The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-05
John Ryan, the Mill street bak er, has

i William s. Reeve, of Church street, ha
r. a castor oil bean plant in his yard that
}. over fifteen feet high.
l. A good likeness and sketch of Judg
Charles E. Hendrickson appeared in tn
New York World on Friday.
t A horse recently stepped on the foot Q
Samuel L. Grant, farmer living nea
4 Smithville, causing very painful injury
Through the efforts of her counsel
Blanchard II. White, pension has beef
2 secured for Elizabeth A. Bradford, of Ju
I liustowD.
On Saturday Sheriff Fleetwood solo
nineteen lots at Maple Shade, the prop
erty of Sarah E. Wanser, to Watson De
puy for $500.
The Cinnaminson Gas Company, witt
an authorized capital stock of $40, 600, ha
filed articles of Incorporation with thu
Secretary of State.
The new Sixth Regiment armory, a
Camden. was informally opened last ey en-
Ing by battalion drill. The formal open
ing will take place next month.
James O'Brien has purchased the saloon
business of Jesse Wells on Water street
1t is his purpose to conduct large board
ing house there. Mr.. O'Brien took pos.
session on Saturday.
The new furnace that is being construct
ed at the Medford Glass Works will b.
completed in about two weeks and then a
night force of thirty hands will be added.
The average daily output is now about l25
gross, valued at 1925.
The next conference of the NJ E Church
will be held in Camden. At the last
gathering the choosing of the place for the
next meeting was left to the Bishop and
Presiding Elders, and they have decided
on the First Church. Camden.
4 We are always anxious to receive in
formation concerning any matters of local
interest which may or may not have come
to our notice. If you know anything of
news value make us call or drop us q
postal; we want to know about it.
On Saturday, in the Orphans Court,
on motion of T. J. Middleton. in the mat
ter of the estate of David Werner, deceased,
of Moorestown, an order was drawn to
make settlement of all claims against the
estate within thirty days from October 2.
Efforts are being made to secure the
presence in Mount Holly, of Miss Maggie
Jenkins, of the Volunteers OF America,
located in Philadelphia, to conduct
series of meetings during October. This
lady is said to be very successful in reform
work.
Efforts were made at the last meeting of
the township committee at Palmyra to
have legal proceedings begun against the
colored church at West Palmyra on the
ground that it was disorderly house
Singing, fighting and other such events
are said to be very common there, and
the neighbors are disturbed by the rack
cts.
Freeholder Edward A. Goldy will per-
haps have new ballot boxes for North
ampton township in time for the Novem-
Der election. They are very badly need
ed. The combinations on the present
ones cannot be used, and some of the
boxes cannot be locked. They do not
register and many of the tickets are torn
by the milling machine.
Miss HendrIckson, who lives at No. 210
Broad street, is greatly exercised over
the habit which several boys have in
running through the hedge on her lot
next to the residence of Harry Sherman
She claims they have done considerable
damage, and she has been trying for the
past six months to get lawyer or justice
to bring suit against them but without
success.
Walter T. Stewart, while riding his BIZ
cycle through Hainesport last week, ran
over chicken and was thrown to the
ground. Both rims of his wheel were
broken, his hand was cut and his trousers
were torn. Walter gathered up the debris
and walked home. This proved that he
is not chicken-hearted. If he had been
he never would have repaired the bicycle
path at such loss to his own pocketbook.
In Camden, yesterday, Judge Garrison
heard argument in the matter of the rule
to show cause why writ of certiorari
should not be allowed in the case of
Stewart VS.. the Burlington County Board
of Freeholders, to review the action of
the Board in awarding the contract for
the construction of new stone road be-
tween Riverton and Riverside to W. F.
Stanley, on the ground that he was not
the lowest bidder. The writ was allowed.
The following books haye been added
to the circulating library of the Burling-
ton County Lyceum of History and Nat
ural Science: Travels in West Africa :;
Life, Letters and Diary of Lucy Larcom !;
Literary History of the Revolution; Life
of Charles Dickens; The Christian; Story
of the Indian Meeting; From a Girls
Point of View; History of Our Own
Times from 1888 to the Diamond Jubilee !;
Ulysses S. Grant and the Period of Ma
tlonal Preservation and Reconstruction :;
Private Life of the Queen Naval His
tory of the United States. The library is
now open from two o'clock until FIVE in
the afternoon.
Albert L. Haines, of Vlncentown, has
been released from the Camden Jail,
where he has spent one year for refusing
to support his wife, after giving 81, 1000
bail to insure against his leaving the state.
He was placed in Jail for refusing to COM
ply with decree of the chancery court
In 1886, when Mrs. Haines secured de-
cree against her husband, he was ordered
to pay her weekly allowance, but in
stead of doing this he left the state and
renamed away for ten years. Upon his
return, thinking the matter had blown
over, he returned and was captured in
Camden. Haines recently applied for his
release. claiming that his health was fail
ing.
The election officers start out to-day to
make their yearly canYass of voters, and
those who feel interested in the fall cleo
ton should give this matter some atten-
ton. Every voter owes it as a duty to
himself to see that his name is properly
recorded on the registry list, as the can
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