The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-12-05

There was a slight fall of snow in
Mount Holly yesterday afternoon.
The stone road on Grant street has been
accepted by the Township Committee
A. S. Kellogg has arranged to place a
billiard table in his Temple cigar store.
Samuel NJ. Holt, tax collector, received
over 81, 200 in taxes last evening after six
o'clock.
]. Franklin Hunter has decided to be a
candidate for the Office of Township Com
mittee.
Ross W. Quicksall will open a jewelry
store, about December 9th, in the room
adjoining THE News Office.
! Thieves entered the hen roost of Thorn.
as W. Nippins, on Friday night, and car
ried off several fine chickens.
Clarence Lindsey and Miss Jennie Lind
sey, of Gloucester City, spent Thanksgiv-
! ing with relatives in Mount Holly.
Miss May Streeker entertained Miss
Susan LaRue Wade, of South River, and
Miss May Troth, of Bustleton, on Thanks
giving.
| The old horse sheds in the rear of the
Presbyterian Church have been moved
back and five new ones erected, making
eleven in all.
The case of Mrs. Emma Earl vs. John
! n Smith, of Pemberton, an action on
contract, will be heard in Justice eleven
gers court on Friday.
The secretaries of the different lodges
will confer favor if they will send to
THE News the names of officers elected
for the ensuing six months.
The Isaac Fenimore farm in Lumber
ton township, containing So acres, and
known as the Austin farm, has been sold
to Harry Culin, for $50 per acre.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Il. Lee, who
have been spending a week in Canada,
arrived home yesterday. They expe,
rienced very bad weather and came in
contact with heavy snow storm
DR.. Barrett, who is at the dental office
of the late DR.. William Risdon, is engag-
ed at Philadelphia for a short time, but
hopes to return the latter part of this
week. During his absence the business
is looked after by DR.. Clark, who is
thoroughly competent to do any work in
the line of dentistry.
Charles Stutzbach, aged SO years. of Egg
Harbor, employed by the Zurbrugg Watch
Case Company at Riverside, was struck
by train at Riverside on Saturday night
and thrown under the station platform
He was taken to the Cooper Hospital
Camden, where it was found that his
skull was fractured and he was injured
internally.
General repairs will be made at the
trolley power house, beginning to-day
1t is expected that the work will be fin
ished by next Sunday. Steam cars will
be run this week on the following sched-
ule: For Burlington, 6.2S, 1852, 9.19,
11.05 A. M, 1890, 8, $50, Al, 5.53, 1926,
S.45, 10 P. M. Leave Burlington for
Mount Holly, Z, 8.48, 1905 A. M, 10 M,
LOS, 1926, 4.15, SIG, $50, $50, $50, 1890
P. M.
John B Croft, at present Travelling
Passenger Agent for the Plant System,
went on duty with the Southern Railway
on December 1, as Travelling Passenger
Agent. Mr.. Groff's headquarters will be
with Charles L. Hopkins, District Passen-
ger Agent, Southern Railway, 1928 Chest
nut street, Philadelphia, and will travel
in Mr.. Hopkins district Mr. Croft is a i
very bright and popular young railroad
man, and has a great many friends in
railroad circles, and amongst the travelling
public generally. Mr.. Croft will be val
liable addition to Mr.. Hopkins staff.
A nice question, and one of interest to
mortgagors and mortgages alike, will be
decided by Vice Chancellor Reed of the
Court of Chancery. In 1881 William B. |
Tomlinson bought of John Croshaw a |
tract of land containing eleven and four
teen hundredths acres. The price paid was
about $50 per acre. There were no build |
ings on the land and the price was high |
even for those times John and Thomas
Black held mortgage on Croshaw's land |
at the time and assented, verbally, to the
sale by Croshaw, and actually received |
all the money paid by Tomlinson, which |
was endorsed on the bond. No release, |
however, was executed by the mortga- |
gees. Both Blacks are dead, and the ex-
ecutor of Thomas is foreclosing the mort |
gage. Tomlinson has filed an answer to
the bill setting up payment to the mortga- |
gees, and claims that their acceptance of |
the entire sum paid for the land acts as an |
equitable release, and that his land should
not be sold The question is whether the
receipt of the money, paid by Tomlinson
to the mortgages, and their acquiescence
to the sale, does not act as release of the |
land in question. The case will be heard |
to-day at Trenton. Mark r. Sooy repre-
sents the executor, and Samuel A. Atkin- |
son represents Mr. Tomlinson