The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-15
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
Louis Garbarino returned from hls trl
to Italy yesterday.
The county election boards will be a.
pointed on Thursday.
The annual pilgrimage to Little Pin
Mill takes place tomorrow.
Jurors for the September term OF coul
will be drawn next Tuesday.
Several young members of the Y. N
C. A. have organized an orchestra.
Samuel ]. Smith is giving snapp'
soup picnic in Durand's woods to-day.
The Columbus Grange will hold its pit
mic at Browns Mills on Thursday of ne1
week.
The annual picnic of the M. E. Sunda
school will be held in the camp wood
vincentown, on Thursday of next week
The early loungers around the depc
on Sunday morning saw the Barnum
Bailey circus tram pass through en- rout
from Long Branch to Atlantic City.
A gate has been placed in the corner
the cemetery, which enables people
enter from the mount without any trouble
This piece of generosity is appreciated.
Three new postmasters were appolnte
for Burlington county last week-G.
Middleton, Marlton; Alonzo Norton
Batsto; and Caleb L. Adams, Woodman
sic.
J. Smalley Baugh, Elmer Shinn, ant
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Campbell wen
to the Worlds Fair on Saturday. jane
L. Anderson has just returned iron
Chicago.
The Board of Health is vigorously
pushing its ordinance compelling prop
ertv owners to connect with the sewer
Several attached yesterday, and notices
were sent to many more.
William Ely. a married man. with sew
eral children, living at Bordentown, and
formerly employed by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, fell dead Thursday
night. He had been i'll for two weeks
DIR. Thomas w. Dobbins will be in
Mount Holly all of next week to make
preparations for his removal to Newark
He will come Saturday evening and re-
main until the following Monday week
George w. Hughes, former resident
of Mount Holly, was heavy loser by fire
in his mill, Mascher ard Putnam streets,
Philadelphia, on Wednesday night. For
tunately the loss is fully covered by in
surance.
Rev. T. NJ. Riley. who for more than 20
wears has managed the affairs of st. Johns
Military Academy at Haddonfield so sue
cessfully, has withdrawn, and the Rev.
E. M. Riley will assume control at the
coming term.
While on a trip in North Carolina re-
Gently, Hon. Thomas J. Alcott paid a
visit TO town bearing the name OF
Mount Holly. 1t is thriving village,
and was named by gentleman who paid
this place visit and was delighted with
the town.
Judge E. P. Emson has built a new
freight station and platform at Bucking-
ham to be used in shipping cranberries
from his Jobs Swamp bog. The Judge
has enlarged this bog about 25 acres this
year and expects to set out another 80 acre
tract next spring.
The walls of the addition to the build
ing used by Dr. Kimball's College Pre-
paratory School are up. Two large, well
lighted rooms, will be added for the con-
venience of the pupils. They will be
needed for the new departments and the
musical conservatory.
The withdrawal of the special police
man at the corner of Washington and
King streets is keenly felt Sunday even
ings Last Sunday evening there were
gangs of half grown boys on the corner
and they were not at all particular about
the quality of their language.
An Italian family named Corahello, at
Woodmansie, stole Squire Adams COW
from the pasture field the other day, and
drove it home, killed it and put 1t in
pickle for the winter The Squire, how
ever, identified the cows hide and COM
mitted the entire family to Jail.
Charles Tyson, an aged house painter,
who resides in Trenton, but has been
working IN Bordentown, fell from lad
der Tuesday afternoon. He fell beside a
picket fence. and bis overalls were caught
in the fence and the fall broken. He was
somewhat bruised about the limbs.
Water was pumped into the new reser-
voir on the mount ON Sunday. Its capac-
ity is about 900, 600 gallons, and its cost
was nearly $4,000, complete. The old
reservoir, which holds about 100000 gal
Ions, will be cleaned and repaired and
given a coating of cement.
Rev. DIR. Kimball, the principal of the
College Preparatory School for Young
Ladies in Mount Holly, occupied the
pulpit of the Faith Presbyterian Church.
New York City, on Sunday. DIR. Kimball
has charge of this church from July 80
to September 8. 1t is strong and large
church on Forty-sixth street.
William Poole, of Mount Holly, was
committed to Jail in default of 5000 bail
on Saturday by Justice Clevenger, charged
by Joseph Gamble, of Hartford, with hav-
ing stolen his watch during the afternoon
Poole denied the charge, but when being
arrested he was seen to throw the time
piece away at E. B. Jones' corner.
Some miscreant has been changing the
measuring stakes driven in the ground OF
the new public school house, with the
idea. perhaps, that thereby a mistake
might be caused in the erection of the
building. Some of the stakes were moved
a few inches and others driven down
slightly, both scarcely sufficient to be
noticed but enough to cause mistake il
not discovered.
The piece of road on Pine street, from
the railroad to the township line, the
South Pemberton road, is in breadth
condition. 1t is so full of ruts and holel
that it is a terror to teamsters who have
to drive over it, and at times it is almos
impossible. Since the boundary line o
Northampton has been changed to include
that portion of the road, nothing has beer
done to it in the way of improvement
and it is getting worse every day.
Robert Polhemus, of Vincentown, wa