The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-09
LOCAL NEWS.

Zachariah Reeves died at the residence
of his son-in-law, ex-Sherif Harbert, OF
Friday night.
Isaac H. Aston has opened meat mar
ket at the old stand of Branin & Holt, on
Garden street.
Caleb Ridgway, of Lumberton, sailed on
Thursday, for Egypt. He will make 8
tour OF foreign lands.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Agricultural Society will be held al
the Court House on Saturday.
The members of Union Fire Co., No. 2,
will hold their annual fair and festival
in the early part of March.
The doctors report considerable sickness
in the town and vicinity, principally the
grip, which has caused many deaths.
Twenty-first annual meeting OF the New
Jersey State Board of Agriculture will be
held in the State House, Trenton, on JAN
16, IL and Is.
Mary Stevenson Brown, well-knoVn
Burlington county woman, died last Mon
day at her home at Crosswicks, at the adj
vanced age of 80 years.
Rev. r. A. Rodrick delivered an excel
cellent sermon in St. Andrews Church.
Sunday evening, to about fifty members
of the order of Knights of Pythias
The annual meeting of the managers
and members of the Association of the
Burlington County Children's Home, will
be held at the home on Thursday after
noon, Jan. IL, at 2.30.
On Tuesday Eli Boiler, of Lumberton,
went to the Burlington County Hospital,
suffering from the effects of grip. The
next morning he died from paralysis OF
the heart. Coroner Borden viewed the
body.
Nathan H. Taylor has left his entire
estate to his neice, Anna II. Taylor, OF
Riyerton, because he says his son-in-law
and granddaughter treated him unkindly,
as his daughter was afraid they would be-
fore she died.
A shawl was lost on the road between
Wrightstown and Mount Holly. While of
not much value to the finder it is highly
priced by the owner The finder will be
rewarded by leaving it at the carriage
factory of John W. Archer, Mount
Holly.
During the holidays Dr. Kimball enter
tanned Clifford Carleton, one of the in
structors of the Art League in New York
citv-the art school conceded to be by far
the best in America. Miss c. Elliott, of
Savannah, Ga, was also a guest at DR..
Kim balls.
Joseph Dubells carting team ran away
on Pine street this morning, coming up
Mill to Main and then up Main street to
Murrell, where it was stopped. The wag-
on collided with S. S. Bowers one-horse
wagon, upsetting it and badly twisting
two wheels. No damage was done to the
heavy wagon.
Chapter 46 of the laws OF 1893, ap-
proved March 7.provldes that all oyerseers
of poor and township clerks elected after
the passage of the act, shall hold office
for three wears. Overseer of Poor Throck-
morton and Township Clerk Troth were
elected under the provisions of this act
The II. B. Smith Machine Company
has received from Constantinople an
order for mortising machine. The cor
respondence in relation to the machine
was made IN February, 1892, since when
nothing has been heard by the company
in relation to the matter until the order
was received last week.
The following are the newly-elected
officers of the Mount Holly Baptist Sun
day school for the ensuing year: Superin-
tendent, Joseph w. Colkitt; assistant sup
erintendent, Fred. NJ. Shemeley; secre-
tary, Lorenzo L. Sapp; assistant secretary,
]. Howard Buchanan; treasurer. Albert
w. Atkinson; librarian, John b. Herbert;
superintendent of infant school, Mrs.
Daniel Suffer.
The Judge Conover farms, on the road
from Golfers Mills to New Egypt. which
were sold last week by ex-Sherif Haga-
man, were purchased by the complainant,
Mrs. WINS. Shortly after the sale by the
Sheriff. Mrs. WINS sold the two farms to
Judge Emson, who purchased them for
James Cottrell. The farms contain about
$50 acres.
The Manahawkin and Long Beach
Transportation Company has filed articles
of incorporation in Camden. The capital
stock of the concern is $4,000 and a rail
road will be operated between Manahaw.
kin and Long Beach. Each of the follow
ing gentlemen hold 10 shares of stock
William J. Thompson, Charles s. Ridg
way, George Pfeiffer, Isaac A. Lee anc
Francis Fenimore.
At the annual meeting of the contribu
tors of the Burlington County Hospital
on Tuesday, the following officers ant
managers were elected: President, Mrs. {
81. Folwell wee president, Mrs. E. c
Curtis; secretary, Mrs. Robert Clarkson
treasurer, Mics S. B. Citizens; Mrs 7. II
Risdon, Mrs. F. B. Lewis, Mrs. r. II. How
ard. Mrs. Charles Wills, Mrs. w. P. Mel
cher, Mrs. Joseph Jones. Mrs. c. E. Hen
erickson, Mrs. Francis Ashhurst. Mrs
Naomi T. Kingdom, Miss J. Alkman.
Martin Bayersdorfer, the Main stree
clothing merchant, was taken seriously il
on the train on Friday evening, and wa
80 sick when be reached Moorestowl
that the conductor put him on a trai
bound for Mount Holly. When he al
rived here he was taken to his room 8
the Arcade hotel and put to bed. Ii
was out of his mind for some time, but
now getting better. He had been suffel
ing with the grip for several days, whic
was the probable cause of his illness.
The funeral of Mrs Maggie II. Curtis
wife of William W. Curtis, who died {
San Francisco, Cal, took place yesterda
from their residence on Mill street Their
was large attendance. The floral offe
ings were numerous and very pretty. Tn
ceremony was conducted by Rev Marti
Aigner, rector of Trinity Church, I
which Mrs. Curtis was a member. 81
was a very active worker in the churc
and Sunday school. The pail beare
were Franklin B. Lewis, E. II. Burt
Charles II. Deacon, Richard 2. Hoemal
George D. Worrell. George T. Williams
John P. Hutchinson and VIM.
Ships, Of Bordentown, the commissio
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