The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-09-19

: driveway of the Washington street bridge
John G. Bolton, of Moorestown, il
: among the candidates for the nomination
for coroner
DR.. Joshua D. Janney has announced
, his candidacy for the Republican nomina
/ ton for coroner.
Howard v Stratton and Harry Hughes
caught a fine string of fish down the
creek on Wednesday
]. F. Walsh, of Jenkintown, has taker
possession of the Vincentown hotel, which
} he purchased recently.
Cranberry picking is on now in full and
hundreds of hands are employed The
crop is quite abundant.
About 800 was the amount netted from
. the chicken supper held in the M. E.
Church on Thursday evening.
| Rev. ]. Madison Hare, of Burlington,
has accepted call to the Parmly Mem
!, orial Baptist Church, Jersey City.
Workmen are engaged in painting the
rear of the Friends meeting house at the
corner of Garden and Main streets.
Owing to the illness of Rev Martin
Aigner, Frank Clark conducted the SER
vices at Trinity Church on Sunday.
William S. Kelley, of Smithville, thinks
very favorably of renting Albert Atkin-
sons house, on Garden street, until spring,
when he may erect a house in Mount
Holly.
The coal wagon of Judson c. Gaskill
went down with crash this morning,
caused by broken axle, received while
passing over the asphalt pavement" on
Washington street
The Cinnaminson township tax will be
g. IL this year. The increase is caused
mainly by the ope ming of road from
Parry along the Pensauken creek to West
Palmyra railroad station.
| Unclaimed letters remaining in the post
office for the week ending, September 49,:
Rev. M. H. Berleu, Mrs. Annie E. War
ner, George A. Hall, Miss Virginia Huff,
G. E. Hutchinson, Emily Fox, Alex Will
! kins.
A contract was awarded by the township
Committee yesterday to the Rocky Hill
Stone Storage Company for the compile
ton of the stone road on Grant street, at
62 cents per square yard. The work will
be taken up at once.
Postmaster Cowperthwait may inaugu-
rate new rule at the beginning of the
year by closing at 8 o'clock, if such &C.
ton meets with general approval There
is no reason why the office should remain
open longer than this.
The sum of $500 is to be paid this week
on the mortgage resting on the Presbyte-
rian Church. The Christian Endeavor
Society raised 5000, Miss Caroline Bull
lock gave 5000, and there was another in
dividual subscription of 5000.
Glass No. of the Methodist Sunday
School is making arrangements for lawn
party at ex-Sheriff Harbert's farm, near
Eayrestown, on Thursday evening.
Tickets 10 cents, including transportation
and refreshments. Proceeds to apply to
church debt
The sailing ship George Stetson, of
Bath, Me-, Capt. Frank Patton, from
Portland, Ore, June II, for Taku, China,
has been burned at Loo Choo, China No
lives were lost. Capt Patton and wife are
well known in Mount Holly, frequently
visiting DIR. w. P. Melcher.
On Saturday Sheriff Fleetwood sold the
property of Frank B. Christie, of River
ton, to Rebecca w. Deacon, for So, 500;
property of Franklin S. Hovey, deceased,
of Beverly, to Swarthmore College, the
complainant, for $780, property of
Charles Heiss, in Mount Holly, and nine
lots in Riverside, to George NJ Bacon, for
$50.
Following are the newly appointed cleo
ton officers for Northampton township:
First district, W. Frank Dean, William J.
Shannon, George W. Hand, Henry Murphy;
Second district F. Carlton Dalton, John
E. Elbertson William H. Mason, Jr., B.
Frank Stidfole; Third district Samuel P
Chafey, George D. Austin, Thomas R.
Finley, William B. Pearson.
Try George W. Durand if you want
strictly pure groceries and provisions at
the lowest cash prices. He has 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.
Rev. Socrates Townsend died at Cape
May, on Wednesday, and was buried on
Sunday. He was the senior minister in
the New Jersey Conference, having been
admitted in 1910. His first charge was at
Medford in 1889. Among his other charges
later were Florence and Crosswicks He
was reappointed to the Medford church in
1877, serving there two years He was In
the 84th year of his age.
Rev. Samuel B. D. Prickitt, formerly of
Mount Holly, member of the Newark
conference of the M. E. Church, is now
stationed at East Milestone, Somerset Co.
N. j., but resides at Metuchen, Middlesex
county. He has recently also become
editor of the Metuchen Recorder, week
ly journal of which his son, Charles A.
Prickitt, is the proprietor The latter, a
druggist, is one of the leading citizens of
Metuchen and chairman of the Republi-
can County Committee.
The case of Harley Shemeley, of Mou Mt
Holly, indicted for larceny of wagon
from William Edgar of Cassville, on De-
csmber is, 1898, was heard in the Ocean
county court on Tuesday. 1t seems that
Shemeley hired the wagon of Edgar and
| failed to either pay the rental or return
the wagon and Edgar recovered it from
| him some six months after The court in
structed the jury that it was case for a
civil action of trover and conversion and
not for criminal Indictment; and the jury
accordingly brought in verdict of not
guilty.
| NudrlcS aOluleS anu Vile, COlOreu, OF
Jordantown, near Merchantville, while
out driving on Sunday night were struck
by the Medford accommodation train as
they were crossing the railroad tracks al
the Browning road, near Knight Park
| The engine caught the vehicle in the cen
tire, and it was carried about 200 yards
and Holmes and his wife were hurled
considerable distance When the trair
came to stop the crew found that the
woman was dead, but the man was still