The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-01-04

at Bridgeboro on February 4.
d Harry L. Warner is now travelling Fl
the Armour Packing Company.
n Communion services will be held in I'll
l. Presbyterian Church next Sunday morl
ing.
: The Mount Holly shoe shops wei
l. closed last week for the annual stoc
taking.
o The cigar store of Walter T. Stewal
Is was sold at public sale on Friday to Fran
Garbarino for 1886.
g Thomas Yates, of Tabernacle, lost
v COW last week, the animal having gorge
itself with turnips.
j. Robert S. GaskiIl witnessed the bicycl
r races in Madison Square Garden, Ne'
York City, on Saturday night.
: A chicken confined in corn stack a
It Edgewater Park, is said to have survives
Is days without food or water.
Edmund Darnell, of Mt. Laurel, ha
8 been appointed Commissioner of Deeds
vice Howard Darnell, deceased.
? Undertaken Morris 81. Keller, who re
' Gently injured his back while lifting
body, is able to get about without the u.s.
, OF his crutches.
! Anthony Bullock, prominent either
of Recklesstown, died Saturday of paral
ysis He was Sc years old and leaves {
wife and daughter.
f Mrs. Margaret Anderson, an aged lady
residing on Garden street, died on Thurs
day. The funeral was held yesterday II
the Baptist burying ground.
Lawyer Blanchard II. White has OBJ
tanned an absolute divorce for Mrs. Bessie
Bowker, of Tuckerton, from her husband
Stephen Bowker, of Pointyille.
Mrs Hannah Richardson. living oppo
site the fair grounds, died on Thursday
at the age of 80 years. The intermeni
took place at Bordentown on Saturday.
There was quite an audience at the St.
Paul's NJ. E. Church, on Thursday even
ing, to witness the washerwomen's con-
cert, given by members of the congrega-
ton.
Railroad employees detected two thieves
in the act of forcing an entrance into the
Mount Holly railroad station on Thurs
day night. The robbers made their es-
cape.
/ E. L. Prickett & 20. are putting in an
i Otto gasoline engine for the purpose OF
running their machinery by power. The
operators are much pleased over this i'm
proyement.
The medicine show that occupied the
opera house for two weeks failed to an
nounce the most popular fire company In
town as result of the contest for silver
ice pitcher.
The watch-night services in the Metho-
dist Church, on Friday evening, began at
$50, and a continuous service of song,
| md no a
dawn of the new year.
Mrs. Mary Borden has arranged to have
a new front put in her building on Main
street, occupied by Edward Smiths res
taurant This will make decided i'm
provement to the property.
Mrs. R. w. Deacon. who recently pur-
chased the Smalley farm on the South
Pemberton road at Sheriff's sale, has dis
posed of the same to Nathan W. Austin,
the tenant who has occupied the place
/ for % years.
| The men employed in the bottoming
4 department at Bowker's shoe factory, gave
their employer a handsome basket of
| fruit on Christmas. The ladies in the
fitting department presented Mrs. Bow
ker with beautiful tea set.
The officers of Good Will Lodge, No.
IA, A. o. U. W., will be installed this
evening, after which supper will be
served in the Masonic Temple A num-
Der of invited guests will be present in
addition to members of the lodge.
Sherman's Burlington studio will be
open hereafter on Mondays Thursdays
and Saturdays only. All coupons must
be presented before January 10, 1898.
Fine crayons and beautiful frames at re-
duced prices. Camden studio open every
day except Sunday.
Charles Msylor. of Juliustown, was
landed in Jail, on Thursday, FOR an offence
that should send him to state prison. He
| is charged with breaking into the barn of
Henry Ogles and killing a horse. Ed
ward Featherson has also been committed
as an accessory to the crime.
| A large retort at the Medford Glass
Works gave out on Tuesday, the break
allowing the molten liquid to run in all
directions. Quite number of hands will
be forced to idleness until the damage is
repaired. The building caught fire, but
the flames were promptly extiDguished.
There is talk of circulating a petition
asking the legislature to abolish state
prison labor. The leading industry at
Burlington is the shoe trade, and that
branch of business is likely to be in
creased in Mount Holly. Rodman W.
| Bowker says it is impossible for manufac-
turers to compete with the work of con-
victs.
Mount Holly Encampment, No. g.,
elected officers as follows Tuesday night
Chief Patriarch, Thomas G. Shinn; high
priest, Arthur Jones; senior warden, j.
Howard Pew; junior warden, George
Branin secretary, Hartman Baugh fnan-
cial secretary, John B. Herbert; treasurer,
| ]. Fred Laumaster; trustees, Horace
Cronk, Joseph G. Cowgirl and John B.
Herbert.
| Washington Council, No. 5, Jr. o. U. A.
NJ, elected the following officers Tuesday
night: Councillor, Atwell E. Wright; vice
councillor, j. Frank Scattergood assistant
recording secretary, Harry K. Hand con-
ductor, Sylvester Massey warden, George
J. Stead inside sentinel, Shreve Lippin-
colt; outside sentinel, Clifford R. Bower
trustee, Fred W. Schleicher; represents
tive to state council, Harry Hawkins, Jr.
Nonpareil Lodge, No. %, l. O. M, elect
ed the following officers Tuesday night
Senior Master, ]. Howard Applegate; w.
M, Samuel Worlin; ]. NJ, Henry s.
Brown; recording secretary, Harley G.
Brown; financial secretary, Jesse Wood.
ruff treasurer, Maurice Rowan chaplain,
Frank Dennis; conductor, Samuel B,
Mason; representative to grand lodge
Benjamin G. Gauntt; trustees, George Il.
Peak, Samuel Worlin, Frank Dennis.
The large sum of money which the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company pays
monthly to its employees in Mount Holly
is matter that is very little thought of
On January II there will be paid to the
persons here who are classed with the
four section gangs, the sum of over So, 500
The amount that will be paid to the en-
gineers, fremeD, conductors brakemen
! those connected with the station, trolley
] road, and others, will swell the tota
amount to over $6.000 making yearly
disbursement in this town of abou
$75, 900. These figures are under rather
than above the actual sum.
1t is generally thought by those WHIT
have occasion to use the owl line that i
is the slowest train on the railroad but
on the contrary, 1t is the fastest of any
train running between Camden and Noun
Holly, none excepted, considering all thu
circumstances. This can be figured on
by reference to the time table. The ow
train makes 10 stops and covers the dis
lance from Camden in As minutes.
leaves Philadelphia at 11.45 P. NJ, and ar
rives here at PA A. NJ, eleven minute
being consumed in crossing the river
8 With all these stops the train makes tn
8 trip from Philadelphia in four minute
3 less than one hour. The latter gain is be
I cause the engineer is not confined strictl,
3 to the running schedule at that hour @
the night on account of its being the las
train. Comparing the number of stops