The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-02

ID The Washington House is being paint
ed by Robert L. Nixon.
al The closing exercises of the Misses
l. Wyllie's school on Broad street will take
place June IA.
( 100 summer corsets at 25c a pair. A
bargain. W. W. Curtis, 4s Main street,
Mount Holly, N. j.
Post 26, G.. A. R., has changed the date
c of its fishing excursion from the 18th to
next Saturday, the 9th.
e Mrs. Adam Musick, who recently buried
her husband at S~unbury, Pa, has been
detained there by illness.
e Argument in relation to the exceptions
to the account of the executors of the es-
tate of Israel Lacy, deceased, of Borden
town, is taking place in court to-day.
a The case of John B. Herbert & Son VS..
Mrs. Caroline Heard, an action on a book
account, which was adjourned last Thurs
s day, will be heard before Justice eleven
ger on Friday.
| P. Cecil Black, of Columbus, aged IA
years, was buried yesterday at Mansfield
by Undertaken Keller, of Mount Holly.
E Deceased was a grandson of the late
Judge Clayton Black. Death was due to
typhoid pneumonia, the young man being
i'll only two days.
Mrs. Sarah Horner, ST., and her daugh-
ter, Sarah Horner, who, when recently ar
rested in New York city for shoplifting,
gave their residence as Jacobstown, are
residents of that ne~ighborhood. They
live in the house of Howard Woodward,
the daughter keeping house for him in
one part and the mother residing in the
other.
Try George w. Durand if you want
strictly pure groceries and provisions at
the lowest cash prices. He has a large
stock at his store. corner of Water and
King streets, Mount Holly. Orders called
for and delivered. Prompt attention given
to all customers, and satisfaction guaran-
teed. Also fresh and salt meats can be
obtained at lowest market prices.
A two-year-old child of Alfred Farley,
residing in the Knickerbocker row, near
Kinkora, was killed by being struck by
an engine attached to a passenger train
from Camden to ,Bordentown on Thurs
day afternoon. The little one had man
aged to crawl out to the tracks from the
parents home, which is near the railroad.
Coroner Wells, of Burlington, granted a
burial certificate.
Worrell & Harris, the tobacconists on
Main street, have in their possession two
small sample boxes of cigars from the
factory of w. M. Jacobs, of Lancaster,
Pa. These goods look nice and were list
ed at 81 per thousand, but fortunately the
firm did not purchase any The stamps
on the boxes are genuine, as the fraudu-
lent ones were not used on boxes contain
ing less than fifty cigars. Il
While you are looking about for suit
able plants for the purpose of identifying /,
your home surroundings or having a prof
liable vegetable garden, we would remind i
you that Rosbachs, at Pemberton, have
about thirty varieties of roses, as many of {
hardy herbaceous plants, and all other va
rleties suitable for bedding, vases, ETC., as s
well as cabbage, tomato, pepper and egg /
plants. All in good condition and at rea- c
sonable prices. t
AT the annual meeting of the Baptist t
Church held last evening the following c
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officers were elected: Clerk, John D. Clev- I
enger; deacons for three years, M. Fl. )
Keeler, T. B. Pope and Charles Fort; T
trustees, Joseph G. Dudley, j. Smalley q
Baugh, 7. G. Keller, J.. Harvey Gaskill,
J. Edward Worrell, Samuel A. Atkinson I
and Elmer j. Shinn; treasurer, George e
Stead; pew collector, Jere Fl. Colkitt; I
music committee, J. Smalley Baugh; dea- .
%conesses, Ellen Branson, Margaret Wor- '
rell, Mrs George Moore, Rebecca Ellis, {
Mrs. Samuel Elbertson. i
The Knights of Pythias, on Friday +
evening, received one proposition for i
membership. 1t is is proposed by the d
lodge to appoint a soliciting committee of 4
five, whose duty it shall be, if possible,
to secure the names of enough persons to +
swell the membership from 1853 to 200. E
AS the lodge goes to Burlington this even I
ing at 7.25 to attend a district meeting, {
the members are requested to meet at the {
lodge room early enough to secure a ,
jewel, which will be necessary to gain
admission to Hope Lodge. William H.
Dobbins, the Chancellor Commander, will ,
take a few extra jewels along for those
who will not be able to get them before
starting. |
Educated horses, ponies and funny {
mules will constitute the attraction to be
offered at the Opera House on Saturday
for the benefit of Manager Laumaster,
when Prof. Mcguire will present his
equine troupe. Mascot" is the star ac- 5
tor. His act alone is pronounced by all
critics to be worth the price of admission. I
This wonderful animal does not speak a :
word, yet his acting is so lifelike that it l
secures applause every few minutes. Mr.. I
Mcguire will give 5 5000 for any horse I
that will equal Mascot. Ladies and chill |
dren should visit the afternoon perform I
ance. Children will be admitted to any Z
part of the house in the afternoon for 10 I
cents. !
Messrs. Gilbert & Atkinson, in the in
terest of Mrs. Alice Huettinger, of Bev-
erly, have succeeded in procuring from
Chancellor McGill an injunction restrain :
ing her husband, John William Huettin-
ger, or his agents or attorneys, in pro-
ceeding with his suit for divorce in South
Dakota, which place Huettinger claims is !
his legal residence. The injunction was
only granted on some very fine points of
law made by Messrs. Gilbert & Atkinson. :
1t is claimed that Huettinger's legal resi-
dence is really in this state, inasmuch as
he went to Dakota with the avowed inten-
ton of taking advantage of that states
divorce laws to accomplish a purpose and ,
that he is only temporarily stopping
there.
The bicycle riders of Vincentown have
organized a club, and it is their purpose
to build a path from that village to
Smalley's Corner, which will form a juno
ton with the South Pemberton stone
road. At the last annual town meeting
an appropriation of $50 was secured to-
ward this object, and contributions will
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