The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-07-11
LOCAL NEWS.

candidates last night.
Word has been received of the safe ar
rival of Rev. J. H. Durham at Genoa,
Italy.
W. Harry Mason has accepted posi-
ton as bookkeeper with the Home Manu-
featuring Co
The heavy rain on Saturday was vel
come visitor as it was badly needed by
all kinds of vegetation.
The Encouragement of the interior of the
post office has been the subject of much
comment since Sunday.
Judson Gaskill, the Garden street car
rage manufacturer, has sold a fine surry
to Mrs. Theodosia Borden
No Sunday services will be held at the
hospital until the Sd of September, on ac-
count of the warm weather.
The Presbyterian Sunday school will
hold its annual picnic in the woods at
Smithville on Thursday, July 90
The suit of Lumberton township vs.
Charles Wisham, to recover his stone road
assessment, was settled yesterday.
Charles Hooper, who has been in the
employ of Dr. Melcher, was taken to the
insane asylum at Trenton this morning
A handsome red granite monument has
been placed over the grave of the late E.
L. Prickett in the Mount Holly cemetery.
Richard Darlington Kiner, youngest
child of Mr.. and Mrs. J. Fred Kiner, was
buried yesterday in St. Andrews GENE
terry.
On Sunday Sheriff Fleetwood had as
guests at his residence John Rodman, of
Beverly, and Mr.. and Mrs. Hare, of Bur
lington.
Henry Baker, the engineer at Bowker's
shoe factory. was taken suddenly i'll on
Thursday and he was removed to his home
in bus
The Mount Holly Athletic Association
received $83 as it's share of the proceeds
resulting from the Fourth of July enter
tainment given at the fair grounds
Mrs Rebecca s. Troth, wife of William
H. Troth, living near Florence, died last
night. Deceased was a member of the
Home Communion of Mount Holly.
John G. Hippenstiel, the defaulting tax
collector of Beverly township, who is
now serving two years in state prison, is
acting as clerk to the Board of Prison In
spectors.
A laborer named Sutphin, employed at
Alcott's foundry, had the second finger on
his right hand so badly mashed by a cog
wheel on Saturday, that amputation was
necessary.
On Saturday Sheriff Fleetwood sold
three lots of land in Willingboro town
ship, property of Joseph Chant, to ]. L.
Clarkson, Philip S. Clarkson and Robert
G. Clarkson, for $1,000.
Mrs Mary Woodward, daughter of the
late Samuel Burr who murdered his wife
by beating her over the head with a club,
is confined in the Burlington County Hos
pital suffering from anamia.
Owing to premature celebration of
the Fourth at Columbus, the roof on the
house next to the post Office, occupied by
Joseph Alexander, took fire, but the flames
were extinguished before any damage was
DONE
John Cain, Jr., of Burlington, who was
arrested in Mount Holly on Friday night
by Constable Anderson Shinn, charged
with stealing a watch from his father and
assaulting his step-mother, was committed
to jail for court on Saturday.
During an alteration at the West End
Hotel yesterday, George Brown, who was
present, was severely cut on the back of
the hand with some broken glass, and be-
fore the wound was dressed, the young
man lost considerable blood.
Sheldon s. Davis, of Burlington, came
to Mount Holly on Friday night and in
stalled the newly elected officers of New
Jersey Lodge, No. 1, Knights of Pythias.
There was one proposition received and
Charles Coles was given his third degree.
Mount Holly was quite fortunate to es-
cape the Fourth without having any fires.
The members of the fire department had
made admirable arrangement for such an
emergency, and there is cause for con-
graduation that their services were not
needed.
A party of young men, members of the
Mount Holly Banjo club, went around
town on Tuesday evening singing some
songs, which were highly enjoyed by
those who were occupying their porches.
In many cases they received hearty and
deserved applause.
Last Monday morning the Court House
yard was given good cleaning so that it
might be presentable for the Fourth, but
by the middle of the afternoon it was
just as dirty as ever, the lawn being lit
tered with bark from the constantly shed
ding of the buttonwood trees, which are
tirst-class nuisance.
The Aimes Cement Company, of Phila-
delphia, have given contract to Henry
Plummer to sink the stones deeper on
Main street, on the east side from the post
office to Holemans store, and when this
is done, the company will put down a
sample of their cement pavement, which
many are anxious to see laid.
Capt Charles Evan Merritt and Miss
Florence F. Niche were quietly married
at the brides residence, on Thursday noon,
the ceremony being performed by Rev.
James Stoddard, rector of St. Andrew 8
Church Only few immediate relatives
of the contracting parties were present,
and after the event was over the bride and
groom took the train for the sea shore
Mrs. Benjamin Osler, of Pensauken,
sustained painful injuries by runaway
accident on Saturday afternoon. She was
driving with two children, when the horse
broke away and dragged Mrs. Osler from
the wagon. She was kicked by the ami
NAL and severely cut on the forehead
Mr.. Osler found his wife unconscious II
the road. The children were unframed.
John S. Middleton, of Marlton, wht
has been in Jail since March IS on charg'
of failing to support his family, is quit
anxious to know when he is going to b.
released. His case came from the Cour
of Chancery, hence the liberating com
mittee of the Board of Freeholders ha
no jurisdiction in the matter The stor,
of the prisoner is one calculated to elici
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