The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-03-21

IOI cdtuerStOHe DlCyCleS RO W we'll
erills, "A Main street, Mount Holly.
, A. R. Bidwell has purchased a lot on
Branch street from Joseph s. Shreve.
Earl Assay has rented the house belong
ing to Albert A. johnson on Brainard
street.
An addition of books has been made to
the library of the Presbyterian Sunday
school.
The Sacred Heart Church receives a be-
quest of 800 by the will of Bridget Ryan,
deceased.
Floyd Rogers and Ernest Haines will
give a dance in the hall at Vincentown to-
morrow evening.
Rev. r. Bowden Shepherd, of River
ton, will preach in st. Andrews Church
an Friday evening.
The condition of Garwood Reynolds, of
Buttonwood street, who has been ill with
typhoid fever, is much improved.
Judge Joseph H. Gaskill is named as
one of the speakers at the annual banquet
of the Bridgeton Board of Trade.
A number of building lots at River
side have been conveyed by Mark R.
Sooy to Walter A. Barrows for 81, $50.
The gang of men who were working in
this vicinity for the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company, are now located
at Eyesboro.
1t is feared that Mrs. Franklin Budd, of
Buddtown, will be compelled to nave one
of her toes amputated on account of an
ingrowing toe nail.
solomon Suster, who lives near Arney's
Mount, has a broken arm, which resulted
from a colt jumping against it while the
animal was being watered.
Dallas w. Pierce, who has been i'll at
Camden for several weeks, has been re-
moved to his home at Smithville. He is
threatened with typhoid fever.
The engagement is announced of Ed
ward Cooper, of Philadelphia, and Mrs.
Nellie Blackburn, of Moorestown. The
wedding will take place in June.
There will be especial missionary SER
vice in Trinity church this evening at
7.45. Rev. Lucius L.. K~insolving, Bishop
of Brazil, will deliver the address.
Wetherill, A Main street, Mount Holly,
has opened his repair shop and has a first
class workman. Call and try him as to
worb,monchio ond Dr;oac II will nov uo,, y
Rev Martin Aigner preached an excel
lent sermon on the brotherhood of Man,
at Trinity Church on Sunday evening, to
the members of Marion Circle, No. 8, B.
of U.
Eggs are getting to be quite cheap.
Last week they were selling at from fif-
teen to twenty cents per dozen, and there
was one farmer selling them at cent
apiece.
Mock Do jim, a Chinaman who was
struggled into this country, was arrested
in a laundry at Palmyra on Friday, and
having no registration papers, he will be
deported back to China.
The men employed at the Company's
shoe shop, on Grant street, have pur-
chased material for the purpose of en-
larging their shad net, which they hope
to put in service at an early date.
The vernal equinox is due to-day when
spring commences, and the days and the
nights will be of the same length. At the
time the SUI passes these equinoctial
points heavy storms usually prevail on
land and sea.
On Wednesday judgment was given in
two suits against the Vacuum Gas Engine
Company by Justice Clevenger. The first
was that of George D. Worrell, for $685..
81, and the second, Josiah W. EVAN, for
$54.74
1t was a misstatement in saying that
while Constable Henry @. Claypoole was
recently, the fellow turned and ran away.
1t appears that the man heard the officer
making inquiries at the house, and that he
skipped out the back door and over the
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Still they come. Another candidate is
in the field for county collector in the per-
son of Alfred 1. Davis, of Pemberton. AL
has been an earnest worker for the party
for a long time and has never been re-
warded, never was Surrogate, Judge,
Postmaster or anything of that sort, and
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recognition.
Philip Quigley and George Elton, of
Columbus, had trouble on Saturday, and
as a result the former was brought to jail
on Sunday morning, on a commitment is
sued by Justice Thomas S. Page, charg
ing assault on Elton and for threatening
and insulting the %latter's wife. Elton was
also arrested on a counter suit, but he
gave 5000 bail for his appearance at court.
James Stevenson, of Pemberton town
ship. was lodged in jail late on Wednes-
day night charged with stealing a set of
harness, valued at $50, and some whisky
from Barry's hotel at Browns Mills. The
prisoner was accompanied by Charles
Harker, who is accused of stealing a set
of harness from the stable of John H.
Harker. Stevenson has since been adj
mitted to bail.
James K. Parker reopened his shoe
store on Thursday, and he wishes all his
friends to remember the fact that he is
again in business. Mr.. Parker now has on
display and for sale a full assortment of
the leather novelties manufactured by E.
L. Prickett & Co., which he offers to the
public at reasonable prices. These goods
are worthy of an inspection. The atten-
ton .of farmers, mechanics and laboring
men is called to a new line of shoes de-
signed especially for their use. They are
of heavy grain, seamless and will never
rip, and the prices are just right. Call
and see them.
On Saturday Deputy Sheriff j.. B. Fleet
wood went to Marlton and arrested John
S. Middleton, who on January 16 was or
dered by the Vice Chancellor to pay So a
week alimony to his wife. Since the de-
cree was entered against him Middleton
has left this vicinity on two occasions and
has also refused to pay his wife any
l money, so the Deputy Sheriff was order
ed to make the arrest on a writ of ne
, exeat, issued by Mark R. Sooy. This was
done, and failing to give a bond for $500
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