The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-04-25
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
The recent fair of Relief Fire Compan.
Melted $725.
Joseph Camp has been appointed post
master at New Egypt.
The parsonage of the NJ. E. Church is t
be improved by an addition to the baci
building.
Charles A. Reeves has been appointed
census enumerator for Mount Holly schoo
district, No. 7S.
Henry Darnell has resigned his position
at the Surrogates Office. and Joseph Hut
has been given the desk.
The Berkeley Hotel, at Sea Side Park
has been purchased by New York anc
Island Heights real estate dealers
The dramatic company that was to have
played CDR Jekyli and Mr.. Hyde" in the
Opera House. on Wednesday, stranded al
Hightstown.
Judge William R. Lippincott, while
working on his farm, was badly poisoned
in the face This did not prevent his
attendance at court.
A young man is wanted. one who under
stands grocery business, and must also be
able to drive and take care of horse.
Address, by writing only, Grocer" News
Office, Mount Holly.
The Mount Holly Water Company is
rapidly preparing for the new reservoir
to be built this year. Workmen were en-
gagged on the mount last week in blow
ing up stumps with dynamite.
The Burlington county papers desig-
mated to publish the laws are: Mount
Holly Herald, New Jersey Mirror, Mount
Holly Dispatch, Burlington Gazette, Bor-
dentown Register-four Democratic, one
Republican.
The township authorities are after the
tax delinquents. Collector Deacon has adj
vertised those owning real estate, and
Chief of Police Nixon is looking after the
poll tax people, with warrants to arrest
those who do not settle.
Vice Chancellor Green has made an or
der to show cause why receiver should
not be appointed for the estate of the
late Carrie E. VANDERBILT. The son of
Mrs. vandergrift states that the estate is
not insolvent and would bring $4,000.
The Rev. Henry L. C. Braddon, the rec
tor of st. Stephens Church, Florence, has
been laid by for some weeks with a seri-
GUS affection of the ear. He was under
treatment by specialist in Wilmington,
Delaware, and is about to resume active
work in his parish, quite restored to
health.
The Bristol, Burlington, Trenton and
Morris Park Co. has been organized to
run boats on the upper Delaware this
summer. Two boats, the Nellie Bly, and
the Granite City, will be placed on the
route, one of which will run between
Trenton and Morris Park, and the other
between Trenton, Burlington and Bristol.
Shipper Wallace, who had charge of
the analysis of the stomach of the woman
who died at Pemberton about week ago,
finished his work on Thursday, but failed
to discover any trace of poison. Coroner
Hibberd called his jury together on Fri
day, and examined one or two witnesses,
after which verdict of death from nat
ural causes was rendered.
Benjamin Sleeper died at his home, in
Vincentown, on Tuesday. Nearly half
century ago Mr.. Sleeper engaged in bust
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carting fish to the towns hereabout and
taking merchandise down on his return
trips. For many years "Uncle Benny"
and his four-mule team were familiar fig
ures in this county.
Robert S. Taylor, Alonzo J.. Russell,
John D. Burtis and Charles R. Fenton,
have been appointed a committee by
Mansfield Council, No. III, o. U. A. NJ,
to act in conjunction with the citizens of
Columbus in entertaining Washington
Post, q. A. R.. of Bordentown, on May
30th: The committee will also try to Sc
cure flag which will be presented to the
Columbus public school on May 23d.
Tatem Parson, an old engineer in the
days Of the Camden and Amboy railroad
company, and who now resides in Cam
den, is the Oldest living engineer who
ran the John Bull No. /, and Alfred
Reynolds. of Mount Holly, is the young
est man living who fred it, Railroad
engineers on the Amboy Division think
strange that the division was not repre-
scented on her run from Jersey City toI
Chicago.
Reports from the directors of the va
rieus counties at the semi-annual meeting
OF the West Jersey Game Protective AS
ISOLATION, in Camden, show that the
severe winter and the pot hunters had
killed of nearly every rabbit, quail and
pheasant in the southern section of tn
State. The society spent $1100 stockin
the woods with game within the last few
months, but even those birds have per-
ished. The prospects for fall shooting are
very poor.
Sometime since the township commit
tee adopted an ordinance requiring
plumbers and others to get a permit be-
fore digging up the streets, one of the
promises requiring that the streets be put
back in good shape. The or dinance ap-
pears to be a dead letter and, as conse-
quence, the streets are left in many shapes
after pipes have been laid. Last week
one OF the street car horses stepped on a
spot recently vacated by plumber. and,
as result, the horse Is now lame.
Christ Church, Riverton, has fund of
S., 600 on hand for building parish house.
They hope to raise So, 900 more and build
of stone, to correspond with the church
and rectory. When this is done there
will be no more completely equipped par
ish in the diocese Fourteen were con-
firmed last Sunday morning, presented by
the Rev. John H. Converse, the rector.
A new and very beautiful reredos has
been recently erected. which adds very
much to the beauty of the chancel and
the memorial altar.
A surprise party was rendered Miss
Ethel Wright, on Friday evening, by hei
young lady friends, at the residence Of
her father, George A. Wright, corner Of
Main and Water streets. In spite of the
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