The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-02-15

4 There will be session of court next
Saturday.
Upholstaring, furniture repairing and
polishing at F. Kerk's, 81 Mill street.
The supper given by the ladies of the
Methodist Church, last week, Melted $167.
The proposed stone road from George
town to Burlington was surveyed last
week.
The Gas Company has placed light of
considerable power on West Washing
ton street.
W. @. Shinn is attending to business
again, after suffering considerably from
heart trouble.
not forgotten yesterday in the distribu-
ton of valentines.
Walter Forker was arrested yesterday
on charge of assaulting Joseph Peak, Jr.
He was held under $50 bail.
The Wilson club gave a successful en-
tertalnment on Thursday evening in the
| n.
There was large turnout on Saturday
evening to the supper given by the ladies
of Logan Circle in the Arcade hall.
The charity ball will be held in the
opera house next Friday night. 1t will be
up to its usual standard of excellence.
The subscriber, having rented his farm,
near Columbus, will have large public
sale on or about March 10. E. A. Rock
hill. 3t*
| One hundred and seven new books have
been added to the Presbyterian Sunday
School library, which is in charge of ].
Sexton Folwell.
| Phil Karg, on King street. has only
| frst-class groceries and provisions and
his prices are extremely low. Also dry
goods at city prices.
Those members OF the Junior Mechan-
| les who have received the Oriental
degree, will sit down to a supper on Tues
day evening, March l.
| Mcpherson, Willard & Co.'s steam
forge, at White Hill, has received an or
der to construct shafts, cranks and wrist
pins for the Willamette Iron Works, at
Portland, Oregon.
Those summoned as petit Jurors at
Trenton from this vicinity are Patrick Mar
tin and Joseph Conklin, Bordentown;
| William q. VanHorn, New Egypt; w. G.
Conrad, Barneget.
| The Vacuum Gas Engine and Power
60. will place dynamo in its works on
Church street, to be run by one of its gas
engines. A gas pipe Is being ran into the
works from the street main.
Farmers are somewhat worried at Vim
centown over malady that is proving
| fatal to horses. A number of animals
are Frustrated, and the disease seems to
battle the skill of veterinarians.
The thirty-frst annual convention of
the grand lodge, Knights of Pythias,
will convene in the Masonic Temple at
Trenton, tomorrow. Edward S. Troth
represents New Jersey Lodge, No. l, of
Mount Holly.
! An attraction for Washington's birthday
that will bring out all of the guessers will
be the killing of hog at the Arcade
Hotel yard, Mount Holly. The animal is
the prize porker Dan, raised at Lumber
ton by William Fl. Lewis.
A special trolley will leave Burlington
at 2.30 A. NJ, Saturday, to accommodate
those who desire to attend the ball of
Pier 4 Social, which takes place on Friday
evening. The grand march will begin at
8 o'clock. Admission 25 cents.
A small unoccupied house belonging to
Allen B. Shinn, at Mansfield Square, near
Bordentown, was destroyed by fire at an
early hour on Wednesday morning. 1t
is supposed it originated by tramps
kindling fire in it. The loss is trifing.
W. Budd Norcross intends to ship large
quantities of moulding sand this year. He
acquired for this purpose the property of
the Rancocas Gravel Company and the
Lydia Amos farm, near Hainesport. EN-
ployment will be given to large number
of men.
The wife of George Bell, living near
Archertown, small hamlet about two
miles from New Egypt, made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to take her life Sunday,
by taking paris green. Through the ef-
forts of DIR. c. T. Woodward she may re-
cover. Family troubles are assigned as
the cause for the act.
A shooting contest at live pigeons took
place at Florence, Thursday, between
Isaac Budd, of Pemberton, Charles ZWir-
lein, of Yardville, and William Widmann,
of Trenton. 1t was three-cornered
match, at $50 corner. 1t was won by
Zwirlein killed %; Budd, 10; Wild
10.
The question is often asked, when
should glasses be worn? To this the answer
should be. that as soon as discomfort arises
for need of them, they should be adopted
If your eyes are causing you anxiety, or if
uloNnas Won ORC Woo inO arc not cuifad m
your eyes, call on Leech, Stiles & Co.'s eye
specialist, who will be at the w. c. T. U.
rooms, Wednesday, February 10th, from
$50 A. M. to 4 P. M. Examination
free.
Philip Cline, one of the best-known
members of the New Jersey Conference,
and one of the Oldest ministers, in point
of service, in the Methodist Episcopal
Church of Southern New Jersey, died sud-
denly at his residence at Wenonah, Thurs
day. Mr.. Cline VAS admitted to the New
Jersey Conference in 1850, and has filled
number of important pastorates in the
Conference. He was stationed at Mount
Holly in the years 1873 and 1874, and at
Pemberton the two previous years.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Manahawken and Long Beach Rail
road Company was held on Tuesday, and
the following board of directors was
elected: George Pfeifer, Jr., w. j.
Thompson, B. F. Archer A. Hugg, Henry
Z. Synen, Thomas Callahan, l. A. Lee
and Francis Fennimore. The board Or
ganized by the election of these officers
President, George Pfeiffer, Jr. vice presi-
dent, Thomas Callahan secretary and
treasurer, Francis Fennimore general
manager Isaac A. Lee.
The improvements now being made by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at
Market street wharf, Philadelphia, will
include a transfer of the ferries. For
years the boats from the two ferries have
had to cross each others course, as those
which landed at Market street, started
from the south slip, on the other side,
and those for Federal side from the north
slip. In the future, after the improve
ments are completed, the Market street
boats will 90 out from the north slip and
the Federal street, or train boats, from
the south slip. Application to make this
transfer was made Thursday to Philadel-
phia Councils Committee on City Proper
ty. 1t was promptly approved.
Company wants to have an armory
erected on the county property in the
rear of the Jail, and to this end permission
from the freeholders will be asked. An
excellent drill loom could be erected
there, and we hope the project will be
carried through. as the company needs
new quarters bad enough. 1t would be a
make good idea in the event of success, to
the building two stories high. Company A.,
there, and at Burlington, rents the rink