The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-25


t visiting in Mount Holly to-day.
For harness or repairing go to L. w
s Prickitt, who has removed to No 9 Gardel
t street.
There will be total eclipse of tn
moon on June 8. 1t will be partially Wis
r ible here.
Beginning next Tuesday the circulating
library will be open in the mornings, from
nine o'clock until noon.
8 The Epworth League of the Methods
t church will hold its monthly business
meeting on Friday evening.
The Moorestown Improvement Associa
ton will hold its annual flower show dur
r ing the second week in June.
AS the result of receiving bruise dur
ing game of base ball, Mark Painter, Of
Delanco, is suffering from blood poison
ing.
While descending the back stairs at hel
home on High street, last week, Miss Lee
titia Coppuck fell and was painfully in
jured.
A business meeting of the Ushers' Union
of the NJ E. church will be held at the
home of DIR. A. R. W. Atwood. on Thurs
day evening.
Albert Borden, of Delanco, came near
being blinded by the explosion of jap
anese ''fire-stick" which he purchased
from fakir.
During the months of June, July and
August the merchants of Moorestown
will close their places of business every
Wednesday afternoon.
David Mcconnell, of Bridgeboro. has
freak duck two weeks old. From the
back of its head there is growing one
wing and chickens foot.
The Young Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union will hold business meet
ing, this evening, at the home of Lydia
Garon. on Rossell street.
Letters remaining in the post office
for the week ending May %, follow: ].
Bruss, Charles A. Jenkins, Jr; postals,
George W. Bender, T. Linden, Rachel
Mulliucax.
A thoroughbred Holstein calf belong
ing to John Eldridge, near Golfers Mills,
which had strayed in the woods for five
weeks, was found on Tuesday in the COM
pany of fine large deer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton r. Appleton wish
to express their sincere appreciation OF
the kindness and sympathy shown them
by their friends during their bereavement
over the death of their mother, Mrs. A.
J. Burton.
Because of the illness of Rev. Charles
Gibbs, pastor of the Christian Church at
Bridgeboro, who is suffering with acute
sciatic rheumatism, the proposed tent
meetings to commence on May % may
have to be postponed indefinitely.
One of the June brides in Beverly will
be Miss Helen Parker, daughter of Mrs.
Katherine Parker, who will wed Elwood
Ziegenfuss, of Willow Grove, Pa. The
wedding will take place in st. Joseph's
Catholic Church the first week in June.
On the April jury of the United States
court are the following from this neigh
borhood: William Chambers, New Egypt;
James G. Chamberlain, Bordentown; W.
II. Earlin, Browns Mills; Harry LaRue,
Chesterfield; Alfred P. Silpath. Burlington.
The Burlington quarterly meeting of
the Society of Friends will be held in the
meeting house at Crosswicks on Tuesday
morning, June /, at 1890 o'clock. Car
riages for transportation will leave the
railroad station at Bordentown at 1000 A.
M.
On Saturday afternoon, June 8, mem
bers of the Vincentown Grange will OBJ
serve their annual children's day on the
farm of W. R. Henry on the Smithville
road. Senator G. W. T. Gaunt, Master
of the New Jersey State Grange, will
make the meeting interesting for farmers.
The season for bass and pike opened on
Thursday, and from the reports received
those anglers who went out had very poor
luck, According to some of the follow
ers of Isaak Walton, this is an indication
that there will be better fishing later on.
Not single bass was caught by the score
of anglers who spent the day at Silver
Lakes, near Burlington.
1t has developed that both the church
people. who are fighting the granting IL
cense for the American House, New Egypt
and Robert A. Abbott stand ready fer APP
peals in case of defeat. The house was
granted license at the last term of Ocean
County Court, but could not open because
the opponents of the license granted car
ried the case to higher Courts to decide
whether the house would be called an old
or new one, as no new house can be grant
ed a license if it is within 200 feet of
church. The American House is less than
300 feet from the Presbyterian church, but
its owner is determined to move the build
ing If defeated this time.
The fourth elopement, at Riverside, In
four weeks leaked out Thursday when
Miss Margaret Fross surprised her friends
by informing them that she Is bride of
four days-the wife of Henry Holzinger,
recently of Sag Harbor, N. Y. Miss Gross
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Clemens
Gross, the former candy manufacture r.
The pair were married Monday In Camden.
About a month ago Albert Bailey, of
Philadelphia, and Thecka Haas, OF River
side, made flying trip to Wilmington,
Del. They were followed a week later
by Miss Anna Schuman, of Delanco, and
Theodore Schneider, of Riverside, who in
turn were succeeded by Miss Edna Mar
shall and William Miller, whose marriages
were surprises to parents.
Vincentown has but one licensed hotel.
Both inns at that place are owned by
Louis s. Brown, who did not apply for a
renewal of license for the old house-the
Braddock hotel-5ut was content with
conducting one establishment. This move
will probably settle the question of how
many hotels shall be licensed in Vincen-
town, as it is held by those versed in the
law that the relinquishing of license
practically wipes out the hotel, and that,
in this particular instance, the law pro-
hibiting the licensing of hotel that is
within the prescribed vicinity of church