for several weeks recuperat
ing from recent illness. has returned to
her home on Union street.
! Having returned from Atlantic City,
where she has been living for some time,
Mrs. Annie billiard will make her home
with Mrs. Reeves, on Garden street.
The Board Of Health has sent out no.
tices to some people living on Mill and
Church streets, ordering them to connect
their properties with the sewer at once.
Rev. James Davis, pastor of the Vim
centown Baptist Church, informs The
News that he is not, as this paper stated
last week, at the head of movement to
close stores in that town on Sunday.
The Rev. Norman V, P Lewis, of the
Church of the Incarnation. Philadelphia,
will officiate at st. Andrews Church next
Sunday, May 20, at both morning and
evening services, in exchange with Rev.
Mr.. Stoddard.
By order of Judge Hendrickson, Coun-
ty Clerk Sooy is preparing to re-copy sew
eral books of old records. the paper of
which has become tender and the writing
indistinct. One of the books is over 100
years old.
As the water was being drawn of of a
cranberry bog in the pines, it came
rushing down upon a herd of cows belong
to Thomas Early, of Pemberton, that was
pasturing on near by meadow. One
of the animals got stranded and it came
near being drowned.
The Arcade and Washington hotels, In
Mount Holly, have taken out wholesale
licenses to sell liquor. Why should it not
be good idea to let the Wholesale men
have retail license2 Then there would not
be such necessity to continually be on the
lookout for violations of the law.
Following is list of letters remaining
uncalled for at the Mount Holly post Office
for the week ending May IL: j. M. Rus
sell, Mrs Thomas Carson, Ben Gurdan,
Frank Goshan, Mrs. Margaret Muse, II.
D. Rogers. Edward w. Russell, M. D.,
Mrs. Sarah Smith. L. NJ. Thorne, Mrs.
Tysoski
The third annual rifle match between
Company G, of Beverly; Company A, of
Burlington, and Company E, of Mount
Holly, will take place on the range of the
local company, on King street, ON Thurs.
day evening. Burlington and Mount Holly
have each won contest, and it now re
mains for the Beverly militiamen to smoke
up.
When the lady of the house starts to
clean this season of the year, its in the
shapeIof miniature earthquake for the
man. But Borton will paper your walls
lay your carpets and mattings-re-up-
holster your furniture-renovate and make
over your mattresses-put up and make
over your awnings and in fact relieve that
housekeeping fever.
A new lift bridge over Cooper Creek, at
Federal street, Camden, now looks like a
certainty. The Freeholders on Wednes-
day awarded the $65, 900 worth of bonds
to r. M. Grant & Co., of New York, and
the contract for the bridge to the New
Jersey Bridge Company for $s5.0O0 The
Public Service Corporation will pay $780,
600 of the amount.
On the arrival of May 90, the opening
day of the bass and pike season, George
Bowker, the veteran angler, will go to
Kirby's Mills in search of pike with
which he had tussle on the closing day
of last season. While fishing he used
four inch float striped in bright colors.
The pike evidently thought this was some
new kind of worm, as he made vicious
strike at it. biting quite piece out of the
side.
The Board of Freeholders will meet to.
morrow and will. contrary to expectation,
organize as has been the custom at the
meeting in May. A law was introduced
changing the date of organization to jan
uary. The Senate tackled an amendment
to it, fixing the time ON the second day In
January. The bill went back to the House
and in the furry of the last day, the amend
ment was not concurred in and the law
failed, so the old statute must be honored.
valuable book owned by Samuel
Crockford. of Mount Holly. is copy of
1.-THE Laws of the Province of New Jer-
sey," passed by the General Assembly
thereof which met in alternate years at
Burlington and Perth Amboy from 1908
to 1851. The book is in a good state of
preservation. One chapter refers to the
ferry boat from Burlington to New Bris-
toll, which must be operated at all times
under penalty of twenty shillings fine
The book was printed by William Brad
ford, in 1852.
Notwithstanding the fact that the re-
tirement of John-D. Clevenger as justice
of the peace has been announced in all the
newspapers. he has been kept busy since
April Both explaining that he can no longer
give his attention to criminal or civil mat
tiers, in which business he became pretty
well established during his twenty five
years in Office. That he is now "hai
been" does not seem to be sufficient to di