The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-12-12
LOCAL NEWS.

yet your holiday presents, IN the Jew
elry and silyerware line, at STATIONS
and save money thereby.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Rendell will cele
brate the twenty-tifth anniversary of thei
marriage, on Monday evening, Januar,
1st.
A concert and play, by local talent
will be given at the Opera House OF
December 10Th, for the benefit of th'
hospital
The regular monthly meeting of the In
dustry Building and Loan Association viii
be held on Tuesday evening the 26th
instead of Monday, 25th.
A. A. Anderson has had number o.
matchmaking machines manufactured al
Smithyille. and will sell them at public
sale in Philadelphia this week.
Gen. A. E. Shiras Post has abandoned
the intention of having an illustrated
lecture at the Opera House, as only q
very few tickets had been disposed OF.
A maple tree oyer one hundred years
old and measuring four feet thick at the
base has just been cut down on the farm
of ex-senator B. F. Thorn, of Crosswicks.
Rev. William S. Brown, pastor of st.
Paul's NJ. E. Church, will address the Y.
M. G. A. gospel service next Sunday at
3.45 P. M. The meeting is for women as
well as for men.
The Supreme Lodge, knights ofPythias
of the World, of which Anthony Phillips,
of Mount Holly is member, will meet at
Washington, d. c., next August. Mr..
Phillips will attend the session.
A tea for the benefit of the Young
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
will be given at the residence OF Mrs
Samuel Emerson, 222 Garden street, this
evening. Tea served from to 10 2. M.
For every dollars worth of goods you
purchase at Howard V. STATIONS jewelry
store, you get ticket that may carry OF
an elegant diamond ring or its value in
other goods. To be decided on the 4th OF
January.
A meeting will be held at Toms River
on the 9th instant to reorganize the Long
Beach Railroad Company. which was re-
Gently purchased in the interest OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company at
Sheriffs sale.
Lemue, C. Reeves, of Riverside, ex-
Reading Clerk of the Senate, who was IN
dicted for false swearing to pension appll-
cations, retracted his former plea of not
guilty, in the United States District Court,
and pleaded non vult.
County Clerk Worrell will take posses
sion of his Office to-day at noon, having
taken his official oath on Thursday. His
bondsmen are Franklin 2. Endicott,
Henry Brick, David D. Griscom, William
H. Zelley and joseph c. Kingdom.
Everybody is thinking about Christ
mas. and the nature of the gifts they will
present to friends. Doron, the jeweler,
No. S4 Main street, has large and varied
stock well suited to all purposes. Relia-
Bile goods and just as represented.
Coroner Horner and DIR. Janney, on
Tuesday, viewed the remains of the col
ored man Marshall, which were found In
the woods near Indian Mills. There we're
no marks of violence on the skull and
the bones were handed to the Oyerseer OF
the Poor for burial.
1t is expected that all who attend the
4 l. L al in n
dist Church next Friday evening, will
have an enjoyable time. One of the fea-
lures of the evening will be buriesque
on Tennyson's Charge of the Light Bril-
gade." Admission, 10 cents.
The official ribbon awarded to the ID.
B. Smith Machine Company at the
Worlds Fair, is on exhibition in The
News Office window. The company re-
ceived So awards medals and diplomas
and a special gold medal for the best
woodworking machinery
Times are hard. Spend your money at
home. If in need of presents in the Jew
elry line, patronize Howard V. Stratton'
Main street, or some other jeweler
in town. This is business. Stratton has
a splendid assortment for the holidays
which he is selling at low margin.
The outbuldings, together with grain,
hay. farming implements and forty capons'
ON the farm of Samuel BChallender, near
El.isdale, were destroyed by fire Wednes-
day night. Benjamin Taylor was badly
burned while saving horse. The fire is
thought to have been of incendiary origin
Loss, $1,000.
The Y. M. G. A. has secured DIR. u
Drain Ring, an ear specialist, of Phil
adelphia, to deliver his popular lecture on
1.-THE Ear-its Function and Care" in the
Association rooms, on Thursday evening,
at o'clock The admission will be free,
and it is hoped that large audience Will
greet the speaker.
William A. Blakeslee, who at one time
operated foundry at Hainesport, but who
several months ago removed to Allentown
Pa. has failed. He confessed judgment
for 1891 to 2S preferred creditors. he
operated foundry for the manufacture Of
plumbing supplies, to establish which the
citizens of Allentown subscribed $4,000
George and David Carr, of Browns
Mills, are in jail for too freely exercising
their bumps of ingenuity. A barrel o.
whisky sat upon the platform of the rail
road station, and George and David being
thirsty, went under the platform and
bored hole into the bottom of the barrel
whereby they extracted about 10 gallons
of the LIQUOR. Then they inserted int
the auger hole a plug about five fee
long. which caused some trouble wher
the barrel was removed.
Good Will Lodge, A. o. U. W.. at it
last meeting, elected these officers for TIN
ensuing year Master Workman. JOSEPH
N. Simons foreman, III. ]. w. Frederick
overseer, George w. Lundy; guide
George Rendell receiver, Samuel l.. Tom
linson financier, George w. Hand; re
cording secretary, Samuel s. Wyllie; in
side Waterman, Edward f. Burns; oul
side Waterman, William S. Kelley; med
cal examiners, Drs Richard Ii. Parson
and George w. Vanderyeer; representa-
tive to grand lodge, Walter A. Barrows
alternate, Samuel L. Tominson.
Charles Lyons. who with his wife an
child, have for some time past resided 9
Delanco, near the county bridge, die
early on Tuesday morning from an Owe
dose of morphine Drs. Weller and Sma
were called but their most strenuous g
forts to save his life proved fruitless. Th
body was taken to Pennington, Conne
ticut. where his mother resides, for buria