The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-11-04

banquet room of the Masonic Temple.
Several fine reels of moving picture
are to be shown at the Opera House tc
! night.
J. J. Fenstermacher has sold the prop
erty, No. 81 Bispham street, to Thoma
S. Clevenger.
Unclaimed mail remains in the pos
Office for Andrew Faul, Mrs. VIM. Hart
Mrs. Chas. E. Suttew, S. Twain.
Fresh paint and new wall paper ar
interior decorations which have improy
ed the apes. ence of Joseph r. Sisomi
cigar store.
The ladies, c, d and f, of the Baptis
church, will have bread, pie, cake anC
candy sale next Saturday afternoon, il
, the Lewis building on Main street.
A. A. johnson, who purchased lo
from w. w. Worrell, extending ON Ridg
way street from Cherry street to Mount
Holly avenue, will erect four houses there
Election returns will be received at the
court house this evening. The public is
invited to hear them. Returns will also
be read from the stage of the opera
house.
The Winter Lyceum course began in
the Methodist church on Thursday night,
when DIR. Gabriel r. Mcguire delivered
most pleasing and interesting lecture
to large audience. The next number
of the course will be the Columbian
Male Quartette, on Thursday evening,
December 4th.
The Burlington County Produce Sales
Company, with headquarters in Mount
Holly, has large quantity of seed po-
tatoes for sale. Manager Amos A. Eel
ley, accompanied by ]. Aquila Jones
and Howard w. Haines recently went
to Maine and purchased 4, 500 sacks with
options for more if needed.
Thomas Chafey, of Cherry street, is
the champion bean vine grower around
this part of the state unless someone
can dispute his claim. The vine measur-
ed over As feet in length, running up
pole to telephone wire about IS feet
from the ground, and from there EXTEND
ed along the wire for about 20 feet.
The dismanteling of the old canning
house property on Water street will dis
turb the rendezvous gang of crap
shooters, who have been using that build
ing on Sundays. 1t is reported that
large number of the names of players
have been secured, which may result in
indictments being found by the grand
jury.
Joseph Mooney was attacked by high
waymen while ON his way home from
New Egypt Sunday night and relieved |
of all his money. He was knocked |
gagged and tied and left in
the middle of the road, where he was
found by an automobile party and TAX
en- to the home of James O'Conners, by |
whom he is employed.
Joseph Shinn, who mas been confined
in the Burlington County Hospital as
the result of injuries which he recently
received in an automobile collision with
mis- brothers ice wagon along the Bur
ington road, one night during fair week,
mas been removed to the home of his
at Providence, r. L., and
IS now able to get around again.
Isaac L. Shinn, owner of the ice wagon,
who was also injured about the head and
and was compelled to take to
bed, is able to continue his business.
Louis Yerkes, of Lewistown, has Of
cred as a prize to the farmers present.
ng the best bushel basket of seed corn
IN the ear, a one-horse cultivator. 1t
must have been grown by the exhibitor in
913 and will be judged in connection
With the Burlington County Boys Agri-
cultural contest at the Mount Holly
High school building, on Friday even
ng, November 28th. Contestants should Il
submit their corn this date between the
hours of one and five in the afternoon.
Shortly after 3 o'clock ON Sunday af-
ernoon the fire department was called
tut, blaze of mysterious origin having
,een discovered In the show window of
notion store which A. Smidth Jr. &
20. conduct in connection with their
Wholesale candy place on Mill street.
The Union Fire Company extinguished
he flames with it's chemical engine
The steamer companies had their en-
zines ON the ground but their services
we're not needed. Outside. the broken
,lass in the window, quite little loss
as sustained in both stores by smoke.
There was collision at the Washing
on street railroad crossing on Thursday
light as the special Halloween train
vas returning from Burlington, but for
no one was injured. In the
belonging to DR.. John J.
Flynn, Harry Nipple and a friend, both
If whom are employed at the Mount
Holly Garage, took ride to Burlington
md while passing through Washington
street on the home trip they ran into the
,hird car of the train, damaging the
to some extent. Nipple at
tempted to stop his car but the brakes
Jailed to work and the crash followed
Some surpsise was expressed on Sun
lay when smoke was seen issuing
from different locations in the
yards of Elwood H. Stokes and Miss
Camille Bullock, who occupy corners at
Union and Buttonwood streets, and the
apparent phenomena seemed to be quite
A puzzle to someo of the spectators. Water
was poured on the ground to quench the
unseen fire, which was probably due to
the burning of peat in the ground, |
which may have been ignited by the
burning of leaves. Some of the farms |
around Columbus contain large depos- |
its of peat, where such fires have started |
and burned for weeks at a time.
Mount Holly cut some figure in the
Halloween celebration which occurred
at Burlington, Thursday night. The
special train and trolley cars conveyed
many from this section. Mrs. Long
street was selected as one of the judges
of the baby parade; Loring S. Borton
received the honor for having shown the
most originality among the business
houses, and the Mount Holly Lodge of
Moose was the winner of a prize for
having the largest number of men in
line with band The celebration was a