The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-24


one candidate on Friday night
A company of glass blowers are occu
plying the store next to H. V. Stratton.
, Mrs. Lavinia F. Esham has purchased
building lot on Mill street from the Clarl
{ estate
{ Edward P. Kiner has started in tn
oyster business and is meeting with mucl
success.
, The Rescue Mission Band, at Mason
vile, is enjoying a series of extra reviva
meetings.
James F. Shannon, former resident o
Mount Holly, is conducting a hotel il
Philadelphia.
, Samuel S. Potts. farmer near Jobs
town, has concluded to quit business OF
account of ill health.
Thomas B. Denness yesterday entered
upon his duties as day policeman, which
will continue for the next two weeks.
AS the result of fall, Edgar Colkitt
of Vincentown, recently punctured his
palate with the point of a lead pencil.
Choice beef, fresh veal, lamb, pork
lard and the best sausage and scrapple a
Ogburns meat market, 80 Mill street.
In cold weather the small boy doesn'
know which he enjoys most-the fun Of
skating or the excitement of ticklY
bender.
Some crack shots of the county are tt
take part in a shooting match that will
occur on Thursday, at Lambs hotel
Pointville
Charles Dougherty, of Camden, who Ii
in Jail charged with stealing chickens
is said to have employed Harry Scovel as
his counsel
In consequence of the death of Mrs
Anna Jones, Mrs. Edward B. Jones has
been elected director of the Union Child
ren's Home Association.
Walter Gordon, who lives ON the road
from Jacobstown to Cookstown, will have
a sale of stock and farming implements
on Monday, February 10.
Frankfurters, buildings, head cheese,
prepared corned beef, cottage cheese and
several other things in this line may be
had at Ogburn's, No. 80 Mill street.
Real estate agents have estimated that
property owners in Mount Holly have
lost over 81, 900 during the past year by
tenants who did not pay their rent
Henry l. Worrell having decided to re-
linquish farming, will sell his stock, i'm
plements, etc., at public sale on the
George Lundy farm, on February Goth.
Dress goods We are offering some de-
cided bargains in piece goods, and rem
nants from two to six yards w. W. Cur
tbs, 48 Main street, Mount Holly, N ].
Miss Clara Boyd, of Philadelphia, who
is very successful evangelist, will con-
duct a series of revival meetings in the
Methodist Church at Bridgeboro next
month.
The railroad station at Florence, which
was destroyed by fire some weeks ago, is
to be replaced by frame building with a
Queen Anne roof. The platform will be
made of concrete.
The Burlington County Children's Home,
which is most worthy institution, will
have its annual donation day on Thursday.
The management will thankfully receive
any contributions of clothing, money, food,
etc.
While riding down Garden street, on
Wednesday, Mr.. and Mrs. Wainwright
Newell, living near Jobstown, lost grip
from their carriage, containing clothes be-
longing to Mrs. Newell, which she would
like to recover.
Edward Dobbins and Miss Bertha Mid
dleton, of Mount Holly, were married re-
Gently at Camden, the ceremony being
performed by Rev. ]. W. Marshall, Of
the Broadway Methodist Church.
In March next the bonded Indebtedness
iof the Mount Holly, Lumberton and Med
ford Railroad Company falls due. The
old bonds will be replaced with a new
issue of four per cent. and these will all
be taken by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company.
The special committee of the Board Of
Freeholders on Wednesday, awarded q
contract to the Rocky Hill Stone Com
pany to supply the county with broker
stone for repairs to the stone roads Tit
price is 95 cents per ton, which is 25 cent
per ton less than last year.
Prof O. G. J. Schadt, of Philadelphia
who organized German and French class
es of the Peoples College, last October,
at 20 Brainard street, will meet the PEG
pie of Mount Holly at the parish house OF
Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, this
evening, at o'clock, to address them OF
how they can complete a course in Ger
man OF French in 20 lessons, and form
new classes. Free to all.
During one of the rainy evenings o
last week young lady and gentleman o.
Washington street, who were said to b
strangers in town, were caught withou
any umbrella, and not wishing to get wet
they crawled into the large iron pipe a
the bridge, where they waited under sub
stantial shelter until the storm had some
what subsidized 1t is claimed they re
manned in the pipe for over an hour.
; Joseph Lamb, of Mount Holly, claim
that he was not treated fairly by tn
Judges in his match with Frank Cubberl,
6 and Joshua Pugh at the Edgewood GU
Club, Burlington, on Thursday. Lam
killed nine straight, and struck the tenth
but was compelled to gather it. Tn
Judges awarded the match to Cubberly
who killed ten straight with question G
boundary on one. They claim that Lam
did not hit his tenth bird. Lamb says
has shot marks on the head
, May Irwin and her merry company {
, fun makers entered upon the twelfth wee
E of phenomenal Metropolitan run las
night, at the Bijou Theatre, New York
From an artistic and financial point c
view Glen MacDonough's kate Xii
u Buyer" has proven by far the best veh
i Gle of the jovial condolences career as
e star. 1t is to be regretted that there are bl
. few more weeks of the jovial May ar
IS her bright farce in that city. The Pacif
d coast has now been definitely determine
e upon, and Kate Kip will close her seasc
e in San Francisco in June.
~ Rev. David Stewart, pastor of the 4
u E. Church at Vincentown, having insis