The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-01-25
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granted widows pension.
/, A colored lodge of the Knights of Pyth
las is soon to be installed at Masonville.
q Daniel o. Lippincott was unfortunate il
# having toe mashed at the Risdon foun
dry last week.
Freebooter Edward Colby has an.
( nounced himself candidate for re-elec-
ton this spring.
A kid glove that was picked up on the
street is awaiting an owner at Justice
Laumaster's Office.
!. G. W. Owen has been confined to the
house for over four weeks with throat
and lung difficulty.
The quarterly business meeting of the
Baptist Church will be held on Monday
evening, February 9TH.
Painter Fred DAM has artistically dec
GRATED the new front of Edward Smiths
restaurant, on Main street.
Walter Sherman is still serving his
customers with tea and coffee. He has
not sold his route, as was reported
The Burlington County Publishing Com
pany will hold its annual meeting at Ben
jamin W. Zelleys hotel, on Tuesday next.
Harold, son of County Clerk William
Worrell, has been confined to the house
the past few days with an attack of the
measles.
/ Phil Karg, on King street, has only
6rst-class groceries and provisions and
his prices are extremely low. Also dry
goods at city prices.
Arthur E. Badminton, of Philadelphia,
son of Job Badminton, who formerly re-
sided in Mount Holly, was buried We'd
nesday in the Brotherhood cemetery.
John Atkins was engaged last week
in scraping some Of the mud from the
stone road on upper Main street. Yester-
day he was engaged in cleaning lower
Main street.
Quite a number of conversions have
been secured in Mount Holly during the
present winter as result of the special
revival meetings that have been held in
the various churches.
The monthly missionary meeting of the
Christian Endeavor Society of the Pres
byterian Church will be held on Friday
evening. The leaders will be Miss Mary
Folwell and William Stackhouse.
Miss Laura Fenimore entertained
number of friends at her home on We'd
nesday evening at progressive euchre, and
on Friday evening Miss Fenimore enter
tanned guests at progressive hearts
The collection taken in the Methodist
Sunday school on Sunday, in aid of Mrs.
William Murdoch, amounted to about So.
Several classes are yet to be heard from
and it is thought the amount will exceed
$40.
The little girl who is at the Burlington
county hospitall with bullet in her head,
is to be taken to Riverside, for the pur-
pose of having the location of the bullet
determined by X rays. DR.. Small, of that
place. has the apparatus for such trials
The entertainment to be given by the
well. known comedian, Frank Comfy. in
the opera house, on Monday and Tuesday
evenings next, for the benefit of the pub
lie school library fund, should be we'll at
tended. The object is worthy one and
snug sum should be realized
On Tuesday afternoon Constable Clay
poole went to Columbus and served a sum-
mons on Jeremiah Orr, harness maker,
occupying house belonging to Joseph S.
| Gibson, to show cause why he should not
vacate the premises. Orr promised his
landlord set of harness to pay for the
back rent. but as they did not materialize
the papers were issued.
A colored man found wedged between
the station platform and railroad track at
Edgewater Park, on Tuesday morning,
was taken to the Cooper Hospital. at Cam
den, where he died from bis injuries dur
ing the evening. The remains were iden-
tilted as those of Samuel Johnson, of Bev-
erly, and just how the man met with the
accident Is still mystery.
At the Methodist Church, this evening,
will be held sub-district Epworth League
rally. Seven Leagues have been invited
to participate in the exercises and ad-
dresses will be made by George w. Scar
borough, of Pennington, President of
Trenton District, and Rev. W. R. We'd |
derspoon, of Long Branch. The latter's |
subject will be THAT Family at Grumble |
Corner"
The high wind on Sunday not only
blew off many limbs from the trees, but
caused about dozen hats to fly into the
creek, no less than half dozen disap-
pearing in this manner on Washington !
street, and some small boys secured sew
eral dimes in recovering them. A portion |
of the stained glass window in the front
of the Methodist Church WIS blown in.
On lower Water street chimney was
leveled, and pane of glass in the door of
trolley car was also broken.
| Boots and shoes neatly repaired to suit
all kinds of weather. Bring them IN and
have them done with the very best of
leather. make boots and shoes to order
just as good as hands can make them.
Try me. II they don't suit you need not
take them. 1 wish to inform the public
that have line of sale work that 1 will
sell as cheap ss any onei in town. Leather
and shoe findings for sale from cents
worth to $500 worth. John Bill, 35
Church street. Mount Holly.
| A meeting of the Association of Practi-
cal Surveyors of West New Jersey, was
held at Camden, on Tuesday, at which
paper was read on the history of the old
Quaker burying ground on Woodpecker
lane, now known as WOODLAND cemetery,
in which are buried many of the old
pioneer heads Of Burlington county, pre-
pared by James Lppincott, of Mount
Holly. The following officers we're
elected: President, General Elias Wright,
of Atlantic county; vice presidents,
Henry S. Trick, of Vincentown, and
William Carter, of Woodbury.; secretary,
Henry S. Haines, Burlington; treasurer,
James Lippincott, Mount Holly.
A largely attended annual meeting of
the Burlington County Medical Society
was held on Tuesday afternoon at the Ar
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