The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-07

J. 1t Is said that John A. Applegate, 0
Smithville, has gone to Porto Rico.
IS Benjamin F. Shreve has farm in Mans
d field township which he offers for rent
Mrs ]. Howard Shinn has bought tn,
e Edwin Gage property on Bispham street
> F. B. Burr, of Jacksonville, while kill
ing hogs last week, suffered an injury tt
+. his hand
The residence of ]. ]. Burleigh, O
Merchantville, was damaged by fire OF
: Tuesday.
The pay car of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company will arrive in Mount Holly
/ on the 18th.
Marcela E. Olmstead, of Tuckerton
has been granted widows pension of So
i per month.
The annual meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Marlton Water Company was
held yesterday.
Christopher Gaynor, a farmer living
near Juliustown, is so i'll that his death is
) looked for at any time.
Justice Krayer is now studying up on
mineralogy, for the purpose of enabling
him to make assays for gold.
While cleaning revolver on Thursday
afternoon, George Beasley accidentally
shot himself in the left hand.
Elwood Stead's force of workmen has
been putting new roof on the store of
!, Jacob H. Leeds at Rancocas.
On Tuesday evening Mrs. A. L. Sailer
celebrated her wedding anniversary by
giving dinner to party of friends.
The Highfiyer Comedy Company, that
was booked to appear at the Opera House
on Saturday night, failed to show up.
A handsome monument has been erect
ed over the grave of the late Charles E.
Berry in St. Andrews burying ground.
Mrs Emeline Lucas fell on Sunday and
broke her leg She was taken to the Bur
lington County Hospital for treatment.
Jacob Braddock, ex-postmaster at Med
ford, is very ill with cancer of the stom
ach, and his recovery is said to be impos-
sible.
Mrs. Henry I. Budd, who recently fell
and broke her ankle, is getting along
nicely, and in few days she will be able
to get up.
On account of the i'll health of Horace
Stokes, of Moorestown, he has removed
his family to Colorado, where they will
reside permanently.
Ogburn, the butcher, at No. 80 Mill
street, is selling large quantities of extra
fine lard. Send in your order and have it
packed in neat tin buckets.
Don't forget the supper in the Masonic
Temple on Friday and Saturday even
ings, under the auspices of the Ladies'
Aid of the NJ E. Church.
Fred Perkins, of Camden, fell through
the ice on Tuesday and came near losing
his life. He was former member of the
Mount Holly base ball club
The officers of Mount Holly Conclave,
Improved Order of Heptasophs, were in
stalled on Thursday evening. The char
ter of this organization is still open.
The Grand Army veterans want to see
all their friends at their baked bean sup
per on Saturday evening in the Arcade
Hall. A varied bill of fare will offered
William s. Kelley, of Smithville, at
tended the reception at the Union League,
Philadelphia, on Saturday evening, that
was rendered to the Paris Peace Commits
sion.
Upper Main street was turned into a
racing boulevard yesterday afternoon,
when number of trotters were out meas
uring their speed behind merry sleigh
bells
A short time since DR.. Darlington re-
moved bullet from the hand of Clifton
Parker, who was accidentally shot last
November while breaking revolver for
the purpose of cleaning it.
Henry M Thomson has been nominated
by the Republicans of Hulmeville Pa, as
member of the town council. AS the
Republicans have 80 majority in that
town Mr.. Thomson will undoubtedly be
elected.
Saturday was ]. Smalley Baugh's birth
day His friends did not forget it and in
the evening about thirty of them, all
masked, called on the young man. For
once Smalley was so surprised that he
could not speak.
A winter picnic for the sale of candies,
valentines, fancy articles, ETC., will be
held in the basement of the Jr. O. U. A
NJ hall, Lumberton. Saturday evening.
On this occasion there will be presented
japanese wedding.
The Epworth League of Browns Mills
has these new officers: President, Robert
Harker; vice presidents, Job Earlin, Su-
san Chamberlain, Matte Harker, Lizzie
Earlin; secretary, M. W. Hargrove; treas
urer, Charles Earlin.
When Conductor Byron Grigg backed
his train at Medford on Wednesday,
bolt in frog broke This allowed the
rails to spread, and as result the engine
and car dropped to the ground. A loco
motive at the station soon had the train
back again.
The early closing movement which
went into effect on Thursday evening,
seemed like new innovation, beginning
as it did in the middle of the winter. Sew
eral persons were disappointed because
the stores were closed, but this is mat
ter to which they will soon get accus-
toned if they will only keep it in mind.
If you want to see first-clas enter
tainment, don't miss the one to be given
by the scholars of the Industrial Home
for the Blind of Hartford, Conn, at the
Opera House on Friday evening. They
will appear at Medford on Saturday even
ing; Pemberton on Monday evening"
and at Vine entown on Tuesday evening
next.
1t has Just been discovered that % fine
apple trees have been dug up and stolen
from the orchard on the farm near Ewes
boro belonging to two colored men, Da-
vid and Barney Brown. The place is un-
occupied, one of the owners living in
Philadelphia, and the other one down
east The trees were in good condition
and had about four years growth.
) Three attempts were made to wreck