The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-05-29
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
LOCAL NEWS.

Haddonfield's new opera house will b
opened on June 9th with social dance
The new water company at PembertoI
will be organized tomorrow, Wednesda,
evening.
Gen. A. E. Shiras Post and Company
attended service at st. Andrews Churci
on Sunday evening.
New chairs have been placed in thu
Sheriff's Office at the jail, and the place
generally fixed up.
7. C. Keller has sold the patent right o
his coffee measuring caddy to Capt c. c
St. John. of Chester. Pa.
For sale, a frst-class safety Star bicycle
in perfect order Will be sold cheap
Apply at THE News office.
The coming commencement of Mount
Holly College Preparatory, June II, will
have several new features of special inter
est.
Rev. Charles NJ Perkins, of Salem, and
Rev. Martin Aigner, of Trinity Church,
Mount Holly, exchanged pulpits on Sun
day.
District Clerk Franklin Dill has been
appointed to take the census of school
children. Edward S. Troth is assisting
him.
Theodore Grant, the clothing merchant
will present a plant in bloom to every
customer who calls at his store tomorrow,
Decoration day.
County Clerk Worrell on Wednesday
administered the oath of Office to Joseph
H. Gaskill, the newly-appointed Law
Judge of this county.
Patrick Fitzpatrick has received $40
from the Firemen's Relief Fund for injur-
les received while assisting In unloading
fire apparatus after the Pemberton fire.
BERTHE Arbor, little boy living on
Mount Holly avenue, was bitten on the
hand on Friday morning by Edward
Emley's dog. The wounds were cauteriz-
ed by Dr. Flynn.
While crossing the Water street draw
bridge, on Friday, May Ganntt fell over
board aud probably would have drowned
had not Albert jackson jumped into the
water and rescued her.
At the regular monthly session of the
county court on June 9th, Judge Gaskill
will preside, and special sessions will be
held. Changes in rules and practices of
the county courts will then be announced. |
The pulpit of the First Presbyterian
Church of Atlantic City was recently
filled by DIR. Kimball, of the Mount
Holly College Preparatory school. Last
Sunday he preached in Moorestown Pres
byterian Church.
Thomas Denness and a companion on
Friday caught ten German carp In a
ditch along the Jacksonville road, about
half a mile from Barclays creek. Eight
of them weighed 40 lbs. The heaviest
weighed ST pounds.
MISS Louise B. Kimball has returned
from the New York Art League, of which
she has become member. She will re-
main in Mount Holly during the coming
wear. at the head of the art department of
DIR. Kimball's College Preparatory
The fire police of Mount Holly. at their
annual meeting, elected Charles Bennett,
chief; William NJ. Reeves, first lieuten-
ant; Patrick Fitzpatrick, second lieuten-
ant; George Gaun. third lieutenant; Rob
ert F. Coleman, secretary and treasurer.
H.A. Stiles, OF the firm of Leech, Stiles
& Co., the Philadelphia eye specialists,
will pay his next visit TO Mount Holly, on
Monday, June 18th, instead of on Friday
of this week, as he intends visiting this
place but once a month during the sum-
mer.
One'of the looms at the carpet mill took
fire from heated journal, on Thursday
Several of the girl employees ran out and
gave an alarm. The fire department was
called out, but the flames were extin-
euished without the aid of the firemen
The damage was slight.
A sacred concert will be given in the |
Sacred Heart Church, on Monday even
ing, June 4, by choir of the best local
talent, assisted by Rev. Alexander Gal
laeher and Rev. Joseph F. O'Keefe, who
sang so excellently at the concert given
last summer. Tickets on sale at Jamison's
store. Popular prices.
The celebrated case of McMichael VS..
Tomlinson was settled in our courts last
week This was a dog case. Tomlinson
shot dog belonging to McMichael, and
the Jury decided the killing iustifable.
This was the second trial of the cause, and
the ''yaller" dog has probably cost $500
A meeting was held at Manahawkin on
Friday to arrange for the building OF a
short line of railroad to the seashore,
beginning at Hanover, on the line OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad. and extending to
Manahawkin, where it will connect with
the Long Beach road. The project seems
to meet with general favor.
George Lewis, middle-aged farm hand,
EMPLOYED by Curtis Pitman, between
Juliustown and Wrightstown, committed
suicide on Saturday night by hanging
himself to a rafter in a wagon shed. His
body was discovered by Mr.. Pltman on
Sunday morning. Coroner Borden issued
a burial permit. The cause of the act IS
unknown.
Three Hungarians came to town on
Wednesday, looking for a companion.
The four of them were in town the night
before, all of them being under the inhu
ence of LIQUOR The last seen of the miss
ing man was on the King street bridge and
his companions fear that he fell into the
creek. The men work in the sand pits at
Hainespot.
The commencement exercises of the
class of "a of the Mount Holly high school
will be held at the opera house on Thurs
day evening. June IA. The graduates are
Nav B. Boyce, Harry q. Bullock, John w
Bayles Ethel A. Cronk, Nellie Nj. Durand
r. Pearl Huff, NJ Essie Ireland, Matilda
w. Randall, Mary White; post graduates,
Annie M. Rattgan, Elizabeth Nj. Quinn.
The sale under for eclosure of the vii
LACE of Manchester, which was to haYt
been made by the Sheriff of Ocean County
on Wednesday, has been adjourned fol
fonr weeks. This is the result OF an ell
fort made to effect settlement. The
foreclosure was upon a mortgage held by
the Newark Mutual Benefit Life lnsur
ance Company. 1t was given in 1867 BY