The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-11

4 The chuck holes in the pavement along
T side the street car tracks have been re
paired.
The first shad wagon of the season
made its appearance in Mount Holly OF
Thursday.
The Florence Athletic Association will
give its first annual ball on Friday even
ing, May 5.
Twenty-four children's umbrellas, cot
ton gloria, 32c. W. W. Curtis, 4S Mali
street, Mount Holly.
The Knights of Pythias and Marion
Circle, No. 9, are said to be the two best
attended lodges in town.
Frank Wright will soon add a number
of Improvements to his residence at the
corner of Union and Buttonwood streets.
On Saturday next another shooting con
test at live birds for $50 a side will take
place at Pointville between two crack
shots.
The choir boys of St. Andrews Church
were entertained at the rectory, on Wed
nesday evening, by Rev. and Mrs. James
Stoddard.
Franklin P. Endicott, of Marlton, has
suffered quite a loss during the past win
ter in the death of some 900 squads which
were killed by rats.
1t is said that a number of commuters
living at Lumberton are i'll with typhoid
fever, as a result of drinking Schuylkill
water in Philadelphia.
The Presbyterian Church has elected
the following trustees; Philip Karg, Ed
gar A. Alcott, Robert A. Semple, Jr.,
and Evans H. Tomlinson.
Miss Acsah W. Grier, formerly princi-
pal of the Friends school in Camden, has
been elected to a similar position in the
public school at Riverton.
The semi-annual meeting of the Pres
bytery of Monmouth will be held at Gran
bury to-day and tomorrow. A few per-
sons from Mount Holly will attend.
The members of Miss Lucy Perinchief's
Sunday school class were pleasantly en-
tertained by their teacher, on Wednesday
| evening, at her nome on Broad street.
On the first page of THE NEWS will be
Bristol Ferry Company and also the Up
per Delaware River Steamboat Company.
County Superintendent Stees has ap-
pointed DR.. Alexander Marcy, Jr,, to the
vacancy in the Riverton Board of Educa-
ton, caused by the resignation of A. J..
Borie.
William Hullings, of Riverside, has
been granted a pension of So per month,
and Henry Schuyler, of Burlington, has
had his pension increased from So to So
per month.
AS a result of his horse getting fright
ened at the cars at Jobstown, A. G. Eye
was dragged for quite a distance, and
being thrown against a tree he was rem
dered unconscious for the best part of an
hour.
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H. B. Smith Machine Company, who re-
sides in Philadelphia, is said to be the on
ly commuter coming up from the city
every morning. He would have plenty
of company if going the other way.
On account of an unusually heavy
drain on some of the lodge treasures in
town, a few of the orders are considering
the question of compelling all applicants
to submit to a medical examination. This
seems to be a very sensible proceeding.
Ridgway s. Deacon has filed a caveat
against probating the will of Lydia Dea-
con, deceased, of Mount Holly. The al
legation is that property belonging to a
sister, Martha Deacon, who died twenty
years ago, was merged into that of Lydia's,
and that she had no right to dispose of it.
The publishers of Boyd's Directory of
Burlington county are at work securing
the data for a new edition, and when the
canvassers come around people could ma
t~erially assist in making the book more
valuable by giving correctly the full names
of the persons in the house where they
live.
The Camden Bar Association, on We'd
nesday, elected these delegates to attend a
meeting to be held in Atlantic City in
June to organize a State Bar Association:
Attorney General Samuel H. Grey, D. ].
Pancoast, Judge E. A. Armstrong, Judge
Joseph H. Gaskill and Assistant Prose
cutor of the Pleas William H. Carson.
A drain leading from the cellar of Miss
Hannah Phares' residence, on Branch
street, bursted directly underneath the
gutter in the street. The water, which
looks very clear and pure, comes up
through the ground with such force as to
throw the sand several inches in the air,
and many people have mistaken it for a
spring.
Three or four children were compelled
to leave the public school last week on
account of their parents removing out of
town. Their teacher cried when bidding
them good bye, and this fact would seem
to indicate a love and affection on the
part of the teacher that carries with it an
earnest sincerity in imparting instruction
to the young.
People make a great mistake after
cleaning up their yard by burning the
rubbish late in the afternoon. As a rule
the bontires shoulder for a long time,
emitting offensive smoke in large volume,
which is bound to enter a persons bed
room. This is very unpleasant and the
trouble could be avoided by starting the
fire in the morning.
Ben Deacon, the legal light of Bucto,
while going home the other evening was
stoned by some boys on Water street anC
one of his legs was painfully bruised
On Saturday night he found it necessary
to appeal to the authorities for protection
1t is about time that this inoffensive maj
was let alone or an example made of ONT
of his tormenters.
An entire new programme will be rem
dered in the Opera House tomorrow
evening at the benefit entertainment fol
Marion Circle, No. 8, Brotherhood of the
Union, to be given by the Mount Holly
Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Club. Al
additional feature will be the appearance
of Miss Myra BOUCHER, an accomplished
elocutionist of Lumberton.
Try George W. Durand if you wan
p, strictly Dure groceries and provisions n
the lowest cash prices. He has a large