The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-02-27
TIE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.


urday evening.
The thermometer registered five degree
above zero on Sunday morning, tn
lowest thus far this winter.
Owing to yesterdays storm William \
Jones, near Vincentown, adjourned hi
public sale until Friday next.
d. w. &. Cobb, of Jacobstown, was las
week elected Grand Inner Guard of tn
Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias.
Edward B. Jones bought the Joseph II
Buchanan property, on Broad street, OF
Thursday, and will occupy it in about
month.
A party of Mount Holly gentlemen en-
ioyed the balmy weather of Saturday
evening and Sunday at the Peahala clut
house.
$50 pairs of children's Solar Tip shoes
heel and spring heel sizes 81 to l03, 65c,
pair, at Parkers, Y. NJ. c. A. building
Main street.
William H. Doron will have sale Of
horses, cows, hogs. sheep, rails and lum-
Der, at his farm near Buddtown, on
Thursday, March s.
Another sale of horses by F. P. Endi-
colt, will take place at the Arcade hotel,
next Monday. A. W. Lofland will have
a sale at Medford on Saturday.
In consequence of his efforts. while in
toxicated, to force his way into the house
of Mrs. Warner at Columbus, John Chance
was on Saturday committed to Jail.
There is every prospect of crowded
house tonight to witness the comedy that
will be given in aid of the poor fund. All
of the seats down stairs haye been sold.
The Republicans of Southampton are
requested to meet at the Town Hall on
Saturday, March 8, at o'clock P. NJ, to
select ticket to be supported at the COM
ing annual town meeting.
Mount Holly Lodge, No. IS. Ancient Or
der of Good Fellows, will celebrate their
25th anniversary, on Friday evening,
March Is, by an entertainment for the
benefit of the poor of Mount Holly.
Leech, Stiles & Co, the Philadelphia OPP
ticians, will make their next visit to
Mount Holly on Friday, March 9, and, as
usual. may be found at the West End
hotel. If your eyes trouble you, call up
on them.
Harold Stoll, young man aged 10
wears, living near Kinkora, was badly lac
Grated about the neck, chest and left
shoulder, by being caught between cog
wheels of some machinery, about which
he was working. on Wednesday after
noon.
Religious services will be held every
evening until and including Friday even
ing, in the Baptist Church, commencing
at :. 80 o'clock, conducted by the celebrat-
ed evangelist, Rev John 7. Vine, of Lon
don and New York. All will be cordially
welcomed.
Extensive improvements are being
made at the Florence Iron Works and
will be completed about April l. Three
new hydraulic cranes are being erected.
Each has capacity of 10 tons and double
the work can be turned out with the
same labor
Samuel Heller, of Hainesport, has been
held in $500 bail for assaulting special of
ficer William II. Foulks, of Mount Holly.
Heller was making too much noise in
Costigan's hotel, and the proprietor called
on Foulks to eject him. Heller resisted
and struck Foulks in the face several
times.
A natty stranger has been victimizing
the citizens of Norwalk, Conn. He rep
resented himself as brother of Miss
Williams, the Shakspearean reader who
was at Mount Holly recently. This young
man sold many tickets at So each for
reading, and while the audience was
awaiting the reader, the swindler skipped
for new fields.
A land and improvement company is
about to erect water works at Maple Shade
for the supply of that place. The point
selected for the tank is the highest in that
locality, and is nearly opposite the build
ings of James Mecray, on the road lead
ing from Maple Shade to Fork Landing.
The supply is to be obtained from an ar
tesian well in the nelghborhood which is
over 400 feet deep. and inexhaustible.
The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Farmers Creamery Company,
of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, will be
held at 18th and Wood streets. Philadel-
phia, on Saturday, at 10 O'Clock A. M.
Owing to this meeting, the election of
officers of the Mount Holly branch of the
New Jersey Dairymen's Association will
be postponed until Saturday, March 10.
The name of Lee A. Stroud, which APP
peared in the list of tax delinquents last
week, was not there through error, but
because it was the Collectors duty to pub
lish it. Mr.. Stroud does hold a receipt
for the amount, but he obtained il on
Wednesday, after both papers containing
the list had been published. So far as he
is concerned the list was perfectly correct
and Collector Deacon is not subject to any
censnre on that point.
Owing to the depressed condition Of
trade generally and with a desire to en-
courage an increased consumption of milk
and at the same time reducing It's ship
ments, thereby lessening assessment
which are now heavy. on account of many
shippers failing to become members, anC
refusing to contribute to its support
the United Milk Producers Protective
Association of Pennsylvania and New
Jersey. has fixed the price of milk for th'
month of March at 81 cents per quart.
The Junior Order of United Amer icaI
Mechanics have IN contemplation thu
founding of Home for the orphans o
members of the order. The object is b
take care of children who cannot TAX
care of themselves and whose father
we're at the time of their death member
of the order It is recommended tina
the site be IT'S acre farm not too close
to a railroad or a city of large size
Mount Holly is Just the place for suef
an institution and the lodges here Wi
make an effort to have the Home locat
ed at this place.
Assistant Postmaster c. II. w. Van
solver, wife and three children, formerl
of Burlington but now of Lambertyill'
had narrow escape from asphyxiatio
Friday morning. Gas from the parlc
stove filled the house Mr. Vansciver wa
the first to awaken, and be complained (
a saveva headache DiscoverIng fumes ,