The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-08-27

body of singers In Trenton, will appear q
the opera house tonight.
There is slight improvement in tn
condition of Mrs. Joseph Dubell, of th
south Pemberton road.
Harry Nipple and wife removed from
High street, on Tuesday. to house whicl
they are now occupying on Pine street.
The picnic and dance given at Rancoca
Park, on Wednesday, for the benefit O.
the Burlington County Hospital, WA
interfered with by rain.
According to notices which have beer
filed, Willard P. Lippincott. a student IN
the Office of Prosecutor Samuel A. At
kinson. and Charles A. Rigg. of Burling
ton, will apply for admission to the bar
at the November session of the Supreme
Court.
The young horse which Richard LIANT
recently purchased at Wrightstown, has
been placed In the hands of Harry Davis,
who is training the animal at Salem, and
during the past week made some miles
which indicate that he will be as speedy
as Miss Mills, q fast mare formerly owned
by Mr.. Lamb.
While on his way to Atlantic City on
Saturday morning. Ridgway Assay, OF
Church street, was taken quite Ill when
the train reached Moorestown, where he
got off, and after consulting a physician
returned home, where there was consult
alton of doctors. On Sunday afternoon
Mr.. Assay was taken to the Polytechnic
Hospital, Philadelphia, where he may be
operated upon either to-day or to-mor-
row.
John Ross. colored, who was recently
shot In the neck by Frances Worry at her
home on Washington street, Mount Holly,
died at the Cooper Hospital, Camden, on
Wednesday night, where 1t was found that
the bullet had lodged In his spine. Death
ensued before an operation could be per-
formed. Ross was 20 years old. married
and had one child. He lived at Burling-
ton. An investigation revealed the fact
that the shooting was the result of an &C.
cident, caused by the careless handling of
a revolver, for which crime the girl, aged
90 years, will be indicted for manslaughter.
Ross was buried on Sunday.
The bridge committee of the Board of
Freeholders met at the Office of County
Collector Pine. on Wednesday, and bids
were opened as follows: Broad street
bridge, Burlington, P. ]. Kennessey,
Belvidere. $1O,S5O; Owego Bridge Com
pany, Philadelphia, Pa, $12,625; Ferro
Concrete Company. $40, 468. Pearl street
bridge. Burlington, Oswego company,
Ga, 400; Kennessey company. $14,690;
Ferro company, $15. 1913. Bridge at Cooks
town, Ferro company, $4.975. A contract
for the erection Of these bridges may be
awarded at the next meeting of the Board
of Freeholders. Forty per cent. of the
cost Of the Pearl street bridge is to be
paid by the Riverside Traction company
There lie not much encouragement that
Paterson silk manufacturers will erect a
branch mill at Mount Holly very soon, as
q proposition recently made to that end
has been called off for the present, but
there is possibility that the matter will
come up for consideration at some future
time. Promoters for that industry who
were In Mount Holly recently looking
over the ground In company with members
of the Commercial League were favorably
impressed. Those interested In the Keesey
Hosiery company, who have control of
some unoccupied ground on the old carpet |
mill property, at once took charge of the
matter Of location and the prospects were
bright for the erection of suitable build |
Ing by those who are active In the |
of industries locating here, |
when q letter was received by Charles
Coles from B. Edmund Davis, or Pater- |
ION, who requested that further neogtia-
lions be suspended for the present, at the
same time giving assurance that the prop
Dsition would be renewed In the future.
Writing tablets. The Blair and Crane |
lines, standard and well-known, both for