The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-02-01
sHERIEF,s SALES.
LOCAL NEWS.

1uOmdb 4uC1uIyIo LAS uoou hppoiutos
postmaster at Pointville.
Four persons were baptized on Sunday
morning at the Baptist Church.
The trial of indictments found at the
present term of court will begin on Mon
day.
A new barn is being erected on the farm
occupied by Daniel Evan, near Smith
vile
Wright Bros, the tobacconists, have
put new steel roof on their Main street
store.
James K. Seattergood, of Mount Holly
has been granted a pension of IS pei
month.
franklin B. Lewis will conduct the re
ligious service at the hospital next Sun
day afternoon.
Frank Danser has rented the house on
Buttonwood street, formerly occupied by
John B. Barton.
The collection taken at the Methodist
Sunday school for Mrs. William Murdoch
amounted to $16.
A. W. Lofand sold twenty horses al
public sale at Medford, on Saturday, which
averaged $l44.50.
Tomorrow will be the seventeenth an.
niversary of the founding the first Chris
tian Endeavor society.
Samuel s. Bower has sold his newspa-
per route to Earl Assay. Mr.. Bower will
probably engage in business in Philadel-
phia.
Japhet B. Deacon, of Westampton
township, who has been ill for some time,
died on Sunday from heart failure, aged
IS years.
On Saturday Mrs. Artillas A. Anderson
received very pretty gold ring as prize
for having solved puzzle in the Home
Companion.
George Krusen, of Mount Holly, and
Miss Ida Loveland, of Riverside. were
married recently at the latter place by a
Methodist minister.
The oyster freight which passes through
Mount Holly every afternoon, is reported
to make faster time than any passenger
train on the division.
A. w. Lohand has gone west for two
carloads of horses and mules, and on his
return will sell AZ head at public sale at
Medford on Feb. 18th.
The Good Intent engine arrived yes
terday from Seneca Falls, N. Y, and this
afternoon will be taken to the creek and
given thorough test.
Tomorrow will he candlemas or ground
hog day. and according to tradition the
ground hog prognosticates the weather
for the following six weeks.
The Ladies' Aid and Home Missionary
Society of the Presbyterian Church met
yesterday afternoon at the residence of
Miss Campion, on Broad street.
There will be three eclipses OF the moon
this year. 1t has been 200 years since
such thing has happened, and 1t will be
200 years before it occurs again.
Edward F. Burns and William s. Kelley
attended the dinner given by the Manu-
facturers' Association at the Waldorf-As-
toria hotel, New York, on Thursday night.
The Haddonfeld public schools were
reopened yesterday after being closed Two
weeks to prevent the spread ofdiphtheria.
The number of cases in the town now 10
only four.
Among the prisoners confined IN the
Jail is very dangerous element, and for
this reason extra precautions are being
taken to prevent any attempt that might
be made to escape.
A week ago c. Clarence Deacon, who is
located at Toledo, Ohio, while attending
an Episcopal Church, was surprised to see
Stacy B. Lippincott, of Mount Holly, sit
ting in the third pew ahead of him.
several boys on upper Main street en-
joyed themselves in the snow yesterday
afternoon by driving a horse to which
was attached number of sleds. In this
manner about a dozen boys had good
time.
On Saturday Sheriff Fleetwood sold the
property of Albert C. Shaw, of Burling-
ton township, to Nelson P. Greeley for
S2,25O; house aud lot in Riverside, prop
erty of Louis Dietrich, to Charles B.
Fritz for $500.
The residents of the lower end of Bat
tonwood street are considerably annoyed
over the number of married men who
visit certain house in that Deighbor-
hood, and there Is talk of complaint being
entered against the premises.
Mrs Hubbard, who has been guest OF
Rey. Milton Relyea for few days. rem
dered a most beautiful solo in the Metho-
dist Church on Sunday evening. Mrs.
Hubbard is the soprano singer in the
choir of st. James M. E. Church at New
Brunswick.
Barclay Peak was visited in the state
prison last week. He said he has been there
so long that he is getting used to it, but
he will be glad when the time comes for
his discharge. He has four years yet to
serve, and does not seem to be in the best
of health.
There will be an entertainment by the
infant Sunday school of the M. E. Church
on Tuesday evening, February s, at
o'clock. The programme will consist Of
singing and Rotations, and end with
tambourlne drill by the children. AID.
mission ten cents.
List of unclaimed letters remaining In
the Mount Holly post-office January 81
Horace Emmons, Mrs. Lizzie Halnes
Mrs. E. C. Henry, Mrs. James Henry
Mrs. Margaret Middleton. T. Parker, T
Barclay Shinn, Joe Wright. Postals. Pc
ter Donnely, Miss May Gibbs.
A singular incident occurred in connec
ton with the death of Mrs. Samuel Toy
who was buried here on Saturday. He
death occurred on Wednesday, and tele
gram was sent to her nephew, Arthur
Butler, at Absecon, asking him to be {
pall-bearer, only to receive reply tina
the latter had died suddenly the same
day that Mrs. Toy expired.
Constable Claypoole went to Philadel
phia on Friday to look for Benjamin Ds
Wis, the eye glass man who was arrested
at Pemberton and who skipped his Dali
but he could not be found. Arriving home
on the midnight train, the officer imme
distely drove to Jacobstown and arrested