The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-16
The sbad season closed Yesterday.

y, his power boat to Benjamin B. Cross.
" The picnic of the M. E. Sunday schoo
will be held at Rancocas Park on, July IA
Il Ruth" is the. subject for Rev. G. M
= Hughes sermon, next Sunday evening y
the NJ. E. church.
Plants for the flower and vegetable
Il garden in all desirable varieties, at Ros
- bach's, Pemberton.
Blind Tom, the well known coloret
musician, died at Hoboken on Saturday
u His age is unknown.
: Thomas M. Smith, of Beverly, and Mis-
Margaret v. Harkins, are to be married
at the latter place tomorrow morning.
The house No. 23S Clifton avenue, II
/, !, good condition, is offered for rent. Apply
to Owen Southgate. Smithville, N. ].
After suffering for long time with
cancer, the wife OF Constable William ii
Thompson, of Pemberton, died on Sat
urday.
Samuel Taylor killed dog on kidg
way street, yesterday afternoon, thai
some persons thought was suffering from
hydrophobia.
The finder of white silk belt, EN-.
broidered with blue, and with gilt
buckle. will be rewarded by leaving it at
the Ivanhoe.
! While carrying a stove up stairs, Chas:
Espenchied of Riverside. sprained him
self so badly that he has not been able to
work for a week.
Joseph G. Kingdom, Jr., who has been
sick for two weeks, is on the road to re-
covery. Danger of typhoid fever seems
to have been averted.
Beginning ON Saturday next, and con-
tinuing until further notice, the coal yard
of Stacy B. Lippincott will be closed at
10 o'clock noon on Saturdays.
The local option meeting that was to
have been held in the court house to- NOR
row evening, has been postponed Until
Thursday evening, June 20.
Miss Maggie woertz. of Garden street,
was given surprise party, on Saturday
night, by eighteen straw riders who drove
here from Riverside. A good time pre-
vailed until late hour.
Professor Higgins, celebrated baritone,
from Philadelphia, assisted by some fine
local talent, will give a musicale In the M.
E. Church on Thursday evening, June 20,
for the benefit of the Sunday-school.
The Board of Education desires to re-
turn thanks to the congregation OF the
Church of the Sacred Heart for the chairs
so kindly loaned for use at the commence
ment exercises on Thursday evening.
Henry Darnell's automobile and the
Lumberton hack had collision on High
street, last week. Scarcely any damage
resulted from the accident The machine
skidded on the wet bricks, causing the
collision.
The Young Women's Christian Temper
ance Union will hold an important meet
ing on Tuesday evening, at the home OF
Miss Grace Prickett on Garden street.
All members of that organization are re-
quested to be present.
On Saturday evening In front OF the
store of the South Jersey Tobacco 90.
there was lot of kicking. but 1t was all
done by horse owned by Aaron Stiles,
of Smithville. Four ladies and child
were in the vehicle but none of them were
injured A front post on the carriage was
broken. Several men found difficulty in
controlling the animal.
At the sale of real estate of Clinton F.
Irons near New Egypt, the farm, with |
crops, was purchased by Thomas Harris
horn for 81, 1866. Four shares of Union
Transportation r. r. stock were also put
up and were bought by j. E. Harrison for
SIT per share. 1t is understood that the
stock was purchased for John P. Hutchin-
son, of Bordentown.
Historical Mount Holly" paper deal |
ing with John Woolmsn, Stephen Girard,
John Brainard, etc., will be read at the
Friends meeting house, corner Of Garden
and High streets, on Saturday evening at
five o'clock. The paper has been pre-
pared by Charles Engle, and the authori-
ties quoted are of unusual interest. There
will be no admission charges and every
one is cordially requested to be present.
| Fire broke out in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Becker at the corner of Kos
suth and Leach streets, Riverside, at l
O'Clock yesterday morning. and despite
the best efforts Of the local firemen, the
structure was burned to the ground.
/ ID haJ oarrtod IN rr0aarv hneinpqq
| In the front portion of the building, where
the fire originated from some unknown
cause. Upon the arrival of the f1remen
the flames had gained great Roadway and
attention was then directed to the ad-
joining houses.
The stone road between Mount Holly
and Burlington is in terrible shape in
some places Especially is this so near
Oscar Wittmeyer's farm. The top dress
| ing has been completely worn away and
the large stones are working out and are
living all around. If there is any inten-
| ton of saving the road somebody ought
| to get to work right quickly. Small stone
has been placed on some portions OF the
road. but those parts which seem to need
ii the worst have the appearance of being
neglected 1t Is anything but pleasure
to drive on the road at present. Some
thing will also have to be done soon to the
road from Mount Holly to Jacksonville.
So mean has the stone portion become
that drivers have taken to the side and 1t
is ra re to see team on the stone surface.
1.-THE fact that man can't be elected
even to the Office of dog catcher in many
communities unless he is in the graces of
and has the stamp of the saloon upon him
is responsible for the great uprising in
this nation against tire rum evil, declared
William Fl. Berry, former State Treasurer
of Pennsylvania, in an address last night
before local option mass Injecting In the
Broad Street Methodist Episcopal church,
; Burlington. Heretofore sentiment alone
has waged the battle against the rum shop
Economical reasons and the saloon In
politics are the great issue In the fight to-
| dav that is stirring free born Americans, =
said the speaker IF liquor interests
could prevent the evils of their traffic I'M
doubtedly they would do so. They can
| not eliminate them, as their many failures
: have proven, until license restrictions
q have become almost farce.
: Surrogate Lippincott has admitted to
!. probate the will of Col Charles M. Sloan,
1 deceased, of Mount Holly. The document
: was executed June 1, 1898, and names
e John B. Davis and james w. Deacon, OF
q Mount Holly as executors. In codicil
dated June s. 1897, the appointment OF
James w. Deacon as one of the executors
: ia revoked and Charles Evan Merritt sub
e stituted A monument to cost not morethan
90 1850 is to be erected in the Mount Holly
Cemetery, and sufficient funds are to bs