The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-10-11

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Washington Council, No 5, Jr o. .
A. NJ, initiated five candidates on Tues
day evening
The Home Missionary Society of tn
Presbyterian Church will hold meetin,
to morrow afternoon.
The marriage of Miss Iona Aaronson
of Madison avenue, and B. Frank Mathi
will take place this evening
Daniel Kelly, tramp, who was fount
drunk and begging on the street on Wed
nesday, was arrested and sent to Jail
Jacob Garbarino went to South Orang'
on Saturday to play foot ball with a team
attached to Catholic institute there.
Mrs. Susan Ellis aged SO years, living
on Mill street, was the recipient of bot
tie of wine on Thursday, that was fifty
five years old.
Bicycle sundries of every description al
Wetherill's, A Main street. l carry
large and complete line. Nothing miss
ing. Call and see.
A delegation from Washington Council
No 10, o. U. A. M, paid fraternal visit
to Chester Council, No 8, of Moorestown
on Wednesday evening.
Rev John H. Boswell of Trenton, pas
tor of Trinity Church, delivered lecture
on Enthusiasm" in the Union M E.
Church at Burlington, on Thursday even
ing
The Hightstown Gazette says that Will
liam L. Anderson, of Mount Holly, was
there last week trying to make arrange
ments for starting a canning factory at
that place
Rev. DIR. Robert Mckay, rector of All
Saints Protestant Episcopal Church,
Philadelphia, has accepted call to the
rectorship of Trinity Protestant Episcopal
Church at Moorestown.
Thieves paid visit to the poultry yard
of Charles S. Meeks, at Bridgeboro, on
Tuesday night The fact that Weeks is a
constable had no terrors for the thieves,
who carried off fifty chickens.
The children of Mrs. Charles Peak,
who have been abandoned by their father,
and who live on Pine street adjoining the
bridge, are in distressing circumstances.
| One child is i'll with typhoid fever and
two more are down with scarlet fever.
G. Shed Holland wore a very pleasing
expression last week. And it all came
| about ON account of his having received a
good sum of accrued pension money
Hereafter Mr.. Holland will draw So per
month from the national treasury.
The office in the Arcade row recently
vacated by Charles NJ Sloan, has been
| rented by John Worlin, the harness maker,
to make room for his increasing business.
The partition between the two rooms has
been torn out and the store reftted.
A lecture was delivered by Professor o.
G.. J. Schadt, Phi. D., president of the
Peoples College, of Philadelphia, to the
teachers of the public school, on Tuesday
afternoon, on the subject: Leaves from
my diary as Tutor among the Nobility"
suit has been instituted against Sam
uel Clapper and Lydia Clapper, his wife,
to recover on a promissory note for $75,
for horse and wagon sold. The suit was
brought by Joseph E. Pfeifer, former
resident here, but now living in Pennsyl-
vania
Harry Haines, of Burlington, who a
year ago was murderously assaulted by a
colored negro named Wallace, who cut
the young mans throat, has been quite i'll
during the past week from the effects of
his injuries, from which he has never
fully recovered
Cards of invitation have been issued
announcing the marriage of Miss Emma
Gertrude Camp, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Henry Camp, and William
Augustus Baker, Jr., to take place on
Thursday, October 20, at the home of the
brides parents at Crosswicks.
The funeral of Sarah B., wife of Charles
L. Shinn, took place from her late resi-
dence, at Eayrestown, on Thursday after
noon interment being made in the Mount
Holly Baptist burying ground Deceased
was SO years of age, and was a sufferer
with consumption for long time.
The new house of the Union Fire Com
pany will hereafter be used as the polling
place for the third ward, instead of the
West End hotel. The board of registry
will sit in the old engine house in the rear
of the new building, should the latter not
be ready for occupancy on Tuesday next.
Howard Apologize, Harry Filler and
Frank Elberson have secured employment
in the gramaphone factory of Eldridge R.
johnson, at Camden, of which Albert w
Atkinson, of Mount Holly, is foreman
The factory is running night and day and
has orders for over 10000 gramaphones
for the holiday trade.
On Wednesday evening the Christian
Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian
Church elected the following officers
President, Miss Mary W. Budd; vice pres
ident, James L. Jamison; recording secre-
tary, Miss Christine Pfau; corresponding
secretary, Miss Mary H. Kempte; treas
urer, Edward B. Rogers.
Samuel s. Wyllie, clerk in the Mount
Holly National Bank, has been waiting all
summer for cool spell so that he might
take vacation in pleasant weather. He
thought the time had arrived last week,
so on Monday he started in for week s
enjoyment with the thermometer two de-
grees higher than it was on the Fourth of
July.
William Brown, of Burlington, who
was found drunk here on Tuesday, was
arrested and given four days in Jail. On
Wednesday William Henry, of Haines-
port, who was pretty much in the same
condition, suffered a similar fate, as did
also John Green, respectable looking
tramp, who received thirty days. Officer
Claypoole made the arrests.
A lady and gentleman from Trenton APP
peared at the office of Justice .Clevenger
on Wednesday, and in a short time they
were made man and wife. A special re
quest was made that the names be not di
vulged until the expiration of three
months The ceremony took place in thu
rear office, and while this was going on
Mount Holly man sat in the front office
His business there was to seek legal ad
vice in regard to getting a divorce from
his wife, and there, sure enough, were tn
two extremes of marital bliss. The maj