The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-12-26
LOCAL NEWS.

THE NEWS wishes all its friends AM
patrons Happy New Year
The school children are ow enjoying
their annual holiday vacation.
r. B. Dickerson, of Smithville, has de
cided to remove to Mount Holly.
The Union Sunday school at Eayres
town will hold its Christmas exercises OIL
Friday evening.
The engagement is announced of Mis-
Edith Sutcliffe, of Merchantville, and AL
bert Fl. Darnell, formerly of Mount Holly
Joseph B. Fleetwood will continue tt
act as turnkey at the Jail during the ad
ministration of Charles R. Fenton al
Sheriff.
The Methodist Sunday school at Ma
sonville has prepared an interesting pro
gramme for its entertainment to be given
tomorrow evening.
A very spirited canvass is going on be-
tween John G. Sims, Jr., and Nelson b
Gaskill for the position of second lieuten-
ant of Company E.
Woman wanted as working housekeep.
er in family of two. Good plain cook
with tidy habits. Apply at 116 Cherry
street, Mount Holly.
As Samuel Elberson was driving to his
work at Smithville on Tuesday morning,
he saw two or three dead dogs along the
road, which had been poisoned.
J. Fred Kiner will act as door-keeper in
the House of Assembly at the next session
of the Legislature at Trenton. The posi-
tion pays salary of $3.50.
George Parker Sutton, of Camden, a
Deputy Grand Master Workman, will
visit Good Win Lodge, of Mount Holly,
on the evening of January 2, 1900.
The window displays which our mer-
chants have made of their Christmas
goods during the present holiday season
have been very attractive and artistic
The machine shop of Storey s. Sons, on
Paxson street, has been closed. Mr.. Storey
is in charge of the hub factory on King
street, and his sons are employed in Cam
den.
D. G. Grant, of Beverly, and J. A. Nc
Wig, of New Egypt, were fined $40 each
last week by Recorder Westcott, of At
lantic City, for insulting lady on the
board walk.
Christmas cut flowers all sold, but we
have an extra supply of palms, auracarias
and other house plants at very reasonable
prices for holiday presents. A. & G. Ros-
bach, Pemberton.
The Clayton public schools are closed
because of an outbreak off diphtheria.
No services were held in the Sunday
schools on Sunday and no holiday fes-
tivities will be held.
Somebody left pair of kid gloves at
THE News office last week. The owner
will please call for them. The finder ola
gray castor glove will confer favor by
leaving it at this office.
Mount Holly Lodge, No. IA, F and A.
M, installed their newly elected officers on
Friday night, on which occasion the men,
bers enjoyed banquet A fine musical
and literary entertainment was rendered.
Further efforts to secure pardon for
Barclay Peak were unavailing last week,
the Board of Pardons having refused his
application. Charles Maker, a Burling-
ton county man, was paroled. He was
sentenced in 1898 to three years for as
sault
Articles of incor poration have been
filed in the County Clerks Office by the
Vandegrift Construction Company OF
Riverside. The authorized capital is
500, 900, and the incorporators are Joseph
A. Vandegrift, Herbert A. Clark, Jr., and
Charles Winters.
The Christmas exercises of the Presby-
terrain and St. Andrews Sunday schools
will take place this evening. The Meth
odist scholars, who held their festivities
on Sunday evening, will receive their
presents tonight.
Considerable uneasiness prevails among
some of the old railroad employees. A
representative of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company has been in Mount Holly
obtaining the ages of several persons, and
it is rumored that all those past 60 years
of age are to be laid off. There is much
anxiety on the part of such persons to
know whether or not they are to be re-
tired on pension.
Officer Severns had some trouble in ar
resting Annie Hart on Wednesday after
noon. She and her husband, who hail
from Burlington, were drunk on Wash
ington street. 1t became necessary to
convey Annie to Jail in wagon, and be-
fore the task was accomplished the pris-
oner bit the policeman on the back of his
right hand, tore off his star and ripped
some buttons from his overcoat. After
this little diversion John arrested the hus-
band and two tramps.
Patsey Meagher, of Philadelphia, an
eleph ant trainer well known throughout
the country. was killed by one of his ele-
plants at Columbus, Ohio, on Wednes-
day afternoon. While practicing his tricks
the brute was prodded for being surly,
and in his rage he grabbed his keeper and
with his trunk dashed him to the ground
and plunged his huge tusk through the
PROSTATE mans abdomen. There was a
brass ball six inches in diameter on the
end of the tusk. Meagher had a number
of acquaintance in Mount Holly and he
was quite well known in Medford.
Jerry Deacon, of Westampton township,
was driving into Mount Holly on Monday
evening, and along the road turned out
for a wagon going toward Burlington.
The driver of the latter vehicle also pulled
his horse in the same direction, resulting
In a collision Mr.. Deacon had one wheel
broken and another damaged, and some
cans of milk upset. When asked to pay
the damage, the occupants of the othel
wagon, Fred Schuyler and Lou Assay, Of
Burlington, wanted to fight witt
Deacon. The men were arrested by Con
stable Woodruff ON Wednesday even
ing, and by agreement they appear
ed at the office of Justice Clevenger OF
Thursday afternoon. They said thei
drunken condition was responsible TO
their actions. 1t cost them 81 25 to settle
The observance of Christmas by ever
the humblest being is in accordance to tn
dictates of the hearts of those who Low
Him whose birthday we celebrated yes