The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-05-22
There will be change in the railroad

the property on Water street belongin
to William Wright.
For the past few days Mrs. e. Hop
Deacon has been very i'll as the result O
an attack of the grip.
Edward Hack has his fleet of boat
ready for pleasure seekers. The scener.
up the creek is at it's best now
On Thursday Sheriff Fenton. sold tn
property of Israel R. Shropshire, in Bev
erly township, to Edward Dudley for ST.,
800.
Peter Kavelaris, the fire bug, and Al
bert Freed, the burglar, were taken t.
the state prison ON Wednesday by Sheriff
Fenton.
White goods for dress waists, organdie
India linen. Persian lawn. Summer
corsets, 25 so and rs cents S. S, Evan
% Main street.
Gen. A. E. Shiras Post, No. 26, g. A. R..
will attend st. Andrews church on Sun
day evening when services appropriate tc
Memorial day will be held.
A few nights since burglars at Bridge
boro' visited the residences of Raymond
Craft, Joseph Bright and Edward Hubbs.
Nothing was taken but food.
The young son of Fred Eckart, residing
on Water street, got shoe buttonel
caught in bis throat on Wednesday. DR..
Prickitt was called and removed it.
A colored boy by the name of Hall, OF
Mount Holly, who is jockey on Pierre
Lorillard's farm at Rancocas, is laid up
with broken leg, caused by falling from
horse.
The Christian Endeavor Society will
hold its monthly meeting in the Prespyte-
rian Church on Thursday evening, and
the Juniors will meet on Saturday after
noon.
B. F. Haywood Shreve, Mrs. Francis
N. Thorpe, Miss Anna Allen and Harris
Cox, of Mount Holly, have each been be-
queathed 81, 900 by the will of Miss Nc
Curdy, who formerly resided here.
State Road Commissioner Henry L.
Budd thinks New Jersey will become the
Mecca of automobiles as well as tally
no parties as soon as folks find out that
no state has better roads or finer scenery.
During the thunder shower on Friday
the family of Joseph Candy, OF Union
vile, had a bad scare. lightning struck
a tree near the house, and the shock broke
out twelve panes of glass from the win
dows.
Benjamin II. Gaskill, formerly of Mount
Holly, who is one of Philadelphias prom
nent brokers, became member OF the
New York stock exchange few days
since. His membership cost him just
S42, 500.
William B. Wills, of Mount Holly, is
one of the incorporators of the G. W.
Rodecker automatic and adjustable win
low screen company, which has filed ar
yicles in the Secretary of States office at
80
Trenton.
The will of William Austin, deceased,
If Rancocas, has been admitted to pro-
bate. Letters testamentary have been is
,ued to Samuel Williams and Franklin B.
Lewis. The personal estate is appraised
1t SO, 465.
Henry Williams, colored, who had been
several years by John D. John
ION, died at his home on West Washington
street, Wednesday afternoon, from an at
Jack of typhoid pneumonia, of but few
lays duration.
The farmers know good thing when
hey see it, That is why Owen Brothers
ire selling SO much Poudrette. 1t hurrles
he truck up and enriches the soil. One
rial will convince you that Poudrette is
what you are looking for. $15 per ton.
On Friday afternoon a colored detect
We from Chambersburg, Pa, who came
% Mount Holly the day before, arrested
Charles E. Cobel, the charge being a Sc
,ious one preferred by young lady. The
seemed quite willing to return
without requisition papers. He is a school
teacher, and had engaged to sell coat
hangers during the summer vacation.
The thirty third annual encampment OF
the Department of New Jersey G. A. R.,
opened at Trenton on Thursday. The re-
port of the Assistant Adjutant General
showed III posts in the state with mem
bership of 5,S75, net loss of 239, of
whom 2OS died during the year. The
amount expended for charity was SO, 15l.-
30, an increase of $1,763. The receipts
during the year were $50, 54792.
These directors were elected by the
Tuckerton Railroad Company on Thurs
lay: DR.. Samuel Ashhurst, Rutherford
5tuyvesant, Richard Ashhurst, I. T.
Price, W. W. Pharo, II. A. Drake, G.
Genge Browning, Theo P. Price, Lewis
R. Ashhurst, Jr. The officers.of the new
board are: DR.. Samuel Ashhurst, president
Stuyvesant, vice president;
Richard Ashhurst, treasurer; T. T. Price,
W. W. Pharo, auditor.
DR.. Pusey Wilson, one of the best
known and one of the oldest practitioners
in Burlington county, and a prominent
member of the Society of Friends, died
at his home in Moorestown on Sunday
at the age of IA years, of paral-
ysis, which had confined him to his home
for several months. The deceased had
practiced his profession for nearly fifty
years. Five daughters survive him.
At the meeting of the Tuckerton and
Long Beach Building Land and Improve
ment Company, on Thursday the follow
ing directors were elected: DR.. Samuel
Ashhurst, Rutherford Stuyvesant, Richard
Ashhurst, T. T. Price, W. W. Pharo, G..
Genge Browning, Lewis R. Ashhurst,
Robert B. Engle, James Welsh. At a
meeting these officers were
elected: Dr. Samuel Ashhurst, president
w. w. Pharo, vice president; Richard
Ashhurst, treasurer; T. T. Price, secretary.
Business in the police line was dull on
Saturday night, so the officers concluded
they would keep their hand in by gather
ing up all persons having skate or
who passed a certain Justices office. Ii
this manner several candidates were OBJ