The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-23

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Thomas Edwards, of Medford, is a sui
ferer from paralysis.
Edward Nippins is developing into
, speedy bicycle rider.
John M. Collins has accepted a position
. in New York printing house.
1t Is said there are nearly one hundred
and fifty vacant houses in Mount Holly.
The shad fishermen along the Delawar,
river will begin operations about April 10
New railroad ties have been distributed
along the trolley road between here ant
Burlington.
Rev. DR.. Crowell will conduct the ser
vice at the hospital on Sunday after
noon at 4.15.
The young men will haye an opportu
nifty TO catch on to the Heavenly Twins
in about week.
A sociable will be given in the lecture
room of the Baptist Church this evening,
by the B. Y. P. U.
A supper will be given in the parsonage
adjoining the Presbyterian Church, on
Friday and Saturday evenings.
Pictures of Jerome B. Grigg and Joshua
Matlack, Jr., of Mount Holly, appeared in
the Philadelphia Press on Sunday.
William Fenton, of Cookstown, and
Lydia Mutt, of WrightstowD, were re-
Gently married by Rev. J. R. Mason.
The annual meeting OF the Mount Hol-
ly Gas Light Company will be held at
zelley's Hotel, Monday morning, April s..
D. Budd Cole, of Lumberton, received
an order from Cleveland, o., few days
ago, for the balance of his 1896 crop of
cranberries.
Evangelist Johnson, of Parkerford, Pa,
is conducting revival services in the Bap-
fist Church at Vincentown with consider
able success.
Charles I'll. Crammer is now pushing
business with patent broom holder,
he having purchased the right for Bur-
lington county.
Father Leahy, of Swedesboro, deliver
ed an interesting sermon on st. Patrick's
day, Wednesday evening, in the Sacred
Heart Church.
Mount Holly Lodge, No. 10, A. o. G..
F., celebrated their twenty eighth ami
versary on Friday evening. There was a
good attendance and good time.
Amelia Holeman, widow of the late
Nathan Holeman, of Mount Holly, died
at Royersford, Pa, last Monday, and was
buried in the cemetery here on Friday.
Reserved seats are selling rapidly for
the concert by the Mount Holyoke Col
lege glee and banjo clubs at the opera
house next Monday evening. The pro-
gramme is frst-class.
The Northampton Board of Education
organized on Tuesday evening by electing
DIR. W. P. Melcher, president, and
Robert S. Gaskill, vice president No se-
lection was made for district clerk.
| The funeral of Joseph Jones, of Mount
Holly, who died at Atlantic City, took
place on Friday from the Friends meet
ing house, Coulter street, Germantown.
He was in the 18th year of his age.
Capt. Charles Parker, of the schooner
Lena A. Cotton, while lying at Fernando
ma, Florida, suddenly disappeared. Mr..
Parker resides at West Creek, and it is
thought he has met with foul play.
The Read monument was examined
and accepted by the committee on Thurs
day. The emblems of the Supreme and
Grand Lodges of the Knights of Pythias,
which have just been cut on the shaft,
are said to be an excellent piece of gran
lite carving.
Many wells were benefited by the
rains of last week. Tuesday and We'd
nesday were decidedly cool, the mercury
getting as low as twenty degrees. Rain
and dampness prevailed until Sunday,
which was clear and warm, and a fit
ting day for the entering of spring wealth
er. Yesterday was warm and pleasant.
On Saturday Sheriff Fleetwood sold the
| following property The Horace B. Lip
pincott farm of SO acres, in Westampton
township, to Charles Holzbaur, for $4,
$500; land of Robert NJ Miller, in
Chester township, to Susan Morrison, for
500; land of Mary E. Gilbert, in Ches-
ter6eld township, to Holmes V. Chafey,
for 500.
| Charles A. Braddock, of VincentowD,
has brought suit against the Burlington
County Agricultural Society to recover
800, the amount of note which he had
given to help tide the society over its f.
nancial troubles He claims that the So
ciety failed in its agreement to pay him
out of the first proceeds taken in at the
last fair, but used the money to pay the
speed premiums
The annual school meeting for Spring
field township was held at Jobstown
| Tuesday afternoon. W. S. Colby, ]. B.
Copeland and Jacob Harker were elected
members of the board of education to
serve three years. Walter Cox was elect
ed for one yesr to fill the unexpired
term of Samuel Citizens, deceased. The
board organized by electing Samuel S.
Fort, president; George w. Lundy, dis
trict clerk. An appropriation of $500 was
voted by small majority.
The Hills divorce case had an additional
sensation last week. While Mrs. Hills was
in Chester attending to some matters con-
nected with the trial, her husband, Rev.
G. Heathcoate Hills, went to New York,
and took possession of one of the children.
When be returned to Chester he was met
by Mrs. Hills, who demanded the child
and quite scene ensued, and a police
man was called upon to interfere. The
mother regained the child and took hel
back to New York.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Manahawkin and Long Beach
Transportation Company was held last
week at Camden. The following officers
were elected: President, George Pfeiffer
Jr.; vice president, Thomas Callahan
secretary and treasurer, Francis Fenni
more general manager, Isaac A. Lee; di-
rectors, William Henry Sayen, Benjamin
T. Archer. William ]. Thompson and H
Newell. The company has placed an or
der at the Pennsylvania Railroad shop al
Pavonla for an improved locomotive, 9
passenger coach and new mail and bag.