The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-19
,HE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1897.
LOCAL NEWS.

Miss May Boyce is now employed in tn
millinery store Of j. Howard Shinu.
Charles Wiedmayer will have sale o
household goods on Wednesday of mex
week.
The abattoir on Madison avenue hal
been newly lettered by George F. Pine
of N ewark.
Daniel Eddleman has been appointed
foreman of the Mount Holly Shoe Com
pany's shop.
Daniel Endicott, father of Franklin P
Endicott died at Lumberton, on Tuesday
in his oath year.
Oliver G. Reeve, of Mount Holly, dice
at the National Soldiers Home, Dayton
Ohio, on Friday.
The Burlington County Medical Society
will hold its regular quarterly meeting al
Burlington to-day.
Anderson & Son are again putting uE
their choice brand of baked beans at theil
canning factory on Water street.
The well known variety of sweet pota
toes raised by John 7. Nippius, are now
being stored in many cellars about town
Somebody stole J. c. Cowgilps wheel
barrow last week, 80 he bought horse
and wagon with which to deliver grocer.
les.
Officer Denness cleared soap peddler
out of town on Wednesday, because he
refused to take out license amounting to
1915.
Martha E. Atkinson, of Stanwick, ID
one of the incorporators of the Plttsburp
and Philadelphia Oil Refining Company
organized last week.
Harvey Burtis is utilizing his organ
boxes for advertising purposes about
town. They have been painted and at
tractively lettered.
Surrogate Klrkbride has granted letters
testamentary. under the will of Mary s.
Garrett, deceased, of Palmyra, to James
G. Garrett, executor.
The Bell telephone was placed in ope-
ration at the county clerks Office yester-
day. A very neat booth has been erected
for use of patrons.
The work of erecting the new telephone
line will soon be commenced. The poles
are now being delivered by Charles Car
penter, of Pemberton.
On Wednesday and Thursday of next
week the ladies of st. Andrews Church
will give supper in the gymnasium at
the rear of the church.
A lunch box social will be held on
Tuesday evening, October 26, by members
of Nonpareil Lodge, No. 25, 1. o. M, in
their hall in the Dill building.
John Colkitt, who has been assistant
postmaster at Seattle, Washington, for a
number of years, is visiting his sister,
Elizabeth Woolman, at Masonville.
Thursday was the foftieth anniversary
of the marriage of Mr.. and Mrs Frank
lin B. Lewis, and the event was celebrat-
ed by family gathering in the evening
James Johnson, the railroad conductor
living on Madison avenue, who has been
30 dangerously ill for several months, is
now able to get down town on pleasant
days.
James Stewart, who has been very low
with Bright's disease and diphtheria, has
improved wonderfully within the past few
days, and 1t is thought he will soon be
able to get about again.
st. Andrews church at Jobstown was
the scene of a pretty wedding on We'd
nesday morning. when Miss Mary Hoff-
man was married to Michael Beakey, of
Berwin, Pa, by Rev. Father Burk.
A select social for the benefit of the
Sacred Heart Church, will be given in st.
Mary's hall, West Washington street, Sat
urday evening, October 80, under the
supervision of Miss Mary A. Ryan.
A colored man su spected of burning the
farm buildings and poisoning the horses
of David Hanee. of Lewistown, a few
weeks ago, has been arrested at Osborne
yille, Pa, and is held for Identification by
Mr.. Hance.
During the past week detectives of the
Pennsylvania Railroad have received a
clue as to who has been stealing so much
wire from along the trolley road, and it is
not improbable that an arrest will soon
be made.
AS Mrs. Robert Yeates, of Tabernacle,
was going down cellar recently, cat ran
under her feet which caused her to fall all
the way to the bottom. Her right arm
was broken and dislocated at the elbow,
and she received two severe cuts on her
forehead.
William Smith was arrested at Burling-
ton on Thursday on bench warrant. He
was out on bail to appear at court for
stealing tomatoes at Willingboro. Fail
ing to appear, he was captured and land
ed in Jail by Deputy Sheriff Joseph B.
Fleetwood
The ladies of Hainesport will give an
oyster supper on Saturday evening, Octo-
Der 23d, in the hall at that place. The
proceeds will be for the benefit of the
Burlington County Hospital. Supper will
be served for 35 cents Go and aid a
worthy object.
When the Good Intent engine became
disabled the water gauge on the boiler
was blown out, and piece of the broken
glass struck Frank W. Cain in the face,
cuttings painful wound. w. Scott Mat
lack. who was standing nearby, had his
leg scalded by escaping steam.
List of letters remaining uncalled for at
the post-ofHce on October Is: Mrs. Marga-
ret Anderson, Miss Maude Barnes, Miss
Susie Bunting, Excelsior Portrait Com
pany, Charles Flora. Michael Gelcrest,
Henry McGuise, Miss Bessie A. Smith,
Herman Lankield; postals, r. L. Clark.
Michael Carey, the Burlington county
farmer who blocked traffic on the Market
street line of the Camden and Suburban
Railway in order to collect an alleged
claim of Sal for the death of a mule, has
abandoned those tactics and will endeav.
or to recover the amount in an action al
law.
A lot of canned goods were shipped
from Jones canning factory to Phiadel-
phia, on Thursday, under much difficult
ty. The goods were sent away on two
fiat boats that were polea up the creek
Much time was spent in the endeavor tc