The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-11-06
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Chestnut Hill farm, last week.
4 The annual Teachers Institute for Blu
{ lington County will be held in the Aud
8 torium, Burlington, on the 18th and 13t
of this month
. Franklin P. Endicott, Surrogate of Blu
lington county, will relinquish the dutit
OF his office on Friday, November 16, a
ter which William p Lippincott, of Har
ford. will take charge.
q The little German band, of Philade
phia, which frequently visits Mount Ho
ly. was in town on Saturday evening, an
as usual discoursed music at the hotel G
John Forbes, on Water street.
A fair and oyster supper will be held /
the Baptist parsonage, at Marlton, on tn
evenings of November 16 and II. An OF
portunity will be given for the purchas
of fancy articles suitable for Christina
gifts.
, ]. Clayton Anderson has returned from
his prospecting trip to the far west
He is undecided as to whether he will re
turn or not, as the weather there is yer,
cold for nearly six months of the year
When he left South Dakota people wer
wearing fur overcoats.
4 Veterans of the civil war whose name
are enrolled on Uncle Sans pension list
had their vouchers executed yesterday fo
their third quarterly payment. Some O.
these beneficiaries were up and at the jus
tees offices long before the sun peepec
over the horizon in order that they nigh
get their papers off on the first mail
Herman Krupnick, the Main street
merchant, went to the German Hospital
on Wednesday and he had not been in the
institution very long before he was
operated on for appendicitis. Mr.. Krup
nick has been subject to the disease fol
five years, suffering pain during that time
Not long since he went to the Burlington
County Hospital for an operation but
changed his mind
The finishing touches are being made to
the gas plant which has been installed in
the cellar of the Court House for the pur-
pose of supplying light to the county
buildings. The lights are now in opera
ton in the Office of the Surrogate and
Collector with very satisfactory results
The work has been thoroughly inspected
by Clayton H. Brick, freeholder from MARI
ton, who was instrumental in carrying
this plan to completion as a means of
saving money for the county.
Visitors at the Mount Holly cemetery
recently have been much pleased with the
work that has been done and the improve
ments that are being made. The Board of
Directors have given considerable of their
time to putting the recently purchased
plot in good shape. There will be grading
done to secure a level surface, walks will
be laid out, trees planted and other things
done to beautify the grounds. Several
lots have already been sold in this new
plot.
"Gil" Vickery, of Burlington, a well
known base ball player. was held under
5000 bail by Magistrate Chas p Smith,
Friday night, on charges of assault and
battery preferred against him by James
Spencer, colored. The trouble is said TO
have occurred from dispute over some
fish, and it is alleged that Vickery knock
ed the colored man down in the street and
disfgured his face. Spencer at once made
complaint to the police and the ball play
er was arraigned before Magistrate Smith.
An effort to patch up the trouble failed,
and the defendant was held under bonds
for court
Rev. George M Hughes, pastor of the
M. E. church, intends holding series of
meetings to continue for two weeks.
There will be two services daily, at 8, P.
NJ, and 7.S0 P. M, with preaching at the
latter hour. The preachers will be as
follows November IL, Rev. R. A. Como
yer; Is, R. N. Atkinson; IA, Rev. c. r.
Smith; Is, Rev. J. L. Howard; 16, Rev.
l. E. Purcell; II, Rev. J. B. Kulp; 10,
Rev. r. A. Conover; 20, Rev. j. Morgan
Reed; 81, Rev. U. G. Hagaman; %, Rev.
W. A. Frye; 90, Rev. C. B. Fisher; "a
Rev. W. W. Ridgeley. The public is cor
daily invited to attend any or all of these
meetings.
The corner stone of the new Catholic
Church of St. Peter, at Merchantville,
was laid Sunday afternoon by Rev. Mgr
John B. Fox, assisted by Rev. P. J. Clune,
the pastor. Many clergymen were pres
ent. In the course of his remarks Mgr.
Fox spoke of the respect that should be
shown persons in high stations of life,
and he said that it Disguised him to hear
persons speak of President Roosevelt as
Teddy" The church will be in the form
of Latin cross, the front being on Maple
avenue 1t will be forty eight feet in
width across the nave and one hundred
feet in length. Across the transepts it
will be eighty feet in width. 1t will be
entirely of gray stone and of the Gothic
style of architecture.
Newspaper men are as apt as others to
make mistakes but sometimes the errors
are tnexcusable, especially when there is a
chance to verify statements before putting
them into print. An instance of this kind
is in mind now over a statement in the
Herald that 1.-The tax duplicate in North
ampton has been in the hands of the col.
lector for six weeks and still the tax bills
are not out yet" This is absolutely with
out foundation. The collector has had
| = ho rcf ;&
from the assessor on the 2Sd day of Octo-
Der. 1t must be remembered that there
are nearly, if not quite, 5000 bills to be
made out and delivered, and collector
Davis will give any man 500 who will
make the bills out and deliver them within
two weeks.
There has been much said about the ex
cessive tax rates, the increase in assess
ments and lot of other stuff that has
been played upon for political effect, but
there are sales of property which show
that the assessments in those particular
instances, at least, are not far out of thu
way. In the upper part of the county,
property was raised from 81 900 to 81, 20t
against the advice of the assessor Abou
three weeks ago the property changed
hands, the purchase price being $4,000. Il
Mount Holly property assessed at 81 ,00'
brought 81, 100 at a forced sale. Their
has been great growing over the assess
ment of bank stock. The stockholders il
the Moorestown National Bank have bee
loud in their protests at the value place.
on that stock, which is $277 per share