The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-09-25
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Charles Seaman OF MILL street, 10
es with dropsy.
spalding's Fall and Winter Goods
IN Buy it at Boyce's.
Rev. R. H. Baker was Inconvenience
T. yesterday by an attack of indigestion.
n 1t is the event of the year-the grea
Mount Holly Fair, October 2, 8, 4 and 81
For first-class job of shoe repairing
" try W. j. Bill, corner of Church and Pin
streets, Mount Holly.
y A stagnant pool of water at the Gran
p street railroad station has been complained
of to the Board of Health.
" The circulating Library will open from
n two until five o'clock in the afternoons, be
ginning with next Monday.
IT s. Lawrence Bullock, a student o.
r, Pennington Seminary, will preach in thu
NJ. E. church next Sunday morning.
J. Harry E. Fenimore, of Smithville, and
Y Hessie Britton, of Mount Holly. were
married here. ON Saturday, by Rev. R. H
# Baker.
n A man who goes the rounds of Fairs last
week remarked: "You may go to all OF
+. them, but for real solid enjoyment and
r your moneys worth the Mount Holly Fair
beats them ALL
: John B. English died suddenly at his
f home in Juliustown, on Thursday. He
was in apparent good health and had not
been complaining when he was suddenly
! stricken with apoplexy.
Il Stetson's Uncle Toms Cabin, in all its
glory, will be at the opera house Thurs
day evening. Two brass bands. two Top
sizes, 80 ponies, donkeys and bloodhounds,
J and the biggest street parade of the sea-
son. No use saying more. Everybody
likes Uncle Toms Cabin. The opera
house viii be crowded. Get your seats
early.
The remains of Benjamin s. Burtis, who
died at Asbury Park, were inferred in the
Baptist cemetery, Jacobstown, on Thurs
day. Deceased had lived at Asbury Park
for several years, and until his health
failed him was one of Mr.. Bradley's
Especial officers at the pavilion. He made
many friends in that position, and several
showed their remembrance of him by
sending floral tributes.
When the Sunday school room of St
Andrews church was opened on Sunday,
it was discovered that the room had been
entered during the week and the records
of attendance had been stolen and destroy
ed This will cause great Inconvenience
as the distribution of prizes to the scholars
are determined entirely upon these records.
1t is thought the parties who committed
the act were In search of money.
When Clarence Durand went home at
o'clock, on Tuesday, he found his wife
in bad shape. she having given birth,
while alone, to twins, both of which were
dead when born. The mother could not
summon assistance, nor could she utilize
her two children for this purpose because
of their tender age. 1t was Z o'clock be-
fore physician could be secured. For a
| few days Mrs. Durand was very i'll, but
she is now slowly regaining strength.
While crossing Main street, at Pember
ton, on Saturday, Lawrence, the young
son of Tylee White, met with an acct
dent. An Italian was driving along with
horse, and the animal grabbed the boy
by the head and threw him to the side of
the road. causing painful injuries. In
addition to biting the lads ear, the teeth
of the horse made several decorations of
the scalp. A warrant W as issued for the
driver but he managed to escape to the
pines.
John Church, who has Dahlia farm
near Burlington, will show some of his
beautiful flowers in the Masonic Hall,
Burlington, on Friday and Saturday even
ings of this week. Mr.. Church has made
speciality of these flowers and he has the
greatest variety of beautiful flowers ever
put on exhibition. Those who go to this
show will be we'll repaid for the small sum
| it will cost. On Friday the show will be
open from to 10 P. M, and on Saturday
from to 8, and to 10 p NJ. The tickets
are ten cents and can be purchased at
Boyce's, Garden street.
J A number of the members of the Bur-
| lington County Board of Freeholders met
at the Insane Asylum, on Tuesday, to look
over the institution and examine the heat
| ing plant which has been reported very
much out of shape. Inspection proved
that the reports were not exaggerated, and
it was decided to have the plant put in
working order at once at a cost not to ex-
coed $1,000. A special committee con-
sisting of Messrs. Bovine, Haines, Ebert
and Birkhead, was appointed to take
charge of the work. Before the meeting
adjourned it was decided to build new
bridge at Bogley Wallow, Pemberton
township, for 81. 900 and one at the Hogan
farm in Westampton township for $4O0.
The body of Samuel Conover, an aged
colored civil war veteran, who had lived
at Bordentown many years, was found
near his home, on Mill street, on the out
skirts of the city, early Sunday morning.
There was fight between Edward WILDER,
who lives near theiConover home, and
Charles Perry late Saturday night, and it
is though Conover might have been in
jured then, as he was in Wilber's house at
the time. Drs. Ships and Mendenhall
made post-mortem examination on the
body and decided that Conover
died from rupture of the aOrta and
spleen Both WILDER and Perry were locked
up, and the case was investigated by
Coroner Deworth, who found that the
men were not guilty of criminal conn &C.
| ton with the death.
A movement is said to be on foot
whereby the residents on certain portion
of the east side of High street are to have
change in the sidewalk grade to conform
to their ideas on the subject. This does
not seem to be at all fair to those on the
other portion of the street. A grade was
established from the corner of Garden
street to the Fair Grounds and the property
owners in nearly all instances have relaid
their pavements in conformity to the pro-
visions of the ordinance even though at
some expense and inconvenience to them
! selves. If the grade was right for them it
!, ought to be right for others, and unless
some better arguments than have been
presented are put forth there would not
seem to be any good reason for change.
Winter is coming and there should not be
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