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

Park has not yet been announced.
A good hay crop has been assured b
the frequent rains of the past week.
Ex-Surrogate Henry Darnell is reporte
seriously i'll at his home In Atlantic City
A sexton is wanted for Mount Holl
Cemetery. Call on or address Morris q
Keller.
Groceries, meats. poultry, provision
etc, of the finest quality at 8. F. Sap
& Sons, 10 Garden street.
An owner at The News Office awaits tn
return of Japanese silk shawl, which wa
picked up on Union street.
A strawberry festival will be held by tn
ladies of the Bustleton Presbyterian churcl
on the evening of Thursday, May 81.
A rockfish weighing seventeen pound
is the prize which Samuel Bird, Of Beverl.
caught in the Delaware river on Tuesda.
night.
The Risdon-Alcott Turbine Compan,
has purchased piece of land on Monro
street, from the Charles B. Parsons estat
for $3.50.
For cash with order. Early cabbag
and tomato plants at g. rs per 1000. A
Rosbach's, Pemberton. Special prices OIL
large quantities.
Walter Allen has erected building TO
William w. Worrell, in which he will
raise pigeons, starting with about thirty
pairs of blooded stock.
Wilmer Chance, of High street. contin
ues to improve from the operation to which
he recently submitted at DR.. Prices Hos
pital in Philadelphia
Charles B. Hornor, the nurserymsn, of
fers for sale fresh Guernsey cow. She IL
six years old and has taken four first pre-
miums at the Mount Holly Fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. John D. johnson will
give musical recital at their home on
Thursday evening for the benefit Of the
Burlington County Hospital.
The fiagman at the Washington street
railroad crossing called the attention OF
some bystanders, on Thursday, to large
sturgeon which passed up the creek.
In response to summons served on him,
Walter G. Haines, of Garden street. ap-
peared before Justice Krayer and paid a
fine for ridin g his bicycle on the sidewalk.
While there are few cases of typhoid
fever in Mount Holly. there is no danger
u,hofovor IF an ax,;d apo;c Of tbio dieooca
The matter has received close attention
by the Board of Health.
A letter received in Mount Holly. last
week, stated that the owner of Miss Mills,
recently purchased of Richard Lamb, pro-
prietor of the Washington House, had re-
fused an offer of 81, 900 for the PAGER.
The Alumni Association of the Mount
Holly High School will hold its third an
nual re- union and banquet in the Masonic
Temple on Friday evening, June 8, at 8
o'clock. Plates will be spread for over
100 guests.
On Saturday evening, Stanton's hall,
Jobstown, will be the scene of festivity.
when the Pastors Aid Society of the Bap-
fist Mission will hold a strawberry festi-
val. Between the hours of eight and nine
o'clock there will be musical and literary
entertainment which promises to be a
great treat.
AS quite large number of children in
Mount Holly will desire to enter the pub
lie school for the first time next fall, they
should be made eligible by vaccination.
will be for those who are not immune from
smallpox. This is qualification abso-
lutely necessary for ad mission tothe
school,
The ladies of the Mount Holly Presby-
terrain church will give a strawberry tea
in Masonic Temple next Saturday even
ing. This simple announcement is as
good as a column would be. The enter
tainments of like nature provided by
the ladies of the Presbyterian church are
pleasant memories to all who have enjoy
ed them.
The chip which tn first bowling team
of Mount Holly has been carrying on its
shoulder for some time. was Knocked off,
on Tuesday night. by the second team,
the latter coming of victorious by total
of As pins, taking the first two games but
losing the final one. Kropp, Schmitt, Bur-
tbs, Claypool and Morris Throckmorton
are all in mourning over their defeat,
while Townsend. Hand, Wetherill, Ander-
son and Frake are in pretty good humor
with themselves.
A crowd of checker players received
some cold bumps on Tuesday night. when
they sought to enter Arcade Hall by find
ing the front door locked and the lights
out. Detective Parker had closed his pool
room and taken down the tables prepare
tory to shipping them to Rancocas Park.
While this step was anticipated the exact
time when customers should seek another
rendezvous was not generally known.
They held convention ON the sidewalk,
mourned over the situation for awhile and
then faded away, chilled through by the
low temperature of the evening
After holding one election which ac-
copied the plans of the Borough Council,
and expecting to hold another for the bond
issue in five weeks, Merchantville must
begin anew its proceedings to install q
sewage system. This is made necessary
by the amendment to borough act signed
by the Governor the latter part of April.
1t was expected work would begin on the
sewer by July l. Now notice must be
published and sixty days elapse for remon.
for the bond issue must be given, and by
that time it will be impossible to begin the
work this year.
As result of arresting Charles Martin
in October last. for stealing q horse, val
ued at 81, 500, belonging to William VII
son, of Parkesburg, Pa, Detective Ellii
II. Parker, of Mount Holly, received s1O(
reward on Tuesday, after claim for thu
money had been contested In the Cheste
county courts by the Chief of Police of Ian
caster, Pa. Arriving In this town last fall
for the purpose of attending the Noun
Holly Fair. Martin became short Of money
and to DR.. ]. Fl. Carter and others he of
fered to sell the animal for $75. Discov
ering the value of the mare the veterinar,
sent for the detective and ordered the ar
rest of Martin, who later pleaded guilt,
and was sentenced to two years In the peni
Tertiary. This conviction entitled Parke
ecived from Chester county when tn
charge against Martin was disposed of,