The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-05-11
TUESDAY, MAY IL. 1897.
sHERIEE,s SALES
LOCAL NEWS.


carpet mill fire.
Craig Moffett is dispensing soda water
from new fountain.
Screen doors have been placed to the
entrance of the Jail.
The stone steps to the entrance of st.
Andrews Church we're reset yesterday.
The ordinance of baptism was observed
at the Baptist Church on Sunday evening.
The electric light company placed two
more new arc lamps on Main street, on
Thursday.
Ernest D. Holeman and Frank S.
Davis rode to Philadelphia on tandem
bicycle yesterday.
Mrs. John L. Severns was successfully
operated on last week in a Philadelphia
hospital for the removal of cancer.
The Mount Holly Herald appeared In q
new dress of type, on Friday, which
greatly improves the appearance OF that
paper.
William L. Powell, who has been in a
Trenton hospital for some time, stopped
in town yesterday while on his way to
Harrisburg, Pa.
The loss in closing up the Y. M. G. A.
rooms is keenly felt by many of the youne
men about town who passed most of their
evenings there.
Quite number of people from Mount
Holly went to Torresdale, on Sunday, to
see the United States soldiers who were
encamped there.
The birthday social, held in the Pres
byterian Church, on Tuesday evening, fol
the benefit of the famine stricken people
of India, netted $70.84.
BENJAMIN Stratton, who formerly kept
a jewelry store in Mount Holly. died al
the hospital early on Thursday morning.
He was rs years of age.
Howard Cooper has gone to the Isthmus
of Panama, where he has, with a
number of others. secured employment
as telegraph operator.
William T. Harding has made a won.
derful improvement in the appearance oil
his property on Union street, since erect
ing neat iron fence in front of his pretty
yard.
The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Camden and Burlington Coun.
ty Railroad Com pany was held on Satur.
day, and the old board of directors was
reelected.
Floyd Townsend, of Columbus, son Of
ex-Sheriff William A. Townsend, had
the middle finger of his right hand badly
injured last week by getting it caught in
the cogs of a corn cutter.
Anderson & Son are placing a brick
walk in front of their canning factory on
Water street. While carting sand there,
on Friday, a horse belonging to Mrs.
Charles F. Hulme fell dead.
Major Hilton, the noted temperance
evangelist from California, will give q
Bible reading in the Methodist Church on
Thursday afternoon and also a lecture at
the same place in the evening.
Elwood Stead has been awarded the
contract to place the roof on the new fac
tory being erected BY John A. Bidwell.
The building is fast nearing completion,
and this new industry will soon be in OPP
Grafton.
The stone road on upper Main street
will soon receive its top dressing The
South Pemberton road is getting in poor
condition again and needs rolling. Horses
are easily crippled by the large quantity
of loose stones lying on the road bed
The police of the Mount Holly fire de-
partment met on Thursday evening and
elected these officers President and chief
Charles Bennett; secretary, Benjamin
Gauntt; LIST lieutenant, William Nj. Reeves
I'd lieutenant, John Throckmorton, Sr.
Sd lieutenant, George Gaun.
Evans II. Tomlinson has added de
cided improvement to his property 0uI
Garden street. A neat iron fence hal
been put up fronting the lot which ex
tends from the dwelling house to G. B
Hornor's land A wide sidewalk has beer
made and number of trees set out.
Sheriff Fleetwood, on Saturday, sole
several lots of land in PALMYRA, belong
ing to J. t. Hotchkiss, to Elizabeth Fl
Parry, for $500; property of John McFar
land, Mount Holly, to Peoples Building
and Loan Association. $500 house anC
lot of William B. Shamalia, Burlington
to Firman Dubell, $50.
Helen, oldest daughter of Jere III. Col
kit, died last evening at the home of hel
grandfather, E. B. Brown, at Moorestown
She had not been well, but went tt
Moorestown on Saturday, in apparently
good spirits. Yesterday she was takeI
worse, had commissions, and died las
night. Shewas IL years of age.
On Tuesday next Horace Cronk and hi
daughter Ethel will leave for the South
on pleasure trip. They will accompany
the annual excursion of the New Jersey
Coal Exchange. The points to be visited
are Old Point Comfort, Fortress Monroe
Richmond, Washington, and notable 10
calities in that neighborhood.
Clinton D. Mathis, of New Gretna, wal
brought to Jail early yesterday morning
by Constable Jesse French, on charge o
malicious mischief, the young man havin,
amused himself by breaking windows
with club. The party started to Mount
Holly on Sunday night at o'clock, arriv
ing here yesterday morning at $50.
The township overseer of roads ha
been making decided improvement OF
Union street. That thoroughfare has beer
plowed up and scraped. 1t has beer
raised in the centre and now looks mucl
better than 1T did before. 1t could b
still further improved by rolling. New
side crossings are to be put in at the alley
adjoining the properties of William
Wright and G. E. Hendrickson.
The Burlington County Hotel-keepers
Protection Association held its annus
meeting in Mount Holly, on Friday, ant
elected the following officers President
Samuel s. Dagger, Moorestown vic
pres ident, Rudolph F. Stecher, Riverside
financial secretary. Charles G. Coles, Moor
estown; treasurer, Walter S. Davis, iLum
berton. Lawyer Blanchard Fl. White, wa
appointed recording secretary.
II is said protest has been filed by tn
property owners against the final pay
ment of the amount due the contractor
on the Vincentown stone road, on tn
ground that the road has been improperl
constructed. From the condition of tn
road within the past three weeks AM
from the reports that are in circulation
regarding its construction the protest
in order and should be pushed vigorously
Maggie Mulligan, of Medford, on Wed
nesday afternoon went to Camden, me
with some friends and succeeded in gel
ting gloriously drunk. She was pickle
up by Officer Fitzsimmons and sent t
the hall. Later in the day her husband
Christopher, evidently started out to loo
for her and fell in with the same friends
as he was picked up at l o'clock in tn
morning by Officer Jackson and also land
ed in the hall. At the Mayors hearln
they were each sentenced to ten days.
One of the most admired spots in TIL
neighborhood during the past month ha
been the flower bed in front of the HON
of Caleb s. Ridgway, in Lumbertor
where a bed of red and white tulips hs
attracted much attention. The beauty {
the flowers has faded and they will 500
be removed to make room for the priz
design that is soon to be set out, tn
plants for which are being nurtured /
Mr.. Ridgway's green house. 1t will RI
quire over 1900 plants to complete th
bed.
John Ford and Miss Leanora Clowse
both of Green Bank, went to Egg HarbC
city, Tuesday morning, ostensibly to b
married. Ford walked about the tow
with his young intended bride all tn