The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-04-13

| Bicycles are now being carried free By
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
John D. Clevenger will conduct services
4.15.
Joseph Haines, Jr., of Masonville, il
very i'll at his home with softening of the
brain.
| A neat stone curb has been laid in front
of ST. Andrews burying ground on Pine
street.
A square piano, in good condition, is
offered for sale by the directors of the Y.
M. e. A.
T. Lacey Atkins, of the township COM
mittee, has been made chief of police and
street supervisor,
William H. Cook, of CookstoWn, has
been granted a pension. Blanchard H.
Waite was his attorney.
Contractor Winfield S. Gale will do the
mason work on some of the cottages to be
erected at Sea Side Park.
Cards are out for reception on the 21st
to be given by Mrs. R. B. Sailer, at her
residence on Main street.
Col. Nathan Haines, of Burlington, has
been appointed trustee of the Masonic
Cards have been issued for the marriage
of James Hoffman and Miss Maggie
Meaney, of Jobstown, for April %.
The pavement around the Good Intent
engine house is to be relaid in few days
and fence erected around the yard.
John Rokenb augh has improved the in
terror of the Orthodox meeting house, on
Brainard street, with new wall paper.
There are now two Chinese laundries in
town, one having been opened next to
Gauntt's butcher shop on Main street.
A meeting of the Women's Foreign
Missionary Society will be held in the
Presbyterian Church tomorrow after
noon.
On the application of counsel for Maria
Althouse, William P. Fluck has been APP
pointed receiver for John Althouse, a coal
and lumber dealer of Palmyra.
The trustees of the Palmyra Methodist
Episcopal Church have elected Levi Clark
president, E. Fl. Pancoast, treasurer, and
Durham r. Stowell, secretary.
Charles K. Vansciver and William s.
Marter have been elected trustees of the
Coopertown Church and cemetery, vice
Robert Vansciver and Abraham Perkins,
deceased.
About SIX months since Charles Ross,
colored man from Mount Laurel, COM
mitted an assault upon Mary Brown, a
girl Is years old. He left the state. On
Tuesday Ross was arrested in Media, Pa,
and will be brought to Burlington county
for trial.
Upon the grave of Harry Dobbins, the
young man who was brought from Morris
town and inferred in the Mount Holly
cemetery, on Saturday, were flowers be-
stow in great profusion, the like of
which was scarcely ever before witnessed
in this town.
The following officers were elected by
the Good Intent Banjo, Mandolin and
Guitar Club last evening: President. B.
Frank Stidfole; Vice President, Walter
7. Stewart; Secretary, Lorenzo L. Sapp !;
Treasurer and Musical Instructor, Ernest
D. Holeman.
The lawyers that represented the heirs
in the Smith will case held meeting in
Philadelphia on Friday. Those present
were Messrs. Parker, Grey and Gaskill,
of New Jersey O'Berne, of Georgia, and
johnson, of Vermont. The final settle
ment of the estate was the subject under
discussion.
During the sale of stock of the II. B.
Smith Machine Company, on Saturday,
at the Washington House, Capt. Bennett.
the auctioneer, was crying. "Sixty-eight !
Sixty -eight-and-a-halfP p just then Joseph
Gibson revolved around in his easy going
way and remarked, "Oh, dear, guess I'll
get drink of water The Captain thought
this remark was new bid and immedia-
tely cried out, "Sixty -eight-and -a-quar-
ter !" but he was called down.