The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-04-06
LOCAL NEWS.

The afternoon session of the public
school now begins at 2 o'clock and con
tinues until 4.
Bert Donnelly and Harvey Thomas are
employed in the shoe cutting department
at the state prison.
Mrs. Joseph Buchanan, formerly o.
Mount Holly, is seriously ill at her resi-
dence in Brooklyn.
William Gurdon, of Jobstown, last
week shot an eagle that measured five
feet from tip to tip.
Jonathan Barnes, of Green street, was
committed to Jail last week for abusing
his wife and children.
Eugene L. Burns entertained number
of his friends, on Thursday evening, al
his home on Union street.
The Mount Holly board of trade will be
recognized at public meeting at the
court house tomorrow evening.
Company f will participate in the
parade in New York on April 81, at the
dedication of the Grant monument.
The birthday social in the NJ E. Church,
on Thursday evening, besides being u
very entertaining affair, netted $50.
Benjamin Dunn. survivor of the Next
can war, living at Browns Mills, has
been granted an increase of pension.
The Young Peoples Union of the Bap-
fist Church will give sociable in the
lecture room of the church this evening
Children at the public school are pre-
pairing programme of exercises for Ar
Dor day, which comes on Friday, April Is.
The Sunday Inquirer contained very
Vr0 nj r,f fl.f. Aon nf L. I1k<,
Richard b. Naylor, which is offered for
sale.
The police have been notified to be on
the lookout for bicyclers who ride too
fast on the streets. The practice is to be
stopped.
Mount Holly Lodge, No. IA, F. & A.
NJ, contemplates giving a reception and
banquet at the Temple on the evening of
April 22d.
The persons who robbed the store of
John B. Knight, at Bridgeboro, on March
20, were captured last Tuesday. They
were strangers.
Washington Council, Jr. o. u. A. M,
will meet on Tuesday evenings hereafter
instead of Wednesdays, on the third floor
of Red Mems hail.
Fish Warden Wise, on Friday, placed
large number of bass, pickerel and
perch in the Rancocas creek above the
Mount Holly dam.
The farm of Evans R. Tomlinsop, on
the Rancocas road, which was vacated by
Harry Dubell on the 25th ult., will be
farmed by William Streeker.
Abraham Perkins died near Beverly,
on Monday of last week. He was the
father of Rev. G. M. Perkins and of ex
Senator Mitchell B. Perkins.
President Mckinley yesterday sent to
the Senate the nomination of Thomas J.
Alcott, of Mount Holly, to be United
States Marshal for New Jersey.
Charles G. Keen, OF Mount Holly, grad
uated from the Williamson School Of Me-
chanical Trades, in Philadelphia, on Sat-
urday. He stood first in his class.
A fire was started in the woods at Bun
ker Hill, on Sunday, by some boys who
we're gathering arbutus. 1t was extin-
guished before much damage was done.
Rev. James P. Holden, pastor of ST.
Jerome's Church, Baltimore. Md, will
preach at the Sacred Heart Church, Wed
nesday evening, April 9TH. All are cor
daily invited.
A man living near Rancocas was ar
rested Saturday night by Officer Denness,
on a charge of having insulted some
ladies. He was discharged by Justice
Slack on account of the complainant be-
ing intoxicated.
The marriage of Charles E. Rogers and
Miss Katie E. Smith, daughter of Daniel
B. Smith, took place at the residence of
the brides parents, on Mill street, Sunday
evening. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. G. Fl. Pendleton.
Sheriff Fleetwood has seized the house
hold goods and other personal property of
Mrs. William L. Butterworth, at the Ar
cade hotel, and will sell at public sale on
Thursday. The seizure was made under
chattel mortgage held by Mrs. Emma H.
Cox.
Four persons were admitted to mem
bership in the Presbyterian Church on
Sunday. On Wednesday evening the Y
P. 8. q. f. will elect officers for the en-
suing six months, and on Thursday even.
ing the annual congregational meeting
will be held.
Blowing it's own trumpet" is not often
INDUCED in by THE News. We prefer
that others sound our praises, and the
solid array of advertisements in this
weeks issue is sufficient evidence that our
value as an advertising medium is ac-
knowledged by our merchants.
Thomas Barry, who keeps bottling es-
Enlistment at Birmingham, was arrested
Wednesday on complaint of Percival
Evan, who alleges that the defendant
sold two drinks of beer and a quart of
whiskey to boy living at Masonvllle
The case will be heard before Justice
Clevenger this evening.
The directors of the Burlington County
Agricultural Society, on Saturday, APP
pointed a committee to wait upon the
Camden Trust and Safe Deposit Company
in relation to their first mortgage. They
will report at a meeting to be held on
Thursday. William Thompson, of Penn
bertoD, will use the track for training
purposes this year.
There will be special election on Sep
TENDER %, for the adoption or rejection
of the Constitutional Amendments agreed
upon by the last Legislature. They are
the anti-gambling amendment, that per-
uniting women to vote at school cleo
tions, and prohibiting the Governor from
appointing, ad interim, any person whose
nomination the senate had rejected.
The tallow rending factory of John B.
Herbert, on the Smithville road, was Wis
tied by burglars on Thursday night and
about $50 worth of hides were stolen.
The thieves gained access to the building
by breaking a lock on the door. They
carried the plumber across the field to a
wagon, the tracks of which showed plain
1y that it came from and returned IL
Mount Holly.
Burglars entered the residence of John
d. Johnson, on Saturday night, by open
ing a window in the rear. They ran.
sacked the lower part of the house, but
stole nothing except the contents of q
child's bank, containing a few dollars
The house Is fitted with burglar alarms,
and while walking about the robbers rang
one of the bells, awakening the family
The burglars then fed.
The season of sports under the manage
ment of the Mount Holly Athletic Asso
cIation will open on May l. 1t is hoped
that the opening day will be clear anG
that the clubs will be greeted by large
attendance. A better article of ball will
be given this year than last, but it re
quires good gate receipts to keep tn,
sphere rolling. A number of dates bsv'
already been booked with the best club
in this section.
The rooms that have been occupied BY
the Young Mems Christian Association will
be closed this week and smaller quarter
will probably be secured in the Fall
This action is obligatory owing to lacl
of funds. The response to appeals for aiC
have not been as generous as desired
The directors hope that before next Fal
there will be an awakening to the fact thu
Association is worthy object upon which
to bestow gifts.
The notes given to aid the Burlington
County Agricultural Society were dis