The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-05-04
A NEWS.

b~ook-keeper at C. B. Parsons meat mar
ket.
The household goods of the late Eliza
beth A. Taylor, 1874 Cherry street, will b.
sold tomorrow at public sale.
Edward Reynolds, son of Alfred J. Rey
nolds, is now employed in the supervis
or's Office at the railroad station.
Undertaken Morris H. Keller has i'm
proved the front doors of his residence BY
exchanging the wooden panels for glass
Mrs. John c. Atkinson, mother of Will
liam Atkinson, the grocer, died at Burling
ton, on Saturday, after a lingering illness
Iyins Davis died at his home on But
tonwood street, on Thursday, in the 75tf
year of his age. He had been sick somt
time.
The organization of the Daughters o
America will be perfected at a meeting tc
be held in Red Mems Hall tomorrow
evening.
The Camden Safe Deposit and Trus
Company has begun force losure proceed
ings against the Burlington County Ag
ricultural Society.
Since competition began among tn,
Cinnamon on Main street, the proprietor
of both laundries are now handing GU
cigars to their customers.
The many friends of Mrs. Octavius Per
enchief and daughters will regret to learr
that they have decided to leave Noun
Holly and move to California.
John w. Bodine, station master at the
P. R. R. depot in Camden, has beer
elected a member of the council in tina
city, vice Aaron s. Helms, deceased.
Samuel F. Sapp's ground hog escaped
from its cage, on Sunday afternoon, and
the pesky little animal gave the neighbort
quite a chase before he was captured.
Chas. M. Sloan is placing a new foo r in
his Office on Main street, next to the
Union bank. He will make several other
improvements prior TO his occupancy.
A number of new arc lights are to be
placed throughout the town In the neal
future. 1t is proposed to place them at
the intersection of the various streets.
A knife used IN a dried beef chopper
fell upon the head of John w. Taylor, the
Washington street grocer, on Saturday,
and inflicted a very painful scalp wound.
On Saturday Sheriff Fleetwood sold a
house and lot belonging to Thomas w.
Nippins, of Mount Holly, to the Mount
Holly Building and Loan Association for
$453.
Rev. B. d. Hahn, of Springfield, Mass,
will deliver a lecture In the Baptist
Church, this evening, at s o'clock. Sub
ject Humming Birds. Silver offering at
the door.
Rev. J. FL. Durham, in his sermon Sun
day evening on the famine in India,
showed that a contribution of two cents
a day would keep a person there from
starving.
James Comly's new steam launch has
arrived and 1t has found a snug harbor on
the creek. The trial trips have resulted
satisfactorily and now a programme of
pleasure is being arranged.
A test will probably be made in the
near future to ascertain whether the new
water main on Madison avenue can fur
nish sufficient water to operate both
afo m orc NJ tho conoo f;roa
The directors of the Burlington County
Agricultural Society held a meeting on
Saturday afternoon. About the only bus
mess transacted was a special call for the
note signers to meet on the 18th inst.
The rain which fell the past two days
has extingulshed the forest fires which
were burning In various parts of the
county last week, and has also been of
great benefit to vegetation of all kinds.
Last week Judson Gaskill, the Garden
street carriage manufacturer, sold nine
buggies which he is advertising in another
column of THE News. Mr.. Gaskill attrib-
utes the majority of these sales to this
advertisement.
Prof. Frank Parsons has returned to
Mount Holly for a vacation. He uses a
cane in walking. Just before leaving
Boston, the professor was in a street car
which gave a sudden lurch and the heel
of a 250 Id. man came down on Prot. Par
sons toe.
Samuel Lee has transferred his bust
ness on West Washington street to his
son. Since returning from Trenton Mr..
Lee and his wife, with whom he has not
lived for a number of years, have become
~reconciled and they are now living to-
gether.
The strawberry festival of the Good In
tent Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Club
will be held OF Friday and Saturday even
ings. Everyone knows the reputation of
the company in this line and a pleasant
evening may be spent with plenty of good
things TO eat. Music will be furnished
each evening.
Mrs. William Dayton Roberts, wife of
the pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, Camden, died Saturday after
noon after a lingering illness. Mrs. Rob-
erts was widely acquainted outside of the
church, both in Camden and in the state.
She was much beloved by the large con-
gregation, owing TO her deep love for
church work and for all things that bene-
flied the church and its congregation.
At the annual meeting of the Baptist
Church, held last evening, the following Of
ficers were elected: Clerk Samuel Borden /;
Treasurer, George Stead Pew Collector,
jeremiah Colkitt; Envelope Collector,
Mrs. George Moore Trustees, Joseph
Dudley, J. Edward Worrell, ]. S. Baugh,
]. Harvey Gaskill. Samuel A. Atkinson,
t. Clifford Keller, S. Budd Norcross /;
Deacons, T. Walter BortoD, Joseph W.
Colkitt, Jervis S. Zelley, Elmer J. Shinn /;
Chairman Music Committee, J.. Smalley
Baugh.
Contractor W. S. Gale and a force of
men haYe put in a new culvert at Union
and Buttonwood streets during the past
week. The entire corner has been raised
and the change is a decided improvement.
The township will put down a new walk
from Colkitt's to Wyllie's, and it is the
intention to pillow up Union street from
this new culyert clear to the Ashhurst
woods. Buttonwood street is to receive
some attention. The center of the road